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Best of Portugal

Partnership between Ullrich and Sogrape

Paul Ullrich AG is proud to announce that it will have a new partner starting in April 2025: the renowned wine company Sogrape from Portugal.

The collaboration is based on Sogrape's desire to benefit from Ullrich's extensive expertise in Portugal. With many years of experience and a dedicated sales team, Ullrich is ideally positioned to offer high-quality ... Continue reading ...

Place to be

BCB 2024 focused on business networking and education

For three days, Berlin once again became the place to be for the international bar and beverage industry. With 15,114 visitors and over 500 exhibitors and partners, the BCB more than lived up to its reputation as the business hub for the industry from October 14 to 16. The extensive training program also added further highlights.

Once again this year, the BCB brought the international bar world to Berlin and provided the ideal setting for three days of networking at the highest level. 15,114 trade visitors from 87 countries ... Continue reading ...

change of distributor

High Spirits Distribution takes over import of Glen Scotia and Loch Lomond

High Spirits Distribution has taken over the official import of the Scottish whisky brands Glen Scotia and Loch Lomond for Switzerland from October 2024. Both brands have already secured a firm place among whisky lovers thanks to their exceptional quality.

Thanks to the groundwork laid by the previous importer, Best Taste Trading, which has significantly promoted the awareness and popularity of Glen Scotia and Loch Lomond in recent years, we are continuing ... Read more ...

Championship for apprentice chefs

The six finalists of "gusto25" have been decided

The twentieth edition of the Swiss Championship for Apprentice Chefs has attracted more participants than ever before: 111 young talents submitted a main course they had created themselves for the competition organized by Transgourmet/Prodega to promote young talent. Six of them have now made it through to the "gusto25" final, which will take place in mid-March 2025.

By the beginning of November, 111 young talents in their second or third year of training had registered for the Swiss championship for apprentice chefs, "gusto25." This means that the twentieth edition of "gusto" has attracted almost a quarter ... Continue reading ...

15,000 trade visitors, 180 exhibitors

Review of ZAGG 2024

After four days, Zagg came to an end on Wednesday, October 23, 2024. Around 15,000 professionals visited the trade fair for the catering and hotel industry.

180 exhibitors presented their products and services at the trade fair, which meant that almost 30 more companies were welcomed than two years ago. Trade fair director Suzanne Galliker draws a positive conclusion: "We ... Continue reading ...

Allegra Passugger Mineral Springs Inc.

Expansion of the management team with Thomas Schreiber

Passugger is Graubünden's independent mineral water and Switzerland's oldest mineral water. It is authentic and full of character. These are values that Passugger intends to continue to embody unconditionally in the future.

Now, the management team and thus the operational leadership is being expanded to include a new generation with 29-year-old young entrepreneur Thomas Schreiber. The company, which will soon celebrate its 130th anniversary, has been led since July by CEO and ... Continue reading ...

company takeover

Paul Ullrich AG acquires majority stake in Drinks of the World

On July 1, 2024, entrepreneurs Urs and Jacqueline Ullrich acquired a majority stake in Drinks of the World GmbH from Susi and Stefan Müller.

This enabled the family-owned company Drinks of the World to find the ideal succession solution. For ULLRICH, the takeover is also a "perfect match." With over 100 years of experience and 120 employees, ULLRICH... Read more...

London Calling

BCB comes to London

From 2025, Imbibe Live will become part of the global BCB family and will be rebranded as BCB London to better position the event among global trade shows for the bar and beverage industry.

With the BCB shows in Berlin, Brooklyn, Sao Paulo, and Singapore, as well as Imbibe Live in London, organizer RX has a portfolio of strong international trade fairs for the bar and beverage industry. ... Read more ...

business talk

In conversation with Urs Ullrich, owner of Paul Ullrich AG, Münchenstein

BAR NEWS publishes portraits of people from the beverage industry at irregular intervals. Today: Urs Ullrich, owner and managing director of Paul Ullrich AG, Ullrich – Passion for liquids.

BAR NEWS: What motivates you to come to work every day and drive the company forward? Urs Ullrich: Well, definitely the wide range of fantastic opportunities to work with employees on projects and ideas ... Continue reading ...

Icon on Parade Square

Mandarin Oriental Savoy, Zurich is "Gault Millau Hotel of the Year 2025"

Zurich has its Savoy back! The city's oldest five-star hotel has been renovated at a cost of CHF 80 million, with Mandarin Oriental as the operator. UBS is the owner.

44 rooms, 36 suites, a magical rooftop bar, two exciting restaurants. GaultMillau has named this iconic hotel on Paradeplatz "Hotel of the Year 2025." On Christmas Day 1838, Johannes Baur, a ... Continue reading ...

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