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Automotive Industry Switzerland
Industry Analysis 2008
Latest survey of structure, trends, challenges, and opportunities
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11.09.2008 ETH Zürich ETH swiss Center for Automotive Research
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ETH Zürich swiss Center for Automotive Research (swiss CAR) Dr. Anja Schulze Philipp Schmitt, Karl Neumüller ETH Zürich Corporate Communications Zürcher Kantonal Bank
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the many participants who contributed to the creation of the survey. Particular thanks go to • the partners at the Zürcher Kantonalbank and the association for eco‐ nomic promotion from Solothurn and the greater Zurich area, without whom this survey would not have been achievable in this form all companies who made the time to participate in the written inqui‐ ries professors Roman Boutellier and Fritz Fahrni, who acted as thorough‐ going support the many experts who discussed and analyzed the data all those who have been contracted for layout and text editing
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Foreword
One of the questions we were asked during the last few months was, Why conduct a survey on the automotive (supplier) industry in Switzerland? Com‐ plete cars are not produced here, and so the supplier industry could not possi‐ bly be of such eminent importance. After all, the country is known for its bank‐...