The largest companies in Switzerland

The largest public companies in Switzerland are concentrated in the financial, pharmaceutical and food sectors of the economy. Banks and insurance companies are leading in terms of assets - UBS , Credit Suisse , Zurich Insurance Group , Swiss Life and Swiss Re . Glencore , Nestlé and Zurich Insurance Group are leaders in terms of revenue. Among the industrial manufacturers there are pharmaceutical ( Novartis and Roche Holding ), food ( Nestlé , Coca-Cola HBC , Lindt & Sprüngli ), machine-building, electrical and electronic ( ABB , STMicroelectronics , TE Connectivity , Schindler , Tyco , Weatherford , Sulzer , Liebherr ), chemical ( Syngenta , Givaudan , Ciba ) companies, as well as manufacturers of luxury goods and watches ( Richemont and Swatch Group ). In the retail sector, Migros / Denner, Coop Group , Aldi Suisse , Lidl Suisse and Spar Suisse are distinguished; wholesale and intermediary companies are Glencore , Vitol , Cargill International SA , Trafigura , Gunvor , Mercuria Energy Group , Louis Dreyfus Commodities , Wolseley and Axpo Holding ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} .

Among the largest companies in Switzerland there is a significant presence in the business and industrial services sector, oriented to the world market ( Adecco , SGS , Weatherford , Transocean ). The most important center, where the headquarters of the largest Swiss companies are concentrated, is Zurich , followed by Basel , Geneva , Bar and Zug .

Major Swiss employers include Migros (72.6 thousand employees), Coop Group (67.9 thousand employees), Swiss Post (44.1 thousand employees), Liebherr (42 thousand employees), Schweizerische Bundesbahnen / SBB (33 thousand employees) ^{[6] [7]} , UBS (21 thousand employees) ^[8] , Swisscom (18 thousand employees) ^[9] , Credit Suisse (17.4 thousand employees) ^[10] , Novartis (13 thousand employees) ^[11] , Hoffmann – La Roche (11.7 thousand employees) ^[12] , Manor (11 thousand employees), Swatch Group (11 thousand employees), Nestlé (10.2 thousand employees) Job) ^[13] , Schmolz + Bickenbach (9 th. employees), Hirslanden (8,5 thousand. employees), Richemont (8,7 thousand. employees), Galenica (7,8 thousand. Officer a), Securitas AG (7.5 th. employees), Valora (6,5 thousand. employees), Raiffeisen Switzerland (6,5 thousand. employees), SRG SSR (6,1 thousand. employees), ABB (6 th . employees) ^[14] , AMAG (5.6 thousand employees), Implenia (5.6 thousand employees), Ciba (4.3 thousand employees), RUAG (3.8 thousand employees), Bon appétit Gruppe (3,7 thousand employees), Syngenta (3,4 thousand employees) ^[15] , Ringier (3 thousand employees), Swiss Re (3 thousand employees) ^[16] , Schindler (2,5 thousand employees) ) ^[17] and Swiss Life (2 thousand employees) ^[18] .

Among foreign companies, major employers are McDonald's (7.2 thousand employees), ISS (6.8 thousand employees), Johnson & Johnson (6 thousand employees), Alstom (4.5 thousand employees), Allianz (3, 8 thousand employees), IBM (3.2 thousand employees), Siemens (3.2 thousand employees), Procter & Gamble (3 thousand employees) ^[19] , PricewaterhouseCoopers (2.8 thousand employees) ^{[20 ]} , IKEA (2.7 thousand employees), Ernst & Young (2.6 thousand employees) ^[21] , Assicurazioni Generali (2.3 thousand employees), KPMG (2 thousand employees) ^[22] , Google (1.8 thousand employees) ^[23] , BNP Paribas (1.7 thousand employees) ^{[24] [25]} , Hewlett-Packard (1.4 thousand employees) ^[26] , Deloitte (1.4 thousand . employees), Crédit Agricole (1.3 thousand employees) ^[27] , HSBC (1.3 thousand employees) ^[28] , Medtronic (1 thousand employees) ^{[29] [30]} , Bombardier Transportation (1 thousand employees) ^{[31 ]} , JPMorgan Chase (1 thousand employees) ^[32] .

A feature of the largest Swiss multinational companies is that most of their employees work outside the country. At the same time, due to the tax and business climate, many companies open their international or European divisions in Switzerland ^[7] . As of the beginning of 2015, the list of the largest companies in Switzerland was as follows ^[33] :