About us

The Greater Zurich Area AG is in charge of promoting and marketing the
Greater Zurich Area business region abroad. The Greater Zurich Area is one of Europe’s economically strongest regions and comprises the area that can be reached roughly within a 60-minute drive from Zürich international airport.

The Greater Zurich Area AG has the following mandates:

	To promote awareness of the Greater Zurich Area in selected markets and lines of business.
	To encourage foreign companies to settle in the Greater Zurich Area.
	To provide complimentary support to international companies at the location evaluation stage in cooperation with the business promotion agencies in the member cantons and cities.
	To make an important contribution to Switzerland’s competitiveness as a business location and create jobs in emerging technologies and industrial sectors, by attracting people and skills from abroad and importing know-how to the area.

The Greater Zurich Area AG has been operational since August 1999.
In September 2002, it changed its name from «The Zurich Network» to
«Greater Zurich Area AG».

Our services

The Greater Zurich Area AG is a supra-regional non-profit organization. Our services are provided free of charge. We are integrated in numerous networks thanks to our public-private structure. Together with our regional partners – business promotion agencies and providers in industry, science, education and tourism – we provide expert service.

The services of the Greater Zurich Area AG include:

	Providing information about the Greater Zurich Area business region.
	Assisting international companies to evaluate their future business location in the Greater Zurich Area.
	Advising companies with their investment projects and providing help in establishing a company.
	Evaluating the ideal company structure and possible tax savings in close collaboration with tax professionals.
	Organizing tailored visitor’s programs.
	Facilitating the right contacts in any field.
	Establishing contact with the authorities in the member cantons of Glarus, Grisons, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, Zug and Zürich and the cities of Zürich and Winterthur.
	Specific expertise in Life Sciences, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), hightech and headquarter structures.
	Providing assistance with detailed questions about: establishing a company, market environment, taxes, real estate, work permits, human resources,  financing, research facilities, technology transfer, etc.

Executive board

Sonja Wollkopf Walt, Managing Director

Board of directors

	Dr. Balz Hösly, Partner, MME Partners Zürich und Zug (President)
	Urs Durrer, Vorsteher des Amts für Wirtschaft, Kanton Schwyz
	Dr. Walter Grüebler, Verwaltungsratspräsident der Sika AG, Baar
	Dr. Bernhard Neidhart, Leiter des Amts für Wirtschaft und Arbeit, Kanton Zug
	Bruno Sauter, Leiter des Amts für Wirtschaft und Arbeit, Kanton Zürich
	Brigit Wehrli-Schindler, Direktorin Stadtentwicklung, Stadt Zürich
	Dr. Peter F. Weibel, Mitglied des Verwaltungsrates der Credit Suisse Group, Zürich

Our sponsors

The Greater Zurich Area AG is wholly owned by the «Greater Zurich Area Standortmarketing» Foundation, which provides the annual budget required by Greater Zurich Area AG to realize its goals. The foundation was established in November 1998 as a public-private partnership, since which time it has continuously added more members. The President of the Foundation Board is the Canton of Zürich’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Senior Executive Officer Ernst Stocker. Members of the «Greater Zurich Area Standortmarketing» Foundation are:

	the cantons Glarus, Grisons, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, Zug and Zürich.

	the cities Winterthur and Zürich.

the companies Alpine Finanz Immobilien AG; Credit Suisse Group; Karl Steiner AG; Rhenus Alpina AG; Swiss Re Group; Treuco AG; UBS; Walder Wyss & Partner, Attorneys at Law; Zurich Chamber of Commerce and Zürcher Kantonalbank.

Foundation Board «Greater Zurich Area Standortmarketing»

Offices

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