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• 2026-09-27 · Press release
  Swiss family firms that hand over within the family are 40% less likely to be sold

  ValIndex Research found 21,139 family handovers in the board notices of Swiss AGs and GmbHs since 2017 and followed each against matched companies for up to seven years. After a handover, 6.7% were sold within seven years, against 11.2% of comparable companies. Only a third of handovers go to a person a generation younger, and women are 22% of next-generation successors.

• 2026-09-27 · Press release
  Swiss companies rarely die of deadlock, they are abandoned, and when owners do deadlock, judges can force one to sell

  ValIndex Research analysed 3,709 published Swiss court decisions on company-law disputes since 2010 and 25,682 companies dissolved by a judge for a broken organisation since 2016. Only 0.4% of the Zurich Commercial Court's rulings on a broken organisation trace to a conflict between owners; the rest concern companies nobody runs any more. Where two owners do deadlock, courts have ordered one to sell to the other.

• 2026-09-26 · Press release
  One in ten 'company burial' moves went to Herisau, until the new law took effect

  ValIndex Research analysed all 76,761 seat transfers between Swiss cantons since 2016. Between 2020 and 2024, Herisau received 9.6% of all moves in which a company changed its name, purpose and officers on the same day; after 1 January 2025 the flow stopped. Low taxes, by contrast, do not make companies move on balance.

• 2026-09-26 · Press release
  Swiss public tenders draw more competition than Europe's, but half the money stays in the home canton

  ValIndex Research analysed all 19,710 public-contract awards published on simap.ch since January 2025, worth CHF 47 billion. One tender in ten drew a single bid, against four in ten in the EU; CHF 4.5 billion was awarded without a tender to incumbents or sole suppliers.

• 2026-09-25 · Press release
  Switzerland's bankruptcy wave hits established companies, not empty shells

  ValIndex Research read every bankruptcy notice in the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce since 2016. Seven in ten additional bankruptcies are companies at least five years old.