Swiss assets changed hands in every direction this week — and Mammut was the biggest

A live court-supervised restructuring, not a warning. A multi-brand dealer running the Ford flagship store in St. Gallen alongside Maxus, Peugeot, Renault and Dacia has franchise agreements, a workshop, a service book and a site, and those are separable from the debt. The July hearing means the creditor arrangement is in front of the court now, which is the window in which a trade buyer can still shape it.

An organisational-deficiency warning means the registry has found the company lacks a body it is legally required to have. Arriving after three board contractions in six months, it documents a governance structure that has emptied out rather than a solvency event. For a company whose registered purpose is property operations and tourism, the assets outlive the governance.

A company incorporated in 2024 carrying a bankruptcy warning, most of its board gone three weeks later, has run out of runway in under two years. The Allschwil firm plans sheet-metal roofing and flat-roof systems, specialist know-how carried by named people rather than by the entity. If those people are leaving, there is little left to buy.

Nineteen round-the-clock unstaffed farm shops across the Bern region, in fixed premises and flexible containers, stocked mainly by regional producers. The board filed an over-indebtedness notice with the Regionalgericht Bern and closed every outlet on the evening of 28 July. The company had been in restructuring since March 2025; the turnaround needed fresh investor capital and, after several rounds of talks, it did not come. The estate holds a brand with real regional recognition, the container and fit-out fleet, and the supplier relationships. What it does not hold is a proven unit economic.

An Oberburg foundry that ran a machine shop and a pattern carpentry alongside the casting operation. It had been granted a definitive composition moratorium on 30 March 2026 and failed anyway four months later, one hour after Rüedu on the same day. That sequence is the useful part: the Swiss composition procedure bought this business four months and did not save it. For a buyer the estate is unusually tangible — furnaces, machine tools and the pattern library, which is the asset that takes decades to rebuild and is worth nothing to a scrap bidder.

A Mont-Vully passenger shipping operator. The president of the Seebezirk civil court opened bankruptcy on 6 July; the company appealed on 20 July and the Kantonsgericht Freiburg dismissed it on 24 July, confirming the judgment. Worth noting because appeals against Swiss bankruptcy openings succeed often enough to be worth checking before writing a company off — this one did not, and the route is now exhausted. A licensed passenger vessel with an operating permit on Swiss waters is a scarce, transferable asset.