Data studies on the Swiss private market
Original research built on the full Swiss Commercial Register — every active company, every canton. Register-grounded, verifiable, and cited to the source.
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Deadlock or Desertion? How Swiss Companies Break Down
An analysis of every published Swiss decision since 2010 applying the company-law articles on meetings, information, liability, organisation and exit, and of every dissolution for organisational defects in the SOGC since 2016.
Why Companies Stopped Moving to Herisau
Every seat transfer between Swiss cantons published in the SOGC since 2016: where companies go, who runs them, what becomes of them, and whether low taxes attract them.
Who Wins Switzerland's Public Contracts
The first analysis of every public-contract award published on simap.ch since January 2025, federal, cantonal and communal: how many firms bid, who wins, where the money goes, and how often no tender is held at all.
The Quiet Succession Wave
In 2025, 601 Swiss owners placed their operating company under a holding company, the most since the register's electronic archive begins. Following 3,280 of these companies for up to seven years shows what the step really signals: not a sale, but a company organised to last.
Switzerland's Bankruptcy Record, Decoded
Swiss company bankruptcies have doubled since 2024. Reading every bankruptcy notice against the commercial register shows who is actually failing: seven in ten additional cases are companies at least five years old, and they are no emptier than before the reform.
Swiss Company Succession Statistics 2026
Most Swiss succession statistics describe intentions — how many owners say they plan to hand over. This one describes the commercial register: who is actually registered to sign for a company today, how old they are, and what happens to the company the day they cannot.
Who Owns Switzerland's Companies?
Swiss AG shareholder registers are private. GmbH member lists are not — they are published, company by company, in the commercial register. We read all of them: 24'448 active firms, every registered owner, every stake. The result is the first ownership map of a Swiss legal form, and it shows an economy owned by individuals, one company at a time.
The Swiss Wealth-Manager Consolidation
Switzerland's independent wealth managers survived a regulatory reckoning that cut their number from roughly 2,500 to about 1,500. They now face a demographic one. In an industry built by founders in the 1990s and 2000s, 56% of firms are run by three people or fewer — and, on the industry's own estimate, half of all principals reach retirement within a decade. This is a register-grounded map of who they are, where they are, what they manage, and why the next ten years belong to the consolidators.
Boardroom Paralysis in Switzerland
A national analysis of all 432,445 active companies in the Swiss Commercial Register finds that 32% of audited SMEs — and 41% in French-speaking Switzerland — would be unable to execute a single legally binding act the day their principal signatory dies. The fragility is structural, observable in open data today, and concentrated along the country's linguistic divide.
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