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Expo.02 – a spark of hope

swissinfo November 4, 2001

Expo.02 could help the Swiss regain confidence in their country

Recent events in Switzerland have hit the country’s confidence hard. The national exhibition Expo.02 could just be the right opportunity for Switzerland to prove its abilities.

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swissinfo October 16, 2001

Expo.02 slashes spending costs

Expo.02, Switzerland’s national exhibition, has announced cost cuts of up to SFr40 million, with various planned events and exhibits being put on hold, reduced in scale or axed altogether.

swissinfo December 31, 2001

Sales pick up for Expo.02 extravaganza

The countdown has begun for Switzerland’s largest cultural event, Expo.02, and hundreds of thousands of tickets have been snapped up.

swissinfo December 15, 2001

Swiss national exhibition to accept Euro

The Euro has been named an official currency at Switzerland’s national exhibition, Expo.02, which starts in May 2002.

swissinfo November 28, 2001

Expo.02 short of cash

Switzerland’s planned national exhibition, Expo.02, is facing new financial difficulties because of a lack of sponsors.

swissinfo October 24, 2001

Expo gives temporary workers something to smile about

Amid widespread announcements of job losses in all sectors of industry, Expo.02 has bucked the trend by launching its recruitment campaign for next year’s national exhibition.

swissinfo August 20, 2001

Viewers choose ending for Expo.02 love story

Next year’s Expo.02 will feature something special in Yverdon-les-Bains – an interactive love story for which the audience gets to choose the ending.

swissinfo July 23, 2001

New Expo catamaran makes its splash debut

The first speedboat of Switzerland’s planned national exhibition, Expo 02, has touched down on the waters of the Ziehl channel between Lake Neuchatel and Lake Murten.

swissinfo June 27, 2001

Federal railways to raise capacity for national exhibition

The Swiss federal railways, which is struggling to meet existing commitments because of a personnel shortage, says it will increase its services to cope with the expected five million visitors to next year’s planned national exhibition, Expo 02.

swissinfo May 15, 2001

Roth appointed Expo.02 ambassador

Jean-Francois Roth, canton Jura’s economics minister, has been appointed ambassador for Switzerland’s national exhibition.

swissinfo May 14, 2001

Countdown begins to next year’s national exhibition

The management of Switzerland’s planned national exhibition, Expo.02, has launched a publicity campaign to drum up support for the event, which opens in exactly one year’s time.

swissinfo April 8, 2001

Expo.02 security arrangements unveiled

Organiser of Switzerland’s national exhibition, Expo.02, have announced that members of the Swiss police and army will be involved in securing its exhibtion sites, along with some 600 employees of private surveillance companies. They will receive further back-up from at least 300 soldiers at all four of the exhibition’s sites.

swissinfo March 28, 2001

Report blames lack of leadership for failure of Expo.01

A report commissioned by the Swiss senate into the failure of the national exhibition, Expo.01, has blamed the management’s lack of professionalism and the absence of any critical judgement from politicians. The report recommends that a federal law be passed to define the government’s role in future projects of this magnitude.

swissinfo March 21, 2001

Nestlé to provide funding for Expo 02

The organisers of the beleaguered national exhibition, Expo 02, received another boost on Wednesday after the Swiss food giant, Nestlé, announced that it plans to contribute SFr10 million to the project.

swissinfo March 16, 2001

Novartis to take part in Expo 02

The Swiss healthcare giant, Novartis, has signed a SFr15 million contract with Switzerland’s troubled national exhibition, Expo 02. Novartis plans to set up an exhibit highlighting biomedical research at the Expo.

swissinfo March 11, 2001

Growing scepticism over national exhibition

The organisers of Switzerland’s planned national exhibition, Expo.02, are coming under renewed attack a day after a survey showed less than half the population still supports the project.

swissinfo February 25, 2001

SAirGroup refuses to reconsider Expo 02 pullout

SAirGroup has rejected calls from the highest political level to reconsider its decision to pull out of Expo 02, Switzerland’s troubled national exhibition.

swissinfo February 23, 2001

National exhibition thrown lifeline by Swiss banks

Switzerland’s planned national exhibition, Expo 02, has won a promise of new funding just a day after suffering a major financial setback. The country’s biggest banks agreed on Friday to take over funding of the project until June.

swissinfo February 22, 2001

National exhibition suffers another financial blow

Switzerland’s troubled national exhibition, Expo 02, has suffered another financial setback, after the SAirGroup announced on Thursday it was pulling out of a sponsorship deal. The exhibition organisers described the move as “scandalous”.

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