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ShareCopied to clipboardSwatch Group is a company. It is a public company in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. It was founded in 1983 and its current CEO is Georges Nicolas Hayek Jr.. It is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector, specifically in the Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods industry.
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- city: Biel/Bienne
- country: Switzerland
- employees: 32,477 people
- revenues: 7.6B $
- company type: public
- sector: Consumer Discretionary
- industry: Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods
- foundation year: 1983
- CEO: Georges Nicolas Hayek Jr.
- CEO approval: 83 %
- ESG score: Try Pro to see estimate
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- Swatch Group – Swiss made luxury watches and jewelry – Chronograph watchSwatch Group
- Swatch Group is an international group active in the design, manufacture and sale of finished watches, jewelry, watch movements and components. Swatch Group supplies nearly all components required by its nineteen watch brands, and Swatch Group companies supply movements and components to third-party watchmakers in Switzerland and around the world. Please be sure to visit our brands' websites to learn more about their fantastic products. Swatch Group is also a key player in the manufacture and sale of electronic systems used in watchmaking and other industries.
- The Swatch Group Ltd is an international group active in the manufacture and sale of finished watches, jewelry, watch movements and components. Swatch Group supplies nearly all components required for the watches sold by its 17 watch and jewelry brands as well as by its two retail brands, Tourbillon and Hour Passion.
- The Swatch Group AG designs, manufactures, and sells finished watches, jewelry, and watch movements and components worldwide. It operates through Watches & Jewelry and Electronic Systems segments. The Watches & Jewelry segment designs, produces, and commercializes watches and jewelry. The Electronic Systems segment is involved in the design, production, and commercialization of electronic components, as well as sports timing activities. It is also involved in the provision of assembly, research and development, administration, watch case polishing, logistics and distribution, and customer services; and hard material products, microelectronics, watch cases and crowns, miniature low-frequency quartz crystals, thin wires, miniature batteries, watch dials and bracelets, watch hands, sports timing technology and equipment, precision parts, and assembly electronic components. In addition, the company engages in retail, communication, real estate project and property management, finance, reinsurance, and art center businesses. It offers its watch and jewelry products primarily under the Breguet, Harry Winston, Blancpain, Glashütte Original, Jaquet Droz, Léon Hatot, Omega, Longines, Rado, Union Glashütte, Tissot, Balmain, Certina, Mido, Hamilton, Calvin Klein, Swatch, and Flik Flak brands. The Swatch Group AG was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
- Founded in 1895 by Kossuth Calame, MOM Le Prélet specializes in the decoration of enamel dials in La Chaux-de-Fonds. ‘Le Prélet’ is a location in the village of Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane where the company established its headquarters in 1918. ‘MOM’ represents the initials of the first names of former owners who were active before the company was bought out in October 2006 by Swatch Group. Its exceptional know-how in the field of dials, acquired over more than a century, rounds out Swatch Group’s portfolio of advanced watch production companies.
- Created in April 2000, Dress Your Body (DYB) provides services ranging from design through to production in the field of gem-setting, as well as boutique and prestige jewelry for Swatch Group brands. Composed of jewelers, polishers and lost wax casting specialists, DYB’s boutique and prestige jewelry department handles the design, development and production of jewelry lines and jewelry watches. From casting to machining along with the hand crafting of certain one-of-a-kind prestige jewelry creations, the workshop’s activities cover the entire range of jewelry-making operations.
- The key objectives of ICB Ingénieurs Conseils en Brevets S.A. are to protect the technical innovations of the Swatch Group, promote its technological knowledge, monitor markets, and combat counterfeiting.
- Swatch Group Research and Development - Swatch Group
- The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd was founded in 2005 and became operational on September 1 of the same year. Today this company groups, in three divisions, the missions of Asulab as well as those of Moebius and CDNP (Centre de développement des nouveaux produits). The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd thus consolidates Swatch Group's corporate research and development activities in one legal entity. The missions of Asulab, CDNP and Moebius are described below in more detail.