MKS Finance
| MKS Finance SA | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1979 |
| Seat |
Geneva Switzerland
|
| management | Marwan Shakarchi ( CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | 220 |
| sales | 70 million USD |
| Branch | Precious metal processing - and trading, asset management |
| Website | www.mks.ch |
The MKS Finance SA , based in Geneva, is one of precious metals processing and trading, and on asset management specialist, internationally active Swiss financial company. The company has 220 employees and annual sales of around 70 million US dollars.
MKS is a member of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) and its subsidiary PAMP has been on the LBMA's Gold List since 1987.
Field of activity
The company offers banks , financial service providers , finance companies, funds as well as gold miners and refineries services on all aspects of precious metals. In addition, MKS Finance supplies the jewelry industry and wholesalers with precious metals.
With the subsidiary Pamp SA ( Produits Artistiques Métaux Précieux ) based in Castel San Pietro in the canton of Ticino , MKS Finance has its own refinery. This refines gold , silver and platinum and produces bars , gold coins , silver coins and medals as well as semi-finished and finished products for the jewelry and processing industry.
Her retail partners include the Harrods department store; in its bank in its flagship store in London, the company has PAMP's embossed products ready for its customers.
The second business area is asset management and related financial services.
history
The company was founded in 1979 by the Lebanese Mahmoud K. Shakarchi in Geneva. He was previously active in precious metals trading in the Middle East. In 1983 his son Marwan Shakarchi took over the management. It has expanded steadily since then. It has 15 offices in 12 different countries around the world.
With the takeover of Ticino Pamp SA in 1984, MKS Finance entered the precious metal refinery and began to supply trading, investment and central banks with their own gold bars. Over time, the product range was expanded to include other precious metals as well as different sizes and types and the trading and refining activities were supplemented by further services.
PAMP produces precious metal bars ranging in size from 12.5 kilograms down to 1 gram. Each bar is delivered with a certificate of authenticity. PAMP's bar pendants and small bars have embossings on the underside such as flowers , figures from the legendary world and signs of the zodiac . PAMP's most famous motif is Fortuna , the Roman goddess of luck who adorns many products.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gold List, London Bullion Market Association. http://www.lbma.org.uk/pages/index.cfm?page_id=29&title=gold_list
- ↑ Harrods to sell gold bullion for first time , The Telegraph, October 15, 2009, partnership with PAMP. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/gold/6328823/Harrods-to-sell-gold-bullion-for-first-time.html .
- ↑ Foreign Commerce Weekly , Volumes 44-45, August 13, 1951, p. 7 (accessed March 26, 2020)
- ↑ PAMP Shop, Goldavenue http://pamp.goldavenue.com/Brand.aspx?CALL=363934/ ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
