Swiss Cheese Union
| Swiss Cheese Union AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1914 (1948 as AG) |
| resolution | 1999 |
| Seat | Bern , Switzerland |
The Swiss Cheese Union was a Swiss marketing and trading organization for cheese. It existed from 1914 to 1999. Its task was to promote sales of the three Swiss hard cheeses Gruyere , Emmentaler and Sbrinz . For this purpose, the cheese union bought the entire production and sold it at prices set by the Swiss Federal Council . She also coordinated national and international marketing for these three varieties. The price fixing also applied to milk and cheese domestically and was conditional on the cheese union supplying the population with sufficient cheese. The cheese union was thus effectively an economic cartel . Between the two world wars, price fixing and export monopoly were replaced by agreements between farmers, cheesemakers and exporters.
In 1992 the Swiss Cheese Union launched a campaign under the motto “Where is Sbrinz?”. It was a competition to search for the «hometown of Sbrinz». The prize should have been "a year of vacation". However, there is no such place in the region of origin of the cheese, so there could be no winner.
From 1992 to 1999 the company was the main sponsor of the Swiss national ski team.
At the general assembly on January 15, 1999, the dissolution of the company was resolved on the basis of the new agricultural law. The cheese union ceased operations at the end of April 1999 .
literature
- Fritz Marbach: The Swiss Cheese Union. Critical presentation of the cheese market regime. Assessment. Baumann, Bern 1952.
- Hans Fraenkel: Control and Freedom in Swiss Agricultural Policy. In: Wirtschaftsdienst 35 (11), 1955 pp. 640–642.
- Dorothee Ryser: Federal Agency or Cartel? Negotiating the relationship between the state and the Swiss Cheese Union, 1933-1939. In: Thomas David, Tobias Straumann and Simon Teuscher (eds.): New contributions to economic history - Nouvelles contributions à l'histoire économique. (Swiss Yearbook for Economic and Social History - Annuaire suisse d'histoire économique et sociale, 30). Chronos, Zurich 2015. pp. 125–142.
Web links
- Beat Brodbeck: Swiss Cheese Union. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Swiss Cheese Union in the archive database of the Swiss Federal Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Entry of the former “Swiss Cheese Union AG” in the commercial register of the Canton of Bern ( 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.
- ↑ Trade Policy Review of Switzerland: May 1996. World Trade Organization, accessed December 4, 2011 .
- ^ Beat Brodbeck: Swiss Cheese Union. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ^ Poster for the advertising campaign "Where is Sbrinz?" in the poster archive of the federal administration
- ↑ Andreas Kunz, Bettina Weber: horror of the slopes. (No longer available online.) World week about the cheese dress of Swiss skiers, June 2009, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 4, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
