Hans Adolf Pestalozzi was a Swiss social critic of late 20th century capitalism, which eventually led to his becoming a bestselling author.
Migros is Switzerland's largest retail company, its largest supermarket chain and largest employer. It is also one of the forty largest retailers in the world. It is structured in the form of a cooperative federation, with more than two million members.
Migros Ticaret A.Ş. is one of the biggest chains of supermarkets in Turkey.[citation needed]
Rüschlikon is a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. It is located on the west shore of Lake Zürich.
Gottlieb Duttweiler was a Swiss businessman and politician, founder of both the Migros chain of grocery stores and the Alliance of Independents party.
The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, northeastern Germany.
The Merchant Marine of Switzerland is the largest merchant navy of a landlocked country. Somewhat unusual for a landlocked country, Switzerland has a long tradition of civilian navigation, both on its lakes and rivers, and on the high seas.
The Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences Switzerland is a University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland with the departments of Business and Management, Law, Health, Music and Applied Psychology. It was founded in 1997 and today is one of nine accredited Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences, being the only privately owned one. It has 3’813 students, 766 lecturers and around 12’000 graduates. Kalaidos UAS is a foundation, which is a institutionally accredited University of Applied Sciences under Swiss law.
The Alliance of Independents, Ring of Independents, or National Ring of Independents, was a social liberal political party in Switzerland that existed between 1936 and 1999.
The Swiss Red Cross, or SRC, is the national Red Cross society for Switzerland.
The Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (GDI) is an independent think-tank and the oldest organisation of its kind in Switzerland. It is located in Rüschlikon, near Zurich. The GDI is located on the edge of the Park im Grüene.
Eurocentres – Global Language Learning is an international language teaching organization with 20 language schools in 13 countries.
Park im Grüene is a public park and a small amusement park in the municipality of Rüschlikon in Switzerland. The park area comprises the former estate of Adele and Gottlieb Duttweiler that went to public use in 1947.
Adele Duttweiler was a Swiss philanthropist and the wife of Gottlieb Duttweiler, founder of both the Migros group and the LdU political party.
Ex Libris is a Swiss retail company in the media sector which operates 82 department stores in Switzerland. The group is owned by Migros which is Switzerland's largest retailer and claims to provide the largest online shop of Switzerland.
Adele was a Swiss cargo ship, later the merchant ship Sunadele. Initiated by Gottlieb Duttweiler and named after Adele Duttweiler, she served in the Merchant Marine of Switzerland.
Reederei Zürich AG was a Swiss company operating the maritime cargo ships Adele and Amelia, and a small fleet of Rhein river ships between 1952 and 1996. Not to be confused with the company of the same name that was established after the shipping company was deleted from the commercial registers.
Elsa Felicya Gasser-Pfau was a Polish-born Swiss economist. From the early 1930s, she became an advisor to Gottlieb Duttweiler, the founder of the Migros retail business. In 1948, she convinced him that the firm should introduce a self-service approach, paving the way for Switzerland's most successful supermarket chain. Today Gasser is considered to be responsible for the introduction of supermarkets in Switzerland.
Midor AG was a company of the Swiss retail group Migros, which developed and produced biscuits, ice cream and snacks. It supplied customers in Switzerland and 19 other countries. Midor also produced numerous products for Migros brands and large corporations in Switzerland and abroad. Midor was founded in 1928 and belonged to the M-Industrie Gruppe. It employed around 600 people at its location in Meilen at Lake Zurich.
Die Tat was a social liberal Swiss newspaper published by Migros from 1935 to 1978, first as a weekly, then as an evening daily and finally as a morning tabloid. It was launched by the founder of Migros, Gottlieb Duttweiler. While the weekly newspaper was the party organ of the Alliance of Independents, the evening paper quickly emancipated from it and also gained a high reputation outside Switzerland, in particular thanks to its weekend supplement Die literarische Tat under the direction of Max Rychner and Erwin Jaeckle and the collaboration of numerous well-known journalists. The decline of the political press in the 1970s, combined with a lack of advertising revenue due to its proximity to Migros, led to the closure of the evening newspaper at the end of March 1977. The then president of Migros, Pierre Arnold, tried to continue the title as a tabloid. However, after 16 months, the paper's harsh style, which was critical of the economy, forced him to dismiss editor-in-chief Roger Schawinski. Without consulting the editorial team, he appointed Karl Vögeli in his place, who was supposed to guarantee a more moderate direction for the paper. The following protest strike by the editorial team led to the closure of the tabloid at the end of September 1978, just one and a half years after its launch.
