With the opening of the Piaget Time Gallery in Geneva, an extension to its manufacturing site in Plan-les-Ouates, and a "Man of the Year" award for the brand's CEO, Piaget is busy on all fronts Philippe Léopold-Metzger, CEO of Piaget, presents the company's new exhibition concept, and takes this opportunity to take stock of the brand's health… a brand that can lay ever-greater claim to its title as the jeweller of watchmaking.

The world's second-largest luxury group moves ahead with its project to separate its tobacco interests from its luxury business, which will have its head office in Switzerland.

As the recent Intellectual Property Day at Geneva University's School of Law clearly spelled out, counterfeiting is a global scourge and the weapons with which to fight it still lack bite. The last in a three-part file.

PPR has taken a 23% stake to become a minority shareholder in the Sowind Group, owner of the Girard-Perregaux and JeanRichard brands. Luigi Macaluso, Chairman and CEO of Sowind, talks about the transaction that was announced in June.