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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (56891)	12/4/2004 5:10:54 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Have you ever seen Stouffer's frozen foods in your supermarket? Any products from Carnation Foods in your supermarket? Perhaps Buitoni pasta, Maggi packaged foods, Alpo, Tender Vittles, Crosse & Blackwell products, Contadina Products? Coffee from Taster's Choice, Hills Brothers, Chase and Sanborne, Coffee-Mate. Libby's canned fruit and vegeatbles, Kern fruit nectars. Kit Kats, Baby Ruth, Butterfinger, Life Savers, or Rolos? Wines from Beringer, Chateau Souverain, Los Hermanos, or Napa Ridge? Cosmetics by Biotherm, Helena Rubenstein, Lancome, Vichy or L'Oreal - it costs more but you're worth it. How about bottled water like Perrier, Vittel, Poland Spring, Arrowhead, Calistoga, Deer Park, Oasis, Utopia, or Zephyr Hills? Yoplait yogurt? Haagen Dazs ice cream? _________________ These are only some of the products produced and owned by Nestlé Foods of Vevey Switzerland.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (56891)	12/4/2004 6:09:43 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 74559

The largest Swiss pharmaceutical firms are Roche and Novartis, both based in Basel. You correctly recalled that Ciba-Geigy is Swiss, although today it's now part of Novartis along with Sandoz, and Gerber Baby Foods. Another closely related firm is Givaudan based in Vernier, which was formerly part of Roche Pharmaceuticals. Givaudan is one of the largest suppliers of flavors and fragrances in the U.S. and the world. The Swiss participation in the American market extends far beyond Toblerone, Lindt, Ricola, and Logitech. Of course there is that money side with UBS-Paine Webber and Credit Suisse First Boston both based in Zurich and Winterthur Insurance Group based not surprisingly in Winterthur.