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How to start a carpentry, joinery or cabinet-making business in Switzerland: collective agreements, Suva, defects and imported timber
To start a carpentry business in Switzerland, you need no federal licence and no diploma: joinery, cabinetmaking and timber framing are open trades. What shapes the company is a...
How to start a leather goods or handbag brand in Switzerland: chromium, dyes, exotic skins and Swiss made
To start a leather goods brand in Switzerland you need no licence, no trade qualification and no product registration. Most founders stop reading there, and that is where the...
How to start a plumbing or sanitary installation business in Switzerland: utilities, collective agreements, defects and payment
To start a plumbing business in Switzerland you need no federal licence: unlike electricians, sanitary installers have no equivalent of the federal ESTI authorisation. The...
How to start a cosmetics or perfume brand in Switzerland: what Swiss law requires once your name is on the bottle
To start a cosmetics brand in Switzerland you need no licence, no product registration and no prior notification: no Swiss authority approves a cosmetic before it is sold, and...
How to start an AI agency or digital agency in Switzerland: the rules that apply once you handle your clients’ data
You can start an AI agency in Switzerland without any licence, permit or registration beyond the commercial register, and Switzerland has no AI statute in force. What governs the...
Setting up a securities firm in Switzerland: the three cases of the definition, the capital and what separates it from portfolio management
A securities firm is what most people mean when they say "broker" in Switzerland. It is the licence granted to a company that trades securities in its own name for the account of...
Setting up a crypto exchange or digital asset company in Switzerland: which FINMA authorisation applies to your activity
Switzerland does not issue a crypto licence, whether you plan an exchange, a custody service or a crypto payment business. No federal act creates one, and no authority grants a...
Setting up a commodity trading company in Switzerland: no licence, and the three thresholds that actually apply
There is no trading licence in Switzerland. Setting up a commodity trading company requires no authorisation from any federal authority: a trader who buys and resells goods for...
Starting a marketing, advertising or communication agency in Switzerland: legal form, place-of-recipient VAT, copyright assignment, unfair competition and freelancers
Of all the businesses covered in this series, a marketing agency is one of the very few you can open in Switzerland without asking anyone's permission. There is no licence, no...
Setting up a telecommunications or communication services company in Switzerland: OFCOM registration, Swiss correspondence address, numbering resources and the SPTA
There is no OFCOM licence. Foreign operators who approach Switzerland almost always start from the assumption that a regulator must authorise them before they sell a single...
Launching a food supplement brand in Switzerland: notification, responsible person, composition rules, health claims and 2.6% VAT
To start a supplement company in Switzerland, a founder coming from the UK, the US or an EU country has to recalibrate two expectations. There is no product notification to file,...
Setting up a medical practice company in Switzerland: cantonal licence, admission of the company and its doctors, needs clause and TARDOC
Doctors who want to open a medical practice in Switzerland increasingly do so through a company, either a limited liability company (GmbH/Sàrl) or a company limited by shares...
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