Switzerland
| AG (Aktiengesellschaft) | SA (Société anonyme) | SA (Società anonima) | ≈ plc (UK) or Inc. (US). Min. share capital CHF 100,000. Bearer or registered shares, of a par value of min. CHF 0.01 each. Details of shareholders generally not publicly available (except for main shareholders and management shares of publicly listed companies). |
| GmbH (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) | Sàrl (Société à responsabilité limitée) | Sagl (Società a garanzia limitata) | ≈ Ltd. (UK), LLC (US). Min. capital CHF 20,000. Registered shares only, of a par value of min. CHF 100 each. Name, address and share of each owner (and any changes) publicly recorded in the Official Register of Commerce. Read more about this topic: Types Of Business Entity Famous quotes containing the word switzerland:“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.” “In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.” “In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!” |