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The Swatch Group is the largest watch company in the world and employs about 31,000 people in 50 countries. The group owns the Swatch product line and other luxury brands, including Blancpain , Breguet , Certina , ETA , Glashütte Original , Hamilton , Harry Winston , Longines , Mido , Omega , Rado , and Tissot .
28 June 2010. (2010-06-28) (aged 82) Biel/Bienne, [1] Switzerland. Occupation. Businessman. Title. Swatch Group, founder/chairman. Nicolas George Hayek (19 February 1928 – 28 June 2010) was a Swiss businessman of Lebanese descent, and the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of The Swatch Group.
He has been CEO since 1 January 2003, and a member of the board of directors of the Swatch Group since 2010. His sister Nayla Hayek has been chairman of the board of directors of the Swatch Group since the death of her father in June 2010. The Hayek family controls approximately 39% of The Swatch Group. Personal life
Swatch is a Swiss watchmaker founded in 1983 by Ernst Thomke, Elmar Mock, and Jacques Müller. It is a subsidiary of The Swatch Group.The Swatch product line was developed as a response to the "quartz crisis" of the 1970s and 1980s, in which inexpensive, battery-powered, quartz-regulated watches were competing against more established European watchmakers, focused on artisanal craftsmanship ...
Hayek joined the board of The Swatch Group in 1995 and became its chair in 2010, after her father's death. Hayek became the CEO of Harry Winston, Inc. in May 2013, a few months after The Swatch Group acquired the company. The company bought the world's largest flawless blue diamond The Winston Blue in May 2014.
The Swatch Group. Website. hamiltonwatch.com. The Hamilton Watch Company is a Swiss manufacturer of wristwatches based in Bienne, Switzerland. Founded in 1892 as an American firm, the Hamilton Watch Company ended American manufacture in 1969, shifting manufacturing operations to the Buren factory in Switzerland.
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