Company from Rapperswil BE wins prestigious business award
Gasser Ceramic has been awarded this year's Prix SVC Espace Mittelland 2025. Platit and Schwob followed in second and third place. Megasol Energie and Olwo were honoured with a diploma.
Gasser Ceramic has won this year’s Prix SVC Espace Mittelland. The family-run company based in Rapperswil in the Bernese Seeland produces tiles for roofs and façades as well as bricks and photovoltaic systems integrated into roof tiles. With around 200 employees, ten production lines and six kilns at four locations, the winning company is one of the leading Swiss companies in this sector, according to a statement from the Swiss Venture Club(SVC).
“Nobody can get past Gassers,” jury president Jürg Schwarzenbach is quoted as saying in a statement from his laudatory speech. “During the jury’s visit, we felt the enthusiasm for the products and the pride of the employees in working for this traditional company.”
Platit AG from Selzach followed in second place. The company manufactures high-tech systems for PVD coating. Its machines are used to emboss five-figure coins and gold medals and to coat the hinges and dials of luxury watches. Over 650 Platit coating systems are installed worldwide. The company also has branches in Europe, America and Asia.
Third place went to Schwob AG from Burgdorf. The long-established company develops and manufactures high-quality table and bed linen for hotels, restaurants, clinics and residences with around 240 employees in its own Jacquard weaving mill. Schwob has five of its own laundries and 30 local partner laundries for cleaning. Schwob exports to facilities around the globe. Megasol Energie from Deitingen SO, a developer of solar modules and assembly systems, and Olwo, a production, trading and service company in the timber industry from Worb BE, were honoured with a diploma.
The award ceremony took place in front of 1,300 guests in the Kursaal Bern. “The Prix SVC is far more than just an award,” said Reto Portmann, President of the SVC organising committee. “This prestigious event symbolises entrepreneurial spirit, innovative strength and the courage it takes to be successful in our dynamic and competitive world.”