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To ensure transparency and objectivity in the job market, the Handelszeitung and PME, together with the research and market research institute Statista, have identified the best personnel service providers and recruitment platforms in the country for the sixth time. We at Knight Gianella & Partner are proud to have received this award in the field of executive search again this year and look forward to further exciting mandates with our clients.

Knight Gianella, in collaboration with IMD (one of the world's leading business schools based in Lausanne, www.imd.org), has developed a questionnaire for this purpose. Gfs-zürich (market and social research, www.gfs-zh.ch), has conducted an anonymous online survey of board members of listed and unlisted larger companies in Switzerland.

Of the 195 participants, 69 % hold a mandate at listed companies, 35 % at companies with family/anchor shareholders and 15 % at state-related companies. The majority work on at least one audit committee (53 %), remuneration committee (53 %) or nomination committee (50 %). In addition, 36 % are represented in a risk committee and 15 % in a strategy committee. Due to multiple responses and multiple mandates, the total number is higher than the number of all participants. With a very high response rate of 23% of the 857 board members surveyed and a proportion of women of 31%, the study is representative of the population.