Swatch CEO Sees Post-Coronavirus Hope: Situation ‘Will Get Better Despite All the Prophets of Doom’

Swatch CEO Sees Post-Coronavirus Hope: Situation ‘Will Get Better Despite All the Prophets of Doom’
Swiss watchmaker Swatch Group CEO Nick Hayek shows the Swatch Touch Zero One wristwatch during a press conference in Corgemont, Switzerland, on March 12, 2014. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
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The head of Swiss watchmaker Swatch said he expects a post-coronavirus pickup in business even as the company is now taking a “massive” hit from the outbreak as sales in its key Chinese market have plummeted.

“Given our very strong market position in China, of course we are massively hit by the temporary closing of hundreds of stores,” Swatch CEO Nick Hayek told Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung on Sunday.

Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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