Green Business Switzerland has announced the thirty finalists who will compete for Switzerland’s most prestigious sustainability prize.
Switzerland’s most innovative companies, who best combine environmental impact with economic sucess, are chosen as finalists. In contrast from previous years, SMEs and scale-ups will be recognized seperately in an effort to demonstrate the value both have in transforming business models to achieve environmental solutions.
The goal of the award is to “spotlight what works.” As explained by former Federal Councilor and current Jury President of Green Buisness Switzerland, Doris Leuthard, “Saving our planet is not a charitable endeavor, but the business model of the future.”
Past winners of this award include: Oxyle for their treatments that remove PFAS forever chemicals from water supplies, LEDcity’s sensor based lighting system that adjusts light levels automatically, and Eberhard who recycles construction waste like sand and gravel into new building materials.
The winner of the SME catagory will be announced on the 3rd of September, 2026 at the Maillot Vert Summer Party in Lucerne. The finalists are as follows.
- Bathco (Zurich)
- BELIMO (Hinwil, Swiss canton of Zurich)
- Girsberger (Thunstetten, canton of Bern)
- Hilding Anders Switzerland (Schänis, canton of St.Gallen)
- Hotel Schweizerhof (Zurich)
- Infomaniak Network (Les Acacias, canton of Geneva)
- JURA Materials (Aarau), Liveo Research and Lonza (both Basel)
- Rigi Bahnen (Arth, canton of Schwyz)
- SGS (Baar, canton of Zug)
- Swisscom (Worblaufen, canton of Bern)
- Textilcolor (Sevelen, canton of St.Gallen)
- UCB Farchim (Bulle, canton of Fribourg)
- Vögeli (Langnau im Emmental, canton of Bern)
The winner of the scale-up category will be announced on the 12th of February, 2027 at the Impact Circle Event in Gstaad in the canton of Bern. The finalists are as follows.
- AgroSustain (Renens, canton of Vaud)
- Evolium Technologies (Sion, canton of Valais)
- ExerGo (Yverdon-les-Bains, canton of Vaud)
- GRZ Technologies (Avenches, canton of Vaud)
- Hydroliq (Lucerne)
- Klark (Landquart, canton of Graubünden)
- Meteomatis (St.Gallen)
- NIKIN (Aarau)
- Novamem (Schlieren, canton of Zurich)
- OceanSafe (Bern)
- Panatere (Saignelégier, canton of Jura)
- rezonanz (Zurich)
- SensorX Solutions (Sarnen, canton of Obwalden)
- upVolt (Basel)
- Yeastup (Brugg, canton of Aargau)