Glacier 3000

This article is about the company. For the glacier, see Tsanfleuron Glacier.
The station at the Col du Pillon

Glacier 3000 (officially Gstaad 3000 AG) is a company that operates several cable cars. It was created in 2005 and took over the assets of the then bankrupt Glacier 3000 Région Les Diablerets-Gstaad S.A., founded in 1993.[1] The company is now based in Gstaad(Switzerland).

The main cable car was opened in 1964 and rebuilt in 1999. It connects the Col du Pillon (1,546) from the Scex Rouge (2,950 m). The company also operates ski lifts on the Tsanfleuron Glacier.[2] In 2005 the rights to Glacier 3000 were bought by a triumvirate of the French businessman Jean Claude Mimran, the British businessman and Formula One Executive Bernie Ecclestone, and the local Swiss property developer Marcel Bach.[3][4]

  1. ^ register of commerce Berne
  2. ^ History Archived 2010-04-02 at the Wayback Machine glacier3000.ch. Retrieved 2010-03-17
  3. ^ "History". Glacier 3000 - History. Glacier 3000. Archived from the original on 24 June 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  4. ^ Peter Siegenthaler (6 February 2014). "Wealth threatens the simple life in Gstaad". Swiss Info. Retrieved 22 June 2015.