Results for “Switzerland”

3M Post-it & Sharpie 🇺🇸 non-EU

Minnesota and Atlanta own the desk drawer.

• STABILO Heroldsberg. The BOSS highlighter is the original. 🇩🇪
• STAEDTLER Nuremberg, 1835. Still makes pencils in Germany. 🇩🇪
• Faber-Castell Stein, family-owned since 1761. 🇩🇪
• LAMY Heidelberg. The Safari fountain pen. 🇩🇪

Wayfair & Ashley Furniture 🇺🇸 non-EU

American furniture retail, shipped a long way.

• IKEA Älmhult, Sweden. You already know. 🇸🇪
• JYSK Danish, 3,000 stores across Europe. 🇩🇰
• home24 Berlin online furniture. 🇩🇪
• HAY Copenhagen design at reachable prices. MillerKnoll — Herman Miller — holds a significant stake. 🇩🇰

Listerine 🇺🇸 non-EU

American mouthwash, mostly alcohol.

• Curaprox Swiss, Curasept range, alcohol-free. 🇨🇭
• One Drop Only Berlin since 1950. Concentrate — one bottle lasts a year. 🇩🇪
• Chlorhexamed Haleon, London. The clinical option. 🇬🇧
• Lacalut German pharmacy brand, aluminium lactate. 🇩🇪

Oral-B 🇺🇸 non-EU

The electric toothbrush that came with a subscription to brush heads.

• Philips Sonicare Amsterdam. Sonic rather than oscillating. 🇳🇱
• Curaprox Hydrosonic Swiss, extremely soft filaments. 🇨🇭
• happybrush Munich. Same hardware, far cheaper heads. 🇩🇪
• Emmi-dent German ultrasonic brushes. 🇩🇪

Levoit & Honeywell 🇺🇸 non-EU

American air purifiers with proprietary filters.

• Philips Amsterdam-designed, but Philips sold its home appliance business in 2021 — it now trades as Versuni, Dutch-registered and Chinese-owned. 🇳🇱
• Blueair Stockholm, very quiet, Unilever-owned. 🇸🇪
• IDEAL Balingen, made in Germany, HEPA H14. 🇩🇪
• BONECO Swiss air treatment since 1956. 🇨🇭

Airbnb 🇺🇸 non-EU

Short-term rentals, long-term housing debate.

• HomeToGo Berlin metasearch across holiday rental providers. 🇩🇪
• Holidu Munich holiday rental search with local property managers. 🇩🇪
• Belvilla Dutch holiday home rental across Europe. 🇳🇱
• Interhome Swiss holiday rentals (outside the default EU scope). 🇨🇭

Similac & Enfamil 🇺🇸 non-EU

American infant formula.

• HiPP Organic, and stricter on residues than the regulation requires. 🇩🇪
• Holle Swiss demeter-certified biodynamic formula. 🇨🇭
• Löwenzahn Organics German organic, short ingredient lists. 🇩🇪
• Kendamil Kendal, Cumbria. Whole milk, no palm oil. 🇬🇧

Colgate & Crest 🇺🇸 non-EU

New York and Cincinnati own your bathroom shelf.

• Lacalut German pharmacy toothpaste, aluminium lactate. 🇩🇪
• Ajona Stuttgart. A concentrate — one tube lasts months. 🇩🇪
• Weleda Swiss, plant-based, no fluoride options. 🇨🇭
• lavera Hanover natural cosmetics, certified organic. 🇩🇪

DocuSign 🇺🇸 non-EU

Signatures in the cloud, evidence in San Francisco.

• Yousign French eIDAS-qualified signature provider, data stored in the EU. 🇫🇷
• Namirial Italian qualified trust service provider across the EU. 🇮🇹
• Dokobit Lithuanian signing that speaks every Baltic and Nordic eID. 🇱🇹
• Signaturit Spanish qualified electronic signature and identification. 🇪🇸

Victoria's Secret 🇺🇸 non-EU

An American brand with a complicated decade.

• Hunkemöller Amsterdam since 1886, Europe's largest lingerie chain — though ownership has sat with US investors since a 2022 restructuring. 🇳🇱
• Triumph Bad Zurzach, founded in Germany 1886. 🇨🇭
• sloggi Same group, and the everyday European default. 🇨🇭
• Etam Paris since 1916. 🇫🇷

Notion 🇺🇸 non-EU

The everything-document, stored on someone else's everything-server.

• Zenkit Karlsruhe suite of docs, tables, boards and mind maps. 🇩🇪
• Nuclino Berlin-built fast, lightweight team wiki. 🇩🇪
• Nextcloud Notes & Deck Notes, kanban and files on infrastructure you own. 🇩🇪
• CryptPad Encrypted docs, kanban and whiteboards, no account required. 🇫🇷

Gatorade & Powerade 🇺🇸 non-EU

American sports hydration.

• Isostar Swiss, and the original European isotonic drink from 1977. 🇨🇭
• Dextro Energy German glucose sports nutrition since 1927. 🇩🇪
• SPONSER Swiss sports nutrition used across professional cycling. 🇨🇭
• HIGH5 UK endurance nutrition, informed-sport tested. 🇬🇧

Johnson & Johnson, Neutrogena & Olay 🇺🇸 non-EU

American skincare, in a continent full of pharmacies.

• NIVEA Beiersdorf, Hamburg, 1911. The blue tin. 🇩🇪
• La Roche-Posay French thermal spring water, dermatologist-standard. 🇫🇷
• Avène Pierre Fabre, made at the spring in the Cévennes. 🇫🇷
• Bioderma Lyon. Sensibio micellar water is the category original. 🇫🇷

Weber 🇺🇸 non-EU

The kettle barbecue, from Illinois.

• LANDMANN Osterholz-Scharmbeck since 1966. 🇩🇪
• Outdoorchef Swiss, and the funnel design genuinely stops flare-ups. 🇨🇭
• RÖSLE Marktoberdorf. Stainless steel, made to last. 🇩🇪
• höfats Allgäu design studio; the Cube and Bowl are award winners. 🇩🇪

Adobe Acrobat 🇺🇸🇨🇭 non-EU

PDF is an open standard. The reader charges rent.

• PDF24 Geek Software, Berlin. Free, and the desktop version never uploads your file. 🇩🇪
• Stirling PDF Open source and self-hostable: run every tool on your own machine. 🇬🇧
• PDFsam Split and merge, open source, from an Italian developer. 🇮🇹
• LibreOffice Draw The Document Foundation, Berlin. Edits PDFs directly and costs nothing. 🇩🇪

Okta / Auth0 🇺🇸 non-EU

Single sign-on, single foreign dependency.

• Ory Munich open-source identity infrastructure; self-host or EU cloud. 🇩🇪
• Univention Corporate Server Bremen-built identity and domain management for the public sector. 🇩🇪
• ZITADEL Swiss open-source identity platform (outside the default EU scope). 🇨🇭

Keurig & Dunkin' 🇺🇸 non-EU

American pod coffee and American drip.

• Nespresso Swiss, with an aluminium capsule that Europe actually recycles. 🇨🇭
• Tchibo Cafissimo German capsule system, cheaper per cup. 🇩🇪
• Lavazza A Modo Mio Italian capsules, compostable options. 🇮🇹
• illy iperEspresso Two-stage capsule, genuinely better crema. 🇮🇹

Wrigley's Extra & Orbit 🇺🇸 non-EU

Chicago owns the checkout counter.

• Mentos Perfetti Van Melle, Breda — Dutch-Italian and family-owned. 🇳🇱
• Vivident Italian gum, same group as Mentos. 🇮🇹
• Fisherman's Friend Fleetwood, Lancashire, since 1865. Still family-owned. 🇬🇧
• Ricola Swiss herbal drops from thirteen Alpine herbs. 🇨🇭

Herschel & JanSport 🇨🇦🇺🇸 non-EU

North American backpacks.

• Fjällräven Kånken Swedish, 1978, and everywhere for good reason. 🇸🇪
• FREITAG Zurich. Made from used truck tarpaulins, each one unique. 🇨🇭
• Deuter Bavarian since 1898; repairs packs decades old. 🇩🇪
• ORTLIEB Heilsbronn. Genuinely waterproof, made in Germany. 🇩🇪

Banana Boat & Coppertone 🇺🇸 non-EU

American sun cream.

• NIVEA SUN Beiersdorf, Hamburg. 🇩🇪
• Ladival STADA, Bad Vilbel. German pharmacy standard. 🇩🇪
• La Roche-Posay Anthelios The dermatologist default across Europe. 🇫🇷
• Avène Pierre Fabre, mineral filters for sensitive skin. 🇫🇷

DiGiorno & Totino's 🇺🇸 non-EU

American frozen pizza. In Europe. Yes.

• Dr. Oetker Ristorante Bielefeld. Europe's frozen pizza benchmark. 🇩🇪
• Wagner Saarland family business, Steinofen range. 🇩🇪
• Gustavo Gusto Munich upstart with a genuinely good crust. 🇩🇪
• Buitoni Italian heritage, Nestlé-owned, made in Europe. 🇨🇭

Dropbox 🇺🇸 non-EU

The folder that started cloud sync, still US-hosted.

• Nextcloud The closest full replacement, with desktop sync clients that behave the same. 🇩🇪
• Koofr Straightforward paid EU storage with lifetime plans. 🇸🇮
• Filen Encrypted sync where the provider genuinely cannot read your files. 🇩🇪
• Internxt Spanish encrypted drive with a free tier. 🇪🇸

Gerber & Beech-Nut 🇺🇸 non-EU

American baby food.

• HiPP Pfaffenhofen. Organic since 1956, and stricter than the EU requires. 🇩🇪
• Holle Swiss demeter-certified biodynamic baby food since 1933. 🇨🇭
• Bebivita German, same quality controls as HiPP at lower prices. 🇩🇪
• Babybio French organic, made in Brittany. 🇫🇷

The North Face, Columbia & Patagonia 🇺🇸 non-EU

American outdoor gear, on European mountains.

• Fjällräven Örnsköldsvik, 1960. G-1000 fabric, waxed not coated. 🇸🇪
• VAUDE Tettnang. Climate-neutral in Germany, and audited about it. 🇩🇪
• Norrøna Norwegian since 1929, family-owned, lifetime warranty. 🇳🇴
• Mammut Swiss, 1862. Ropes first, everything else after. 🇨🇭

Tommy Hilfiger & Calvin Klein 🇺🇸 non-EU

Two brands, one New York parent company.

• BOSS Metzingen, Germany. 🇩🇪
• Tiger of Sweden Stockholm tailoring. 🇸🇪
• Sandro Paris. 🇫🇷
• Lacoste French heritage, now under Swiss-based MF Brands. 🇨🇭

Herman Miller & Steelcase 🇺🇸 non-EU

American office seating at American prices.

• Wilkhahn Bad Münder. The ON chair moves in three dimensions. 🇩🇪
• Interstuhl Meßstetten, family-owned, made in the Swabian Alb. 🇩🇪
• Vitra Birsfelden. Holds the European licences for the Eames designs. 🇨🇭
• Kinnarps Swedish, and it delivers its own furniture on its own trucks. 🇸🇪

Häagen-Dazs 🇺🇸 non-EU

A Danish-sounding name invented in the Bronx.

• Mövenpick Swiss, and still the reference for a plain vanilla. 🇨🇭
• Amorino Paris. Gelato served as a rose, organic milk. 🇫🇷
• Grom Turin, made with fruit from its own farm. 🇮🇹
• Sammontana Empoli, family-owned since 1948. 🇮🇹

Kohler, Moen & Delta Faucet 🇺🇸🇩🇪 non-EU

The German tap you would switch to is often American.

• Duravit Hornberg since 1817, still family-controlled. 🇩🇪
• Villeroy & Boch Mettlach since 1748. Ceramics, baths and the tiles too. 🇩🇪
• Geberit Rapperswil-Jona. The cistern behind half of Europe's walls. 🇨🇭
• Roca Barcelona. Family-owned and the largest bathroom maker in Europe. 🇪🇸

Lululemon & Athleta 🇨🇦🇺🇸 non-EU

North American yoga wear at North American prices.

• Odlo Swiss, and the inventor of the modern sports base layer in 1946. 🇨🇭
• Casall Stockholm, training wear and equipment since 1984. 🇸🇪
• Björn Borg Swedish sport and underwear. 🇸🇪
• FALKE Schmallenberg. The sports socks are the quiet standout. 🇩🇪

Fossil & Michael Kors watches 🇺🇸 non-EU

American fashion watches, assembled far away.

• Swatch Biel/Bienne. Swiss made, and the reason Swiss watchmaking survived the 1980s. 🇨🇭
• Junghans Schramberg, Black Forest. The Max Bill is a design classic. 🇩🇪
• NOMOS Glashütte Saxony. In-house movements at a fraction of Swiss prices. 🇩🇪
• Tissot Le Locle since 1853, part of the Swatch Group. 🇨🇭

Shimano & SRAM 🇯🇵🇺🇸 non-EU

Two companies decide how nearly every bicycle shifts.

• Campagnolo Vicenza since 1933, and it invented the quick release. 🇮🇹
• DT Swiss Biel. Spokes, hubs and wheels used by half the peloton. 🇨🇭
• Rotor Madrid. Cranks, power meters, oval rings. 🇪🇸
• Magura Bad Urach. Hydraulic brakes since 1893. 🇩🇪

Campbell's 🇺🇸 non-EU

The soup can Warhol painted.

• Erasco Lübeck since 1931 — the German soup standard. 🇩🇪
• Maggi Swiss since 1872; the seasoning bottle is a European fixture. 🇨🇭
• Vitana Czech soups and seasonings since 1902. 🇨🇿
• Liebig French soups, part of Continental Foods. 🇫🇷

Beyond Meat & Impossible Foods 🇺🇸 non-EU

Californian meat substitutes.

• Rügenwalder Mühle A 190-year-old German sausage maker that now sells more vegetarian than meat. 🇩🇪
• Heura Barcelona, olive-oil based, B-Corp. 🇪🇸
• Planted Zurich spin-off of ETH; extruded pea protein with real texture. 🇨🇭
• Naturli' Foods Danish, and the vegan block butter is genuinely good. 🇩🇰

Gmail 🇺🇸 non-EU

Google's free webmail, paid for with your inbox contents.

• Tuta End-to-end encrypted mail and calendar from Hanover; free tier available. 🇩🇪
• mailbox.org Berlin-run mail, calendar and office suite on green electricity. 🇩🇪
• Posteo One EUR per month, anonymous payment accepted, no ads, ever. 🇩🇪
• StartMail Dutch privacy mail from the makers of Startpage, with unlimited aliases. 🇳🇱

WhatsApp, Messenger & Telegram 🇺🇸🇦🇪 non-EU

Encrypted messages, unencrypted metadata, owned by Meta.

• Olvid French messenger with no server-side directory at all; certified by ANSSI. 🇫🇷
• Element Matrix messaging with encrypted DMs and no phone number required. 🇬🇧
• Delta Chat Chat over ordinary email; works with any mailbox, no new account. 🇩🇪
• Threema Swiss paid messenger, no phone number needed (outside the default EU scope). 🇨🇭

ExpressVPN / PIA 🇻🇬🇺🇸 non-EU

Offshore VPNs owned by a single advertising-adjacent group.

• Mullvad VPN Gothenburg's account-number-only VPN; you can literally pay in cash. 🇸🇪
• OVPN Swedish provider running diskless servers it owns outright. 🇸🇪
• AirVPN Italian activist-run VPN with deep configuration control. 🇮🇹
• Surfshark Amsterdam-headquartered VPN with unlimited devices. 🇳🇱

Google Workspace 🇺🇸 non-EU

Mail, docs and drive for companies, hosted entirely by Google.

• Nextcloud Self-hosted or EU-hosted files, docs, talk, calendar and mail. 🇩🇪
• Open-Xchange Cologne groupware powering many European ISP mail platforms. 🇩🇪
• Twake Workplace LINAGORA's French open-source workplace suite. 🇫🇷
• Infomaniak kSuite Swiss full workplace suite (outside the default EU scope). 🇨🇭

Google Drive 🇺🇸 non-EU

Fifteen free gigabytes with a US jurisdiction attached.

• Nextcloud Self-host it, or pick from dozens of EU providers; files, calendar and more. 🇩🇪
• Filen German zero-knowledge encrypted storage with clients on every platform. 🇩🇪
• Internxt Valencia-based end-to-end encrypted drive, photos and file sharing. 🇪🇸
• Koofr Slovenian storage that can also mount your existing Drive and Dropbox. 🇸🇮

ChatGPT, Gemini & Copilot 🇺🇸 non-EU

The assistant that made everyone an AI company.

• Le Chat (Mistral AI) Paris-built frontier models; open-weight options and EU hosting. 🇫🇷
• Aleph Alpha Heidelberg. Refocused in 2024 on sovereign and public-sector AI rather than competing with frontier chat models. 🇩🇪
• LightOn French enterprise generative AI, deployable on premises. 🇫🇷
• Nebius AI Studio Amsterdam-listed GPU cloud, formed from Yandex's non-Russian assets when the group was split and its Russian business divested in 2024. 🇳🇱

Hershey's, Mars & Mondelez 🇺🇸 non-EU

Three American groups own most of the confectionery aisle.

• Ritter Sport Waldenbuch, family-owned, square, and militant about it. 🇩🇪
• Lindt & Sprüngli Zurich, 1845. Owns its whole chain from bean to bar. 🇨🇭
• Ferrero Alba, Piedmont. Family-owned, Nutella, Rocher, Kinder. 🇮🇹
• Neuhaus Brussels, and the inventor of the praline in 1912. 🇧🇪

Send Anywhere / WeTransfer clones 🇰🇷🇺🇸 non-EU

Big-file transfer through servers you know nothing about.

• WeTransfer The Amsterdam original, still the nicest way to send 2 GB. Owned by Bending Spoons of Milan since 2024. 🇳🇱
• Smash French transfer service with no size limit. 🇫🇷
• TransferNow French file transfer with password protection and EU hosting. 🇫🇷
• SwissTransfer Free 50 GB transfers from Infomaniak (outside the default EU scope). 🇨🇭

Sign in with Google, Apple & Facebook 🇺🇸 non-EU

Three American companies hold the keys to the rest of your accounts.

• MojeID Run by CZ.NIC, the .cz registry. Standard OpenID Connect, free for services, non-profit operator. 🇨🇿
• Bank iD Czech bank-backed identity — most of the country already has it. 🇨🇿
• itsme Belgian, bank and telco backed, used for public services and private sites alike. 🇧🇪
• FranceConnect The French state's single sign-on, built on existing public accounts. 🇫🇷

Outlook.com 🇺🇸 non-EU

Microsoft's consumer webmail, bundled into the Windows account.

• mailbox.org Drop-in IMAP/SMTP replacement with a full groupware suite. 🇩🇪
• Tuta Encrypted mailbox with its own apps on all platforms. 🇩🇪
• Infomaniak kMail Swiss mail with a generous free tier (outside the default EU scope). 🇨🇭
• Posteo Minimal, cheap, and audited German mail. 🇩🇪

Cutco, Global & Shun 🇺🇸🇯🇵 non-EU

One knife, used every day, kept for thirty years.

• Wüsthof Solingen since 1814, still family-owned and still forged there. 🇩🇪
• Zwilling Solingen since 1731. One of the oldest trademarks in the world. 🇩🇪
• Victorinox Ibach. The Swiss Army knife company also makes the kitchen knife most professional kitchens actually own. 🇨🇭
• Opinel Savoie since 1890. Beechwood handle, absurdly good value. 🇫🇷

Snapple & AriZona 🇺🇸 non-EU

American iced tea, mostly sugar.

• Rauch Rankweil, Austria. Family-owned since 1919. 🇦🇹
• Pfanner Lauterach, Austria — the green cartons. 🇦🇹
• ChariTea Hamburg, fair-trade, funds social projects at source. 🇩🇪
• Nestea Nestlé brand, brewed in Europe — though the rights are split by region and Coca-Cola holds Nestea in some markets. 🇨🇭

Google Authenticator & Microsoft Authenticator 🇺🇸 non-EU

The codes guarding everything else, kept by the companies you were guarding against.

• Proton Authenticator Geneva. Free, open source, no account required, and it runs on Windows, macOS and Linux as well as your phone. 🇨🇭
• Aegis Authenticator Dutch and open source. Android only, everything stays on the handset, and the encrypted backup is yours — the part Google Authenticator does worst. 🇳🇱
• Yubico Authenticator Stockholm. The secrets live on a YubiKey rather than on the phone, so a lost handset is not a lost account. 🇸🇪
• Nitrokey Teltow, near Berlin. Open-source security keys, hardware and firmware both published for anyone to audit. 🇩🇪