CPI HISTORY
TIMELINE
The CPI International Group Switzerland is a daughter company of this century, for which the group strategy, business development and value creation are all structured around change management, crisis control and sizing opportunities. This has been the case since the inception of its first educational unit in 1983 as the Parthenon Innovation group in Nashville, USA, and till the movement of the CPI business to Switzerland and the establishment of the first pharmaceutical company and small educational centre in 2000 and 2002 respectively. Later, in 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2010, the CPI Group went on to establish several companies, businesses and subsidiaries in Switzerland and around the world. The CPI International Group Headquarters was established in 2013 in Lucerne with the aim of hosting seven companies, having business activities in 19 different countries and in four major areas – healthcare, education, renewable energy and software development – with a worth of nearly two billion Swiss francs forecast at the start of 2016.