The Complainant is the Swiss based umbrella organization of the regional Migros Cooperatives. Complainant is known throughout Switzerland as one of the biggest department stores, offering a wide range of food, non-food products and services (wellness, travel, catering). The company was founded by Gottlieb Duttweiler in 1925 in Zurich and has now evolved into a Community of ten regional Cooperatives. Nowadays, the Migros Group, however, is not only related to the food industry. It consists of 4 travel agencies (Interhome, Hotelplan Suisse, Travelwindow, btw first travel), cultural institutions, a museum, magazines (Saisonkuche, Migros-Magzin), restaurants (cha cha, Molino, Migros- Take Away), aqua/fitness/ golf parks, several pension funds and foundations and a bank. (http://www.migros.ch/ http://www.migros.ch/
Migros Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Migros Group. They operate the website https://www.migrosbank.ch. The bank was founded in 1958 by Gottlieb Duttweiler. The bank is present in 67 locations in Switzerland. The bank is also active on several social media sites such as: Facebook, twitter, Google +, Youtube, Xing and LinkedIn.
https://www.facebook.com/
https://twitter.com/
https://plus.google.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.xing.com/
https://ch.linkedin.com/
Complainant has previously successfully challenged several MIGROS domain names through the UDRP process see among others the following WIPO cases: D2016-2547, D2016-0687, D2015-2375, D2015-1630, D2015-1197, D2015-1012, D2015-0921, D2015-0974, D2015-0564, D2015-0326D2000-1171, D2008-0092, DCH2008-0016, DCH2010-0020, DCH2010-0021, D2015-0564, D2015-0326 and also at the US National Arbitration Forum (FA1505001621184, dated on July 8, 2015).
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