- Thailand’s Central Group to Build on Legacy of GLOBUS as Switzerland’s Leading Luxury Brand.From a broad perspective, Switzerland and Thailand maintain very close ties and share a long history full of great mutual respect and strong moments even though we are 9,000 km. apart. The first documented contacts between Switzerland and Thailand dated back to the 17th century when His Majesty Chulalongkorn (King Rama V) to visit Switzerland in 1897