Fife, Scotland, 15-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — A researcher at the University of St Andrews has made one giant leap closer to “a profound moment for humanity”, with a discovery that could help prove the existence of alien life. Working alongside colleagues at … Read the full press release
BERN, 15-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — BKW Group achieved a strong result in the first half of 2014, recording an increase in total operating revenue. Operating profit before depreciation, amortisation and impairment decreased to CHF 224 million and net profit to CHF … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, Switzerland
Tagged BKW Group
BERN, 15-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — BKW is now active in the heating installation market. In order to accelerate market entry, it has acquired the companies Neukom Installationen AG (Rafz), Hertig Haustechnik AG (Wohlen) and Cantoni Haustechnik AG (Wohlen). All three of … Read the full press release
Three out of four car purchases are made through manufacturer/independent dealerships Nottingham, UK, 15-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Drivers aged between 18 to 24 are the least likely to use the internet as the first source of information before buying a car, … Read the full press release
Wintershall to acquire shares in oil and gas fields from Statoil for 1.25 billion US Dollar Daily production in Norway will increase to around 60,000 barrels of oil equivalent Kassel, Germany, 15-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — BASF Group company Wintershall is further … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Germany, Industrial, Management, Norway
Tagged BASF Group company, Helge Lund, Kurt Bock, s oil and gas production, Statoil ASA, Wintershall
MANCHESTER, 15-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — British entrepreneur Lawrence Jones has completed a multi-million pound deal to acquire the UK company behind an exclusive ski resort’s first ever hotel. The UKFast CEO this week completed the purchase of Town and Field … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Internet & Online, Management, Real Estate, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Lawrence Jones, Le Farinet hotel and bar, Switzerland, Town and Field which, UKFast, Verbier
Gamesa will install 24 units of the G97-2.0 MW at Changfangshan wind farm located in the province of Shanxi. The project marks this Chinese company’s debut in the wind sector. The two parties have also agreed a potential supply arrangement … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Industrial, Spain, Technology
A special-purpose taskforce has identified seven areas for improvement on which the parties will work during the next three years in order to ensure the firm’s goal of zero discrimination and improve employees’ work-life balance Biscay, Spain, 15-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Gamesa … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Management, Society, Spain
Tagged Gamesa, gender equality, ONCE Foundation
Misano, 15-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Aprilia (Piaggio Group) officially announced that they will enter the Grand Prix motorcycle racing in the MotoGP class. The Aprilia brand’s return to the top world motorcycling competition will take place in 2015, a year ahead … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Italy, Management, Marketing, Sports
Tagged Aprilia, Fausto Gresini, Grand Prix motorcycle racing, MotoGP class, Piaggio Group, Roberto Colaninno
For the eighth consecutive year, Henkel has been listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI World) and Dow Jones Sustainability Index Europe (DJSI Europe). The inclusion in both indices confirms Henkel’s excellent performance among the leading companies in the … Read the full press release
Amsterdam, 12-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today introduces its Allynis Trusted Services Hub, a turnkey business service that enables financial institutions, enterprises, transport operators and more generally all digital service providers to … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Internet & Online, Netherlands, Technology
Tagged Allynis Trusted Services Hub, Claude Deturche, Gemalto, mobile payment services
Paris, 12-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services and VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership in the area of Enterprise … Read the full press release
Landis+Gyr has been chosen to deliver a substantial portion of Linky meters to ERDF (the French national electricity distributor, Électricité Réseau Distribution France). These meters will be produced in Montluçon, France, where Landis+Gyr has been located since 1940 Zug, Switzerland, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, France, Industrial, Switzerland
Tagged Christian Huguet, ERDF, John Harris, Landis+Gyr, ‘Linky’ meters
EDINBURGH, 12-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The official launch of Samaritans’ ground-breaking partnership with North Essex Partnership University Foundation Trust (NEP) took place at the House of Commons last night. Set to coincide with World Suicide Prevention Day, Samaritans will work with … Read the full press release
EDINBURGH, 12-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Today (10th September 2014) is National Suicide Prevention Day, a date which brings together individuals and organisations from around the world with an interest in suicide prevention to reach out and save lives. Every year more … Read the full press release
Posted in Ireland, Management, Society
Tagged Catherine Johnstone, Facebook, prevent suicide, Samaritans, Sonia Flynn, ‘Help a Friend in Need’
SIENA, 12-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Banca Monte dei Paschi announces that in the course of today’s Board of Directors meeting, the Deputy Chairman Marco Turchi and director Paola Demartini expressed their willingness to resign so that the agreement entered into … Read the full press release
PARIS, 12-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Lagardère successfully launched today a €500m, 5-year (due in September 2019) bond issue, with an annual coupon of 2%. The order book reached an amount of €1.5bn, 3 times oversubscribed. The success of the launch … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, France, Management, Media
Tagged Lagardère, Ramzi Khiroun, Thierry Funck-Brentano
University of Pennsylvania Student Takes Top Honors as Richard Diehl Award Recipient Columbia, Md., 12-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., a provider of intuitive, powerful and practical 2D/3D and Building Information Modeling (BIM) software solutions, announces the first recipients of the … Read the full press release
LONDON, 12-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Sky is today announcing two major new enhancements to its tailored advertising service Sky AdSmart which will give advertisers even more control over their TV campaigns. From November, advertisers using Sky AdSmart will be able … Read the full press release
Posted in Entertainment, Management, Marketing, Media, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Jamie West, Sky, Sky AdSmart, Sky Media
LONDON, 12-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Sky Vision, the international distribution arm of BSkyB, has pre-sold the Sky Atlantic drama seriesFortitude to leading broadcasters, including Canal + in France, TV2 Denmark, SVT in Sweden, YLE in Finland, Canada’s Super Channel, NRK Norway, … Read the full press release
Posted in Entertainment, Management, Marketing, Media
Tagged Canada’s Super Channel, Canal + in France, DBS Israel, Fortitude, Home Entertainment, Jane Millichip, NRK Norway, OTE in Greece, PBS Distribution, RUV Iceland, Sky Atlantic drama series, Sky Vision, Stanley Tucci, SVT in Sweden, TV2 Denmark, Warner Bros, YLE in Finland
Thales has successfully delivered a significant upgrade to the Australian Tiger helicopter simulator. Cannes, 11-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The improvements to the Full Flight Mission Simulator’s (FFMS) Visual Display System (VDS) mean the Australian Tiger simulator now has the highest … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, Business, France, Technology
Tagged Australian Tiger helicopter simulator, Thales, Tiger FFMS
Cannes, 11-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Riadh Cammoun, 52, was named Vice President, Public and Regulatory Affairs at Thales Alenia Space, effective September 1st. He replaces Julia Maris. A graduate of the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics civil engineering school, with a … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, Business, France, Management, Technology
Tagged Riadh Cammoun, Sandrine Bielecki, Tarik Lahlou, Thales Alenia Space
Cannes, 11-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Thales Alenia Space is upgrading and expanding its range of Spacebus geostationary telecommunications satellites. With 80 orders recorded to date and over 500 years of cumulated service in orbit, Spacebus platforms offer proven performance. They are available … Read the full press release
Helsinki, 11-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Citycon was honoured again this year with Green Star status in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) assessment. Citycon received this recognition for the third year in a row for its outstanding management and handling … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Business, Finland, Management, Real Estate, Retail
Tagged Citycon, Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark assessment, Green Star status, GRESB, Marko Juhokas
Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Citycon has signed a joint venture agreement with NCC Property Development for the (re)development and letting of Mölndals Galleria. An existing old retail property is planned to be demolished and a new centre with … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Construction, Management, Real Estate, Retail, Sweden
Tagged Citycon, Katarina Wåhlin Alm, Marcel Kokkeel, Mölndals Galleria, NCC Property Development, Nils Styf
LONDON, 11-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Isabel Hudson, non-executive Chair of the National House Building Council (NHBC) is to join the BT Board as a non-executive director and a member of the BT Pensions Committee. Her appointment takes effect from 1 … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Internet & Online, Management, Telecom, United Kingdom
Tagged BT, BT Board, BT Pensions Committee, Isabel Hudson
LONDON, 11-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — BT Expedite today announced that Kathy Quashie is its new chief executive officer and Asif Khetani is its new director of eCommerce. Kathy joined BT nearly four years ago to lead Group Revenue Assurance in … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Internet & Online, Management, Marketing, Retail, Telecom, United Kingdom
Tagged Asif Khetani, BT, BT Expedite, Kathy Quashie
Venue: Quality Hotel Friends in Solna, Stockholm STOCKHOLM, 11-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — TeliaSonera invites you to its Capital Markets Day 2014 in Stockholm. The day starts at 09.00 CET and includes presentations by members of Group Executive Management as well as … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Investment, Management, Marketing, Sweden, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Jesper Wilgodt, TeliaSonera, TeliaSonerato Capital Markets Day 2014
Young international leaders in science, technology, business and civil society are transforming their fields The new champions are collaborating with leading businesses and organizations to scale their initiatives For more information about the Meeting, please visit www.weforum.org/amnc14 Tianjin, People’s Republic … Read the full press release
The World Economic Forum launched a challenge to the Global Shapers Community to help combat climate change, with 100,000 CHF in grants awarded 60 Global Shapers Hubs from around the world have submitted innovative projects ClimateSHAPE jury has selected the … Read the full press release
Fornebu, Norway, 10-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Today’s opening of Telenor Group’s first wholly-owned financial institution Telenor banka in Serbia provides customers with innovative mobile banking services and represents a milestone in the company’s development of online financial services and mobile banking in … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Financial, Internet & Online, Norway, Serbia, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Jon Fredrik Baksaas, KBC Banka, Kjell-Morten Johnsen, Telenor banka, Telenor Group
LONDON, 10-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — GSK today presented data at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress that show blood eosinophil levels may help predict those patients with COPD who will have a greater reduction in exacerbation rates when receiving an … Read the full press release
LONDON, 10-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — GSK today announced a £5m collaboration with the UK and South African Medical Research Councils, to support much-needed research into non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa, as part of GSK’s Africa NCD Open Lab initiative. The … Read the full press release
LONDON, 10-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — International real estate advisor Savills has today, 04 September 2014, announced that with effect from 01 October 2014, UK CEO Mark Ridley will also assume the additional role of overseeing the firm’s European operations and … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Management, Real Estate, United Kingdom
Tagged Borja Sierra, Jeremy Helsby, Mark Ridley, Savills, Savills Studley in US
PARIS, 10-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Bpifrance and Euler Hermes, the global leader in credit insurance, signed a partnership agreement to offer French companies a new short-term financing solution known as AVANCE+EXPORT, which involves the assignment of export receivables and helps … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, France, Insurance, Small Business
Tagged AVANCE+EXPORT, Bpifrance, Euler Hermes, Nicolas Dufourcq, short-term financing solution
BERLIN, 10-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Until October 22, experienced producers from around the world may submit new feature film projects to the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2015. With budgets between one and twenty million euros, the projects should be suitable for … Read the full press release
Posted in Entertainment, Germany, Marketing, Media
Tagged Berlinale, Berlinale Co-Production Market 2015, feature film projects
Helsinki, 10-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Finnvera issued on 9th September 2014 a USD 500 million five year fixed rate bond. The bond was issued under Finnvera’s EMTN (Euro Medium Term Note) programme. Finnvera’s EMTN programme and notes issued under it are … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Finland, Management
Tagged Finnvera, Finnvera’s EMTN, USD 500 million five year fixed rate bond
Neubiberg, Germany, 10-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Infineon Technologies AG consolidated its position as global market leader in power semiconductors last year. With a market share of 12.3 per cent, the company came in first for the eleventh time in a row, according … Read the full press release
Voith rounds off its product portfolio for tugs and offshore support vessels (OSV) with the new size 34 Voith Schneider Propeller (VSP). The new design of the VSP 34 is significantly lighter and more convenient to maintain, reducing services times … Read the full press release
Voith was awarded a contract by the utility ENDESA Chile to equip the Los Cóndores Hydropower Plant, located in Chile’s Maule Region. Heidenheim, Germany, 10-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Voith will deliver two power units for the powerhouse in a cavern with … Read the full press release
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