Daily Archives: 7, November 2016

Wanda Sports Holding Board of Directors will be led by Lincoln Zhang as Chairman and Philippe Blatter as Vice-Chairman

Guangzhou, China, 07-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Wanda Sports Holding appoints Hengming Yang as new CEO (effective November 1, 2016) while Philippe Blatter is newly appointed Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wanda Sports Holding. The Wanda Sports Holding Board … Read the full press release

Infront Sports & Media, ISMF extend media & marketing agreement for 2016-21 ISMF Individual, Sprint and Vertical World Cup and ISMF World and Continental Championships

New comprehensive contract includes magazine program production, broadcast distribution and commercialisation of advertising for the newly recognised IOC Federation ZUG, 07-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Infront Sports & Media, a Wanda Sports company, and the International Ski Mountaineering Federation (ISMF) have … Read the full press release

Jacobs Douwe Egberts BV’s Sapphire Investments BV to acquire leading pan-Asian integrated instant food and beverage brand owner and manufacturer Super Group for S$1.45 billion

JDE makes a pre-conditional offer for all of Super Group Ltd for S$1.30 per share in cash, backed by irrevocable commitments representing 60% of shares issued SINGAPORE, 07-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Super Group Ltd (SGX : S10.SI) (“Super Group”) and Sapphire … Read the full press release

Saint-Gobain to acquire E-Mix – a regional leader in mortars and dry mixes in South-East Asia

PARIS, 07-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Saint-Gobain through its Mortars business (Construction Products) has signed an agreement with the listed company NSL in order to acquire E-Mix, a regional leader in mortars and dry mixes in South-East Asia. E-Mix provides solutions in … Read the full press release

Saint-Gobain to acquire 100% of the share capital of the Italian company h-old from private equity fund Arcadia Small Cap

PARIS, 07-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Saint-Gobain has acquired 100% of the share capital of the Italian company h-old from private equity fund Arcadia Small Cap. Founded in 1982, h-old designs, manufactures and distributes – mostly in Europe – specialty adhesive tapes … Read the full press release

Royal FrieslandCampina N.V. and BPD reach agreement for the sale of the former Coberco site

Yesterday, Royal FrieslandCampina N.V. and BPD announced that they had reached an agreement about the sales of the former Coberco site. This is the first step in the development of a new municipal hotspot at the Rhine quay in Arnhem, … Read the full press release

Borealis Social Fund to support leading social organisations in the UAE

VIENNA, 07-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Borealis, a leading provider of innovative solutions in the fields of polyolefins, base chemicals and fertilizers, announces a new round of support to leading social organisations in the UAE. Support will be made available through the … Read the full press release

Roche to present 60 abstracts featuring nine of its approved or investigational medicines at the 58th American Society of Hematology (ASH) in San Diego

New results from the phase III GALLIUM study which compared Gazyva/Gazyvaro (obinutuzumab) plus chemotherapy to Rituxan/ MabThera (rituximab) plus chemotherapy in previously untreated follicular lymphoma will be presented in the Plenary Scientific Session New results for Venclexta/Venclyxto(venetoclax) and investigational medicine … Read the full press release

Roche to present new data from Actemra®/RoActemra® and Rituxan®/MabThera® at the 2016 ACR/ARHP in Washington, D.C.

15 oral presentations from 17 abstracts across six autoimmune conditions First presentation of Actemra/RoActemra data from GiACTA – the largest ever clinical trial in people with giant cell arteritis (GCA), a condition for which there has been no approved therapy … Read the full press release

Europeana Music launches with more than 250,000 unique cultural items for music professionals, academics and enthusiasts

Europeana Music, an exciting new web resource, launches officially on 4 November 2016. It brings together unique music content — from some of Mozart’s earliest recordings to Smashing Pumpkin concerts — from sound archives and other heritage institutions across Europe. … Read the full press release

Canadian Company Snaile Wins 2016 Postal Technology Award

TORONTO, ON, Canada, 07-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Canadian company Snaile Inc. (pronounced “Snail.ee”, www.snaile.com). has won the prestigious Digital Innovation of the Year award – part of the 2016 Postal Technology International Awards. A judging panel of world postal services … Read the full press release