IN BRIEF) Citycon Oyj has named Henna Tuominen as its new Director, Corporate Communications. Reporting to CEO Oleg Zaslavsky from Espoo, she will lead all facets of communications, brand management, and media relations. Tuominen brings over 20 years of experience … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Finland, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Real Estate, Retail, Technology
Tagged Aktia, appointment, Baltics, brand management, Caruna, Citycon Oyj, Corporate Communications, ESG, Henna Tuominen, Media Relations, Nordics, Oleg Zaslavsky, organizational transformation, stakeholder engagement, Stockmann, strategy renewal, sustainable urban development, University of Oulu
(IN BRIEF) Diergaarde Blijdorp’s Oceanium has opened “Living with Wind Parks,” an interactive exhibit developed with Ecowende to demonstrate how offshore wind infrastructure can support North Sea ecosystems. Featuring aquaria that simulate turbine bases as artificial reefs and tree-reef nurseries … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, Media, Netherlands, News, Science, Technology
Tagged artificial reefs, bird and bat protection, conservation education, Diergaarde Blijdorp, Ecowende, habitat restoration, IJmuiden, interactive radar game, Kids Panel, Living with Wind Parks, marine biodiversity, North Sea, Oceanium, offshore wind energy, partnership, renewable energy, sustainability, sustainable North Sea, tree reefs
(IN BRIEF) University of Bristol researchers and partners have created the first international Core Information Set (CIS) for innovative surgical procedures, published in the British Journal of Surgery. Arising from the 2018 “First Do No Harm” review, the CIS comprises … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Angus McNair, British Journal of Surgery, clinical governance, Core Information Set, First Do No Harm review, informed consent, innovative surgery, NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, partnership, patient empowerment, patient safety, pelvic mesh, regulatory standards, shared decision-making, surgical ethics, University of Bristol
(IN BRIEF) Telenor has agreed to purchase GlobalConnect’s Norwegian consumer fibre business for NOK 6.0 billion, adding about 140,000 subscribers and boosting its market share from 22 percent to 29 percent. The acquisition will extend Telenor’s network reach, offer GlobalConnect’s … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Norway, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Benedicte Schilbred Fasmer, consumer business, digital security, entertainment services, fibre broadband, GlobalConnect, home networks, integration capex, Martin Lippert, NKOM, Norwegian Competition Authority, partnership, synergies, telecom market expansion, Telenor ASA
(IN BRIEF) The 2023 KfW Climate Barometer special analysis shows that German SMEs now finance 22 percent of their climate investments through public promotional funds—up three points since 2021—while promotional support makes up only 13 percent of overall SME investment. … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, Environment, Financial, Germany, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Small Business, Technology
Tagged Climate Barometer, climate investments, climate-tech start-ups, decarbonisation, energy-efficient construction, financing gap, Germany, green transition, KfW, large-scale projects, low-interest loans, private capital mobilization, promotional funds, SMEs, state investment grants, Stefan Wintels, sustainability
(IN BRIEF) The University of Liverpool has been awarded £1.46 million by UKRI to lead SCHOUSE, a collaboration with the University of Cambridge and local partners. The project will explore why social-housing residents in Liverpool have poorer diets—examining income, employment, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Financial, Food & Beverage, Government, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Non Profit, United Kingdom
Tagged Alchemic Kitchen, Alexandra Rose Charity, Charlotte Hardman, dietary inequality, epidemiology, Feeding Liverpool, food vouchers, health economics, Health Equalities Group, health geography, interactive food-access mapping, Liverpool, Liverpool City Council, mobile greengrocer, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, Nutrition, Onward Homes, partnership, public health, Rachel Loopstra, Riverside Group, SCHOUSE, social housing, Supporting Communities in social Housing and Optimising Urban food System interventions for Equity, Torus Foundation, UKRI, University of Cambridge, University of Liverpool
(IN BRIEF) University of Helsinki researchers, with domestic and Russian partners, used genome-wide SNPs and mitochondrial DNA to chart genetic diversity in the Siberian flying squirrel. They found minimal variation in Finland and maximal, deeply divergent diversity in Russia’s Sikhote-Alin, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Environment, Financial, Finland, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Science, Technology
Tagged boreal taiga, conservation genetics, Finland, Finnish Museum of Natural History, genetic diversity, genome-wide SNPs, habitat fragmentation, Jaana Kekkonen, mitochondrial DNA, partnership, Pteromys volans, Siberian flying squirrel, Sikhote-Alin, Stefan Prost, subspecies, sustainability, taxonomic reassessment, umbrella species, University of Helsinki, University of Oulu
(IN BRIEF) voestalpine and VERBUND are expanding the H2FUTURE PEM electrolysis pilot plant in Linz with a new compression and purification unit and five hydrogen storage tanks, at a cost of €16.4 million. The follow-up project continues their research into … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, Metals and Minerals, News, Technology
Tagged compression, electric arc furnace, GREEN HYDROGEN, greentec steel, grid-frequency balancing, H2FUTURE, H2FUTURE Follow-Up, Herbert Eibensteiner, industrial research collaboration, Linz Austria, Michael Strugl, net-zero CO₂ emissions by 2050, partnership, PEM electrolysis, project timeline, purification, renewable energy, storage tanks, sustainability, VERBUND AG, Vienna Stock Exchange, voestalpine AG
(IN BRIEF) Basilea Pharmaceutica has secured an extra USD 39 million from BARDA under its Other Transaction Agreement, bringing potential non-dilutive funding to USD 268 million over 12 years. This new tranche will finance the ongoing phase 3 trial of … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Government, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged Allschwil, antibacterial, antifungal, ASPR, BAL2062, BARDA, Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd, Cresemba®, fosmanogepix, HHS, invasive candidiasis, invasive mold infections, multidrug-resistant Candida auris, orphan drug, Other Transaction Agreement, partnership, QIDP, Switzerland, Zevtera®
(IN BRIEF) ANDRITZ has been awarded a turnkey contract by KNRN to build a sewage sludge mono-incineration plant at Hildesheim’s port, with the undisclosed order value booked in Q3 2025. The facility will process 33,500 t of dry sludge annually … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Government, Industrial, Investment, Management, Netherlands, News, Technology
Tagged AbfKlärV regulation, Andritz, Benjamin Klammer, BFB boiler, circular economy, district heating, Dr. Jens Manthey, EcoFluid bubbling fluidized bed, flue gas cleaning, KNRN, Kommunale Nährstoffrückgewinnung Niedersachsen GmbH, Lower Saxony, partnership, phosphorus recovery, Port of Hildesheim, sewage sludge mono-incineration, sludge drying, steam turbine, sustainability, vapor condensation
(IN BRIEF) Boehringer Ingelheim has initiated the THULITE Phase II trial (NCT06962839) to assess BI 1815368, a novel oral agent for diabetic macular edema (DME). Affecting more than 21 million people globally, DME is typically managed by frequent eye injections, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Germany, Government, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Technology
Tagged at-home treatment, BI 1815368, BI 764524, biopharmaceutical research, Boehringer Ingelheim, Charles C. Wykoff, clinical trial NCT06962839, CRIMSON trial, Dario Madani, diabetic macular edema, diabetic retinal disease, DME, intravitreal injections, macular edema, oral therapy, Patrick Bussfeld, PRO RETINA, retinal vascular hyperpermeability, Sema3A antibody, THULITE Phase II, vision loss
(IN BRIEF) The University of Glasgow has launched a city-wide Children’s Choir in collaboration with the National Schools Singing Programme, aiming to provide hundreds of state school pupils with professional-grade vocal training. Directed by choral scholar David Wynn-Evans, the choir … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Entertainment, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Anton Muscatelli, Children’s Choir, choral scholarship, civic mission, Community Engagement, CREATE programme, David Wynn-Evans, Douglas Hutchison, Glasgow, grid, higher education access, Living Laboratory, music education, National Schools Singing Programme, NSSP, Roisín Coll, Sir John Rutter, state school pupils, University of Glasgow, vocal tuition, Youth Music Initiative
(IN BRIEF) Eurojust has enabled the return of 66 stolen Spanish artworks through two distinct operations. First, 65 paintings and an altarpiece were repatriated from a German collector’s villa on Lago Maggiore, Italy, after civil litigation and investigations by the … Read the full press release
Posted in Art & Culture, Business, Financial, Government, Industrial, Investment, Italy, Law, Management, Marketing, Netherlands, News, Politics, Security & Safety, Spain, Technology
Tagged 15th century, altarpiece, art repatriation, Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Civil Guard Historical Heritage Section, cross-border cooperation, Cultural Heritage, EIO, Eurojust, European Investigation Orders, Genoa, Investigative Judge Marbella, Investigative Judge Palencia, Italy, Palencia, partnership, Public Prosecutor’s Office Genoa, Saint Luke statue, Santa Eugenia de Astudillo, Spain, stolen paintings, Turin, Verbania
(IN BRIEF) At the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome (10–11 July 2025), the EBRD will present a comprehensive €410 million financing package for urban development and sustainable tourism via the Ukraine FIRST Cooperation Fund, co-managed with the EIB. Funds flow … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Italy, Luxembourg, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged affordable housing, Arcano Partners, Buenavista Infrastructure, capital markets, distributed generation, EBRD, energy security, European Investment Bank, geological data digitalisation, graphite development, human capital resilience, IFC, municipal finance, NextGenerationEU, Odile Renaud-Basso, partnership, Regional Resilience Fund, renewables, risk sharing facility, Rome URC, stock exchange MoU, sustainable tourism, tech fund, Ukraine FIRST Cooperation Fund, Ukraine Recovery Conference, urban development, Yuliia Svyrydenko
(IN BRIEF) The EIB has signed €410 million in agreements with Arcano Partners (€210 million) and Buenavista Infrastructure (€200 million) to finance urban development and sustainable tourism projects across Spain. The funds, sourced from the EU-financed Regional Resilience Fund under … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Luxembourg, Management, Marketing, News, Spain, Technology
Tagged affordable housing, Arcano Partners, Buenavista Infrastructure, Buenavista NextGen Urban SICC, Eduardo Fernández-Cuesta, EIB, energy efficiency, EU financing, European Investment Bank, green transition, Inés Carpio, Jean-Christophe Laloux, NextGenerationEU, partnership, Regional Resilience Fund, social infrastructure, Spain Recovery Transformation and Resilience Plan, Spanish Urban Development SICC, sustainability, sustainable mobility, sustainable tourism, urban development, Victoriano López-Pinto, waste management, water management, €410 million
(IN BRIEF) On July 1, 2025, Michelin introduced the CrossClimate 3 Sport, an all-season tire engineered specifically for sports cars. It combines the dynamic performance of a summer sport tire—featuring top “A” wet-grip ratings and motorsport-derived materials—with 3PMSF certification for … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Awards, Business, Environment, Financial, France, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Sports, Technology
Tagged 3PMSF, A39 marking, all-season, Alpine A390, Awards, Clermont-Ferrand, Dominique Stempfel, engineered materials, Michelin CrossClimate 3 Sport, MICHELIN guide, motorsport materials, OEM partnership, Serge Lafon, sports car tire, summer performance, sustainability, Three Peak Mountain Snowflake, tire sizes, wet grip A rating, winter certification, Ze Award for Technological Innovation 2025
(IN BRIEF) Barclays has appointed Khaled El Dabag and Walid Mezher as Co-CEOs for its Middle East region, reporting to BBPLC President Stephen Dainton. El Dabag, with 25 years of investment banking experience in Dubai and New York, has led … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged appointment, Barclays, BBPLC President, corporate clients, Dubai, global markets, institutional investors, Khaled El Dabag, leadership, MENA, private wealth, Stephen Dainton Investment Banking, Walid Mezher
(IN BRIEF) Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm, owned by RWE with partners Stadtwerke München and Macquarie GIG, has marked ten years of operation off North Wales, delivering 576 MW of renewable capacity. Since June 2015, it has generated around … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Germany, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged 18 000 GWh, 576 MW capacity, Abergele Actions, Awel y Môr extension, Becky Gittins, Building Brighter Futures, Coleg Llandrillo, Crew Transfer Vessels, Dame Nia Griffith, electric vehicle journeys, Green Links Cycle Trail, Gwynt y Môr Community Benefit Fund, Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm, homes powered, LED bulbs, Macquarie GIG, North Wales, Operations and Maintenance base, partnership, Port of Mostyn, RWE, Stadtwerke München, sustainability, wind turbine technician apprenticeship
(IN BRIEF) Bentley Motors has entered into a partnership with ŠKODA AUTO Volkswagen India Private Limited, effective 1 July 2025, to manage its import, sales, marketing, and aftersales operations in India. A new Bentley India division under SAVWIPL will lead … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Business, Government, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, Transportation & Logistics, United Kingdom
Tagged Abbey Thomas, Bengaluru, Bentley India, Bentley Motors, Brand Director, Chakan Pune, importer agreement, India expansion, luxury automotive, Mumbai, New Delhi, partnership, performance craftsmanship, retail network, sales and aftersales, SAVWIPL, ŠKODA AUTO Volkswagen India Private Limited, ultra-high-net-worth customers
(IN BRIEF) Aviva Capital Partners and Moda Group, in partnership with NatWest, Homes England, and the WMCA, have secured over £200 million to develop Stone Yard, a build-to-rent community in Digbeth, Birmingham. Phase one will deliver 605 high-quality rental homes … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Insurance, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged affordable housing, Aviva Capital Partners, Birmingham, BREEAM, brownfield regeneration, Build-to-Rent, Caddick Construction, community amenities, Digbeth, Discounted Market Rent, Eastside Metro extension, Fitwel, Home Building Fund, Home Quality Mark, Homes England, HS2 Curzon Street Station, Moda Group, NatWest, partnership, Stone Yard, Strategic Place Partnership, sustainability, sustainable development, West Midlands Combined Authority
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