TVkey allows consumers to enjoy pay-TV services directly on TV sets using a simple USB dongle NAGRA and Samsung agreed to establish a new co-venture to license TVkey technology to industry stakeholders including chipset, dongle, TV and conditional access vendors … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Entertainment, Media, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged JongHee Han, Maurice van Riek, NAGRA, Samsung, TVkey technology
Confidence stabilising from a four year low in September Businesses cite economic uncertainty as the biggest threat for 2017 Export intentions to Middle East and Asia jump Results signal higher inflation and a slowdown in economic growth LONDON, 03-Jan-2017 — … Read the full press release
Albstadt/Aachen, 03-Jan-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Effective 2 January 2017 Groz-Beckert takes over the Ferd. Schmetz Group. The Ferd. Schmetz Group is a long-established producer of industrial sewing machine needles and has around 700 employees worldwide. The acquisition includes the production sites … Read the full press release
HELSINKI, 03-Jan-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Stora Enso has today divested its 100% shareholding in its Finnish subsidiary Formeca Oy, a provider of high-quality machines for automated packaging lines, to Amitec Oy, a specialised engineering and machine construction company based in Finland. … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Finland, Investment, Management
Tagged Amitec Oy, Finnish subsidiary, Formeca Oy, machine construction company, packaging, Peter Torstensson, Stora Enso
Both companies will become global leaders in two different sectors of the pharmaceutical market Paris (France) and Ingelheim (Germany), 03-Jan-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim confirmed today that the strategic transaction signed in June 2016, which consists of an … Read the full press release
PARIS, 03-Jan-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Sanofi and its vaccines global business unit Sanofi Pasteur confirmed today the end of their vaccine joint-venture with MSD (known as Merck & Co. Inc., in the United States and Canada), Sanofi Pasteur MSD (SPMSD). … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, France, Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech
Tagged Merck & Co. Inc., MSD, Sanofi, Sanofi Pasteur, vaccine joint-venture
NEW YORK, 31-Dec-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — As the Iraq War’s official end on December 18, 2011 marks its fifth anniversary, many questions remain on its fallouts. New York’s French-American community is one of them, as it remembers its blacklisting when … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Defence, France, Government, Healthcare, Law, News, Politics, Small Business, Society
Tagged 102194/2012, 12 Civ. 3417, 13-465cv, French-American businesses, Gérard Sunnen, HHS 1:13-cv-1242, Iraq, Iraq War, mental health, New York state, New York State Department of Health, New York’s French boycotts, New York’s French-American community, NTSB No. DCA96MA070, NYSDHR No. 10181422, NYSDOH, self-destructive depressions, shock and awe, stress reactions, war
2016: More than 5 million vehicles and about 75 million m³ of production material shipped for Europe and exports Future fields of action defined WOLFSBURG, 29-Dec-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — In 2016, Volkswagen Group Logistics played a key role in achieving the … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Business, Germany, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged Europe, exports, Thomas Zernechel, Volkswagen Group Logistics
The merger will create a new major player in the consulting engineering industry. With over 2,000 employees globally, the merged company is ready for continued growth – especially abroad. Virum, Denmark, 22-Dec-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — With the merger of ALECTIA and … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Denmark, Food & Beverage, Management
Tagged ALECTIA, Carsten Toft Boesen, consulting engineering industry, Jesper Mailind, MERGER, NIRAS
LONDON, 22-Dec-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — WPP announces that its wholly-owned operating company Grey Group, the global marketing communications company, has acquired Entreprise de Communications Tank Inc. (“Tank”), a leading full-service healthcare and consumer agency in Canada. Tank’s audited net revenues were … Read the full press release
SGS is pleased to announce the acquisition of Laagrima, headquartered in Casablanca, Morocco. GENEVA, 21-Dec-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Laagrima offers testing analysis for the food and hospitality markets in Morocco, and is ISO 17025 accredited. Founded in 2002 and privately owned, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Food & Beverage, Investment, Switzerland
Tagged Casablanca, food and hospitality testing analysis company, Frankie Ng, Laagrima, SGS
SGS is pleased to announce the acquisition of a controlling stake in C-Labs SA, Chiasso, Switzerland. Chiasso, Switzerland, 21-Dec-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Founded in 2016, C-Labs is an Industry 4.0 startup, developing solutions for transforming food regulatory compliance. It adopts the … Read the full press release
FRANKFURT, 21-Dec-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Montagu Private Equity announces today, that as part of EQT’s sale of BSN to SCA, Montagu has sold its remaining minority investment in the company. The transaction is subject to the customary regulatory clearances. Montagu had … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Healthcare, Investment, United Kingdom
Tagged Beiersdorf AG, BSN medical, Montagu, SCA, Smith& Nephew plc.
Outotec lowers its profitability guidance for 2016 HELSINKI, 20-Dec-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Outotec lowers its profitability guidance for 2016 due to increased risk provision. As previously communicated, Outotec has had challenges in a few projects in the Metals, Energy & Water … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management
Tagged 2016 profitability guidance, Outotec
India’s gross domestic product set to grow more than 7 percent per year to reach 3.3 trillion dollars by 2020 Despite being very attractive to foreign firms, India is not an easy market to develop The automotive, chemical, pharmaceutical and … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Germany, Management, Media
Tagged book, New book on doing business in India, Roland Berger, Wilfried Aulbur
MONTABAUR, 19-Dec-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — United Internet AG today signed an agreement with the owner of Strato AG, Deutsche Telekom AG, regarding the acquisition of Strato AG. Based in Berlin, Strato employs over 500 people with operations mainly in Germany and … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Germany, Internet & Online, Investment, Technology
Tagged Deutsche Telekom AG, Dr. Christian Böing, Ralph Dommermuth, Strato AG, United Internet AG
Hydro completed the acquisition of Vale’s remaining shareholding in Mineração Paragominas S.A. (MPSA) on December 15, 2016. OSLO, 16-Dec-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — The transaction is the second and final step of the MPSA put/call arrangements agreed in 2011 in connection with … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Investment, Management, Norway
Tagged Hydro, Mineração Paragominas S.A., MPSA, Vale
LONDON, 16-Dec-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has advised Golden Square Energy (GSE) on the c. £93m sale of its FiT Wind Portfolio to the Pension Infrastructure Platform (PiP). The portfolio of 31 assets, with a … Read the full press release
Reinhart has been the member of the Executive Board responsible for HR since October 2014 Degenhart: “Over the past few years, Reinhart has taken further, important steps for Continental’s HR work worldwide” HANOVER, 15-Dec-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — At today’s (2016-12-13) … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Business, Germany, Management
Tagged Continental AG, Dr. Ariane Reinhart, Dr. Elmar Degenhart, Executive Board
Global air filter company selects Interoute as its worldwide digital infrastructure platform provider, with SD-WAN enabling data centre consolidation. STOCKHOLM, 15-Dec-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Interoute, owner operator of a global cloud services platform and one of Europe’s largest networks, is transforming the IT estate … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Internet & Online, Management, Sweden, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Camfil, Interoute, Interoute Cloud Connect, IT estate, Mark Lewis, SD-WAN, Tomas Bräne
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