Higher revenue and a significant rise in earnings due to positive operating results and non-recurring effects Revenue goes up from EUR 2.83 billion in the first quarter of 2014/15 to EUR 3.0 billion in the quarter under review, an increase … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Business, Financial, Management, Metals and Minerals
Tagged voestalpine Group, Wolfgang Eder
Vilnius, Lithuania, 5-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — During the first half of Y2015, the consolidated turnover of MAXIMA GRUPĖ companies grew 2.6 per cent as compared with the same period last year, and reached 1.28 billion Eur without VAT. This year it … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Lithuania, Management, Retail
Tagged MAXIMA GRUPĖ, Neringa Janavičiūtė
Poschiavo, Switzerland, 5-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The predictions accompanying publication of Repower’s last annual results − that with energy prices low and the Swiss franc so strong, the market environment would continue to be challenging in 2015 − have proven … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, Switzerland
Tagged low energy prices, Repower, strong Swiss franc
LONDON, 5-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Today, Standard Chartered Bank announces the appointment of Mark Smith, 53, as its new Group Chief Risk Officer. Mark will join the Bank in January 2016, and will be based in London. In his new … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Financial, Management, United Kingdom
LONDON, 5-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Standard Chartered Bank releases its 2015 half year results Reported results Operating income of $8,495 million is down 8 per cent from H1 2014, primarily driven by currency translation, business divestments and mark to market valuations … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Financial, Management, United Kingdom
Tagged Bill Winters, Sir John Peace, Standard Chartered Bank
LONODN, 4-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — tastecard and the Gourmet Society, the UK’s number 1 and number 2 restaurant discount card clubs, have been acquired by Bridgepoint Development Capital (‘BDC’) with management for an undisclosed sum from DIDIX, a Dutch gift … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Food & Beverage, Management, United Kingdom
Tagged Alan Payne, Bridgepoint Development Capital, DIDIX, Matt Turner, tastecard, the Gourmet Society
ZEISS introduces an integrated solution to acquire and analyze multi-scale and multi-modal images in light, electron and X-ray microscopy JENA/Germany, PORTLAND/USA, 4-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — ZEISS Atlas 5 is a powerful hardware and software package that extends the capacity of … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Germany, Industrial, Technology
Tagged focused ion beam SEMs, hardware, software, ZEISS, ZEISS Atlas 5, ZEISS scanning electron microscopes
Levallois-Perret, France, 4-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Alstom has successfully installed five HYpact compact switchgear modules for Netz Leipzig GmbH at the LzK substation in Leipzig. Originally designed for outdoor applications, the HYpact modules were installed for indoor use, replacing the … Read the full press release
Levallois-Perret, France, 4-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Alstom T&D India has been awarded three new contracts worth approximately €33 million (INR 2317 million) by Powergrid Corporation of India Limited (Power Grid) to supply transformers and shunt reactors for 765/400kV substation situated … Read the full press release
Charenton-le-Pont, France, 4-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Essilor International announces that Xavier Galliot has been appointed Group Chief Sustainability Officer, reporting to Jayanth Bhuvaraghan, Chief Corporate Mission Officer. Xavier Galliot’s valuable experience will contribute to strengthen and accelerate Essilor’s commitment to global … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, France, Management
Tagged Essilor International, Jayanth Bhuvaraghan, Xavier Galliot
MOL Group has successfully acquired 125 Agip service stations in Czech Republic and 41 service stations in Slovakia from ENI Retail network expansion confirms MOL Group’s leading role in CEE MOL Group’s retail network grows to more than 1900 service … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Czech Republic, Energy, Gas & Oil, Hungary, Management, Retail, Slovakia
Tagged Agip, Eni, Lars Höglund, MOL Group
Airtel Gabon partners with Ericsson for the deployment of next generation LTE technology and mobile network transformation Ericsson technology to power Airtel’s new LTE network, delivering the highest speeds of mobile data and the best user experience for Gabonese customers … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Infrastructure & Utilities, Internet & Online, Sweden, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Airtel Gabon, Christian de Faria, Ericsson, Fredrik Jejdling, LTE network
HEERLEN, 3-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, has repurchased 204,254 of its own shares in the period from 24 July 2015 up to and including 28 July 2015 at an average price … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Investment, Management, Netherlands
Tagged Royal DSM
HEERLEN, 3-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Royal DSM, the Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, and CVC Capital Partners (CVC), one of the world’s leading investment advisory firms, today announced that the partnership for DSM’s activities in Polymer Intermediates (Caprolactam and … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Investment, Management, Netherlands
Tagged Composite Resins, CVC Capital Partners, Polymer Intermediates, Royal DSM
Herzogenaurach, Germany / Canton, Massachusetts, United States, 3-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The adidas Group announced today that it has formally completed the divestiture of its Rockport business to a new entity formed by Berkshire Partners LLC and New Balance Holding, … Read the full press release
MOSCOW, 3-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — PJSC “MegaFon” (“MegaFon”, or the “Company”) (LSE: MFON), a leading Russian telecommunications operator, announces its unaudited consolidated financial results1 for the second quarter and first half of 2015. Key highlights of the Second Quarter 2015² Consolidated revenue decreased … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Management, Russia, Telecom
Tagged MegaFon, PJSC “MegaFon”, wireless data services
• This figure represents an increase of 17.1% on the same period of last year, although results for the first half of 2014 included those generated by the company’s Latin American business, which was sold to Enel during the first … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Management, Spain
Tagged Endesa
Growing customer base driving solid financial performance Continued growth in underlying corerevenue, + 2.4% compared to the second quarter 2014 Underlying Group EBITDA of EUR 450 million, + 4.3% compared to the second quarter 2014 2015 full-year guidance revised upwards: … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, Entertainment, Financial, Internet & Online, Management, Media, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Dominique Leroy, Proximus Group, Proximus TV App, SwipeBox
Perfect fit with Solvay’s strategy focused on sustainability and value Propels Solvay to world’s second largest player in aerospace composite materials Accelerates growth of Advanced Materials with major push into composites Reinforces Advanced Formulations with the world’s number one mining … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, Chemicals, Financial, Management
Tagged Cytec, Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, Shane Fleming, Solvay
BRUSSELS, 31-7-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Solvay has begun production at its new fluoroelastomers (FKM) plant in Changshu, China, as part of its ongoing strategic site expansion, to meet booming demand for its specialty polymers from Asia’s fast-growing automotive industry and multiple … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, Chemicals, Industrial, Management
Tagged Augusto Di Donfrancesco, fluoroelastomers (FKM) plant, Solvay
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