Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 24-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — “VimpelCom Ltd.” (“VimpelCom”, “Company” or “Group”) (NASDAQ:VIP), a leading global provider of telecommunications services, announces that the Company will be added to the NASDAQ-100 Index® effective October 29, 2013. “NASDAQ-100 Index inclusion is an important milestone … Read the full press release
Closure is part of the “SGL2015” cost savings program Operations will begin to wind down at the end of the year with expected completion within Q1/2014 110 employees impacted Wiesbaden / Lachute (QE, Canada), 24-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — SGL Group – The … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Germany, Metals and Minerals
Tagged CANADA, carbon-based products, graphite electrode, Lachute, QE, Québec, SGL Group, The Carbon Compan, Wiesbaden
Kiev, Ukraine, 24-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — More than 200 influential experts, from the Ukrainian grain industry, public sector institutions, academia and international organisations participated at the Fourth Ukrainian Grain Congress in Kiev today. The Congress, promoted by the Food and Agriculture Organization … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Food & Beverage, Ukraine
Tagged Anton Usov, EBRD, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Fourth Ukrainian Grain Congress, Genevieve Joy, Gilles Mettetal, grain sector, Kiev, UKRAINE, Ukrainian grain industry
London, UK, 23-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — GSK announces Q3 core EPS growth of 16% and dividend of 19p Core EPS 28.9p (+16%) benefiting from operating, financial and long-term cost efficiencies Pharma & Vaccines sales flat: US +2%, Europe +5%, Japan +2% offset by … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Healthcare, Investment, Pharma & Biotech, United Kingdom
Tagged FluLaval Q-IV vaccine for flu, GlaxoSmithKline, GSK dividend of 19p (+6%), GSK EPS Q3 2013, GSK pharma sales, GSK Q3 results, GSK vaccines sales, Relvar Ellipta for asthma, Tafinlar for metastatic melanoma, Tivicay for HIV
London, UK, 23-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — International real estate advisor Savills has announced the formation of a strategic alliance with SRS Real Estate Partners (SRS) – the largest real estate firm exclusively dedicated to servicing retail clients in the US. The arrangement … Read the full press release
Hong Kong / Singapore, 23-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Euler Hermes was named best credit service provider in China at the 10th China International Credit and Risk Management Conference held in Beijing recently. It shares this year’s award with Sinosure. Xi Zhen Wang, CEO of … Read the full press release
Paris, France, 22-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — In October 2013, the FATF recognised that the Russian Federation had made significant progress in addressing the deficiencies identified in the 2008 mutual evaluation report and could be removed from the regular follow-up process. The decision by the … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Financial, France, Government, Law, Politics, Russia
Tagged 'fit and proper' requirements, 6th Follow-up Report, accounts in fictitious names, AML/CFT Law, anonymous accounts, beneficial ownership requirements, corporate transparency, criminalisation of terrorist financing, criminals, decriminalised self-laundering, FATF, freeze terrorist assets, ML/TF suspicion, Money Laundering, Mutual Evaluation of Russian Federation, Russia FATF 6th Follow-up Report, Russian Federation, terrorist financing, The Financial Action Task Force
Paris, France, 22-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — New Zealand was placed in the regular follow-up process as a result of non-compliant (NC) and partially compliant (PC) ratings for certain core and key Recommendations in its mutual evaluation report of October 2009. The October 2013 … Read the full press release
Espoo, Finland, 22-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Neste Oil will publish its third quarter 2013 results on Thursday, 24 October 2013 at approximately 9 a.m. (EET). The release will be available on the Neste Oil website immediately after publishing. A press conference in … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Finland, Investment
Tagged Espoo, Kaisa Lipponen, Neste Oil, Neste Oil Corporation’s Q3 2013 results, Q3 2013 results
Helsinki, Finland, 22-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The Ukrainian cities of Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr have signed loan agreements with NEFCO to finance investments in municipal energy efficiency measures. The agreements were signed today at the Ukrainian Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Finland, Investment, Ukraine
Tagged DemoUkrainaDH, energy efficiency, investments, Johan Willert, Julia Shevchuk, municipal energy efficiency projects, NEFCO, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Ukrainian cities, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr
Espoo, Finland, 22-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Neste Pro Diesel, a premium-quality diesel fuel developed and produced by Neste Oil in Finland, is the first anywhere to comply with the WWFC 5 specification drawn up as part of the Worldwide Fuel Charter (WWFC) … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Finland, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged advanced biofuels, ASIA, automotive manufacturers, biodiesel, Biomass to Liquid biodiesel, Europe, Finland, fuel, fuel quality, hydrotreated vegetable oil, Neste Oil, Neste Oil Corporation, Neste Pro Diesel, NExBTL renewable diesel, premium-quality diesel fuel, renewable diesel, Sam Holmberg, USA, Worldwide Fuel Charter (WWFC), WWFC 5 specification
Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) will begin offering export credits for small-scale projects with environmental benefits in Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus. The export credits are intended for Nordic companies export deliveries valued at EUR 0.5-5 million. Nordic export credit … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Environment, Financial, Finland, International Trade, Investment, Russia, Ukraine
Tagged BELARUS, Eeva-Maija Pietikäinen, environmentally-friendly projects, export credit guarantees, export credits, export financing, exporters, Finnish exporter, Finnvera plc, Kari Homanen, Maria Maliniemi, NEFCO, Nordic Environment Finance Corporation, Nordic export credit agencies, Otto Lindstedt, RUSSIA, SME, UKRAINE
Finland, 21-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Finnvera launched on 8 October 2013 a SEK 2 billion (approx. EUR 230 million) floating rate note maturing in August 2018. The note was issued under the company’s EMTN (Euro Medium Term Note) programme. Finnvera’s EMTN programme … Read the full press release
Nuremberg, Germany, 21-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Today (October 10, 2013) at the European Microwave Week tradeshow, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) introduced 50V LDMOS transistors designed for use in UHF TV broadcast transmitters, including one device providing the highest peak … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Electronics & Machinery, Germany, Media, Technology, Telecom
Tagged 50V LDMOS transistors, amplifier designers, European Microwave Week, European Microwave Week tradeshow, Infineon, Infineon Technologies AG, Nuremberg, PTVA042502EC, PTVA042502FC, PTVA047002EV, RF Portfolio, tradeshow, Transistors, UHF TV broadcast transmitters, UHF TV Power Amplifiers
Volume production will start in early 2014 Nuremberg, Germany, 21-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Today (October 8, 2013), at the European Microwave Week tradeshow, Infineon Technologies introduced the latest generation of its pico GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) modules for smartphones. BGM1143N9 … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Electronics & Machinery, Germany, Technology, Telecom
Tagged BeiDou, BGM1143N9, Compact Mobile Phones, European Microwave Week tradeshow, Global Navigation Satellite System, GLONASS, GNSS, GPS, high linearity, Infineon, Infineon Technologies, low noise amplifier (LNA), low-insertion-loss pre-filter, lowest noise figure, Navigation Functionality, navigation standards, pico GNSS modules, semiconductor solutions, Smallest GNSS Module, smartphones, Tillmann Geneuss, TSNP-9 package
Cassidian will provide two DXT3 TETRA switches and over 100 TETRA base stations Secure radio communications, extensive coverage and excellent reliability now for up to 110,000 users from different government agencies Beijing, China, 21-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Cassidian has been awarded a … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Electronics & Machinery, France, Security & Safety, Telecom
Tagged Anke Sturtzel, Beijing Government, Beijing Government Shared TETRA Network, Beijing Just Top Network Communications Company Ltd., Beijing Just Top TETRA Network, Cassidian, digital trunked radio, DXT3 TETRA, secure radio communications, Shared TETRA Network, Terrestrial Trunked Radio, TETRA, TETRA network
Kiev, Ukraine, 21-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — As part of improvement in the corporate governance system, Smart-Holding and SCM have completed the legal process of the share allocation in the shareholder capital of HarvEast Company. In accordance with the previously signed agreements, all … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Management, Ukraine
Tagged agricultural, ASKA, ASKA-Life insurance companies, DTEK, ESTA Holding, First Ukrainian International Bank, HarvEast agricultural holding company, HarvEast Company, Kang Hyunchang, Kiev, Metinvest, Mining Machines heavy engineering holding, Oleg Popov, Parallel, Portinvest transportation holding, Renaissance Capital Bank, Rinat Akhmetov, SCM, SCM Group, Smart-Holding, Ukraina Media Group, Ukrainskiy Retail, UMG, Vega Telecommunications Group
La operación permite a MAPFRE aumentar su presencia en el sudeste asiático y posicionarse en un mercado con un elevado potencial Madrid, Spain, 18-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — MAPFRE ha adquirido una participación del 20 por ciento en la compañía aseguradora Asuransi Bina … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Insurance, Investment, Spain
Tagged ABDA, adquirido, adquisición, Asuransi Bina Dana Arta “ABDA”, compañía aseguradora, Indonesia, Jakarta, MAPFRE, seguros no vida
Cleared commodities freight volumes reach record levels since the peak in 2008 Paris, France, 18-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — LCH.Clearnet Limited (LCH.Clearnet) announced that cleared freight volumes more than doubled* in September from a year earlier as traders increased their hedged positions to … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Commodities, France, International Trade, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged Alberto Pravettoni, Atlantic Basin, chartering companies, CHINA, cleared freight volumes, Commodities, dry freight volumes, FFAs, freight clearing business, freight prices, hedged positions, iron ore, iron ore imports, Kamyar Naficy, LCH.Clearnet, OTC Forward Freight Agreements, ship owners, shipping, traders, trading companies, transatlantic shipments
Energieversorger erhält von Check 24 Bestnote beim Kundenservice Darmstadt, Germany, 18-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Das unabhängige Verbraucherportal Check24 hat pünktlich zum Start der neuen Heizperiode das Leistungsspektrum von insgesamt 40 bundesweit tätigen Gasanbietern untersucht. Als einziges Unternehmen erhält der Energieanbieter ENTEGA beim … Read the full press release
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