London, UK, 10-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — A package of investment in the 8 great technologies of the future will accelerate high-tech progress from the lab to the marketplace and help drive UK economic growth, Science and Universities Minister David Willetts announced. In … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Environment, Financial, Government, Investment, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Society, United Kingdom
Tagged Agri-Tech Catalyst, agricultural technologies, climate change, Department for Business Innovation & Skills, Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, energy storage, food production, gene sequencing, Guy’s Hospital, HEFCE, Iain Gray, Lord de Mauley, meteorologists, NERC, NOAA, OSNAP, population growth, Professor Douglas Kell, South Glasgow Hospitals Campus, Technology Strategy Board, The Rt Hon David Willetts MP, UK synthetic biology industry, UKRPIF
London, United Kingdom, 10-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — AstraZeneca today announced that on 4 October MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, completed its acquisition of Amplimmune, a privately-held, US-based biologics company focused on developing novel therapeutics in cancer immunology. As previously announced, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Healthcare, Investment, Pharma & Biotech, United Kingdom
Tagged acquisition, Amplimmune, Anthony Brown, anti-PD-L1 mAb, AstraZeneca, autoimmune disease, Ayesha Bharmal, biologics, Cancer, cancer cells, cancer immunology, co-inhibitory molecules, co-stimulatory molecules, Colleen Proctor, Ed Seage, Esra Erkal-Paler, Gaithersburg, immune system, immune-mediated cancer therapy, IMT-C, infectious disease, Jacob Lund, Jens Lindberg, Karl Hård, MEDI-4736, MedImmune, mOX40 mAb, therapeutics, Tracy Rossin, transplantation, tremelimumab
Hamburg, Kiel Frankfurt, Munich, Germany, 09-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The Munich-based Railpool GmbH is expanding its management team. The two shareholders of the company, HSH Nordbank and KfW IPEX-Bank, have appointed Torsten Lehnert and Thorsten Priebe to the management team as at … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Banks, Business, Financial, Germany, Management, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged diesel multiple units, Dr Walter Breinl, Electrical Multiple Units, Ellen Stoessinger, Hamburg, HSH Nordbank AG, KfW IPEX-Bank, Kiel Frankfurt, locomotives, Mirko Wollrab, Munich, rail vehicles, Railpool GmbH, railway operators, Rune Hoffmann, Thorsten Priebeappointed, Torsten Lehnert, Wilhelm Wellner
Whitley, Coventry, UK, 09-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Whitley 4th October 2013. Jaguar Land Rover UK is celebrating record September sales with retail figures up 13 per cent year-to-date over the same period last year. Land Rover had its best ever September month of … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Business, Financial, Management, United Kingdom
Tagged Alexina Jackson, Dan Connell, Freelander, Jaguar, Jaguar Land Rover UK, Jeremy Hicks, Kim Palmer, Land Rover, Land Rover Defender, Land Rover Discovery, Lucy Reynolds, Rachel Murray, Range Rover, Range Rover Evoque, Range Rover Sport, record September 2013 sales, retail figures, the all new Range Rover
Stockholm, Sweden, 09-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Hexagon AB, leading global provider of design, measurement and visualization solutions, has entered into an agreement to acquire Airborne Hydrography AB (AHAB), a provider of airborne laser survey systems for hydrographic and topographic surveys. Founded in … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Sweden, Technology
Tagged above-water topographic maps, acquired, acquisition, AHAB, airborne bathymetric LiDAR technology, Airborne Hydrography AB, airborne laser survey systems, geospatial technologies, Hexagon, hydrographic software, hydrographic surveys, hydrographic systems, Jönköping, Kristin Christensen, map coastal zones, map land, map seafloors, Mattias Stenberg, Ola Rollén, Sweden, topographic software, topographic surveys, topographic systems
Stockholm, Sweden, 09-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Hexagon AB, leading global provider of design, measurement and visualisation solutions, has signed an agreement to acquire Devex, a leading player in the field of automation solutions for mining operations. Devex is a Brazilian company with … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Sweden, Technology
Tagged 3D environments, acquire, acquisition, Brazil, Devex, Hexagon, Kristin Christensen, Mattias Stenberg, measurement technologies, mine activities real-time control, mine activities remote monitoring, mine-management software solutions, mining, Ola Rollén, open-pit mines, optimising mine performance, software, underground mines, visualisation technologies
Hamburg/Kiel, Germany, 09-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — HSH Nordbank has successfully sold its 25% stake in Northern Diabolo. In 2007, the Bank financed the rail track linking Brussels Airport to the Belgian long-distance railway system – and thus one of the country’s most … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Belgium, Business, Financial, Germany, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment
Tagged Belgian long-distance railway system, Belgian rail project, Brussels Airport, Ellen Stoessinger, equity, Hamburg, HSH Nordbank AG, infrastructure, Kiel, loan, Marcus Kleiner, Mirko Wollrab, Paris-Brussels-Antwerp axis, private public partnership, rail track, railway, Rune Hoffmann
Luxembourg/Sofia, 08-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Municipality of Sofia today signed a new loan agreement of EUR 50 million to support the implementation of the Bulgarian capital city’s master plan. The loan will finance a transport … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Construction, Financial, Government, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged Bulgaria, construction, Dušan Ondrejička, EIB, loan agreement, Mihai Tanasescu, Municipality, Municipality of Sofia, rehabilitation, Sofia, The European Investment Bank, transport infrastructure projects
London, UK, 04-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — European consumers have made 211 million contactless purchases in the last 12 months (August 2012 to July 2013), according to figures released today from Visa Europe. The monthly contactless spend has also increased six fold to €285 million in July … Read the full press release
Bologna, Italy, 03-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Hera Group signed in Milan an initial EUR 200 million tranche of an approved aggregate loan of EUR 300 million, intended to support the investments of the Italian multi-utility company listed on … Read the full press release
Brussels, Belgium, 03-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, Johannes Hahn, has today announced a proposal by the European Commission to allocate more than 360 million EUR to Germany in response to the serious flooding in late spring, May and … Read the full press release
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 03-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — CNH Industrial N.V. (CNHI) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, CNH Capital LLC, plans to offer new notes, subject to market conditions. The notes will be guaranteed by CNH Capital America LLC and New … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom
Tagged Anna Kasprowicz, assets, capital, CNH Capital America LLC, CNH Capital LLC, CNH Industrial Group, CNH Industrial N.V., CNHI, indebtedness, Maurizio Pignata, New Holland Credit Company LLC, notes, receivables, Richard Gadeselli
Fredericia, Denmark, 03-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The Danish State represented by the Ministry of Finance and DONG Energy A/S have reached an understanding with funds managed by the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs (Goldman Sachs) and the Danish pension funds Arbejdsmarkedets Tillægspension (ATP) and … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Denmark, Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Investment
Tagged Allan Bødskov Andersen, Andrew Wolff, Arbejdsmarkedets Tillægspension, capital increase, Carsten Stendevad, Claus Wiinblad, DONG Energy A/S, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division, Henrik Heideby, Henrik Poulsen, INVEST, Jesper Langmack, Joanna Carss, Karsten Anker Petersen, PFA Pension Forsikringsaktieselskab, shares
Paris, France, 03-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Only a few short weeks after the success of its tender offer for Silic, Icade has carried off a new and highly significant success among its investors. For its first ever bond issue, Icade has placed … Read the full press release
Turin, Italy, 03-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — CNH Industrial N.V. (CNHI) announces that, on September 27 and 28, 2013, the deed of merger relating to the merger of Fiat Industrial S.p.A. with and into CNH Industrial N.V. and the deed of merger relating to … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Italy
Tagged CNH Global N.V., CNH Industrial N.V., common shares, Fiat Industrial S.p.A, Guido Tabellini, Jacqueline Tammenoms Bakker, Jacques Theurillat, John Elkann, John Lanaway, Léo W. Houle, MERGER, Mina Gerowin, Patrizia Grieco, Peter Kalantzis, Richard Tobin, Sergio Marchionne
Brussels, Belgium, 02-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Commission has concluded that a planned monetary compensation in favour of Simet SpA, which provides bus services to and from Calabria, is incompatible with EU state aid rules. By a judgment of March 2010, … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Belgium, Business, European Union, Financial, Government, Italy, Law, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged Antoine Colombani, bus services, Calabria, Consiglio di Stato, EC, EU state aid rules, Joaquin Almunia, Maria Madrid Pina, public service compensation, Public Service Transport Regulation, Simet SpA, state aid
Luxembourg/Vladivostok, 02-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 100 million (RUB 4bn) to support the modernisation of power and heat generation technology in Vladivostok. The project is part of a larger programme to bring natural gas to Russia’s … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Energy, Gas & Oil, European Union, Financial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Russia
Tagged climate change mitigation, coal, combined heat and power gas turbine units, Dušan Ondrejička, electricity, heat generation, JSC "Energy Systems of East", JSC RusHydro, Konstantin Bessmertniy, loan, natural gas, power, Russian roubles, Russia’s Far East, Sergei Tolstoguzov, Vladivostok, Wilhelm Molterer
Brussels, Belgium, 02-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Commission has decided that the aid granted by France to the motor vehicle manufacturer Renault to help it conduct the ‘HYDIVU’ research and development programme complies with the EU rules on state aid. The … Read the full press release
Almere, Netherlands, 02-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — LeasePlan Corporation N.V., the world’s leading fleet and vehicle management company, today announces that it has bought back the entire $500 million government guaranteed bond that was due to mature in June 2014. Following on from … Read the full press release
Almere, Netherlands, 02-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Following the announcement made on 2 July 2013, LeasePlan Corporation N.V., the world’s leading fleet and vehicle management company, today confirms that LeasePlan Austria has completed the acquisition of BAWAG P.S.K. Fuhrparkleasing GmbH, based in Vienna, Austria. … Read the full press release
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