During its meeting today, the Board of Directors of BNP Paribas acknowledged Baudouin Prot’s decision to step down as Chairman and Director as of 1 December 2014. The Board will meet on this same date to appoint, following the proposal … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Financial, France, Management
Tagged Baudouin Prot, BNP Paribas, Jean Lemierre, Jean-Laurent Bonnafé
BRUSSELS, 26-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Androulla Vassiliou, the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, will present Erasmus+, the new European programme for education, youth and sport, this Monday (29 September at 10:00) at the conference to be held … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, European Union, France, Society, Sports
Blagnac, France, 25-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The A320neo Family is reaching new heights, with increased fuel burn savings per seat further improved to 20% across the entire family by 2020. The 20% fuel burn saving is achieved through Airbus’ latest … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, Business, France, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged A320neo Family, Airbus, John Leahy
PARIS, 19-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Alstom has been awarded a contract worth around €13 million1 from Electricity of Vietnam2 (EVN) for the extension project of the Thac Mo 75 MW hydropower plant in Vietnam. The aim of this project is … Read the full press release
PARIS, 19-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — On 11th September, the Polish Office of Rail Transport – responsible for supervision over the railway sector’s safety in Poland – has certified Pendolino train for up to 250 km/h. It has also confirmed that … Read the full press release
PARIS, 19-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Alstom has been awarded a contract of approximately €35 million by the Greek Transmission Utility Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) for the turnkey supply of four gas-insulated substations (GIS) in Greece. The project will connect … Read the full press release
PARIS, 19-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Alstom will deliver Sydney’s new generation of rapid transit trains as part of the North West Rail Link, Australia’s first fully-automated rail network and Australia’s largest public transport project. Under the operations contract for the … Read the full press release
PARIS, 18-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — L’Oréal announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire NIELY COSMETICOS in Brazil. Founded in 1981 by Daniel Fonseca de Jesus, Niely Cosmeticos is the largest independent hair coloration and hair care company … Read the full press release
Up to $200 Million Collaboration to Support Pioneering Science and New Treatments Paris and South San Francisco, CA, 18-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Sanofi (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) and MyoKardia, Inc., a privately-held company leading the development of precision therapies for genetic … Read the full press release
HOUSTON, 18-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — GDF SUEZ Energy Resources NA, one of the nation’s largest competitive retail electricity providers to commercial, industrial, and institutional customers, announced that Graham Leith has been named Vice President of Sales for the company. Leith has an … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, France, Management, Technology
Tagged GDF SUEZ Energy Resources NA, Graham Leith, Sam Henry
PARIS, 17-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — AREVA has been selected by the utility RWE to supply fuel assemblies to the Emsland nuclear power plant located near Lingen, Germany. From 2016 to 2020, the power plant will receive a total of four … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, France, Germany, Management, Technology
Tagged Areva, Emsland nuclear power plant, Lingen Germany, RWE
In approximately 70 percent of patients, disability scores improved or remained stable for an additional two years beyond the two-year pivotal multiple sclerosis studies Approximately 70 percent of patients treated with Lemtrada did not receive a third course of treatment … Read the full press release
Posted in France, Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech
Tagged Genzyme, Lemtrada™ (alemtuzumab) for multiple sclerosis, Sanofi
Paris, 12-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services and VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership in the area of Enterprise … Read the full press release
Landis+Gyr has been chosen to deliver a substantial portion of Linky meters to ERDF (the French national electricity distributor, Électricité Réseau Distribution France). These meters will be produced in Montluçon, France, where Landis+Gyr has been located since 1940 Zug, Switzerland, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, France, Industrial, Switzerland
Tagged Christian Huguet, ERDF, John Harris, Landis+Gyr, ‘Linky’ meters
PARIS, 12-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Lagardère successfully launched today a €500m, 5-year (due in September 2019) bond issue, with an annual coupon of 2%. The order book reached an amount of €1.5bn, 3 times oversubscribed. The success of the launch … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, France, Management, Media
Tagged Lagardère, Ramzi Khiroun, Thierry Funck-Brentano
Thales has successfully delivered a significant upgrade to the Australian Tiger helicopter simulator. Cannes, 11-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The improvements to the Full Flight Mission Simulator’s (FFMS) Visual Display System (VDS) mean the Australian Tiger simulator now has the highest … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, Business, France, Technology
Tagged Australian Tiger helicopter simulator, Thales, Tiger FFMS
Cannes, 11-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Riadh Cammoun, 52, was named Vice President, Public and Regulatory Affairs at Thales Alenia Space, effective September 1st. He replaces Julia Maris. A graduate of the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics civil engineering school, with a … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, Business, France, Management, Technology
Tagged Riadh Cammoun, Sandrine Bielecki, Tarik Lahlou, Thales Alenia Space
Cannes, 11-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Thales Alenia Space is upgrading and expanding its range of Spacebus geostationary telecommunications satellites. With 80 orders recorded to date and over 500 years of cumulated service in orbit, Spacebus platforms offer proven performance. They are available … Read the full press release
PARIS, 10-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Bpifrance and Euler Hermes, the global leader in credit insurance, signed a partnership agreement to offer French companies a new short-term financing solution known as AVANCE+EXPORT, which involves the assignment of export receivables and helps … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, France, Insurance, Small Business
Tagged AVANCE+EXPORT, Bpifrance, Euler Hermes, Nicolas Dufourcq, short-term financing solution
Grenoble, France, 10-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — WHO/WHAT: The Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition Europe is a new conference for the application of languages, tools and intellectual property for the design and verification of electronic systems and integrated circuits. Sponsored … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Denmark, Electronics & Machinery, Finland, France, Germany, Marketing, News, Sweden, Switzerland, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Accellera Systems Initiative, ARM, Bernd Adler, Cadence, chip architects, DVCon Europe, EDA, electronic systems and integrated circuits, IP integrators, IP languages, IP Reuse and Design Automation, IP-XACT, Lower Power Design and Verification, Mentor Graphics, Mixed-Signal Design and Verification, Mobile Communications Germany, PSL, software developers, Synopsys, System-level design, SystemC, systems designers, SystemVerilog, The Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition Europe, UPF, UVM, Verification & Validation
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