Category Archives: France

Press Releases & News from France distributed via EuropaWire

Airbus delivers Asiana Airlines’ first A380

11th operator of world’s largest and most efficient aircraft Blagnac, 27-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — South Korea’s Asiana Airlines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A380, becoming the eleventh operator of the type in the world. The A380 was handed over to … Read the full press release

Airbus Defence and Space in Mexico: four times in a row Number 1 company to work for with less than 500 employees

Annual ranking of CNN Expansion Magazine and the consulting “TOP Companies” for companies with fewer than 500 employees. Mexico D.F., 27-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Airbus Defence and Space in Mexico has been recognized for the fourth consecutive time in the “Top Companies” … Read the full press release

Orange opens first start-up incubator in Niger, CIPMEN

PARIS, 27-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — After the CTIC incubator in Senegal and the Ebène project in Mauritius, Orange announces the opening of the first start-up incubator in Niger. Orange Niger and its local partners* have helped to set-up CIPMEN, a small- and … Read the full press release

Orange to provide 4G for Roland Garros for 3 more years

PARIS, 27-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Orange is an official supplier to Roland Garros for the 10th year in a row, and will be making the very best of 4G technology available for tennis fans during the event, which is scheduled to run … Read the full press release

Orange African Social Venture Prize’s 4th edition kicks off on its entertainment portal in Africa starafrica.com

PARIS, 27-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Following on from the success of the past three years, today Orange is launching the 2014 edition of the Orange African Social Venture Prize. A new category has been introduced for the fourth edition: the “Orange … Read the full press release

GDF SUEZ strengthens its balance sheet with second €2 billion hybrid bond issue

PARIS, 26-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — GDF SUEZ today issued a second hybrid bond issue following its hybrid issue of July 2013, for an amount of €2 billion, taking advantage of exceptional market conditions for this type of financing. The Group was … Read the full press release

European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly opened investigation on fundamental rights in the EU’s “cohesion” policy

Strasbourg, France, 22-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, has opened an investigation on her own initiative into respect for fundamental rights in the EU’s “cohesion” policy. The Ombudsman has received many complaints in this area, for example about problems … Read the full press release

EIB invested an unprecedented EUR 1.37bn in France between 12 and 16 May to support employment, social cohesion and economic development

Luxembourg, 22-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The EIB invested an unprecedented EUR 1.37bn in France between 12 and 16 May. Projects supported include the refurbishment of schools, investment in France’s small businesses, a motorway and sustainable public transport initiatives. These will all contribute … Read the full press release

Geospatial World magazine awarded Netherlands Space Office (NSO) and Airbus Defence and Space for satellite imagery distribution web portal

Geospatial World magazine awards Netherlands Space Office (NSO) and Airbus Defence and Space for satellite imagery distribution web portal. Paris, France, 21-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Airbus Defence and Space along with the Netherlands Space Office (NSO) was awarded the Geospatial World Innovation … Read the full press release

Comlux The Aviation Group becomes the first Airbus ACJ319 customer for an in-service retrofit of Sharklets

Sharklets save fuel and enhance appearance Blagnac,  21-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Comlux The Aviation Group has become the first Airbus ACJ319 customer for an in-service retrofit of Sharklets, upswept fins attached to the wingtips that save about 4 per cent in fuel … Read the full press release

Airbus Defence and Space, Dassault Aviation and Alenia Aermacchi plan to develop next generation advanced European Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)

Leading European companies deliver plan to France, Germany and Italy Berlin/Paris/Rome, 20-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Europe’s Industry is ready to develop a next generation advanced European Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). After their call for the development of a European drone at … Read the full press release

Airbus Defense and Space flash based Solid-State Recorder successfully passed all NASA space qualification test requirements

Airbus Defense and Space flash based Solid-State Recorder completes NASA qualification test and over 20 months successful operation in orbit Colorado Springs, USA, 20-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The flash memory Solid-State Recorder (SSR) products of Airbus Defense and Space have passed all NASA … Read the full press release

Airbus Global Market Forecast: Traffic to and from Germany set to grow at 3.5 per cent per annum in the next 20 years

Germany remains top aviation market, but growth less than world average Blagnac,  20-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — According to Airbus’ latest Global Market Forecast (GMF) in the next 20 years (2013-2032), the traffic to and from Germany is set to grow at … Read the full press release

Swiss National Bank announced the fourth gold agreement between central banks in Europe

Zurich, 19-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The Swiss National Bank (SNB), the European Central Bank (ECB), the central banks of the euro area (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain) … Read the full press release

Alstom awarded €300 million contract to supply 50 KZ8A freight locomotives to Azerbaijan Railways

Paris, France, 14-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Alstom has been awarded a contract to supply 50 KZ8A freight locomotives to Azerbaijan Railways (ADDY) which will be assembled in Alstom’s JV EKZ between 2016 and 2018. The total amount of the contract is €300 … Read the full press release

Bull to supply petaflops-scale supercomputer to German computing center for climate research DKRZ

In 2016, this ultra-fast, but extremely energy-efficient super-system will reach a peak performance of 3 Petaflops and a storage capacity of 45 Petabytes. This means it can perform 3 million billion operations per second, and store the equivalent of 10 … Read the full press release

Atos cloud Canopy launches cloud platform supporting digital businesses

Empowering organisations to accelerate their move to digital business while enabling IT to become a Cloud Service Broker Las Vegas, 9-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Canopy, the Atos cloud, powered by EMC² and VMware, announced at EMC World today its strategy and supporting … Read the full press release

Sanofi Pasteur announced its pediatric pentavalent vaccine Shan5™ received prequalification status from the World Health Organization

Shan5™ is the first vaccine jointly developed by the Indian company and its parent company Sanofi Pasteur  WHO’s decision allows for the purchase of Shan5™ by United Nations agencies Lyon, France, 7-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi (EURONEXT: … Read the full press release

Symrise reports sales up by 8 % at local currency in Q1 2014

• Group sales up by 8 % at local currency • Increase in sales by 12 % in Emerging Markets • EBITDA up 9 % to € 101 million – EBITDA margin of 21.5 % • Earnings per share rise … Read the full press release

Thales Alenia Space established new British subsidiary, Thales Alenia Space UK

Harwell, UK, 2-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Thales Alenia Space announced today that it is further expanding its presence in Europe with the creation of a new British subsidiary, Thales Alenia Space UK. Based at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus (HISC) … Read the full press release