Sales for the most recent month rose 11.9% to 14,616 vehicles Demand for the all-new Audi A3 Sedan remained strong deep into its launch year Due to lean inventories, Audi pulled its 2015 model launch ahead Herndon, Va, 4-8-2014 — … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Business, Germany, Management
Tagged Audi, Mark Del Rosso
PARIS, 4-8-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — BNP Paribas and UniCredit Bank AG‘s management board have reached joint understanding on the acquisition of a 81.39% stake in DAB Bank by BNP Paribas Group at a price of 4,78 EUR per share, thereby valuing 100% of … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Financial, France, Germany, Management
Tagged BNP Paribas, Camille Fohl, DAB Bank, François Villeroy de Galhau, Kai Friedrich, UniCredit Bank AG
Credit standards on loans to enterprises were eased by banks in net terms, for the first time since the second quarter of 2007. Banks reported a narrowing of their margins on riskier loans to enterprises, for the first time since … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, European Union, Financial, Germany, Investment
Tagged euro area bank, European Central Bank, lending survey results for July 2014
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 31-7-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Central Bank (ECB) is publishing a legal act that has been adopted today relating to the targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTROs). The TLTROs are designed to enhance the functioning of the monetary … Read the full press release
Group revenue: EUR 8.212 bn (2013: EUR 8.207 bn); up 5.6 percent after adjusting for exchange rate effects. Group operating profit: EUR 1.896 bn (2013: EUR 1.966 bn); up 1.7 percent after adjusting for exchange rate effects. 2014 Group outlook … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Germany, Management, Technology
Tagged r Wolfgang Büchele, The Linde Group
Tübingen archaeologists find “new” fragment of Ice Age lion – now displayed at the University of Tübingen Museum Tübingen, Germany, 30-7-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Archaeologists from the University of Tübingen have found an ancient fragment of ivory belonging to a 40,000 year … Read the full press release
Tübingen, Germany, 30-7-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Germany’s Ministry of Education and Research has awarded grants totaling €1.9m over three years to astroparticle physics projects by Tübingen scientists. The GERDA project aims to find a particular form of radioactive decay linked with an … Read the full press release
Porsche Design Timepieces AG founded in Switzerland Stuttgart, 28-7-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The Porsche Design Group (Porsche Lizenz- und Handelsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG) has founded a subsidiary in Switzerland to continue its tradition of offering high-quality timepieces. Porsche Design Timepieces AG, … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Business, Germany, Switzerland
Tagged Juergen Gessler, Patrick Kury, Porsche Design Timepieces AG, The Porsche Design Group
Andiamo Luggage equips its new collection of luxury suitcases with scratch-resistant material Leverkusen, Germany, 25-7-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Vacation is finally here! Just pack the bags and enjoy the summer. Heavy luggage, however, often makes travel an ordeal. But it doesn’t have … Read the full press release
In automotive manufacturing the thumb is exposed to more strain than any other finger. Day in, day out it must bear great loads – literally. Christin Hölzel, a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Ergonomics of the Technische Universität München … Read the full press release
Koningshooikt/Hannover, 25-7-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Van Hool, the Belgian manufacturer of buses, touring coaches and industrial vehicles, will be presenting the EX, a brand-new line of touring coaches for the European market, at the ‘International Motor Show IAA Commercial Vehicles’ (25 … Read the full press release
Norwegian operator orders three ethane-fuelled gas carriers MUNICH, 24-7-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Ocean Yield ASA, the Oslo-based shipowner, has placed orders for three LEGCs (Liquefied Ethylene Gas Carriers) of 36,000 cbm capacity, to be built at Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering, China. … Read the full press release
Eleven new TGLs, eco-friendly Euro 6 engines, 220 horsepower MUNICH, 24-7-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Croatian automobile association HAK has put new rescue vehicles into service just in time for the big vacation season: eleven new MAN TGLs with loading platforms are … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Croatia, Germany, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged Andreas Lampersbach, Croatian automobile association, HAK, MAN TGLs, roadside assistance
Rapid advances in techniques for the creation of ultra-short laser pulses promise to boost our knowledge of electron motions to an unprecedented level. Garching, Germany, 24-7-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Next-generation approaches to the production of ultrashort flashes of laser light – the … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Germany, Science, Technology
Tagged Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Optica, Prof. Ferenc Krausz, The Future of Ultrashort Laser Pulses, third generation of femtosecond laser pulses, Thorsten Naeser, ultra-short laser pulses, ultrashort flashes of laser light
PARIS, 24-7-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Alstom has obtained all homologations by the German Federal Railway Office1 for its 91 Coradia Lint regional trains half a year prior to their scheduled start of operations. 63 trains will be operated by vlexx GmbH and the … Read the full press release
From September 23-26, 2014, Hamburg will become the gateway to the world of wind energy. PARIS, 24-7-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — WindEnergy Hamburg unites major global onshore and offshore players under one roof. It brings together a high-calibre, professional audience and more than … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Electronics & Machinery, Energy, Gas & Oil, France, Germany, Marketing, Technology
Tagged Alstom, Markus Rieck, WindEnergy Hamburg 2014
KfW and BNDES sign an agreement worth EUR 250 million for a wind farm programme Construction of systems with an output of 330 MW — around 10% of Brazil’s wind power Avoidance of 5.6 million tonnes of CO2 FRANKFURT, 23-7-2014 … Read the full press release
Partnership will start with the 2015/2016 season Manchester/Herzogenaurach, 17-7-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — adidas and Manchester United today announced an Official Partnership, bringing together two of the leading brands in football. Starting with the 2015/2016 season, adidas will become the global Technical … Read the full press release
‘#allin or nothing’ campaign makes adidas most talked-about brand during the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ Herzogenaurach / Rio de Janeiro, 17-7-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — German sportswear brand adidas has secured victory on and off the pitch at the 2014 FIFA World … Read the full press release
Posted in Germany, Internet & Online, Marketing, Media, Sports
Tagged 2014 FIFA World Cup™, adidas, Herbert Hainer
Darmstadt, Germany, 17-7-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck, today announced the appointment of Luciano Rossetti, M.D., as Executive Vice President and Global Head of Research & Development as of July 21, 2014. In his most recent role … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Germany, Management, Pharma & Biotech
Tagged Belén Garijo, Luciano Rossetti, M.D., Merck Serono
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