Rexel Foundation: Global Award For Sustainable Architecture 2016 Winners Announced

PARIS, 12-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Five winners, hailing from the four corners of the world, were announced at the “Global Award for Sustainable Architecture”, which took place on Monday, May 9 at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, an architectural … Read the full press release

OMEGA DESIGN BECOMES PARTNER-IN-RESIDENCE AT SYSTECH’S PRINCETON HEADQUARTERS

Princeton, NJ, 12-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Omega Design Corporation, a global provider of packaging machinery, serialization solutions, and bottle unscrambling technology has become a partner-in-residence at Systech International, based in Princeton, NJ, a global leader in serialization, track-and-trace, authentication, and … Read the full press release

UK: Gap widens between rich and poor in retirement – Experian research

Gap is widening between rich and poor in retirement – North/South divide is evident. Better-off retirees heading for affluent suburbs, market and cathedral towns LONDON, 11-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Britons are living through a hugely varied set of circumstances when they … Read the full press release

UKFast CEO Lawrence Jones to give revealing insight into his business journey at government-backed event in Liverpool

LIVERPOOL, 11-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Digital entrepreneur Lawrence Jones MBE, CEO of fast-growing tech brand UKFast, is set to give revealing insight into his business journey at a government-backed event in Liverpool. The Entrepreneurs Exchange, which takes place at St George’s … Read the full press release

Silchester International Investors LLP now owns less than 3% in Delhaize Group’s voting rights as of May 5, 2016

BRUSSELS, 11-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Pursuant to the Belgian Law of May 2, 2007 relating to the publication of major shareholdings in listed companies, Delhaize Group has received a notification of the threshold of 3% being crossed downwards by Silchester International … Read the full press release

Symrise AG Q1-2016: Group sales increased by 10%

Sales up by 14 % at local currency Satisfactory growth in both segments EBITDAN increase by 6 % to € 158 million Profitability remains strong, with EBITDAN margin of 21.7 % Holzminden, Germany, 11-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — The fiscal year 2016 … Read the full press release

Gamesa Q1-2016: strong sales performance; over 3,800 MWe in volume and above €400 million in EBIT

Net profit excluding the impact of Adwen amounted to €80 million (+82%1 vs. 2015, which included a one-off positive impact of €18 million from the joint venture). The company maintains the profitable growth envisaged in its Business Plan 2015-2017 and … Read the full press release

Gamesa inaugurates prototype of its offgrid system combining four sources of power – solar, wind, diesel and batteries

The system combines four sources of power – solar, wind, diesel and batteries – with installed capacity of over 2 MW and enables the provision of cheaper and cleaner power to communities without a grid connection. Gamesa’s entry into the … Read the full press release

Tim Scharwath of Kuehne + Nagel International AG to leave after 24 years with the company

Schindellegi / CH, 11-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Tim Scharwath, since 2011 member of the Management Board of Kuehne + Nagel International AG and responsible for global airfreight, decided to leave the company within the next twelve months in order to take … Read the full press release

European Capital CFO Juan Carlos Morales Cortes: We are very pleased to announce the final close of European Capital Private Debt Fund

LONDON, 11-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — European Capital Fund Management Limited announced today that its European mid-market direct lending fund, European Capital Private Debt, LP (the “Fund”), successfully reached its final close on 15 April 2016, bringing the total commitments of the … Read the full press release

PSA Group and Dongfeng Motors (DFM) to design an electric version of the Common Modular Platform (CMP) jointly developed since April 2015

PARIS, 11-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — A new milestone in the strategic partnership between PSA Group and DFM was reached at the presentation of the new “5A+” medium-term plan for Dongfeng Peugeot Citroën Automobile (DPCA) At the presentation of the DPCA strategic … Read the full press release

Spectacular delivery of 291 Citroën C3, Berlingo, Jumpy and Jumper vehicles to the major energy and environmental performance player ENGIE Cofely

PARIS, 11-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Under the terms of a sale agreement with ENGIE Cofely, PSA Retail Business Paris made a spectacular delivery of 291 Citroën vehicles on 10 May 2016. The fleet includes C3, Berlingo, Jumpy and Jumper vehicles. A … Read the full press release

2015 European Private Equity Activity report: Private equity investment into European companies up by 14%

•   Investments into almost 5,000 European companies, 86% SMEs •   Divestments remain high at €40.5bn with almost 2,500 companies exited •   Fundraising stays steady at €47.6bn in 2015 BRUSSELS, 10-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Private equity investment into European companies increased … Read the full press release

Amsterdam Fire Department, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, TU Delft research over mathematical model to optimally (re)position firefighters

Delft, Netherlands, 10-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — How can firefighters be optimally deployed in a region? If multiple stations are busy fighting a major fire, where should vehicles of other fire stations go to for optimal coverage? To answer these – and … Read the full press release

Delft University of Technology scientists demonstrated for the first time that errors in quantum computations can be detected and actively corrected

Delft, Netherlands, 10-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Quantum computers are based on qubits that, unlike classical bits, can not only take the values 0 or 1 but can also be 0 and 1 at the same time. Unfortunately this quantum information is … Read the full press release

Gemalto and Visa to equip visitors at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest with conta​ctless payment wristbands

Amsterdam, 10-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, is collaborating with Visa, one of the world’s largest payment providers, to equip visitors at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest with conta​ctless payment wristbands​. Gemalto’s solution … Read the full press release

Bank consortium JETCO selects Gemalto’s Ezio Mobile Suite for mobile payments in Hong Kong

Amsterdam, 10-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, will provide JETCO with its Ezio Mobile Suite​, including servers for mobile enrollment and provisioning, authentication and messaging. JETCO runs on its existing inter-bank network, is a … Read the full press release

Gemalto brings high-quality voice capabilities over LTE to industrial applications using single-mode LTE Cat.1

Cinterion® VoLTE Cat.1 module for IoT applications to be demonstrated at Gemalto Strategy and Innovation Workshop in Santa Clara Santa Clara, California, 10-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, is revolutionizing Internet of Things … Read the full press release

International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) supports International Day of the Midwife 2016

LONDON, 10-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ —Statement from the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) on the International Day of the Midwife 2016. FIGO is the only organisation that brings together professional societies of obstetricians and gynecologists on a global basis, … Read the full press release

Toyota to provide funding to broaden the scope of The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species ™

Toyota to support deeper understanding of threats to biodiversity and global food supplies through a 5-year partnership Significant step to achieve IUCN’s goal of doubling the number of species assessed by 2020 painting a more comprehensive picture of the state … Read the full press release