NEW YORK, 8-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Accenture (NYSE: ACN) announced today that Jorge Benitez will step down on June 1 as chief executive – United States and senior managing director – North America and retire from the company on Aug. 31, 2014. … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Ireland, Management
Tagged Accentur, Alex Pachetti, Jorge Benitez, Pierre Nanterme
NEW YORK, 8-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has been named a Leader in Oracle Application Services Providers by Forrester Research, Inc., a leading industry analyst firm. Accenture received the highest scores in numerous criteria, including Cloud deployment for Oracle, Experience … Read the full press release
NEW YORK, 8-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has appointed Stephen J. Rohleder to the newly created position of group chief executive – North America, to support the company’s continued focus on building a strong leadership position in key geographic markets. … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Ireland, Management
Tagged Accenture, Daniel T. London, Stephen J. Rohleder
Copenhagen, Denmark, 8-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — FLSmidth has received orders worth approximately USD 43m (approximately DKK 231m) from the Mongolian company, Mongolyn Alt (MAK) Group, to supply engineering, procurement and site construction services for the Tsagaan Suvarga copper-molybdenum concentrator project. This greenfield plant, … Read the full press release
Billund, Denmark, 8-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Nordic Aviation Capital is pleased to confirm that it has leased one ATR 72-500, MSN 499 to HOP! (formally Airlinair). HOP! provide a regional feeder service throughout France on behalf of Air France. Nordic Aviation Capital A/S … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, Business, Denmark, Management, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged Air France, Airlinair, ATR 72-500, HOP!, Jim Murphy, MSN 499, Nordic Aviation Capital
Ghent, Belgium, 8-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Angie Clocheret and Sibylle Van Belle, 2 assistant academic staff and PhD students in tax law at Ghent University, have won the ‘Excellence in Law’ award at the International Academic Conference on Law and Politics (IACLP) … Read the full press release
Ghent, Belgium, 8-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The Board of Governors of Ghent University has appointed Wim Van Camp as the new general manager of UGent TechTransfer, as from 1 May 2014. He will succeed Marc Zabeau, Managing partner and founder of QBIC … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, Law, Society
Tagged CropDesign, Ghent University, UGent TechTransfer, Wim Van Camp
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, 7-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Open Blue is pleased to announce its initial launch into the European market. As a company operating at the forefront of the mariculture industry, expansion into foreign markets is a top priority for … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Environment, Food & Beverage, News, Retail
Tagged Bernie Leger, Heiddis Olafsdottir, mariculture, Mike Magnus, Open Blue, Open Blue Cobia, Open Blue Global Services, open ocean harvested fish, open ocean mariculture, premium fish, sashimi-grade whitefish, seafood, seafood consumption
DUBLIN, 7-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The medical school in Trinity College Dublin is one of the oldest in Europe and because of this a history of the school is also a history of the development of medical education and clinical practice in … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Ireland, Media, Science
Tagged An Illustrated History’, Davis Coakley, Dr Patrick Prendergast, history of the development of medical education and clinical practice in Ireland over the centuries, Provost, Provost’s House, Trinity College Dublin, ‘Medicine in Trinity College Dublin
Trinity researchers say new data points to need for introduction of universal HPV vaccination for boys as well as girls. DUBLIN, 7-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — A new study by researchers in the School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, has revealed a high … Read the full press release
The Skanska Global Safety Week is now being arranged for the tenth consecutive year. This year will also see industry colleagues being invited to participate in the activities under the theme “Working together for everyone’s safety.” Stockholm, Sweden, 7-5-2014 — … Read the full press release
Posted in Construction, Czech Republic, Finland, Norway, Poland, Security & Safety, Sweden, Technology
Tagged Johan Karlström, Skanska, Skanska Safety Week
Skanska has signed a contract with Akademiska Hus AB to build a laboratory for medical research at Karolinska Institutet Campus in Solna, Sweden. The contract is worth about SEK 400 M, which will be included in order bookings for Skanska … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Construction, Management, Real Estate, Science, Sweden
Tagged Akademiska Hus AB, Bengt Staaff, Edvard Lind, Karolinska Institutet Campus in Solna, Skanska, Sweden
Skanska has signed a contract with Osuuskauppa Arina to construct a shopping center and residential apartment complex in Oulu, Finland. The investment amounts to a total of EUR 100 M, about SEK 890 M. Skanska’s construction contract is worth approximately … Read the full press release
Biofuel can be produced from wood, too. The key to this is the suitable pretreatment of the plant parts in order to break up the wood structure. Researchers at the Transport Processes and Reactions Laboratory, ETH Zurich, have found and … Read the full press release
Professor James Naismith of the University of St Andrews has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Fife, Scotland,7-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Professor Naismith (45), currently the Director of the Biomedical Sciences Research Complex (BSRC) at St Andrews, is a structural … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Science, Society, United Kingdom
Tagged Andy Smith, Bill Hunter, Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, Dave Garner, David O’Hagan, Dr Campopiano, Fellow of the Royal Society, Garry Taylor, John Helliwell, Malcolm White, Marcel Jaspars, Nick Westwood, Professor Chris Whitfield, Professor James Naismith, Professor Louise Richardson, Professor Peter Bruce Professor Chris Hawkesworth Professors Emeriti Wilson Sibbett Eric Priest, Professor Ron Hay, Professors Ian Booth, Professors Malcolm White, Professors Steve Chapman, Steve Sprang, University of St Andrews
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of a sub-atomic particle which gives mass to all the matter in the universe, will be awarded an honorary degree by Scotland’s first University next month. Fife, Scotland, 7-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Education, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Dr Nicholas Penny, Higgs Boson particle, Lyse Doucet, Professor Bernard Silverman, Professor Christina Romer, Professor Dana Scott, Professor Dusa McDuff, Professor Gayatri Spivak, Professor Peter Brown, Professor Peter Higgs, Professor Silvia Gherardi, Professor Tim Shaw, Sarah Coakley, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, University of St Andrews
• Darmstadt-based company holds global rights to the name Merck with exception of the U.S. and Canada Darmstadt, Germany, 7-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Merck, the supplier of top-quality high-tech products in the pharmaceuticals and chemicals sectors, today clarified that it will … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Healthcare, Management, Pharma & Biotech
Tagged Gangolf Schrimpf, Merck, pharmaceuticals and chemicals sectors
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
• 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
Posted in Apparel, Fashion & Beauty, Business, Financial, France, Germany, Management
Tagged Bernhard Kott, Diana, Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Bertram, French Diana Group, Symrise
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 6-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — With the opening of a new Container Freight Station in Cambodia, Kuehne + Nagel extends its network in the South Asia-Pacific region. As second largest facility in Phnom Penh’s special economic zone it offers … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Industrial, Switzerland, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged Alexander Wolski, Cambodia, Container Freight, Gino Marzola, Kuehne + Nagel
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