- Fritz Henderson Named GM Vice Chairman, Chief Financial Officer - John Devine to Remain up to One Year as Vice Chairman Rüsselsheim, Germany (ots) - Frederick "Fritz" Henderson, chairman of GM Europe and a GM group vice president, has been elected GM vice chairman and chief financial officer by the GM Board of Directors, effective Jan. 1, 2006. Current Vice Chairman and CFO John Devine has agreed to ...
Luxembourg (ots/PRNewswire) - European Capital Limited and its wholly owned subsidiary European Capital, S.A. SICAR ("European Capital") announced today it has invested approximately euro 148 million (US$173 million) in seven companies since its formation in August of this year. Six of these companies are majority owned by private equity sponsors. Five of the ...
Zurich (ots) - cablecom has secured an order in Geneva worth CHF 20 million that involves modernization of three cable networks. For 25,000 households in Onex, Lancy and Carouge, the project will provide access to cablecom's triple play service, featuring digital television, broadband Internet and digital telephony. Under this multi-year contract, the three municipalities have commissioned cablecom to modernize ...
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 28 (ots/PRNewswire) - - Royal Ahold N.V. to Pay US$1.1 Billion in a Settlement of All Claims Against Royal Ahold N.V. and All Defendants Other Than Deloitte & Touche Entities Royal Ahold N.V. ("Ahold") has agreed to pay a total of US$1.1 billion to settle all ...
- Indication: A of permitted characters with their Unicode position can be downloaded for free as pdf: www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100004516 - Zurich (ots) - On 1 December 2005 at 8.00, the character "" will be making its debut in the internet - or, to be more precise, SWITCH will be permitting ...
Zurich (ots) - Baxter Healthcare S.A. announced today that Baxter"s ready-to-use liquid 10% Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG), has received unanimous positive opinion for marketing authorization from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA). Once licensed, ...
WISekey expands the activities derived from WISekey's participation at the latest World Summit on Information Society Geneva (ots) - Mr. Daniel Stauffacher, former Ambassador, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs/WSIS Swiss Executive Secretariat has accepted WISekey's invitation to join as President of ...
This project will form part of an ambitious "Plan of Action for Electronic Governance". The immediate objective of the "Secure Angola Project", which is planned to start in 2006, is the establishment of a "Public Key Infrastructure" (PKI); it will be headed by WISeKey and rely on the direct participation of ...
Tunis (ots) - As part of its support to the World Summit on Information Society, WISeKey in cooperation with Microsoft and the OISTE Foundation will be providing a Digital Identification Infrastructure designed to support a network of 20,000 Certification Authorities. Each of these Certification Authorities ...
Lugano/Geneva (ots) - Acquisition Expands Banque Jacob Safra's Private Banking Business Into Monaco. Sale Represents Additional Step in Banca del Gottardo's Strategy Implementation. Banque Jacob Safra (Suisse) SA, headquartered in Geneva, and Banca del Gottardo, headquartered in Lugano, today announced an agreement under which Banque Jacob Safra (Suisse) will ...
Zurich (ots) - Nice Ventures has been sponsoring the Best Product Marketing Award 2005 to encourage European startup companies, who already boast excellent technology and engineering talent, to raise their equally important product marketing efforts to the same high level. The winner will obtain a comprehensive product marketing support package lasting an ...
Trappes, France, November 10 (ots/PRNewswire) - Nissan Europe reported total sales of 29,044 vehicles (i) in October 2005, a decrease of 34.4% over the same month last year. In the ten month period from January to October 2005, Nissan Europe sold 474,103 units, 4% up from last year. HIGHLIGHTS BY COUNTRY - Nissan in France sold 2,821 units in October, registering a 34.9% decrease compared to last year. In the ten month period from January to October 2005, ...
Burscheid, Germany/Milwaukee, Wisconsin (ots) - Johnson Controls, Inc. (JCI) today reported that its fourth quarter 2005 earnings from continuing operations rose 15% on a sales increase of 7%. John M. Barth, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said "We are pleased to report record quarterly and full-year results, continuing our track record for growth. In 2005 we broadened our capabilities, expanded our ...
Zurich (ots) - VIA NET.WORKS (Switzerland) Ltd., a company of Solution24 AG, receives national WiMAX test licence by the Swiss authorities. VIA NET.WORKS will be carrying out WiMAX pilot operations in Zurich and Geneva. The planned area-wide covering of WiMAX will be supported by Chinese companies - VIA NET.WORKS is conducting negotiations with Chinese carriers ...
Paris, France (ots/PRNewswire) - - Increase in Sales and Reduced Debt Following today's meeting of its Board of Directors, Valeo presented its consolidated accounts for the third quarter 2005. In millions of euros (IFRS) 3rd quarter 9 months (unaudited) 2005 2004 change 2005 2004 change Net sales 2,356 2,126 + 10.8% ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - European Capital Financial Services Limited ("European Capital Financial Services") announced today the opening of its London office. European Capital Financial Services is an affiliate of American Capital Strategies Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACAS), a United States-based buyout and mezzanine fund. Leading European Capital in London are Simon Henderson, Managing Director with responsibility for U.K. ...
San Jose, California and Mountain View, California (ots/PRNewswire) - - USB Flash Drive Offers Fully-Loaded OS, Desktop Software and Secure Data Storage Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a global leader in the development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor solutions, and FingerGear(TM), the consumer products division of biometrics leader Bionopoly ...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey (ots/PRNewswire) - European Capital Limited ("European Capital") announced today that it had closed on the offering of euro 750 million (US$900 million) of equity commitments. An aggregate of euro 229 million (US$275 million) of equity commitments were provided by third party institutional investors with the balance provided by European ...
Heilbronn, Germany and Broomfield, Colorado (ots/PRNewswire) - Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a global leader in the development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor solutions and Sirenza Microdevices, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMDI) announced today that Sirenza has shipped more than 100 million silicon germanium ...
- Hinweis: A graphic can be downloaded under http://www.presseportal.ch - Frankfurt, Helsinki, Stockholm, Zurich (ots) - Two worlds co-exist within cash management of PSA Peugeot Citroën Group. Firstly, the industrial and commercial world that produces and sells cars, and secondly, the world of financing (over half the cars sold are purchased on ...
Zürich (ots) - Liberty Global Inc. ("Liberty Global") today announced that its subsidiary, United ACM Holdings, Inc. ("United ACM"), has entered into a definitive agreement (the "Agreement") to acquire 100% of the outstanding share capital of Cablecom Holdings AG ("Cablecom") from the sole shareholder Glacier Holdings S.C.A. ("Glacier") - The terms of the Agreement value Cablecom at approximately CHF 56.22 per share, which implies a total equity value of CHF 2,825 ...
Zurich (ots) - As of 1 October 2005, it will be even easier than before to register a domain name via the internet. SWITCH, the registry for domain names ending in .ch and .li, has redesigned the "Internet Domains" section of its website in response to changing customer needs. Users will benefit not only from the new design but also from optimised processes and functions. The launch of this new website zone ...
In June 2005 the Ecma General Assembly approved ECMA-367, the first standard for the Eiffel programming language. Geneva (ots) - Eiffel is a method of software construction and a language for use in the analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of software systems. The ECMA-367 standard covers the language, with an emphasis on implementational aspects. Originally designed by Eiffel Software under the leadership of Object Technology pioneer Bertrand Meyer, the ...
Luterbach (ots) - Components also enjoys marked improvement in orders The Schaffner Group (SXW Swiss Exchange: SAHN) received a number of orders early in the fourth quarter of its fiscal year for test systems to measure EMC emissions and interference resistance. The largest single order - worth a total of USD 1.3 million (CHF 1.6 million) - came from the US subsidiary of a global product testing group. The new orders ...
Montreal (ots/PRNewswire) - Domtar Inc. (TSX: DTC, NYSE: DTC) announced today the successful completion of its previously announced public offering in the United States of US$400 million aggregate principal amount of 7 1/8 % notes due 2015. Pursuant to the announced use of proceeds from the sale of the notes, Domtar will be issuing a notice to the holders of its 8 3/4 % notes due on August 1, 2006 that all the ...
Montreal (ots/PRNewswire) - TICKER SYMBOL: (TSX:DTC, NYSE:DTC) Domtar Inc. announced today net earnings of $2 million ($0.01 per common share) in the second quarter of 2005 compared to a net loss of $1 million ($0.01 per common share) in the second quarter of 2004 and net earnings of $10 million ($0.04 per common share) in the first quarter of 2005. SUMMARY OF RESULTS ...
Advanced sports communication tool facilitates team interaction and strategy Stäfa (ots) - The Phonak Cycling Team has enjoyed great success to date in the 2005 Tour de France, peaking in yesterday's stage win by Oscar Pereiro from Spain. In addition to Pereiro, who currently ranks 15th in the overall individual standings, the team also has Floyd Landis, USA, ...
Lugano (ots) - After having received the necessary licences, Banca del Gottardo has recently launched private banking operations in Spain. Gottardo Gestión S.G.I.I.C SA is focused on investment fund management while Gottardo Patrimonios A.V. SA is active in financial market brokerage and offers comprehensive wealth management services, including fiscal and corporate advisory. The offices are located in Madrid, in ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - We are extremely pleased that Unocal has indicated today they will begin engaging in talks concerning our all cash offer. We are prepared to start immediately. As we indicated upon announcing our bid, we believe this offer brings superior value to Unocal shareholders. It is important to know that 70 percent of Unocal's current reserves are located in Asia, and that is one of the reasons why ...
Paris/Hallbergmoos (ots) - The Government of Norway is to increase funding levels for its Eurofighter Industrial participation programme by a further 12.5 million Euros. The current Industrial Participation Agreement (IPA) signed between industry, Eurofighter GmbH and the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Defence is worth EUR 23.2 Million. This covers six ongoing contracts with various Norwegian companies carrying out ...