Abu Dhabi, Uae (ots/PRNewswire) - Aabar Investments PJS ("Aabar") today confirmed an investment of $850 million in Glencore International plc ("Glencore") as a cornerstone investor with an intention to invest an additional $150 million in the Global Offer. Glencore is one of the world's leading integrated producers ...
Hellerup, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) - Saxo Bank, the specialist in online trading and investment, is first to publish market data from the FX Options OTC market. The data, which will be published three times a day on Tradingfloor.com, will greatly enhance traders' understanding and ability to profitably trade FX as an asset class. This initiative signifies Saxo Bank's ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Lonrho Plc's seafood division, Oceanfresh, has been chosen to provide sixteen product lines to Makro under Makro's private label 'M brand'. Makro (a division of Massmart) is one of the foremost retail chains in South Africa, catering to wholesale shoppers ranging from informal traders and grocery store owners to hoteliers, restaurateurs, ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Lonrho Plc has announced that the company has been admitted to the Premium List of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and has appointed the Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Needham to the Board of Directors. The move to the Premium List of the Main Market is a natural progression as the ...
Leiden, The Netherlands and Seattle (ots/PRNewswire) - ProFibrix B.V., a leader in the development of innovative products that help stop bleeding (hemostasis) after surgery, today announced the successful closing of a series B follow-on financing. In conjunction with the financing and to support the company's next ...
Ocean Nutrition Canada Limited (ONC)
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (ots/PRNewswire) - The American Heart Association (AHA) recently issued its first ever statement on triglyceride management that includes recommendations for Omega-3 EPA/DHA intake. Elevated triglyceride levels have long been associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). According to the AHA ...
Doha, Qatar and New York (ots/PRNewswire) - It will be the first major event in the run-up to the December, 2011 Fourth Annual Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations, a major initiative affiliated with the United Nations. The Alliance of Civilizations seeks to address misunderstanding and fear from the Other and build trust and confidence that stems from mutual ...
Dublin (ots/PRNewswire) - PopCap Games, the worldwide leader in casual games, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire ZipZapPlay, a social games company based in San Francisco, California. With the acquisition, PopCap increases its Facebook games lineup, establishes a social studio in Silicon Valley, and positions itself for further growth and continued success in one of the hottest digital games categories. Financial terms of the acquisition were not ...
Alexandria, Virginia (ots/PRNewswire) - Bitrix, Inc. (http://www.bitrixsoft.com), a technology trendsetter in business communications solutions announces the release of Bitrix Intranet 10.0, a genuine turning-point in the product's history. The product's new overarching concept is to unite the energies of each ...
Bagsvaerd, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) - Sales increased by 15% in Danish kroner and by 11% in local currencies. - Sales of modern insulins increased by 14% (11% in local currencies). - Victoza(R) sales of DKK 1,098 million (growth of 191% in local currencies). - Sales of NovoSeven(R) increased by 6% (4% in local currencies). - Sales in North America increased by 16% (14% ...
Monheim, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Bayer today announced that the European Commission has approved two new companion animal products: Veraflox(R) (pradofloxacin) and Procox(R) (emodepside and toltrazuril). Veraflox(R) is the first next-generation veterinary fluoroquinolone antibiotic for the treatment of bacterial infection in cats and dogs. Procox(R) is the first and ...
Grenoble, France (ots/PRNewswire) - WinSoft International Announces the Immediate Availability of PagePlus X5, the Affordable Easy-to-use Desktop Publisher From Serif, in 7 Languages. Creating professional print materials for small businesses working in Czech, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Swedish has just gotten a little bit easier with the release by WinSoft International of 7 localized versions of the ...
Hellerup, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) - Saxo Bank, the specialist in online trading and investment, has launched four futures that will, for the first time, offer investors who are not residents in Brazil direct access to the Brazilian market. The products include the Bovespa Index and USD/BRL cross and enable investors to gain exposure to one of the currently most buoyant economies and hedge risks in their portfolios. With ...
Camarillo, California (ots/PRNewswire) - BNK Petroleum Inc. (the "Company") , announced today that the Lebork S-1 well, on the Slupsk concession in Poland, in which the Company has an indirect 26.69% interest, has been drilled, cased and cemented to its total depth of 3,590 meters. The well was originally drilled to 3,517 meters and 223 meters of whole core were recovered. At that time a full suite of logs were run. After ...
Istanbul (ots/PRNewswire) - Turkcell , the leading communications and technology company in Turkey, held its 2010 Annual General Assembly on April 21, 2011 at the Company headquarters. At the meeting, the Balance Sheet and Profit/Loss Statements of fiscal year 2010, previously approved by the statutory auditors, the audit committee, and the Board of Directors, as well as audited by an independent audit firm, in addition, ...
Istanbul (ots/PRNewswire) - Turkcell , announced that it has filed its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2010 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on April 20, 2011. The Company's Form 20-F and complete audited financial statements can be found at http://www.turkcell.com.tr/en. Hard copy versions of the complete audited financial statements are available free of charge upon ...
Tokyo (ots/PRNewswire) - Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (hereafter, Daiichi Sankyo), announced today that the company has received its first marketing approval for LIXIANA(R) (JAN: Edoxaban Tosilate Hydrate, INN:edoxaban) 15 mg and 30 mg tablets, by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan. Edoxaban, ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Following the meeting of its Board of Directors today, Valeo released its sales figures for the first quarter 2011: In million euros Q1 2010* Q1 2011* % change % change 2011/2010 2011/2010** Original equipment 1,898 2,263 +19.2% +17.4% Aftermarket 351 361 +2.8% +4.5% Other 60 45 -25.0% ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - With excitement around next week's Royal Wedding reaching fever pitch, leading betting firm Paddy Power have reported record levels of betting on the Royal nuptials from people around the world. To view the Multimedia News Release, please click: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/prne/paddypower/48904/ So far almost 5,000 bets have been wagered with the bookmaker on a diverse range of Royal ...
Istanbul (ots/PRNewswire) - Turkcell , Turkey's leading communications and technology company, today announced being ranked as one of the top-five companies in Europe for its Financial Disclosure Procedures, and being awarded by IR Global Rankings (IRGR) at its 2011 The IR Summit in London on April 14, 2011. IRGR conducts rankings in five regions: North America, ...
Hatfield, England (ots/PRNewswire) - Zebinix(R) (eslicarbazepine acetate), an add-on (adjunctive) therapy for adults with partial-onset seizures, with or without secondary generalisation (where the seizure extensively affects consciousness of the patients by propagation to both sides of the brain), has recently been launched in Greece by Arriani Pharmaceuticals, Eisai's chosen partner in Greece. In April 2009, the European Commission approved Zebinix(R) based on data showing ...
Munich (ots/PRNewswire) - Daiichi Sankyo announced today that it has begun enrolling patients in Europe into a large, multinational phase III trial of tivantinib (ARQ 197). Tivantinib is an investigational small molecule inhibitor of the c-MET receptor tyrosine kinase in final phase of clinical development for the ...
Geneva (ots/PRNewswire) - Results from a large pan-European study suggest that up to 135,000 deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD), such as heart attacks and strokes, could be prevented in Europe each year though better control of risk factors including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking and ...
Lugano, Switzerland/Tokyo, Japan (ots) - License Agreement for Japan on Potential New Therapy in the Prevention of Chemotherapy-induced Nausea and Vomiting (CINV) Helsinn Group of Switzerland and Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Japanese licensee of Helsinn's second generation 5-HT3 receptor antagonist palonosetron, announce today the signing on April 12, of a licensing agreement granting Taiho the development and ...
Camarillo, California (ots/PRNewswire) - BNK Petroleum Inc. (the "Company") announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary Trofagas Hidrocarburos, S.L., has been awarded an oil and gas concession in the Autonomous Community of Cantabria, Spain totalling approximately 61,470 acres. This concession brings the Company's total acreage in Europe to about 3.6 million net acres in 5 separate basins. This new concession located ...
Nanterre, France (ots/PRNewswire) - Oberthur Technologies, a world leader in secure technologies, opens a new service centre in Prague in order to provide value-added services and card personalisation to financial institutions and mobile operators in Czech Republic and in Slovakia. In this market which represents more than 10 million banking cards in circulation, the ...
Monheim, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Leading experts from around the world came together today to share their latest research findings at the 6th Canine Vector Borne Disease (CVBD) forum in Nice, France and call for greater awareness of the dangers posed to animals and humans by these increasingly important diseases. "A number of the CVBDs cause real suffering and even ...
Astellas Pharma Europe Limited
London (ots/PRNewswire) - New survey data released today demonstrate that childhood eczema can have a detrimental effect on quality of life not only for the children who live with the disease, but also for their families.[1a] The survey, which was carried out in eight countries across Europe, examines the impact of ...
Oslo, Norway (ots/PRNewswire) - ResMed , a leading developer, manufacturer, and distributor of sleep and respiratory medical equipment, announced the launch of its next generation bilevel therapy devices. "We are proud to announce the launch of the bilevel range of products on the S9(TM) platform, our latest and most innovative flow generator system for treating ...
Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - WISeKey, a leading eSecurity company, announces Tim Bloechl, former Managing Director for Worldwide Public Safety & National Security at Microsoft, has joined WISeKey to lead its global public sector business. Before joining Microsoft Partner WISeKey, Mr. Bloechl was Microsoft's first senior executive, chief strategist and spokesperson for ...