London (ots/PRNewswire) - - New Service Enables Listed Companies and Their Advisors to Communicate With Analysts and Investors Across Europe PR Newswire announced today the launch of Investor Network, a new service that delivers company news releases to industry analysts and investors. Investor Network combines the media reach of PR Newswire with an extensive database of European sell side analysts and ...
Zurich (ots) - In its ongoing dynamic development, the Jelmoli Group has set a strategic marker in the field of financial services. We would thus like to invite you to a media briefing on: Thursday, July 6, 2006, 10.30 a.m. Zurich Park Hyatt Hotel Beethoven-Strasse 21, 8002 Zurich Gustav Stenbolt, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Jelmoli Holding AG, and other representatives of the company will ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - - Definitive Settlement Agreement Signed with Lead Plaintiffs; Agreement Reached With Canadian Plaintiffs Nortel(x) (NYSE: NT, TSX: NT) today announced that, as a result of the continuing discussions in the mediation process with respect to the previously announced agreement in principle for a proposed settlement of ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - The Global Lung Cancer Coalition (GLCC) is Excited to Launch the Tempus Journalism Awards, a Global Initiative to Recognise Excellence in Lung Cancer Reporting Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in both men and women and every year more than 1.2 million new cases of lung and bronchial cancer are diagnosed worldwide. Sufferers of lung cancer are often stigmatised ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Nortel(x) Networks Corporation (NYSE: NT , TSX: NT) today announced that it and its principal operating subsidiary, Nortel Networks Limited ("NNL"), and NNL's subsidiary Nortel Networks Inc. ("NNI") have entered into an amendment and waiver with the lenders under Nortel's US$1.3 billion one- year credit facility (the "2006 Credit ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - - Experience Includes Services Leadership Roles in Asia, Central Europe, Russia Dietmar Wendt, a 46-year-old IBM executive with extensive experience in services and technology leadership, will join Nortel(i) [NYSE: NT , TSX: NT] as president of Global Services effective May 1, 2006. Wendt will report directly to Mike Zafirovski, president and CEO of Nortel. He will be ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - Benefits of Cost Saving, Enhanced Efficiency Far Outweigh Current Barriers The vast majority of European companies believe the virtual enterprise is the way to increase profits and productivity for the future, according to new independent research commissioned by Nortel(x) (NYSE/TSX: NT) and the Communications ...
Brussels (ots/PRNewswire) - - Stockholm Network Report Says Crisis can be Averted by Better Practice Patterns and Newer Therapies A major new report by think tank, The Stockholm Network, shows policy makers are not doing enough to tackle rising cholesterol levels. The report titled, "Cholesterol: The ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - KPMG will unveil the results of its 2006 Competitive Alternatives study on March 21st, 9:30 a.m. in the TSX Gallery Room. The 2004 edition of Competitive Alternatives acknowledged Canada as the most cost efficient G7 country in which to locate business operations. The press conference will declare the 2006 cost competitiveness leader among nine industrialized countries, and will discuss ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Nortel(x) (NYSE: NT , TSX: NT) President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mike Zafirovski today announced the appointment of George Riedel as Chief Strategy Officer. Riedel will report directly to the President and CEO and will be responsible for leading the Company's corporate strategy including business development and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Riedel will focus ...
San Jose, California (ots/PRNewswire) - Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a global leader in the development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced today that its AT78C4050 AFDVD(TM) (All-Format DVD) system-on-chip is a finalist in the ASSP and SoC category of EDN Magazine's Annual ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - European Capital, S.A. SICAR announced today it has invested euro 13 million (US$16 million) in the mezzanine facility of Poliris, the leading French online publisher of real estate housing listings for real estate agencies. European Capital's investment represents a majority share of the ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - The second annual Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World listing will be announced on Friday January 27, 2006 in Davos, Switzerland, during the World Economic Forum. The Global 100 is the definitive annual list of large blue-chip companies around the world that demonstrated the strongest sustainability ...
UEFA - Union of European Football Associ
Nyon (ots) - Acting as a host broadcaster through its subsidiary UEFA Media Technologies, UEFA has confirmed the appointment of SRG SSR idée suisse as the executive producer of the first televised event of the UEFA EURO 2008 tournament. The UEFA EURO 2008 qualifying competition draw will take place in Montreux, Switzerland on Friday 27 January 2006. The ceremony will take place at the Congress Centre in Montreux ...
Zurich (ots) - For the first time, the pan-European television survey by UPC (published at www.cablecom.ch/wirueberuns/upc_2005_tv_survey) was conducted in Switzerland this year. The study's most conspicuous findings include high credibility for Swiss public television, as well as Switzerland's ranking as the country with Europe's lowest rate of TV consumption. To ...
Lucerne (ots) - The current CEO of T.E.A.M. Richard Worth has decided to leave the Company for personal reasons by the end of 2005. Richard Worth has been a long-term member of the T.E.A.M. management and acted successfully in the position of the CEO for the last two years. The Board of Directors expressed its gratitude to Richard Worth for his excellent performance. Thomas Klooz (50) will succeed him as the new CEO with effect on 1 January 2006. He has been a member ...
Paris, November 2 (ots/PRNewswire) - The European School of Oncology (ESO) presented this year's joint winners of the ACE (Awarding Cancer Enlightenment) Reporter Award 2005 -- Viktoria Kun, Health Correspondent on the Hungarian national daily newspaper Nepszabadsag, and Ioanna Soufleri, Science Editor on the Greek national daily newspaper To Vima -- with euro 5,000 each at an award ceremony held today at the European ...
Washington, D.c. (ots/PRNewswire) - - Calls For Public Comments - Framework Addresses Capital Market Needs for Information About a Company's Opportunities, Risks, Strategies and Plans The Enhanced Business Reporting Consortium today announced that it has released its first version of a comprehensive ...
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs
Washington (ots/PRNewswire) - A new U.S. travel publication covering a range of issues, such as how to obtain a visa and understanding new border security procedures, is now available from the U.S. Department of State. In addition to information on current travel laws and entry procedures, the electronic ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - Takeda's ACTOS(R) (pioglitazone HCl) on Top of Standard Treatment Demonstrates Significant Cardiovascular Benefits A study published in The Lancet today shows that Takeda's ACTOS(R) (pioglitazone HCl), an oral glucose lowering medication, significantly reduces the combined risk ...
CanWest Global Communications Corp.,
Winnipeg, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - CanWest Global Communications Corp. today announced that following completion of an auction conducted earlier today by the Turkish Savings and Deposit Insurance Fund (the Fund), CGS Televizyon Ve Radyo Yayinciligi Ticaret Anonim Sirketi (CGS) has been awarded the right to acquire the assets of Super FM, a radio station with ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - Winners of the First Embrace Journalism Award for Reporting on Urinary Incontinence and Launch of the Second Embrace Award Announced Three journalists from South Africa, Poland and the United States today received the Embrace Award, a global initiative that recognizes accurate, responsible and sensitive reporting on urinary ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) and Bloomberg announced today that JPMorgan has joined Bloomberg SwapTrader, the live multi-dealer trading platform for euro denominated Interest Rate Swaps. This platform offers end-user clients the ability to trade interest rate swaps on-line through a multi-dealer trading system featuring the 'Request-For-Quote' (RFQ) ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - London 2012 Olympic Bid News Alert - Due to high demand, a selection of key news-feature stories and highlights of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Bid is now available for media to download from the London 2012 website. ...
Washington (ots/PRNewswire) - In a one-on-one interview with Bloomberg News(R) today, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that the U.S. is committed to ensuring that prisoners at Guantanamo Bay "are able to practice their religious faith," and the U.S. has "gone to extraordinary lengths" to protect these rights. The Secretary of State also told Bloomberg ...
Los Angeles (ots/PRNewswire) - Infotrieve, Inc. announced today the immediate availability of the company's Life Science Research Center(TM) (LSRC), a web-based information research tool that provides scientists with one-stop search access to critical information that impacts scientific workflow. The LSRC was designed to simplify research by eliminating the need for logins to multiple information sources including ...
Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - In this press release, the board of Directors of Brunel International briefly comments on the (financial) development of the company following the release of the performance figures for the first quarter of 2005. In the first 3 months of this year Brunel International booked a higher turnover than in the same period in 2004. All core activities contributed to this improvement. The ...
Worldwide Communications & Television
Petra, Jordan (ots/PRNewswire) - - World's best minds gather in ancient city of Petra to solve pressing global problems Today is the opening of the inaugural Petra Conference in Jordan hosted by King Abdullah II and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. The world's greatest thinkers -- the Nobel Laureates of Peace, Economics, Literature, Physics, Chemistry, ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - The board of directors of Moody's Corporation (MCO) elected Raymond W. McDaniel, Jr. as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Moody's Corporation at a meeting today. Mr. McDaniel, age 47, succeeds John Rutherfurd, Jr., age 65, who, as planned, retired as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Moody's Corporation following the company's ...
Kauai, Hawaii (ots/PRNewswire) - Mark Reinfeld & Bo Rinaldi, authors of Vegan World Fusion Cuisine and partners in the award winning "Blossoming Lotus" Restaurant in Kauai, have just received three prestigious finalist awards in the leading book industry competition. Vegan World Fusion Cuisine has been named: Finalist: Nautilus 2005 Book Award: "Health and Healing" Finalist: Nautilus 2005 Book Award: ...