Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - Le Guin, the new German handcrafted luxury eyewear manufacturer, and WISeKey, the Swiss digital brand protection company, recently partnered to protect and enhance Le Guins newly launched titanium eyewear collection. Developed and manufactured in an established high-end factory in the south of Germany, with decades of expertise in the field of mechanical engineering and craftsmanship all Le ...
Freienbach, Switzerland (ots) - EffRx Pharmaceuticals SA is proud to announce that BINOSTO (TM) (alendronate sodium) Effervescent Tablet for buffered oral solution (70 mg) is now available by prescription in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this year approved BINOSTO to treat ...
Lugano, Switzerland and Melbourne, Australia (ots) - Helsinn Healthcare SA and STA reinforce their Cancer Supportive Care Alliance in Australia and New Zealand with a Distribution and License Agreement for the innovative phase III ghrelin receptor agonist Melbourne biopharmaceutical company Specialised Therapeutics ...
Bern (ots) - Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and Apple have reached an agreement on the use of SBB's station clock on certain devices such as iPads and iPhones. This arrangement has been mutually agreed by both parties in a licence agreement. For the use of the clockface on certain Apple devices such as iPads and iPhones, the parties have negotiated an arrangement that enables Apple to use the SBB station clock under a ...
Obermutten, Switzerland (ots) - Obermutten now has a museum - the Obermutten International Museum of Friendship (OIMOF). "Since we opened the OIMOF in our barn, we have received over 80 friendship gifts," beams mayor Martin Wyss. A year ago, the village in the Swiss canton of Graubünden started a Facebook page, ...
Lugano, Switzerland & Vienna, Austria (ots) - New data presented at the 2012 meeting of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) in Vienna show antiemetic efficacy maintained across the chemotherapy cycles and a positive safety profile The oral formulation of palonosetron, the second generation 5-HT3 receptor ...
Park Ridge, NJ/Zurich, Switzerland (ots) - The Hertz Corporation (NYSE:HTZ) the world's largest general use car rental brand, and Emil Frey Group have signed an agreement for Emil Frey Group to join Hertz's global franchising network and purchase the Hertz car rental business in Switzerland, representing a total of 30 locations. Mark P. Frissora, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for The Hertz Corporation, said: "Hertz ...
Freienbach, Switzerland (ots) - EffRx Pharmaceuticals SA is proud to announce and welcome Lorenzo Bosisio, new Head of Business Development and Marketing. Lorenzo will be responsible for the outlicensing and marketing of EffRx's approved product Steovess®/BinostoTM outside of the USA and Canada as well as developing the business for EffRx's other pipeline products. ...
Zürich-Oerlikon (ots) - Qnective AG ( http://www.qnective.com/ ) is looking back on a very successful first 6 months of 2012. The Swiss based company, founded in 2006, offers services in communications security and secure Voice over IP solutions to customers all over the world. The business development pipeline is ...
New York (ots) - WISeKey in cooperation with the International Organization for Secure Transactions Foundation (OISTE.org) pledged in 2006 at the Clinton Global Initiative to provide a Digital Identification Infrastructure designed to support a network of 20,000 Identification Authorities worldwide with the ...
Lugano (ots) - Helsinn Group announces that on September 18th it has signed a license agreement with CJ CheilJedang, Korea for Helsinn's new product for potential use in the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). The agreement covers the exclusive license and distribution rights for a ...
Bern (ots) - The Board of Directors of BKW Inc. has appointed Dr. Suzanne Thoma as the new CEO of BKW Inc. Effective 1 January 2013, she will take over as Chief Executive Officer of BKW from Kurt Rohrbach, who was elected as full-time second Vice Chairman at the Annual General Meeting on 11 May 2012. Suzanne Thoma has been Head of the Networks Division and a member of the Group Executive Board since 1 August 2010. She ...
Zurich, Switzerland (ots) - Albis Technologies successfully participated in EANTC's public multi-vendor interoperability event and the showcase at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress (CEWC). Interoperability was demonstrated with the ULAF+ ACCEED solution in the fields of Business Access and Mobile Backhaul. Daniel Berz, Senior Technical Sales Manager of Albis ...
Lugano, Switzerland / Raleigh, N.C., USA (ots) - Gelclair® Strengthens DARA's Growing Portfolio of In-licensed Oncology and Oncology Supportive Care Products The Helsinn Group of Switzerland announced today that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with DARA BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: DARA) for U.S. ...
Tianjin, China (ots) - During the World Economic Forum's sixth Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin (also known as the Summer Davos), WISekey has announced the launch of its WISeID BOCO mobile service in China coinciding with the nomination of WISeKey as one of the 2012 Global Growth Companies of the World ...
Bern (ots) - Despite a challenging economic and regulatory environment, the BKW Group recorded a better result for the first half of 2012 than in the prior-year period. Consolidated operating revenue rose from CHF 1,346.4 million in the prior-year period to CHF 1,368.1 million, corresponding to an increase of 1.6%. Operating profit before depreciation, amortisation and ...
Geneva, Tianjin, Barcelona (ots) - WISeKey announces at the World Economic Forum in Tianjin an agreement with the Football Club Barcelona to build the first global WISeID FC Barcelona generated social media content trusted community. The FCB WISeID is a sports mobile software application to enable social ...
Lausanne, Switerland (ots) - Nestlé Nespresso SA, the pioneer and reference of the premium portioned coffee segment, today announced two important developments in its commitment to aluminium sustainability. Firstly the company has reached its 75% capsule recycling capacity objective one year ahead of plan. In ...
Geneva (ots) - WISeKey announces the appointment of Mr. Robert Wolf to its Advisory Committee. The committee, chaired by Carlos Moreira, founder of WISeKey, provides advice to the WISeKey board of directors and senior management regarding matters of strategic business development and future revenue growth for ...
Bern (ots) - Following the annual revision, BKW FMB Energy Ltd. (BKW) has restarted Mühleberg (KKM) nuclear power plant. The 2012 annual revision lasted from 5 August to 2 September 2012. During the revision, fuel elements were replaced, repeat tests and maintenance work were carried out, and renovations made to the plant. This year, 32 of the 240 fuel elements were ...
Bern (ots) - BKW Inc. has completed its ultrasonic tests on the reactor pressure vessel at Mühleberg nuclear power plant (KKM). No anomalies were detected. The safety of the plant is assured. Towards the middle of August, suspected manufacturing faults in the base material of the pressure vessel of Reactor 3 at Belgium's Doel nuclear power plant were reported. This ...
Bern (ots) - In keeping with its policy of safety first and based on the information currently available on the Doel 3 nuclear power plant in Belgium, BKW Inc. has decided to conduct ultrasonic tests on the reactor vessel at Mühleberg nuclear power plant (KKM). The test conditions have been defined by the Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI). The work will be performed as part of the current revision. Towards the ...
Bern (ots) - On 9 August 2012, BKW Inc. submitted to the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC) an application for extension and a comprehensive maintenance concept for the long-term operation of Mühleberg nuclear power plant. This complies with a requirement stipulated ...
Bern (ots) - BKW AG has shut down Mühleberg nuclear power plant (KKM) on August 5, 2012, as scheduled, for refuelling and annual revision work. The work is due to take roughly four weeks. BKW is carrying out a range of important renewal and maintenance work with a view to long-term operation of the plant. During the operating period from the end of September 2011 to early August 2012, KKM fed a gross volume of 2,935 ...
Bern (ots) - BKW AG (BKW) acknowledges the Swiss Federal Court ruling that the reduction in chargeable costs demanded by the Swiss Federal Electricity Commission (ElCom) is only partly admissible. The Swiss Federal Court ruling provides greater legal certainty. On 6 March 2009 ElCom made a decision on 2009 transmission grid costs and tariffs. This decision reduced the ...
Geneva (ots) - - - Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA (UBP) has announced an increase in its assets under management, which totalled CHF 76 billion (USD 80 billion) as at 30 June 2012, representing a 6% rise compared with the end of 2011 (CHF 72 billion). This increase is the result not only of net inflows from both private and institutional clients but also of market and ...
Bern (ots) - In its recently published "2030" strategy, the BKW Group (BKW) once again confirmed its sustainability targets. These can be summed up as corporate agility and responsible interaction with the environment, the economy and the community. Despite difficult operating conditions, BKW is able to record ...
Zurich (ots) - Swiss-based PR agency Shepard Fox Communications will be supporting Beverage Partners Worldwide (BPW), the 50:50 joint venture of The Coca-Cola Company and Nestlé S.A. which is responsible for NESTEA ready-to-drink tea in Europe and Canada, with a broad range of public relations and communications ...
Lausanne (ots) - The practice of eco-labelling may be on the brink of saturation point and is becoming as confusing for companies as it is for consumers, a major new study has warned. Joint research by IMD, the International Institute for Management Development, and EPFL, the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, suggests the process has become so fragmented that the ...