Rolle (ots) - Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) will participate in the Deutsche Bank Global Consumer & Food Retail Conference in Paris, France, on Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Steve Mills, executive vice president and chief financial officer, and John Rice, executive vice president, commercial and production, will present at 1:45 p.m. Central European ...
Rolle, Switzerland (ots) - Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) announced today that is has completed the acquisition of the Schokinag-Schokolade-Industrie Herrmann GmbH & Co. KG, following approval by relevant antitrust authorities. The acquisition was announced on January 23, 2009. ADM Schokinag, headquartered in Mannheim, Germany, and one of Europes leading producers of industrial chocolate and cocoa ...
Nyon (ots) - Postal market liberalisation routinely leads to unemployment, attacks on working conditions and poorer service for customers, says a study released today by UNI Global Union. UNI is urging the European Union to immediately put a moratorium on the implementation of the 3rd postal directive and start a proper debate on the issue. Competition is not delivering for customers; it is only creating social ...
Italian companies now have the chance to harmonise the processing of credit card payments made abroad Milan/Zurich (ots) - BankAmericard, the division of Deutsche Bank Group in Italy responsible for credit cards and payments, and SIX Multipay Ltd, the leading Swiss acquiring company, have signed a strategic ...
Geneva / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (ots) - WISeKey, one of the World Economic Forum founding members of the New Champions, announced today during their participation at the World Economic Forum in Rio the establishment of WISeKey Brasil. WISeKey has established a Joint Venture with Brasilinvest with the objective to ...
Geneva, Switzerland / Rabat, Marocco (ots) - Today in Rabat, the Association for International Mobility (AIM) and the Hassan II Foundation, will present a new Internet-based Services Platform for Moroccans Living Abroad (SPM), relying on WISeKey secure identity technology and codes protected by OISTE. "This ...
Investment in line with the Government and IDA strategy for R&D Lugano, Switzerland/Dublin, Ireland (ots) - Helsinn together with the Irish Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Mary Coughlan TD, today announced, that Helsinn Holding S.A., a privately owned pharmaceutical company, is to establish a Centre-of-excellence in Research and ...
Zurich (ots) - Yesterday at BASELWORLD 2009, WISeKey, and Hublot announced a world first at BaselWorld 2009 demonstrating an unique breakthrough solution that will help reduce counterfeiting among the luxury watch industry. This solution arrives during a period on which the watch industry is also impacted by the ...
Zurich, Switzerland (ots) - A new, innovative study shows that a single dose of palonosetron, the second generation 5-HT3 antagonist, plus dexamethasone not only prevents chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV), but also allows adequate caloric intake in oncology patients. Data presented today at the ESMO ...
Geneva (ots) - Neo Booking SA, is launching the first global online planning and booking platform for "digital-out-of-home" advertising, called BookingDooH ( www.bookingdooh.com ). BookingDooh is a free virtual marketplace for Digital-out-of-Home operators and media buyers. The platform provides a clear and ...
Much improved result - balance sheet and equity basis strengthened decisively - proposal for par value reduction of CHF 2.50 per share. Zurich (ots) - Financial year 2008 saw the Kardex Group increase its net revenues by 8.9% to EUR 460.0 million (2007: EUR 422.5 million). Adjusted for exchange rate effects the increase amounted to 9.6%. At EUR 449.2 million, ...
Lugano (ots) - Helsinn, the chemical pharmaceutical group based in Lugano and Biasca is pleased to announce today that it has awarded a grant for the sum of CHF 30'000 to the Institute of Research in Biomedicine (IRB) in Bellinzona, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Antonio Lanzavecchia. The grant will be used for research work performed by Prof. Markus Manz, in the ...
Prestigious Energy Event to use WISeKey's Social Networking Platform on the Internet Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - The Geneva Energy Pact Foundation will be holding the Energy Pact Conference (http://www.energypact.org/homepage/homepage.php) in Geneva on March 16-17, 2009. The Conference, whose international media ...
Zurich, Swizerland (ots) - Recently, Solianis successfully finalized a series of tests during which patients with diabetes have worn its multisensor device for non-invasive glucose monitoring at home and at work in the office. The results of these real-life tests as well as earlier tests in a more controlled environment have encouraged Solianis to set up the final device and prepare the market introduction for 2010. ...
Zurich (ots) - Albis Technology will present its latest generation of Set-Top-Boxes at the most important IPTV event worldwide, the "IPTV World Forum" in London (25 - 27 March 2009). The Albis STBs feature unique performance and versatility. This gives operators seemingly endless possibilities for IPTV and TV broadcasting applications, as well as for on-demand and other interactive services. The highlight of the ...
New gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor antagonist demonstrates rapid, long-term suppression of testosterone Saint-Prex (ots) - Ferring Pharmaceuticals announced today that it has received marketing authorisation from the European Commission, for FIRMAGON® (degarelix), a new GnRH receptor antagonist ...
Zurich (ots) - One of the attractions of this year's CeBIT show (March 3 - 8) comes from Albis Technologies, provider of groundbreaking RFID components and services, with its real-world look at the latest developments and potential applications of its "Active RFID" technology. Authentic live presentations will show visitors how, for example, inventory can be carried out without any manual counting. ...
Zurich (ots) - Renewed increase in revenues and bookings - order books solid at year end - exceptionally high increase in profitability expected Kardex Group, one of the world's leading providers of dynamic storage and retrieval systems (SIX Swiss Exchange: KAR) reported record figures again in financial year ...
Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany (ots) - Pieris AG, a biopharmaceutical company developing Anticalins®, a novel class of targeted human protein therapeutics, reports today that it has made significant progress in the development of its Anticalin® candidate PRS-050, a potent VEGF antagonist with broad ...
Geneva (ots) - Based in Geneva, AIM was established in cooperation with corporate and civil society partners to enable the private sector to act directly and effectively on the major economic, social and humanitarian challenges of human mobility. Manpower Inc. and WISeKey, two of AIM's founding partners, ...
Lugano (ots) - Today the Swiss pharmaceutical group Helsinn announced the acquisition, of the US biopharmaceutical company, Sapphire Therapeutics Inc. with headquarters in Bridgewater, New Jersey, for an undisclosed amount. The establishment of a US-based R&D and commercial operation represents attainment of ...
Basel (ots) - The heirs of company founder Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche have decided to extend the shareholders' agreement, which was due to expire at the end of 2009, for an unlimited period. Consequently, the family pool will retain its voting majority in the company Roche, which was founded in 1896 and has its registered office in Basel. The shareholders' agreement, which was concluded some decades ago among the ...
Rolle (ots) - Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) today announced an important step in the expansion of its global cocoa and chocolate business with the signing of an agreement to purchase Schokinag-Schokolade-Industrie Herrmann GmbH & Co. KG, one of Europe's leading producers of chocolate and cocoa powder. The purchase is subject to approval by relevant antitrust authorities. ADM is a premier, global ...
Prestigious Event to use WISeKey's Social Networking Platform on the Internet Geneva, (ots) - The Global Competitiveness Forum (25-27 January 2009), the prestigious annual gathering organized by the Saudi Arabian Government Investment Authority under the patronage of the H.M. King Abdullah Ibn Abdul Azziz Al-Saud, will be using the High Trusted Social Network ...
Zurich (ots) - On April 1, 2009, Gerhard Mahrle (51), who holds a degree in economics from the University of St Gallen, will take up the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and join the Management Board at Kardex Group. Gerhard Mahrle has been CFO at sia Abrasives Holding AG in Frauenfeld since 2000. He will take over from Reto Welte, who is leaving Kardex Group at the end of March 2009. Agenda March 10, ...
Zug, Switzerland (ots) - Swiss AmVac AG establishes comprehensive collaboration with the National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan to combat H5N1. H5N1/Influenza A is a flu virus known colloquially as "avian flu". "Avian flu" first occurred in Asia, and was transmitted to humans in a number of cases. ...
Zurich, Switzerland/Tokyo, Japan/London, UK (ots) - MATCH Hospitality AG, the worldwide exclusive rights holder for the FIFA Hospitality Programme until 2014, appointed Dentsu Sports Europe as its exclusive sales agent for the Middle East and Asia excluding China, Korea and Japan for the Official Hospitality ...
Zurich (ots) - Kardex AG has signed an asset purchase agreement to acquire the assets of US competitor Kardex Systems Inc., which had previously filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a US court. Kardex Systems Inc. posted sales of approximately USD 21 million in the 2007 financial year, and has a staff headcount of around 100. Under the transaction, Kardex AG is ...