Mississauga, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Vasogen Inc. (NASDAQ:VSGN; TSX:VAS) and Grupo Ferrer Internacional, S.A. ("Ferrer"), a leading European pharmaceutical and medical devices company, today announced the receipt of initial orders for Vasogen's Celacade(TM) System in Germany. Celacade, a first-in-class therapy, is the only CE Mark approved product that ...
JTI Japan Tobacco International AG
Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - Japan Tobacco International (JTI) today announced the signing of a 15-year agreement with the European Commission and 26 Member States of the EU defining their cooperation to combat the illegal trade of cigarettes in the European territory. "The fight against cigarette smuggling ...
Manas Petroleum Corp. (MNAP.OB) (Manas) Baar, Switzerland (ots) - DWM Petroleum AG (100% subsidiary of Manas) (DWM) & Santos International Ventures Pty Ltd. (Santos) have entered into an Option Agreement under which Santos has a unilateral option to elect for the those parties to execute at a later stage, a Farm ...
UEFA - Union of European Football Associ
UEFA EURO 2008 Final Draw broadcast production and Broadcast Partner Workshop in Zurich completed Nyon (ots) - Host Broadcast operations of UEFA EURO 2008 kicked-off with the host broadcasting of the UEFA EURO 2008 Final Draw that took place on 2nd December in Lucerne, Switzerland. It was followed by the second UEFA EURO 2008 Broadcast Partner Workshop in Zurich, Switzerland. The UEFA EURO 2008 Final ...
Montreal, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - SM Group International (SMI) has joined forces with the leading highway infrastructure firm CITIC to participate in a major contract relating to the construction of the western section of the Algerian East-West Highway. This is a highway infrastructure project that senior Algerian public works officials have called "the project of the century." "We are proud to have been ...
Geneva/Switzerland and MONTEVIDEO/Uruguay (ots) - The global WISeKey affiliate network is now expanding to Mercosur. These affiliates will use the WISeKey Electronic Security Hub to interconnect and share common technology, products and services. Operation of these trust infrastructures will enable ...
Witterswil (ots) - Biolytix AG (www.biolytix.ch) signed a service provider agreement with Affymetrix UK Ltd (www.affymetrix.com) and offers genomic analysis services for the academic and industrial R&D community under conditions compliant with a stringent quality management system. Biolytix, one of the ...
Lugano (ots) - Oral Formulations of 5-HT3 receptor Antagonists Represent Approximately 10% of the Day-of-Chemotherapy Market - Helsinn Healthcare SA, a privately owned Swiss pharmaceutical group, and its partner MGI PHARMA, INC., (Nasdaq: MOGN), a biopharmaceutical company focused in oncology and acute care, ...
Tokyo (ots/PRNewswire) - - Project investment estimated at US$ 500 million Hinduja Group flagship Ashok Leyland and Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., today signed a binding Master Co-Operation Agreement (MCA) for the formation of three joint venture companies supporting the Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) business. The agreement was signed in Chennai today by Mr. R. ...
Malaga and Geneva (ots) - OISTE will help the government of Malaga become the new Euro-African Hub, with the aim of optimizing economic-social-cultural relations between Europe and Africa. This will be accomplished using the infrastructure of the Technology Park of Malaga and its unique geopolitical location. The ...
Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - Avantium, a leading technology company servicing the oil, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries, announces the three-year extension of the strategic research collaboration with BP, one of the world's largest energy companies. Avantium provides innovative, high value-added R&D services and tools to the energy, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries, and has a long standing ...
Utrecht, The Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - - World's Third Largest Coffee Buyer Will Source 20,000 Tons of UTZ-Certified Coffee in 2008 Sara Lee wants its coffee to taste as good to those who farm it as it does to those who drink it. As part of its commitment to corporate social responsibility, the producer of coffee flagship brands such as Douwe Egberts, Merrild, Maison du Café and Marcilla announced ...
Winterthur/Switzerland (ots) - SpineLab AG, a privately held company, specialized in developing a dynamic stabilization system for the spine, announced today the strategic partnership with Precimed Group, a leading technology-driven supplier to the orthopaedic industry. Under this agreement, Precimed co-develops the minimally invasive instrument set and will exclusively handle production and logistics for ...
Rousset, France and Pittsburgh (ots/PRNewswire) - - Extends Established Working Relationship to Enhance Linux-based Application Development Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and TimeSys(R) announced today a free Linux(R) Board Support Package (BSP) for Atmel's ARM9-based AT91SAM9 Microcontrollers. Supporting the entire range of SAM9 products, this BSP ...
Rousset, France and Pittsburgh (ots/PRNewswire) - - Extends Established Working Relationship to Enhance Linux-based Application Development Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and TimeSys(R) announced today a free Linux(R) Board Support Package (BSP) for Atmel's ARM9-based AT91SAM9 Microcontrollers. Supporting the entire range of SAM9 products, this BSP ...
- Note: A Picture can be downloaded free of charge under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100001998 - Zurich (ots) - Bidders have opened their wallets with generosity and enthusiasm to support the Singapore Airlines A380 First Flight Charity Auction. With almost all seats now sold, the total committed to charities from sold packages so far is ...
Baar (ots) - Manas Petroleum Corp. (OTC.BB: MNAP) has signed a MOU with a Mongolian company, Shunkhlai Energy, regarding petroleum exploration in block XXIII. Manas Petroleum has a right to purchase a 90% interest in the Mongolian company, which has won a bidding round for the block XXIII. Block ...
Geneva, Switzerland and Dalian, China (ots) - Selected by the World Economic Forum as one of the top 500 mould-breaking companies New Champions, WISeKey is present at the Inaugural Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian China and announces today that new WISeKey Affiliates are now in the process of being established in Argentina, Benelux, Brazil, Chile, ...
Thalwil, Switzerland, and Munich, Germany (ots) - u-blox, the leading Swiss provider of GPS receiver technology, has improved its groundbreaking GPS dead reckoning system by integrating a gyroscope sensor from Epson Toyocom, a leader in the design and manufacture of crystal-based electronic products, into the reference design for the product. The reference ...
RUEIL- MALMAISON, France, August 30 (ots/PRNewswire) - - Founding of the Geogreen Company by Three Major Players in the Field IFP, Géostock and BRGM are announcing the creation of a joint company, Geogreen, specializing in engineering services for the transport and geological storage of CO2. These three leading French players are pooling their skills in order to position the company in the world market for the geological storage of CO2 and thereby contribute to ...
Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - - Trading Symbol TSX-V - ESO - Frankfurt - E2G ESO Uranium Corporation (TSX-V: ESO), the Company, is pleased to announce that a second contract has been signed with Cyr Drilling International Ltd of Winnipeg. This will enable the start, in the next two weeks, of a ...
Zurich (ots) - Airbus and Singapore Airlines have agreed to a delivery timetable for the first ever A380 aircraft. The aircraft is planned for handover by Airbus to Singapore Airlines on Monday, 15th October 2007 at a ceremony in Toulouse. It will be configured with 471 seats in three classes: Economy, Business and the new Singapore Airlines Suites: a class ...
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
Geneva (ots) - The leading experts in the field of Ultra High Voltage or UHV are to begin defining the technical and safety specifications for this promising new technology that is set to help deliver the world's increased electrical energy demands. Ultra High Voltage could offer a solution to the need for more electricity in a space-restricted world. Countries active in this technology include Brazil, Canada, China, ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Valeo announced today that it has created a joint venture for the production of alternators and starter motors with N.K. Minda Group, a leading manufacturer of automotive systems in India. The new company, called Valeo Minda Electrical Systems India Private Limited, will be 66.7% owned ...
Grid stability thanks to solidarity Laufenburg (ots) - The situation in Europe is presently characterised by rising electricity consumption and a growing shortage of available grid capacity. In order to ensure a secure and reliable electricity supply in the future, Swiss operators of transmission and distribution grids aim to create the organisational and technical ...
Effective immediately, e-banking clients of Raiffeisen Schweiz can now receive and pay their bills electronically. The third-largest banking group in Switzerland, with more than 400 banks, has joined the PayNet network for electronic bills. Under the "e-bill" menu item, all private customers can register in the e-banking system of their Raiffeisen bank for the free ...
Abbotsford, British Columbia (ots/PRNewswire) - ICS COPPER SYSTEMS LTD. (ICX:TSX.V) is pleased to announce that it has entered into two agreements with A & Cladava to develop a total of three exploration mining properties in the DRC. The first agreement, dated 20th May 2007, is a joint venture agreement ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Valeo announced today that its Security Systems Branch has created a 50/50 joint venture with A.K. Minda Group, a leading manufacturer of automotive security systems in India. Located in Pune near Mumbai, the new company, Valeo Minda Security Systems, will develop, produce and sell Valeo Security Systems products including locksets, steering column locks, latches, strikers, handles, engine ...
Bethesda, Maryland, and Roskilde, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) - Micromet, Inc. (Nasdaq: MITI) and Nycomed today announced an agreement under which the two companies will collaborate on the development of anti-GM-CSF antibodies that may be useful for the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The lead ...
Oss and Eindhoven, The Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - N.V. Organon, the human health care business unit of Akzo Nobel, and Royal Philips Electronics announced today that they will join forces in the development of new drugs and therapies for mental disorders and cancer. With the help of biomarkers (specific molecules or cells which can be measured as an indicator of ...