Amsterdam, Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - The International Debt Collections Handbook which will be released by Atradius Collections in its fourth edition next month reveals the enormous differences in debt expiring in based on statute of limitations. The International Debt Collections Handbook is created by experts ...
Kitchener, Ontario (ots/PRNewswire) - PrinterOn(R) is pleased to announce the successful launch of the PrintSpectrum public printing solution at 30 UK airport locations including at Heathrow (all terminals), Gatwick, Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham, Luon, Bristol, Edinburgh and Glasgow. The PrintSpectrum service enables users to print directly from internet ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - - Second half 2010: - Sales of 4,845 million euros, up by 20% - Operating margin level(1) at 6.7% of sales - Net income of 197 million euros, at 4.1% of sales - Full year 2010: - Sales of 9,632 million euros, up by 28% - Operating margin level(1) at 6.4% of sales - Net income Group share of ...
Irvine, California and Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, today announced that the company has received its fifth U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for MammaPrint(R), its widely used breast cancer recurrence assay. The new clearance is comprised of two additional Agilent Microarray scanners and two ...
LYON, France and SWIFTWATER, Pennsylvania, February 23, 2011 (ots/PRNewswire) -- Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis Group , today will participate in the first international bell-ringing event by a company listed on NYSE Euronext. The events will acknowledge past successes and future challenges in the battle to eradicate polio at the stock ...
Lyon, France (ots/PRNewswire) - Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis Group , announced today that it is partnering with the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) to support the recently launched Dengue Vaccine Initiative (DVI). Sanofi Pasteur and the IVI will aim to raise awareness and to work to move dengue vaccination higher on the global health ...
Ottawa, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Nordion Inc. , a leading provider of products and services to the global health science market, today announced it has signed a share purchase agreement (SPA) with Best Medical Belgium (Best Medical) for the divestiture of the Company's Belgian operations, MDS Nordion S.A. Pursuant to the SPA, Best Medical will acquire all of Nordion's ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - Vez Inc. announced today, that any User can go to the Company website at http://www.vez.com to use the Two amazing new versions, the third and fourth editions of the "HYWY 101(c)" Knowledge Map released by Vez Inc. since late January, 2011. The Two New, "Simple & Complex" Automated New 6D ...
Brussels (ots/PRNewswire) - The European Commission has just announced its decision to ban the fragrance material Musk xylene under the new European Chemicals Legislation REACH, bringing EU regulations in line with the global IFRA Standards. The International Fragrance Association (IFRA) voluntarily banned Musk xylene through the IFRA Standards, part of the fragrance industry's global self-regulatory program contained in ...
Camarillo, California (ots/PRNewswire) - BNK Petroleum Inc. (the "Company") announced today that the Wytowno #1 well, on the Slawno concession in Poland, has been drilled to 3,580 meters and is being prepared to have casing run and cemented to total depth. During drilling, numerous gas shows were recorded over 220 meters of the Lower Silurian, Ordovician and Cambrian shales and a further 450 meters of gas shows were ...
Geneva (ots/PRNewswire) - The World Heart Federation, sanofi-aventis and Boehringer Ingelheim have announced their collaboration on the AF AWARE (Atrial Fibrillation AWareness And Risk Education) campaign today, to raise awareness of atrial fibrillation (AF) and its links to severe consequences including ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Mobile Tag, leader in 2D and 1D barcode marketing solutions, is announcing that it has successfully raised a new round of financing of 6.6 million Euros. The new funding round was lead by S.E.B. Ventures (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken Venture Capital) alongside the company's historic venture investors, XAnge Private Equity and Alven Capital. This capital raise will allow Mobile Tag to ...
Barcelona (ots/PRNewswire) - Orange today announced the launch of its own Orange-branded tablet. The 7" Android device available in four markets - Spain, Poland, Slovakia and Romania - is lowering the entry level for tablet computing and broadening the company's portfolio of tablet devices. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20110215/437446 ) With ...
Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - The Durbin Amendment in the US is putting the card payments business model under significant pressure. With major revenue loss, especially on higher value card transactions, it will be even more difficult for the banks to provide attractive merchant fees for the huge number of low value payments - everyday small purchases below $20, ...
Barcelona (ots/PRNewswire) - Orange today announced a new 'opt-out' approach for all new smartphone consumer customers. This 'opt-out' is a safetyguard for all new smartphone consumer adopters and will be available across the Orange European footprint - by summer 2011. New customers will be given default data ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Valeo announces the arrival of Fabienne de Brebisson as Corporate Communications Director. Jacques Aschenbroich, Group CEO, declared: "I am pleased to welcome Fabienne de Brebisson to Valeo. Her rich professional experience and her knowledge of communications within major corporations will enable her to develop an ambitious ...
Barcelona, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) - Orange is today launching two new and exclusive Orange Homescreen developments, Orange Gestures and Orange Live Wallpapers, for Android smartphones[1]. Orange Gestures provides 27 designs which users can assign to an action or application, such as speed dialling, sending a text to a specific contact or launching a weather widget ...
Barcelona, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) - As the first European operator to announce that we would deploy a new generation of SIM cards and handsets to facilitate mobile contactless services, Orange has extended its successful and long-term relationship with Samsung to deliver handsets enabled for NFC (Near ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - The Company, Vez Inc. had previously announced several products, including the "Key to Knowledge" and the "Genius Switch", described as "An Automated way of thinking, learning, understanding and using knowledge." In addition, the Company had stated that Patent, Trade Mark and Copy ...
Barcelona (ots/PRNewswire) - Orange is extending the reach of its Expert Assistance programme, a paid-for service giving smartphone customers access to technical advice and guidance, beyond phone and internet hotlines to the high street. 3,000 specialist in-store Experts will provide face-to-face and personalised ...
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 spreads to both sides of the brain), has been launched today in Spain by Eisai and BIAL in a co-promotion. In 2009, the European Commission approved Zebinix ...
Nanterre, France (ots/PRNewswire) - Oberthur Technologies, the world's second largest provider of security and identification solutions and services based on smart card technologies, announced the Grand Opening of its brand new 75,000 square foot manufacturing facility and service center in Cotia, Brazil. The new facility, already fully operational, provides ...
Nuremberg, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Stardoll, the online fashion game and world's largest website for teen and tween girls today announced at the International Toy Fair, a multi-year licensing agreement with Mattel. The partnership is aimed at taking the Stardoll brand from the virtual into the physical world with the first product line to come in the autumn of 2011. (Photo: ...
Lyon, France (ots/PRNewswire) - Bluestar Silicones will be sharing a stand with its Italian distributor Biophil at the In-Cosmetics show at Fiera di Milano from 29 - 31 March 2011 to present its full range of silicones for use in a number of cosmetics application fields - Stand R 80. (Photo: ...
Astellas Pharma Europe Limited
Staines, England (ots/PRNewswire) - Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd. announced today that it has entered into an exclusive collaboration and license agreement with Optimer Pharmaceuticals Inc., San Diego for the development and commercialisation of fidaxomicin, an investigational antibiotic for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in Europe and certain other countries ...
Deerfield, Illinios (ots/PRNewswire) - The first assessment of the total cost of dengue illness in the Americas reveals the economic burden to be approximately $2.1 billion per year, exceeding that from other viral illnesses including human papillomavirus (HPV) and rotavirus. Results of the study conducted by Brandeis University were released in the February ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Valeo announces that it filed a record number of patents in 2010. The Group filed 612 initial patents throughout the year, an increase of more than 20% versus the average of the past five years. This places Valeo among the top patent filers in France. CEO Jacques Aschenbroich declared: "This performance reflects Valeo's dynamic research and development policy. It is an illustration of the ...
Geneva (ots) - - - E150 Million fund to promote Climate-Friendly Economic Growth - Mercuria as Anchor Investor Mercuria will participate as anchor investor in a new Carbon Credit fund launched today by the International Finance Corporation. This new fund, of value up to E150 million, will be an instrument to purchase carbon credits to help reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, extend carbon markets, and ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Thirteen US blockbusters will lose patent protection over the next two years, data from EvaluatePharma show, highlighting the challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry in the coming years. With the reporting season in full swing it is no wonder that several big pharmaceutical company chief executives have warned of tough times ahead. ...
Edinburgh, Scotland (ots/PRNewswire) - Aircraft Medical Ltd ("Aircraft") is pleased to announce that judgment has been passed in its favour in the long running patent infringement litigation between it and US rival Verathon Medical Inc. ("Verathon"), a subsidiary of Roper Industries Inc. Heard in the UK at the Scottish Court of Session, Verathon unsuccessfully ...