Luxembourg (ots/PRNewswire) - - Net Revenue Exceeds EUR1 Billion With 14% Growth - - Record EBITDA of EUR207 Million -- Growing 43% - SBS Broadcasting S.àr.l. announced strong financial results for the full-year 2006, with net revenue increasing by 14% to EUR1,003 million from EUR879.5 million in 2005. SBS's recurring EBITDA surpassed previous record ...
Trappes, France (ots/PRNewswire) - Simon Thomas has been appointed as vice president of sales operations for Nissan Europe effective April 1, 2007. Thomas, who is currently vice president for sales and marketing for both the Nissan and Infiniti brands in Nissan Canada, replaces Christian Meunier who will become vice president of model line marketing for Nissan ...
European Wind Energy Association (EWEA)
Brussels (ots/PRNewswire) - This Thursday and Friday, the EU Heads of State will meet in Brussels to discuss the package of measures establishing a new Energy policy for Europe which was issued by the European Commission on 10 January. A centrepiece of the package is the proposal of an overall binding target for 20% of the EU energy supply to be provided by ...
Abuja, Nigeria (ots/PRNewswire) - The Central Bank of Nigeria (the "Central Bank") has launched today an invitation addressed to the holders of its Payment Adjustment Warrants issued in 1991 (the "Oil Warrants") and representing the Central Bank's Payment Adjustment Rights (the "Rights") to submit, in a modified Dutch auction, offers to sell the Oil Warrants back to the Central Bank for cash. The invitation ...
Sofia and Geneva (ots) - The leading Swiss company for Internet security WISeKey entered the Bulgarian market in December 2006 with the registration of its local branch, WISeKey Bulgaria. The company is a world leader in the IT domain, offering complete solutions for net security through high-level data encryption. WISeKey effectuated the first project worldwide for ...
San Francisco (ots/PRNewswire) - Visa announced today that Joseph W. Saunders has been named Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Visa Inc. In this position, Saunders will be responsible for leading Visa's transition to a global public company. He also will help recruit a chief executive officer and board members for Visa Inc. Initially, Saunders ...
Aachen, Germany (ots) - Grünenthal GmbH announced that it has extended a licensing agreement with Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc. for tapentadol to include the Japanese market. Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical plans to arrange for the development of tapentadol for marketing in Japan. Ortho-McNeil"s affiliate, ...
Brussels (ots) - Companies and Institutes from more than 20 countries in Europe met last week for the first Brokerage and Information Event of MINAM, MINAM (Micro- and Nanomanufacturing) is a Subplatform of the European Technology Platform Manufuture. Projects for cooperative research and industrial solutions were presented on 20 topics in nanomaterials, ...
Zurich (ots) - Only New York, Hong Kong, Paris, London and Tokyo have retail spaces more expensive than those in Zurich, a city with the world's greatest buying power, highest income per capita as well as the highest standard of living - depending on the ranking used. On Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse, rents reached a ...
Custom House Global Foreign Exchange
Victoria, British Columbia (ots/PRNewswire) - Peter Gustavson, FCA, Chief Executive Officer of Custom House, the largest non-bank foreign exchange company in North America and one of the largest in the world, is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Ciceri to the new position of President. "We have enjoyed amazing growth over the past number of years and have some very exciting opportunities around the ...
Entwistle & Cappucci LLP and The Garden City Group
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - Lead Plaintiffs' Counsel (Entwistle & Cappucci LLP) and the Claims Administrator (The Garden City Group) appointed by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland issue this informational release to clarify certain incorrect statements made by the VEB concerning claims ...
Zurich (ots) - Accenture is a new Associate Implementation Partner for Avaloq. The global group will support the software company in Switzerland initially, then across Europe and in Asia as well. Avaloq has gained a new partner for the introduction of its banking software. The cooperation with Accenture, one of the world's leading management consulting, technology service and outsourcing providers, reinforces the ...
Charlotte, North Carolina (ots/PRNewswire) - Bank of America Corporation today announced the expiration of its offers to exchange a portion of its outstanding subordinated debt securities listed in the table below (collectively, the "Old Notes"), for both cash and the choice of either: - up to US$2,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.42% Subordinated Notes due March 15, 2017 (the "2017 ...
swissgrid will commence operations as the Swiss national transmission system operator on 15 December 2006. Its motto: "moving power". The company is to take on overall responsibility for the operation of the Swiss extra high-voltage grid and will make a hugely important contribution to power supply in Switzerland. swissgrid is being formed because of the forward-looking attitude of the Swiss grid companies. Laufenburg ...
Alvarez & Marsal Development LLC and Dr. Heinz-Dieter Kals Announce World Class Partnership in State of the Art Cancer Therapy Dusseldorf (ots) - ION Boston Management GmbH, which is 50%-owned by Alvarez & Marsal Development LLC and Dr. Heinz-Dieter Kals, has entered into a Radiology Oncology Associates ...
- A Picture is available via EPA (European Pressphoto Agency) and can be downloaded free of Charge at: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100011432 - Klingnau (ots) - German National Stephan Unser has Been Appointed Chief Sales Officer of Sede AG, Effective January 1, 2007 45-year-old Mr. Unser holds a master's degree in business administration and has been appointed to the management board ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Nortel Networks Corporation [NYSE: NT , TSX: NT] today implemented the previously announced consolidation of its issued and outstanding common shares as approved by the Company's Board of Directors on November 6, 2006 and its shareholders at the annual and special meeting of shareholders on June 29, 2006. Nortel's(i) common shares, listed on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") ...
Laufenburg (ots) - swissgrid will commence activities as Switzerland's national grid operator on 15 December 2006, assuming operational management and responsibility for the Swiss high-voltage grid. swissgrid employs approximately 130 highly qualified employees at its head office in Laufenburg. "The operational launch of swissgrid is a milestone in the evolution ...
Madrid (ots) - WISeKey ELA, the WISeKey Affiliate for Spain and Latin America announces today in Madrid a Strategic Partnership with Microsoft and IT Deusto for the deployment of the CertifyID BlackBox line of security solutions. This announcement follows WISekey"s recent nomination by Microsoft as a global Lead ...
- To access an accompanying photo, please go to http://www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100007465&lang=2 - International Finance Corporation and Nestlé Nespresso to Invest $500,000 over two years to assist farmers in Central America San Jose, Costa Rica (ots) - In conjunction with the ...
Montevideo, Uruguay (ots/PRNewswire) - The Republic of Uruguay announced today that approximately U.S.$1,173 million aggregate outstanding principal amount of Uruguay's U.S. dollar and Euro-denominated bonds (the "Eligible Bonds") eligible to participate in the exchange offer and the related cash tender offer (collectively, the "Offer") announced October ...
Montevideo, Uruguay (ots/PRNewswire) - The Republic of Uruguay, in accordance with the schedule of its previously announced invitation to holders of Eligible Bonds to exchange their bonds for the New Reopened Bonds listed below in a series of related modified Dutch auctions launched October 19, 2006, announced today the following reopening issue prices ...
Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany - (ots) - Pieris AG, a bio-pharmaceutical company developing therapeutic products comprising of Anticalins®, a novel proprietary class of human binding proteins, announced today that it has confirmed the functional antagonistic activity of its lead PRS-050 Anticalin® in vivo, supporting the development of superior biotherapeutics ...
Montevideo, Uruguay (ots/PRNewswire) - The Republic of Uruguay announced today a series of liability management transactions intended to improve its external debt profile and reduce its vulnerability to external shocks. The transactions comprise offers to holders of 20 outstanding series of Uruguay's foreign currency external bonds maturing on or prior to 2019 and one series due 2027 (the "Eligible Bonds") to (a) ...
Custom House Global Foreign Exchange
Rome (ots/PRNewswire) - Italian corporations are leveraging international business transactions with the help of a barely known foreign exchange heavyweight that is quietly taking market share away from the banks. Warren Whyte, Managing Director UK & Europe for Custom House, one of the largest non-bank foreign exchange companies in the world, is pleased to ...
San Francisco (ots/PRNewswire) - Visa announced today that it intends to restructure its organization in order to create a new public global corporation called Visa Inc. As a part of this restructuring, Visa Europe will remain a membership association, owned and governed by its European member banks, and become a licensee of Visa Inc. Visa expects the proposed restructuring will best position the company to meet ...
Calgary, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - County Line Energy Corp. (Pink Sheets: CLYC) President, Harry Bygdnes announced today that the future market for the heavy crude the company is expected to produce has improved dramatically with the recent announcement that oil giant BP (NYSE: BP) plans to invest US$3 Billion ...
Anchorage, Alaska (ots/PRNewswire) - BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. said today it will re-start a portion of the Eastern Operating Area of Prudhoe Bay in order to run cleaning pigs and conduct an in-line inspection of the crude oil transit line using a "smart pig." The eastern portion of Prudhoe Bay was shut down on Aug. 10 following discovery of a spill caused by ...