Brunsbüttel, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Today, Sasol announced that it has expanded the production capacity of its alumina spheres plant in Brunsbuettel to 4,000 tonnes per annum. Through the company's Performance Chemicals Inorganics & Catalyst division, a leading global producer of inorganic specialities, it produces high purity and ultra-high purity alumina that is ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - NOT INTENDED FOR US AND UK BASED MEDIA - ASCO Abstract # Avelumab*: 3023, 3044, 3055, TPS9086, TPS3101, 4042, 4047, 5509, 8034; evofosfamide: TPS9089, 8579; tepotinib: 2591; tecemotide[*]: 3036. - New data on priority candidates from Merck's oncology and immuno-oncology ...
Nuremberg, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - In Q1 2015 global smartphone sales value was up +8 percent year-on-year. Sales of larger screen devices (5"+) continue to drive growth - Smartphone unit demand increased +7 percent year-on-year to 310m units, but a slowdown in demand in China and Developed Asia dragged down growth, from +19 percent year-on-year Q4 2014 - 4G is rapidly gaining share - surpassing 50 percent of the ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - NOT INTENDED FOR US AND UK BASED MEDIA - - Evofosfamide is an investigational compound currently in Phase III trials - Advanced pancreatic cancer is second indication to receive FDA fast track designation for evofosfamide Merck, a leading company for innovative and top-quality ...
Nuremberg, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - Close to two thirds feel guilty when they do something that is not environmentally friendly. - The same number says they only buy products and services that appeal to their beliefs, values or ideals. With the 45th World Earth Day happening this week, GfK has published survey findings showing how important environmental values are ...
Darmstadt, Germany And New York (ots/PRNewswire) - Not intended for UK-based media - First of several registration trials expected to start in 2015 for the alliance between Merck and Pfizer - Initiation and first patient treated in Phase III clinical study recruiting across approximately 290 sites in more than 30 ...
Darmstadt, Germany And New York (ots/PRNewswire) - Not intended for UK-based media - In the second and third quarters of 2015, Merck and Pfizer will begin co-promoting XALKORI in the United States, Canada, Japan and five European Union countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) - In the United States and Canada, XALKORI will be co-promoted by EMD ...
Nuremberg, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - Over half of people internationally say they cook purely for fun once a week or more. - Italy and South Africa lead on passion for food and cooking. - India and Ukraine top the chart for hours per week people spend cooking. France, Germany and Brazil trail in bottom five. GfK asked more than 27,000 people aged 15 or older across 22 countries about how many hours per week they spend ...
Nuremberg, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - 'Ultra safe' car concept most popular across all drivers, followed by 'data tracker' - a car that runs diagnostics, checks repair costs and automatically records accident data - Emergency braking, pre-incident preparation and sense & communicate key data are most appealing safety features - Leading edge consumers prefer 'in-car voice recognition', while general consumers go for ...
Cologne, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - A prosthetic solution with the comfort of a fixed restoration; a patient-specific suprastructure on transgingival implants that eliminates the need for additional abutments; and an implant for sloped ridge situations for excellent esthetic results. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150310/732980-a ) (Logo: ...
Cologne, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - DENTSPLY Implants remains strongly committed to innovation, science and clinical research. Parallel to expanding worldwide, DENTSPLY Implants has continued its dedication to innovation, science and clinical research. The company is now truly global and the commitment to the extensive clinical research program and innovative product ...
Nuremburg, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - 17.6 million smartwatches and health and fitness trackers (HFT) bought worldwide last year - HFT accounted for 77 percent of overall volume sold - GfK predicts smartwatch sales will overtake HFT sales in 2015 GfK's trends data shows that 13.5 million health and fitness trackers were sold globally last year, compared to 4.1 million smartwatches. With major companies expected to enter ...
Nuremberg, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - Four in ten shoppers worldwide are using their mobile phones while shopping inside a store to compare prices - Four in ten are contacting friends or family for advice - Over a third take pictures of products they might buy Online shoppers are famous for having instant access to price comparisons at the very moment of making a ...
Darmstadt, Germany And Barcelona, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) - - Vall d'Hebron, Spain: first hospital to use liquid biopsy RAS biomarker testing technology - Leading research center will use technology to evolve understanding of who will benefit most from targeted treatment to improve patient outcomes - Liquid biopsy ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - In the news release, "Merck Strengthens Presence as Leading Oncology Company by Taking Full Promotional Responsibility for Erbitux in Japan" issued on 13 Feb 2015 06:33 GMT, by Merck over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that in the third paragraph ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - Not intended for US- and UK-based media - Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb to end co-promotion of Erbitux in Japan, with full promotional responsibilities transferring to Merck Merck, a leading company for innovative and top-quality high-tech products in healthcare, life science ...
Sulzbach, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Stock Market Symbols GIB (NYSE) GIB.A (TSX) http://www.cgi.com/newsroom CGI has entered into an outsourcing agreement with Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe (MHPSE) for the management of its IT infrastructure [http://www.cgi.com/en/infrastructure-services ]. The five-year contract is valued at 17 million euros. CGI will manage ...
Nuremberg, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - Mexico and China have the highest number of consumers who claim to exercise on a regular basis to maintain their physical health - Over eight in ten Indonesians regularly get enough sleep to maintain their physical health - in contrast to just over half of Russians GfK asked consumers around the world what activities they ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - Merck Serono's Grant for Growth Innovations (GGI) supports innovative projects to advance understanding in the field of growth - Closing date for entries is January 6, 2015 - Awardees will be announced at the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology meeting in Barcelona, October 2015 Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical ...
Nuremberg, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - GfK is promoting a major new approach that addresses the acknowledged gap between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Most companies know that satisfaction does not necessarily imply loyalty, which GfK has re-confirmed via a recent global R&D study that showed that the correlation between a company's level of customer ...
Nuremberg, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Global market research agency, GfK, has released part of its 2015 forecasts for sales of technology devices, showing that the stable global forecast hides multi-billion dollar changes at country level. GfK's technology device forecasts cover 70 different digital device types globally and indicate that the overall market in 2015 ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - Global winners selected for their unique research projects that have the potential to advance research for the personalized treatment of solid tumors - Winners chosen by a Scientific Steering Committee comprising internationally renowned oncologists and researchers Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck, today ...
Ingelheim, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - Results from the LUX-Head & Neck 1 study show afatinib* significantly delayed tumour growth versus chemotherapy in patients following failure of their previous treatment, reducing the risk for disease progression by 20% - Head and neck cancer has a very poor prognosis with no ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Not intended for US- and UK-based media ESMO 2014 Abstract #: Physician biomarker survey: 1080O_PR; Erbitux: CRYSTAL: 541P; LASCCHN: 993PD; DIRECT: 996P; Pipeline: pimasertib: 443O; c-Met: 1333TiP, 450PD, 744TiP, 745TiP; further pipeline: 772P, 507PD, 1235P - New research ...
Nuremberg, Germany (ots) - At this year's EuroSpine Congress in Lyon, innovation leader Ziehm Imaging invites international experts to share their clinical experience in spinal neurosurgery orthopedic and traumatology. During a lunch symposium on October 1st Christoph Josten (University Hospital Leipzig), Christian Raftopoulos (Brussels Saint-Luc University Hospital) ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - The first grants awarded to coincide with the 53rd European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) Meeting - Investment supports innovative projects for the advancement of science and medical research in the field of growth Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck, today announced the first recipients of the ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - Stefan Oschmann appointed Deputy CEO and Vice Chairman of the Executive Board - Belen Garijo appointed new member of the Executive Board - Changes effective from January 1, 2015 Merck today announced that the Board of Partners has promoted Stefan Oschmann (57) to the position of Deputy CEO and Vice Chairman of the Executive Board. Concurrently, Belen Garijo (54) was appointed to the Executive Board to take over leadership for the ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Not intended for UK-based media Merck announced today that its biopharmaceutical division Merck Serono will discontinue the clinical development program of its investigational MUC1 antigen-specific cancer immunotherapy tecemotide (also known as L-BLP25) as a monotherapy in Stage ...
Nuremberg, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - GfK has today announced the availability of its 2015 sales forecasts for all major technology product categories worldwide. GfK's forecasts, called Target Setter, are built from weekly point of sale (POS) data, gathered from GfK's global retail sales tracking in over 70 countries - the largest and most comprehensive dataset available. This makes GfK's forecasts stand out for ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Not intended for UK based media - Detailed 26-week results of SPARK study presented at SSIEM Annual Symposium - Phenylalanine tolerance significantly increased in children with PKU below 4 years of age, previously shown to be responsive to Kuvan and treated with Kuvan plus a ...