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Team Olivia acquires Ockelbos Personligaste Assistans

Ockelbos Personligaste Assistans (OP Assistans) has chosen to become a part of Team Olivia, thereby contributing to the development of our personal assistance offering.OP Assistans conducts personal assistance in Ockelbo, Sandviken and Gävle since 1998. The company's founder, Pernilla Hålén and Ola Hålén, who over the years developed the company and made a significant contribution to the assistance sector, have decided to sell their company to Team Olivia. OP Assistans currently has more than 70 customers and 550 employees. The acquisition was completed on January 12, 2018 and brings

Invitation to a presentation/telephone conference regarding Trelleborg’s interim report on February 2

Trelleborg’s report for the fourth quarter 2017 will be published on Friday, February 2 at about 7:45 a.m CET. Analysts, investors and media are invited to attend a meeting, combined with a telephone conference. The presentation will be held at Operaterrassen in Stockholm, Sweden, at 10:30 am CET on February 2. Trelleborg will be represented by President and CEO Peter Nilsson and CFO Ulf Berghult. The meeting will begin with a brief presentation of the report, after which participants will be given the opportunity to pose questions. The presentation will also be streamed in real-

Wallpaper* Design Awards 2018

The Brand and Content Director Tony Chambers announced that Livsdal has been nominated for the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2018.”Not enough attention is given to the quality of the air we breathe, especially in a domestic environment, so Andreas and Tobias Murray decided to take things into their own hands, partnering with Swedish design studio MP12 to launch a premium air purifier for the home. Handcrafted by artisans and customisable, the Livsdal purifier’s aesthetic is a contemporary take on the 19th-century Swedish Empire style. A structure of wood, stainless steel and natural stone

BioGaia’s probiotic to be launched in China

BioGaia has signed an exclusive agreement with Abbott for the rights to commercialize BioGaia Protectis tabs in China. The product will be co-branded under BioGaia and Abbott brand. Launch of the product is planned to 2018.BioGaia primarily focus on pediatrics, gut health and oral health and the probiotic products are available in around 90 countries. ”We have a strong focus on growing our Asian business and I am very pleased that yet another of BioGaia’s products will be available in China. Based on the positive experience we already have in collaborating with Abbott in Latin America

Liberia arrests high-tech poachers for illegal fishing and attempted bribery

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 18, 2018 On the 15thof January 2018, the Ghanaian-flagged Fishing Vessel (F/V) Panofi Fore Runner was arrested in waters belonging to the West African state of Liberia by the Liberian Coast Guard assisted by Sea Shepherd crew. The 71-meter long purse seine vessel was apprehended with nine fish aggregation devices (FADs) fishing in Liberian waters and without a Liberian Fishing License. FADs are essentially ‘fish magnets’ that attract fish and the ones deployed by the F/V Panofi Fore Runner are high-tech devices that alert the vessel to fish activity.

Ericsson’s data centre and Fortum to collaborate in demand response

FORTUM CORPORATION PRESS RELEASE 18 JANUARY 2018  Fortum and Ericsson have signed an agreement to bring the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems of Ericsson’s data centre in Kirkkonummi to the demand response markets as part of Fortum’s growing virtual battery. Before Ericsson, already more than one thousand household customers have been connected to the virtual battery developed by Fortum’s Spring project. Ericsson Finland is Spring’s first corporate customer. Through the collaboration, Ericsson’s 5G technology will be showcased in operation – enabling faster, more reliable

Planmeca equips mobile dental clinics visiting schools in Poland

Planmeca is contributing to a campaign organised by Poland’s Ministry of Health that promotes health and cares for teeth at schools across the country. Last month, Poland’s Ministry of Health launched a campaign targeted at schools and children with limited access to proper dental care. The state acquired 16 Dentobuses – customised mobile dental clinics set up in Mercedes Benz buses – that are set to tour Poland’s provinces this year, treating teeth and promoting health in general. Planmeca was chosen to provide the equipment for the Dentobuses – including Planmeca Compact™ i Touch

Important new receptors for Follicum’s lead candidate FOL-005 in hair follicle cells identified

Lund, Sweden, January 18, 2018. Follicum AB ("Follicum") today announced that new research has identified receptors in human hair follicle cells that its lead candidate FOL-005 binds to. The newly acquired knowledge paves the way for a better understanding of how FOL-005 can be used for treatment of hair loss, and a significant milestone in the continued development of FOL-005.Investigation of mechanism of actionThe research into FOL-005’s mechanism of action was conducted in collaboration with a specialized Swiss company (Dualsystems Biotech) and aimed to identify the proteins that FOL-

Episurf Medical receives market approval in Israel and signs distribution agreement for the Israeli market

Episurf Medical (NASDAQ: EPIS B) today announces that the Israeli Ministry of Health has approved Episurf Medical’s Episealer® knee products for the Israeli market. The approval follows a review process. Episurf Medical further announces that the company has entered into a distribution agreement for the Israeli market with AMI Technologies Ltd., a leading distributor of medical devices in Israel. “We are very happy to continue executing on our global strategy by opening up our first distribution market. This is an important step for Episurf Medical” says Pål Ryfors, CEO Episurf Medical.

Alligator Bioscience appoints new VP Business Development

Lund, Sweden, 18 January – Alligator Bioscience (Nasdaq Stockholm: ATORX), a biotechnology company developing antibody-based pharmaceuticals for tumor-directed immunotherapy, announced today the appointment of Anu Balendran, PhD, as Vice President Business Development. Dr Balendran will be responsible for leading Alligator’s preclinical projects towards out-licensing. He has a PhD in Biochemistry and will join Alligator from his current role as External Innovation Director, AstraZeneca. He will assume his new role on 1 May 2018. This appointment follows those of Charlotte A Russell,

IRRAS introduces IRRAflowTM v 2.5 with several upgrades including an updated battery configuration

San Diego, CA, USA, Laichingen, Germany and Stockholm, Sweden January 18, 2018 – IRRAS AB (NASDAQ Stockholm: IRRAS), a commercial-stage, medical technology company focused on designing, developing and commercializing innovative solutions for various brain pathologies, today announced the launch of a significantly improved version of its flagship IRRAflow product in the European Union (EU). IRRAflow version 2.5 incorporates several aesthetic and mechanical upgrades, as well as an updated battery configuration. The new battery configuration was optimized in response to a voluntary recall and

Preliminary Financial Statement 2017

Fourth quarter 2017 compared to fourth quarter 2016 · Customer growth was 42,500 (29,300), a new quarterly record · Net inflow in the quarter was SEK 3,550 million, a decrease of 43 per cent and mainly due to a few large individual withdrawals amounting to SEK 2,200 million  · Operating income increased by 11 per cent, a result of higher fund commissions and other income. Other income increased mainly due to higher income from Corporate Finance and higher currency-related income · Operating expenses increased by 23 per cent, mainly due to an increased number of employees and

Invitation - HKScan publishes its financial statements 2017 bulletin on 7 February 2018

HKScan Corporation             Press release                       18 January 2018                    at 9.15 EET   Invitation - HKScan publishes its financial statements 2017 bulletin on 7 February 2018   HKScan Corporation publishes its financial statements 2017 bulletin on Wednesday 7 February 2018 at about 8:00 a.m. Finnish time. Information meeting for analysts, institutional investors and media will be organized at Hotel Haven’s auditorium (address: Eteläranta 16, Helsinki) at 10–11 a.m. the same day. Morning coffee will be served from 9:30 a.m. The interim report will

Invitation to presentation of AcadeMedia's quarterly report for July – December 2017/18

AcadeMedia's quarterly report for July - December 2017/18 will be published at 08:00 CET on February 1. A web-cast telephone conference will be held at 09:30 CET the same day, where CEO Marcus Strömberg and CFO Eola Änggård Runsten will present the report. The presentation will be held in English and can be followed on the web or over the phone. It will be followed by a Q&A session. To participate in the conference call, and thereby be able to ask questions, call one of the following numbers ten minutes before the start of the call:SE: +46 8 5664 2662UK: +44 20 3008 9808US: +1

Concentric AB appoints Joshua Berin as Vice President of Sales for Hydraulics in North America

Joshua Berin has joined the Concentric Group as Vice President of Sales for North America to lead the profitable and sustainable growth of our Hydraulics product sales throughout the region. Joshua has a B.A. in Communications, Marketing & Media, from the University of Missouri, St. Louis. He joins us from Actuant Corporation where he has spent the past 5 years in senior sales roles, most recently as the Vice President Sales for the Maximatecc business unit, specializing in operator-machine interface solutions and instrumentation for critical environments serving leading OEMs in

Management changes at Handelsbanken

Ingela Forsberg has been appointed Head of Handelsbanken Northern UK. She will also be a member of the Bank’s Senior Management. Ingela Forsberg currently works as Regional Area Manager at Regional Bank Stockholm.Ingela Forsberg succeeds John Parker, who will retire from the Bank with effect from 31 March and will also leave the Bank’s Senior Management.The appointment of Ingela Forsberg is subject to the approval of the supervisory authority.For further information, please contact:Anders Bouvin, President and Group Chief Executive, + 46 8 – 22 92 20Mikael Sorensen, CEO

Clavister’s Slow DDoS solution to be switched on in Wi-Fi network in Japan

Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. January 18, 2018. Clavister (CLAV: NASDAQ), a Swedish provider of network security services and products, recently created an innovative solution against Slow DDoS attacks on the network of NTT Broadband Platform (NTTBP), one of the largest Wi-Fi providers in Japan, to be deployed early 2018. Slow DDoS, or Slow Distributed Denial-of-Service, is one of the threats that service providers operating on the Internet and the cloud are exposed to—a growing problem that needs addressing for security reasons. Using only conventional technology against DDoS doesn’t suffice

HANZA makes significant expansion in Sweden –acquires Wermland Mechanics

HANZA Holding AB (publ) ("HANZA") today signed an agreement to acquire Wermland Mechanics Group AB ("Wermech"), one of the Nordic region's leading manufacturers of sheet metal mechanics. Wermech will be part of HANZA's manufacturing cluster in Sweden, which already covers factories within electronics manufacturing and machining. The purchase sum for the shares amounts to maximum SEK 167.5 million."We are pleased to welcome the successful company Wermech to the HANZA Group. The acquisition means continued focus on modernizing and streamlining the manufacturing industry by our cluster concept,

Positive treatment results with Modufolin® (arfolitixorin) will be published at a cancer congress (ASCO) in the US

Prior to this year’s Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers Symposium of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the worlds leading oncology congress for colorectal cancer,  there will be a publication of the positive effects of Modufolin® (arfolitixorin) in an abstract, describing the interim results from the ongoing ISO-CC-005 study.  The study concerns patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) who are receiving an initial treatment (first line) with Modufolin® (arfolitixorin) in combination with the chemotherapy regimens 5-FU, irinotecan and oxaliplatin, with or without

Preliminary information on HKScan’s 2017 result

HKScan Corporation             Stock Exchange Release      January 18, 2018                   09:00 (EET)   Preliminary information on HKScan’s 2017 result   In 2017, HKScan Corporation’s net sales were approximately EUR 1 808 million and comparable operating profit (EBIT) was approximately EUR -18 million. The estimated ramp up cost of the new Rauma unit and the related negative impact of the lost poultry sales due to the lowered delivery capability in Finland amounted together to some EUR 25 million in total. Figures are based on preliminary unaudited information. HKScan

New forecast: Mature business cycle changes the risk profile

In Handelsbanken’s first macro forecast of the year, we outline that 2018 inflation could surprises to the upside and interest rates rise by more than expected. That could put pressure on share prices and, in the long run, make it difficult for central banks to strike the right balance. We also look closely at the housing markets in Sweden and Norway, comparing them with other countries. Our view is that the falls in Swedish and Norwegian house prices will not have significant spillover effects. We raise our Swedish GDP forecast for 2018 due to strong exports.· Strong start to 2018, but a

Loudspring acquires majority of Eagle Filters to save energy for energy companies

Loudspring Oyj Company release 18.01.2018, 08:30 (EEST) Loudspring has acquired a majority stake in Eagle Filters. With this acquisition Loudspring takes the first step towards becoming an operational company group saving natural resources. After the transaction Loudspring owns 63.4% of Eagle Filters, up from 34%.  The transactions includes investments of 300 000EUR into Eagle Filters as well as share swaps with the founders of Eagle Filters. After the transaction the amount of Loudspring’s class A shares will increase by 128 788 , which represent 0,5% of the outstanding shares

Viking Line changes the Viking XPRS timetable due to customer feedback

Because of customer requests, Viking Line will change the timetable of their Viking XPRS vessel starting 12 February. The journey will start an hour earlier, and the same timetable will be in use every day of the week. This means that full-length day cruises will be possible on Sunday as well.Viking XPRS will start travelling between Helsinki and Tallinn according to the new timetable on 12 February. Having received timetable change requests from different customer groups, Viking Line decided to change the timetable that had been in use for a decade. –      We will change our departures

Eltel implements country-based organization

Eltel has decided to change the governance structure of its Core business, Segment Power and Segment Communication, from the current business unit-centric organization to a country and market-driven organization. This change is part of the transformation strategy decided in February 2017 and will mean each country where Eltel has operations forming a separate business unit. The changes include four new executives joining Group Management.“Eltel’s customer relations are mainly local, which means the benefits of a business unit-centric organization are limited. In addition, the current

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