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Caribbean fisheries highly vulnerable to climate change, need to adapt

Analysis in the SEI journal Climate and Development predicts severe negative impacts, including loss and alteration of habitats, smaller and less-diverse fish stocks, and coral bleaching, and urges prompt action to help the region’s fishers prepare.The review is authored by Leonard Nurse, Ph.D., senior lecturer at the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies at the University of the West Indies and a member of the scientific team of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Fisheries employ nearly 200,000 people in the Caribbean Community alone, Nurse notes, earning

Invitation to Elekta’s Capital Markets Day with focus on emerging markets, December 12, in Stockholm

Stockholm, November 17, 2011Elekta invites equity analysts, investors and media representatives to a Capital Markets Day with focus on emerging markets. Tomas Puusepp, Elekta President and CEO, and other members of Elekta’s management team will give presentations focusing on Elekta’s presence and strategy in emerging markets. Lunch will be served from 12:30 CET and the presentations will start at 13:00 and end at approximately 15:30. The venue is Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Nils Ericsons Plan 4, Stockholm, Sweden.To attend this Capital Markets Day, please register by e-mail to

REPURCHASE OF SHARES IN ASTRAZENECA PLC

AstraZeneca PLC announced that on 16 November 2011, it purchased for cancellation 830,809 ordinary shares of AstraZeneca PLC at a price of 2887 pence per share. Some of these shares were purchased under the terms of the previously announced irrevocable, non-discretionary share repurchase programme for the period 3 October 2011 to 16 December 2011. Upon the cancellation of these shares, the number of shares in issue will be 1,310,292,849. A C N Kemp Company Secretary 17 November 2011

PRESS RELEASE

After the launch and big success of the first MCE CEE congress hosted in Prague, Europe Congress offers you the improved and extended second edition! Central & Eastern Europe as well as CIS countries offer an increasing high quality offer of hotels, event venues, congress centers, transport providers and intermediary as DMC’s and PCO’s. Also the number of flights to CEE & CIS destinations is increasing and when realizing the potential for innovative incentive events is still so much undiscovered, it may be clear why MICE buyers are keen to attend. Large international exhibitions do

BingoLotto.se connects to DIBS mobile payment solution

DIBS, the leading provider of payment solutions for e-commerce, has signed an agreement with BingoLotto. They will use DIBS’ payment solution to offer customers to pay and play bingo and scratch cards via smartphones.-   Bingo is available online since many years. Thanks to DIBS’ payment solution, we are now launching the first Bingo on smartphones in Sweden. This makes our Bingo available via mobile phones and tablet computers wherever our customers are. We believe this is a simple and fun way to take advantage of our offering, says Carl Ståhle, chief operating officer at BingoLotto.se.

Orkla Brands sells Bakers

Orkla Brands has concluded an agreement for the sale of Bakers. The buyer is NorgesGruppen. Orkla has owned Bakers since 1991, delivering breads, cakes and bakery goods to grocery stores, petrol stations, kiosks and other large-scale customers. Bakers' most familiar products include Bakers Naturlig Sunt, Bakern's Ferske, Birkebeiner bread and Inger's SuperRug.   Bakers currently has 770 employees and had operating revenues of about NOK 1.2 billion in 2010. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. The agreement covers all Bakers' bakeries, with the exception of the

Nederman receives order from wind blade manufacturer SSP Technology A/S

Nederman will supply SSP Technology´s wind blade production plant in Denmark with solutions for extraction of composite grinding dust and welding fumes to the value of approximately SEK 10.5 million.The solution for extraction of composite grinding dust is based on two ATEX-approved stationary high vacuum units with filters and ancillary equipment. Nederman will also supply a complete solution for taking care of welding fumes at multiple work stations. The extraction and filtration systems are equipped with energy saving equipment that automatically adapts the systems’ power use to the

Stockholm Prize in Criminology to be Awarded for Global Research on Crime Victims

The 2012 Stockholm Prize in Criminology has been awarded to Professor Jan van Dijk ofthe University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, for his sustained leadership of the InternationalCrime Victims Survey (ICVS) since 1989. Professor van Dijk will receive the prize at aceremony in Stockholm on June 12, 2012.Clearing The Fog of CrimeThe International Jury’s chair compared the work of the 2012 Stockholm Prize winner toclearing away a “fog” of confusion about whether crime is becoming more or less frequent orserious. Prompted by human reactions to a wide range of information about crime,

Premiere Products selects IFS Applications to improve business agility and process integration

IFS, the global enterprise applications company, today announced that Premiere Products, a global manufacturer and professional services provider to the cleaning industry, has selected IFS Applications as its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, to supply an end-to-end business solution that will support the company’s aggressive growth plan.Premiere Products, a privately-owned family company, manufactures cleaning and maintenance chemicals and a range of machinery and equipment, supporting the cleaning industry in the UK and serving export markets across public and private sectors. It

Late Crops Harvest Report 2011

Alpcot Agro AB (“the Company”) has almost completed the harvest of sunflower, sugar beet and soya, with an average yield for sunflower of 2.3 tons per hectare. To date the Company has harvested about 257,000 tons gross weight of different crops.The average yield for sunflower of 2.3 tons per hectare is a historical record for the Company. In Voronezh and Tambov the Company has harvested nearly or over 3 tons per hectare. The higher yields are due to both favorable weather and the application of Clearfield technology. This is the second year that the Company grows sugar beet and it has

Prevas gets order from STULZ in Germany

STULZ GmbH Klimatechnik has decided to replace the current controller system for their professional air conditioning system. Prevas has been selected to fill the order and to deliver a new high tech system in the course of 2012.The new controller system will be designed with the newest technology and will be used as a common platform for all STULZ’s air conditioning systems worldwide. The controller system will have many new features and will set new standards in the close control market. Prevas will deliver a full scale controller system, which will include project management, mechanics,

Invitation to presentation of Nordic Mining's interim report per 30 September 2011

Nordic Mining ASA will present the interim report and company updates Friday 18 November 2011 at 10 am. The presentation will be held in the company's office at Vika Atrium, Munkedamsveien 45 (Entrance A, 5th floor), N-0250 Oslo. We invite investors, analysts and media to attend the presentation. Kindly give notice of participation by email to post@nordicmining.com or telephone +47-22 94 77 90. The report will be published at the Oslo Stock Exchange and on Nordic Mining's homepage (www.nordicmining.com) before the presentation. For further information please contact CFO Lars K.

Operational Update – Completion of drilling in KUN-202 and commencement of drilling KUN-203 in Mengo-Kundji-Bindi, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville)

Panoro Energy ASA ("PEN", OSE ticker code), the independent oil and gas company with assets in West Africa and Brazil is pleased to announce the completion of drilling operations in the KUN-202 well and the commencement of drilling in the KUN-203 well in Mengo-Kundji-Bindi ("MKB").The KUN-202 well was the second of up to six wells to be drilled in this new drilling campaign. The well was directionally drilled to a location 1.45 km southeast of the Kundji-200 drilling platform and encountered the top reservoir of the Kundji field on prognosis at 1,875 meters measured depth (1,280 meters

Jay Longbottom has decided to step down as CEO of Haldex

Jay Longbottom has decided to step down from his position, as CEO of Haldex AB. Ulf Ahlén, former Executive Vice President of Haldex Traction, will replace him as acting CEO from December 1, 2011.The background for Jay Longbottom’s decision to step down as CEO is that it has proved to be difficult to combine residing in the USA, and at the same time heading a publicly listed Swedish company. Based in Kansas City, USA Jay will remain in the role as President of the North American operations and assume the role as Executive Vice President for the Haldex Air Control division, representing 40%

University of Florida Research Foundation and Diamyd Medical settle lawsuit

University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated (“UFRF”), and Diamyd Medical AB today jointly announced that they have settled the breach of contract litigation that UFRF filed in the United States Federal District Court in Florida against Diamyd Medical in January 2011.The dispute related to an exclusive license agreement between UFRF and Diamyd Medical, and to a sublicense of the rights under the exclusive license agreement between Diamyd Medical and Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which sublicense involved rights to the GAD65-based drug candidate Diamyd®. UFRF and

Thomas Axelsson appointed Acting CEO of Vitrolife

Thomas Axelsson, who has long experience of managing companies within the medical device field, is taking over responsibility for the fertility area and the Vitrolife Group, and will be Acting CEO while the recruitment process is ongoing to find a permanent CEO.As was announced on October 31, 2011, Magnus Nilsson will, after nine years as CEO of Vitrolife, in the time ahead focus on managing the subsidiary Xvivo Perfusion AB. Xvivo, with business in the organ transplant area, is now in an intensive and exciting phase of development that requires greater focus, and will be a more independent

Lindab International AB : Euroconstruct bi-annual forecasts adapted to Lindab's market mix

Euroconstruct (an independent forecasting organisation for the construction industry that covers 19 countries in the Nordic region, Western Europe and Central-Eastern Europe) issued its bi-annual report on 9 November, updating its construction forecasts for the coming years. Overall, the forecasts have been revised downwards compared with the previous report in June 2011. Euroconstruct predicts that for the 19 countries as a whole, the residential segment will grow by 1.3 percent in 2012 (down from 2.6 percent) and the non-residential segment will decrease by 1.4 percent, (down from 0.2

Resolutions at Aerocrine’s Extraordinary General Meeting

An Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) was held in Aerocrine AB (NASDAQ OMX Stockholm: AERO) on 16 November 2011 in Stockholm. The EGM resolved to approve the proposal by the Board of Directors on the implementation of a long-term incentive program (LIP 2011) and the issuance and approval of transfer of warrants. Thomas Eklund was elected new member of the Board.LIP 2011 is, among other things, part of Aerocrine’s strategy to build and strengthen the company’s U.S. operations and commercial organization. In brief, under LIP 2011 a total of not more than 10,000,000 employee stock options (

Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC) employs Thomas Rex as Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing

As Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing, Thomas will be a member of FPC’s management group and responsible for marketing, sales and business development. Thomas, who is a graduate engineer from Lund University, joins FPC from Nanoradio, where he has been employed as the Vice President Sales since 2008 and before that at Ericsson Mobile Platforms, where he had been Vice President Sales Asia since 2001.Thomas has solid experience of successful sales to giants in consumer electronics, primarily suppliers that develop mobile phones, tablet PCs, e-readers, cameras and modules. Thomas has

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