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NCC to construct radiotherapy clinic in Uppsala for SEK 470 million

NCC Construction Sweden will construct the Nordic region’s first clinic for advanced radiotherapy using proton treatment in Uppsala, Sweden. The customer is Akademiska Hus and the construction contract is valued at SEK 470 million. The project is being conducted as a partnership between NCC and Akademiska Hus.The building will be about 13,500 square meters and will comprise such sections as a treatment facility, clinic, patient hotel with about 90 rooms and a restaurant. “The technology and equipment being deployed at the clinic requires advanced construction technology and considerable

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Acute Climate Change in the Arctic: Fighting Air Pollution May Slow Warming

Arctic Council Climate Report Defines the Challenge ADVISORY – June 9, 2011Climate negotiators will discuss two new reports, with major implications for our near-term approach to climate change at a UNFCCC side event in Bonn, this Thursday, June 9. One, the eight-nation Arctic Council’s “SWIPA” (Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic) chronicles the unexpectedly-rapid warming in the Arctic region, resulting in new forecasts for sea level rise three times that believed at the time of the IPCC’s AR-4, in 2007.The other, UNEP’s Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Ozone, will

Polygon creates European market leader in property damage restoration

Polygon AB has reached an agreement to acquire Vatro GmbH, the leader in the German property damage restoration market. The seller is the global facility services group ISS A/S. Andreas Weber, Managing Director and founder of Vatro, will stay on as a major private shareholder of the group. Polygon, formerly the MCS Division of Munters AB, which was acquired from Munters by European private equity fund Triton last year, had revenues in 2010 of 270 MEUR and 2,000 employees operating in 14 countries. Polygon is active in the property damage restoration market, serving insurance, property

Svanströms choose to optimize their media investments with Getupdated

Getupdated, a leading company within the Internet marketing industry, signs contract with Svanströms  a leading office products company. Getupdated will be responsible for the distribution of their search media investments.Åke Norström, CEO Office Depot Sweden AB says: "After Svanströms was acquired by Office Depot, Getupdated was a natural choice to become the advisor also for Svanströms search media investments. Getupdated has been Office Depot's advisor for the last 5 years and we see it as a natural progression that Getupdated work with all the brands within the group."Svanströms sees

Press Release 9.6.2011: TVO's most extensive maintenance outage successfully completed

The most extensive annual maintenance outage ever carried out at TVO's nuclear power plant has completed in 8th of June. Revision was completed in the evening when Olkiluoto 2 plant unit was connected to the Finnish national grid.The plant upgrades executed at Olkiluoto 2 improved further on the technical reliability of plant unit. An enhanced efficiency of the turbine island is about to increase the net electrical output of the plant unit by almost 20 Megawatts. Olkiluoto 1 underwent a similar major maintenance outage last year. - Olkiluoto 2 plant unit's outage, which took a bit less

PA Resources’ Production report for May, 2011

PA Resources’ average production of oil per day* (barrels per day) Year to Date 2011 May 2011West Africa 5,700 4,700North Africa 3,500 3,500Group Total 9,200 8,200 * Production based on Working Interest, which is PA Resources’ share of the total gross productionon the oil fields before deduction of royalties and other taxes. Data for May is preliminary. - West Africa: The drilling of the final production well at the Azurite field in the Republic of Congo was completed and the well was brought into production

ARCHER - Share capital increase - exercise of options

Hamilton, Bermuda (June 9, 2011) In connection with Archer's option program, 66,499 options have been exercised at an average strike price of NOK 17.71 per share. After this transaction, the total number of options outstanding in Archer Limited is 12,397,239. In connection with the exercised options, Archer has issued 66,499 common shares. The authorized share capital of Archer Limited is USD 1,200,000,000 divided into 600,000,000 common shares of par value USD 2.00 each. Fully paid and outstanding share capital of Archer Limited following the share capital increase is USD 646,888,004

Proact to Deliver a Storage System to the City of Oulu

Proact, the largest European company focusing on storage and archiving, will deliver a new storage system for Oulun Tietotekniikka serving the City of Oulu. The capacity challenge caused by the increased amount of data, among others, was solved with an EMC Celerra NS960 storage system with nearly one hundred terabytes.The system includes FAST functionality (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) that permits automatic transfer of data from a tier level to another according to current need. This provides a very efficient storage system with lower total costs than before. “The continuously

EQT Infrastructure invests in Argos Terminals

- EQT Infrastructure and Argos Group intend to form a strategic alliance whereby the fund acquires a majority stake in Argos Terminals. - EQT Infrastructure and Argos Group will together continue to develop and grow the storage and terminal operations in the port of Rotterdam. - The ambition is to more than double the storage capacity to 1.5 million m³ in the next few years.  EQT Infrastructure has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Argos Terminals, the storage and terminal business in the Argos Group. Argos Group will remain as minority shareholder. In partnership with

IFS delivers advanced maintenance solution to Saab

The new IFS Heavy Maintenance industry solution has been implemented within Saab, the global military defense and security company, to help maximizing the return on the SEK 900 million, Performance-based Logistics (PBL) contract awarded by the Swedish Armed Forces. The solution is designed to support all aspects of PBL contracts, within all areas of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) concept.In 2008, the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) outsourced all activities pertaining to service, maintenance, and availability of the entire fleet of SK60 trainer aircrafts. Under the PBL

Elekta to accelerate revenue growth and sees continued strong EBIT growth

Press ReleaseStockholm, Sweden, June 9, 2011 Elekta’s strategy will result in accelerated revenue growth and continued strong EBIT growth. This was the message from Tomas Puusepp, President and CEO at today’s Capital Markets Day. Following the release of Elekta’s year-end report for 2010/11, Tomas Puusepp described how Elekta is well positioned to drive growth in several areas. “Our first priority is to accelerate growth from delivering systems to solutions.” He says Elekta can increase market share in established markets through extended solutions while investing in emerging

Peab expands the Gothia Towers in Gothenburg

Peab has signed a partnering agreement with Svenska Mässan, the Swedish exhibition & congress centre, to implement an expansion of the Hotel Gothia Towers in Gothenburg. The customer is Svenska Mässan and the contract amounts to approximately SEK 1 billion.Partnering agreement includes an expansion of the Hotel Gothia Towers, with a third, 29-storey hotel towers and a 6-storey body on top of existing East Tower. Hotel Gothia Towers get with this one contribution of more than 500 rooms and will be following the expansion of Europe's largest hotel, with a total of 1,200 rooms.Both the

50 new Hemköp stores to open in Stockholm

The Annual General Meeting of the Vi Retailers Association has resolved that its individual retailers can sign a chain agreement with Hemköp. Under the agreement, which takes effect in January 2012, approximately 50 new Hemköp stores will open in Stockholm.The agreement is part of the long-term development of the cooperation between the Vi Retailers Association and Axfood that was started two years ago. "At Hemköp we are happy about this opportunity to strengthen the chain with an additional 50 stores, and we welcome the added expertise and entrepreneurship. This will strengthen Hemköp's

Tender offer - Buy-back of own bonds

Petrolia ASA has today authorised ABG Sundal Collier Norge ASA to offer buy-back of up to NOK 100 million (par value) of the outstanding bonds in the 12.00% Petrolia Drillng ASA Callable Bond Issue 2008/2012 with ISIN NO 001044025.8 The offer will be at 85.0 per cent of par value plus accrued interest. The terms and conditions of the offer are further set out in the enclosed offer document.   For further information, please contact: Mr. Sølve Nilsen - Finance Manager e-mail: solve.nilsen@petrolia.no Bergen/Oslo 9.June 2011

HiQ AND JEPPESEN SYSTEMS AB SIGN NEW FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT

HiQ has signed a new framework agreement with Jeppesen Systems AB, specialists in resource optimization in the transport industry. The agreement covers services within project management, software development and quality assurance and is valid through April 2013, with an extension option."Jeppesen Systems and HiQ have had a long-term and fruitful partnership since 2000. HiQ provides Jeppesen with professional services, primarily within software development and quality assurance. We see this newly signed framework agreement as a sign of Jeppesen's confidence in HiQ and a confirmation that we

NONG: New equity capital registered

Reference is made to the stock exchange notice in 1 June 2011 in connection with the completed rights offering in SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge. The capital increase in connection with the rights offering was registered with the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises on 8 June 2011 and the savings bank has received a new Certificate of Registration in connection with the capital increase. The Bank's equity capital now amounts to NOK 1,552,379,675 allocated between 62,095,187 equity certificates of NOK 25 each, fully paid up. The new equity certificates issued in connection with the rights

Skanska awarded contract for Prague subway amounting to SEK 1.3 billion

Skanska has been awarded a construction contract in connection to the extension of the Prague subway amounting to CZK 3.7 billion, about SEK 1.3 billion. The order will be included in the order bookings for the second quarter 2011. The customer is the Department of Public Transportation in the City of Prague.Subway line A in Prague will be extended with four more stations. Skanska’s contract is the technical part of the construction and includes building the energy installations and equipping the subway system with air-conditioning, low voltage and communication system. The extension of

Hans Linnarson, acting CEO and President of Husqvarna

Magnus Yngen, CEO and President of Husqvarna, is from today June 9, 2011 and for the time being, absent due to sickness. Hans Linnarson, Executive Vice President, Head of Sales Europe & Asia/Pacific, has been appointed acting CEO and President. Hans will hold both positions..“We are pleased that Hans Linnarson will be acting CEO and President for the Husqvarna Group. Hans has long experience from various management positions in product development, marketing and production as well as in sales within Electrolux since 1994 and from Husqvarna since 2004”, says Lars Westerberg, Chairman of the

Trade subject to notification - Stein Erik Hagen

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+| |+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+|Company closely associated with Stein Erik Hagen, Chairman of the Board of ||Orkla ASA, has on 8 June 2011 bought 10,800,000 shares in Orkla ASA at an ||average price of NOK 49.97 per share. ||After this transaction, Stein Erik Hagen and his close associates own ||250,687,000 shares in Orkla

Systemair - Year-end report 2010/11

Fourth quarter, February-April 2011 · Net sales increased 3 percent, to SEK 828 million (801). · Operating profit (EBIT) decreased 14 percent, to SEK 57 million (66). · The operating margin equalled 6.9 percent (8.3). · Profit after tax declined 37 percent, to SEK 33 million (52). · Earnings per share (basic and diluted) equalled SEK 0.61 (1.00). · Cash flow from operating activities equalled SEK -54 million (67). 12 months, May 2010-April 2011 · Net sales advanced 8 percent, to SEK 3,467 million (3,219). · Operating profit (EBIT) rose 34 percent,

Incredible Reduced Rate Brilliance of the Seas Trip Available at Cruise1st.co.uk

Cruise1st.co.uk has been continuing to build its reputation for providing excellent cruise deals with a range of offers including the Bank Holiday Cruise Sail.(United Kingdom – 1st July 2011) Cruise1st.co.uk  has been continuing to build its reputation for providing excellent cruise deals  with a range of offers including the Bank Holiday Cruise Sail. Cheap cruises  to destinations such as Australia, New Zealand and the United States have been receiving some rave reviews due to the great features available

Iron ore agreement strengthens the Grängesberg mine project

Swedish mining company Grängesberg Iron AB transfers nine iron permits in northern Sweden to Kiruna Iron AB, subsidiary to Australian mining company Scandinavian Resources Ltd. The agreement adds strength to the re-opening project of the Grängesberg iron ore mine in the Bergslagen district in Sweden.Grängesberg Iron AB and Scandinavian Resources Ltd has signed an agreement regarding the transfer of nine iron exploration permits in northern Sweden from Grängesberg Iron AB to Kiruna Iron AB, a subsidiary to Australian mining company Scandinavian Resources Ltd. Among the permits are the high

Clas Ohlson: Year-end report 1 May 2010 – 30 April 2011

Fourth quarter * Sales totalled SEK 1,164 M (1,078), up 8%.    Sales growth in local currencies was 12% * Operating profit amounted to SEK 4 M (14) * Profit after tax totalled SEK 0 M (12) * Earnings per share amounted to SEK 0 (0.19) 12 months * Sales totalled SEK 5,828 M (5,556), up 5%.    Sales growth in local currencies was 8% * Operating profit amounted to SEK 507 M (591), down 14% * Profit after tax totalled SEK 364 M (433), down 16% * Earnings per share amounted to SEK 5.71 (6.72), down 15% * It is proposed that a dividend of SEK 3.75 per share (3.

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