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Jan Erik Back to become Vattenfall’s CFO

Jan Erik Back is to become the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Vattenfall Group in January 2007, when Matts Ekman, the present CFO, is due to retire. Jan Erik Back will start at Vattenfall on 14 December.Mr Back, born 1961, has been the CFO of the Swedish insurance Group Skandia since 2002, a company he joined in 1998. During the first eleven years of his professional career he held various posts at Handels-banken.A picture of Mr Back is available at www.vattenfall.com, select “Press & News” –> “Image Bank”.For further information, please contact:Martin May, Head of Media

AP3 introduces fundamental indexing

AP3 is enhancing its asset management operations by introducing fundamental indexing as a new form of management. The Fund will use the new FTSE GWA *) fundamental index, which covers European large cap and mid cap companies including UK. AP3 is the first European pension fund to adopt the GWA index.An initial portfolio of SEK 2 billion will be managed internally using the FTSE GWA Europe Index based on GWA's wealth weighted methodology.Unlike traditional indices, a fundamental index is not market-weighted. In practice, this means that the index is not weighted according to market

Persson: Pensions, globalisation and the current economic situation

Deputy Governor Kristina Persson spoke on Monday about globalisation, future pensions and the economic situation at the seminar “The future and pensions” organised by the insurance company Länsförsäkringar in Jämtland.”Future pensions will be determined by developments in the economy in general and by wage growth. The scope for wage increases is limited in the long term by productivity growth. If real wages rise more quickly than productivity, the business sector loses competitiveness. This ultimately results in increased unemployment. The factors that determine how Sweden will manage

Ericsson outlines strategy for full service broadband

Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) is mapping the future of converged broadband by unveiling its full service broadband strategy, based on user convenience and operators' need for minimized risk and fast time-to-market.The full-service broadband strategy positions Ericsson as partner of choice for operators to provide users with the maximum convenience - any service to any device, anywhere.Through an offering that includes world-leading solutions such as HSPA and VDSL2, together with IMS, Ericsson is poised to lead the way in full service broadband.Bert Nordberg, Executive Vice President, Sales &

Tilgin IMS@Home platform makes IMS come true

Tilgin, a leading provider of customer premises equipment for triple play solutions, today announce the launch of a new platform for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The Tilgin IMS@Home is one of the first comprehensive platforms for IMS support in the home.IMS is hot technology that offers a lot of promise for fixed and mobile operators as they pursue new revenues from Fixed Mobile Convergence and Multimedia services. A lot of focus has been on dual mode handsets and nodes within an evolving IMS infrastructure.“Major operators and Telco equipment manufacturers around the world are

Norwegian Property appoints CFO

(Oslo, 9 October 2006) Svein Hov Skjelle has been appointed chief financial officer of Norwegian Property ASA, where new chief executive Petter Jansen is building up the organisation. Mr Skjelle comes from the post of president at TeleComputing Norway, which he has held since June 2004. Before that, he was CFO for the TeleComputing group from May 2003, and served as its acting chief executive. Previous appointments including finance manager and later CFO at Merkantildata (now Ementor) from 1998-2003, and six years with Veidekke where he was finance manager on his departure in 1997. He

Representatives of the nomination committee of Saab AB for the Annual General Meeting 2007

In accordance with a resolution taken at the Annual General Meeting of Saab AB on April 5, 2006, the names of the shareholder representatives are hereby announced who, together with the Chairman of the Board, will provide proposals to be submitted to the Annual General Meeting for a Board of Directors and auditors, the Chairman of the Board and of the Annual General Meeting and proposals for remuneration to the Board and fees to the auditors.RepresentativesLars Wedenborn, InvestorPeter Wallenberg Jr, Knut och Alice Wallenbergs StiftelseChrister Elmehagen, AMF PensionMats Lagerqvist,

Industri Kapital announces opening of an office in Paris

Industri Kapital (“IK”), a European private equity firm with existing offices in London, Stockholm, Oslo and Hamburg has opened an office in Paris following a successful track record in the French market.IK is increasing its presence and dedication to the French market building on its team of four investment professionals who have deep knowledge of the French market. IK will continue its hands on approach of investing in businesses with strong and successful management teams where there is potential for further growth and development.Christopher Masek, Partner at IK, said “The opening of

Volvo Aero expands in US

Volvo Aero is expanding facilities at its Aero-Craft subsidiary in Newington, Connecticut. The current 40,000-square-foot (3,700-square-meter) plant and office building will be supplemented by an additional 27,000 square feet (2,500 square meters). At the same time, the number of employees will almost double.The investment of USD 15.3 M is being partly financed through support from the State of Connecticut and town of Newington.Volvo Aero acquired Aero-Craft, a manufacturer of aircraft engine components, at the end of 2004. Through the acquisition, Volvo Aero was able to add fan cases,

Ericsson to supply Telenor with a complete packet core network for mobile high speed data.

Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) has been selected by Telenor to supply a complete packet core network to enable differentiated delivery of multimedia services in Norway and Denmark. Telenor will get a common platform for both 2G and 3G data traffic with flexible, service aware charging capabilities to increase the average revenue per user and reduce churn. Ericsson will provide Telenor the latest technology for mobile high speed data communication, paving the way for mobile advanced packet data based services such as Mobile TV and Mobile Gaming. Under the contract Ericsson will be the sole

Catena purchases car facility in Gothenburg

Catena has decided to acquire a car facility in the Sisjö area of Gothenburg.The property was constructed in 2002 by Catena, but was sold to Skandrenting with an option to buyback the property. Catena is now exercising the option.The property is about 5,000 m2. The tenant is Bilia Fordon AB, a Ford dealer in the Gothenburg region. The lease runs for an additional 15 years.The purchase consideration is about SEK 64 M. Occupancy is as of October 31.”The acquisition is fully in line with our business strategy to acquire commercial properties in prime locations in growth areas,” says

Invitation to Presentation and Conference call following Alfa Laval’s Interim Report for the third quarter 2006

Alfa Laval’s Interim Report for the third quarter 2006 will be distributed at approximately 7.30 A.M (CET) October 25.Presentation and Conference Call 9.00 A.M (CET), October 25at Teknikföretagen, Stockholm, SwedenAlfa Laval’s President and CEO Lars Renström and CFO Thomas Thuresson will present the development during the third quarter 2006.Place: Teknikföretagen, Storgatan 5, Stockholm, Sweden.Moderator: Oscar Stjerngren, Carnegie.To join the presentation at Teknikföretagen please send an e-mail to mikael.sjoblom@alfalaval.com.The presentation will also be sent via Internet

New agreement for MultiQ

After a long process of evaluation and procurement, one of the company’s largest customers has signed a new agreement for continued supplies. The Swedish-based company now has established activities through more than 200 units in a large number of countries, and continues to expand. MultiQ recently delivered the 10 000th flat screen to the company.Thomas Keifer, MD at MultiQ:- When large, globally active customers carry out procurement processes at regular intervals, you can be sure of being thoroughly analysed. The fact that MultiQ has been given continued confidence by this particular

Teleca takes strong actions to strengthen its competitiveness and product business profitability

Teleca will restructure its product R&D efforts with the target ofmaintaining or increasing the R&D activity level at significantlyreduced cost. Now, six months after the successful acquisition of Telmain Russia, Teleca is ready to take a new step to strengthen itscompetitiveness and cost structure. Over time a significant part ofTeleca’s product R&D is planned to be made in Russia. Teleca is alsotaking actions to improve performance in Teleca Systems.The total restructuring includes staff of 220 people in Western Europe.This will result in annual cost savings by SEK 112

ETTEPLAN AND LAROX WIDEN ENGINEERING DESIGN COOPERATION

ETTEPLAN OYJ RELEASE 9 OCTOBER 2006 09.00 A.M.ETTEPLAN AND LAROX WIDEN ENGINEERING DESIGN COOPERATION Etteplan Oyj and Larox Corporation have today signed a letter ofintent to widen engineering design cooperation, which has alreadycontinued for close to twenty years. As a part of the agreement,10 employees working in engineering and documentation functionsrelated to delivery projects and maintaining of products at Laroxoffices in Finland, will transfer to Etteplan on 1 January 2007 asso called former employees. The agreement, after entering into force,guarantees

The board of Medicover has decided to call an extraordinary general meeting on 9th November 2006

•The board of Medicover has decided to call an extraordinary general meeting on 9th November 2006 to decide on a de-listing as a consequence of that the company does not comply with the listing requirements for the Stockholm Stock Exchange’s regarding diversification of the shareholder base •Shareholders, representing 93%, supports the board’s proposal •Celox, including related parties, controls 82% of the shares and votes The shareholder, Celox S.A., has in a letter to the board expressed that it holds more than 10 percent of the total number of shares in the company and according to the

Opica publishes additional information regarding the Offer to the shareholders in Capio

This press release is not and must not, directly or indirectly, be distributed or made public in the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan or South Africa. The Offer is not being made to persons in those jurisdictions or elsewhere where their participation requires further offer documents, filings or other measures in addition to those required by Swedish law Press release 6 October 2006 Opica publishes additional information regarding the Offer to the shareholders in Capio Opica AB (“Opica”) announced on 1 September 2006 a public offer to the shareholders in Capio AB (publ) (“Capio”) to

Capital Market Day on 28 November 2006

ASSA ABLOY has the pleasure of inviting you to our eight annual Capital Market Day on Tuesday 28 November in Helsingborg and at Entrance Systems headquarters in Landskrona, Sweden.   Division Entrance Systems is the world leader in the field of automatic doors. The product range consists of automatic door operators for swing doors, sliding doors and revolving doors.   The Executive Team will present a strategic update, the latest on business development and a more detailed presentation on Entrance Systems.   The program will start in Helsingborg at 9.00 and is expected to

Carl Bildt resigns as Director of HiQs Board

Carl Bildt, Director of the Board of HiQ International AB, has announced that he will be leaving the company’s Board with immediate effect after being appointed as Sweden’s new foreign minister.“Carl Bildt has been a member of HiQ’s Board since 1999 and has through his long experience in the international economic and political field provided valuable analysis of the world in which HiQ operates. In his new role as foreign minister he will naturally no longer be able to commit himself to his work as Director of HiQ. We wish him every success in his new position”, says Anders Ljungh, HiQ’s

Nexus to close Hamburg office

Nexus has decided to close-down one of its two offices in Germany. The Hamburg offices’ primary function has been support and administration. The close-down is one step in streamlining and centralising this function to Sweden. At the same time Nexus is preparing to increase the sales force in Berlin with new recruitments.The German market for information security solutions shows signs of significant growth and is an important region for Nexus. Nexus will increase the Berlin offices’ sales capacity foremost to maintain and increase the leading position within the area of digital identities

SENTERA PLC EXEMPTED FROM THE OBLIGATION TO PUBLISH INTERIM REPORT FOR THE PERIOD

SysOpen Digia Plc STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT 6 October 2006 at 3.30 p.m.SENTERA PLC EXEMPTED FROM THE OBLIGATION TO PUBLISH INTERIM REPORT FOR THE PERIOD1 JANUARY - 30 SEPTEMBER 2006 The Finnish Financial Supervision Authority has granted Sentera plc ("Sentera")an exemption from the obligation to publish an interim report for the period 1January - 30 September 2006 in accordance with Chapter 2 Section 11 of theFinnish Securities Markets Act. SysOpen Digia Plc ("SysOpen Digia") has on 26 September 2006 obtained title toall the outstanding shares of Sentera in the redemption

ALEXIAN BROTHERS PURCHASE ELEKTA NEUROMAG®, THE WORLD-LEADING TECHNOLOGY FOR REAL-TIME MAPPING OF BRAIN ACTIVITIES

PRESS RELEASE Stockholm, Sweden, October 6, 2006 Alexian Brothers Health System will bring world-leading technology to Chicago with the acquisition of an Elekta Neuromag®, a cutting-edge device that provides extremely sophisticated, real-time 3-D mapping of brain activity for use by both clinicians and researchers. The system is expected to be operational in January 2007.“As the first community-based hospital system to embrace this emerging technology, Alexian Brothers Hospital Network is defining the paradigm for other hospital systems to establish aggressive Neuroscience initiatives,”

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