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Caravanners’ and campers’ guide to theme parks launched

A free caravanners’ guide to theme parks has been launched this week, providing mums, dads and kids with ideas of theme parks to visit and places to pitch up nearby.Created by caravan insurance specialists Cover4Caravans.co.uk, the guide has 15 different venues across the UK, plus Disneyland, Paris, including: · Alton Towers · Lightwater Valley · Chessington · The Milky Way Adventure Park Richard Burgess, Director at Cover4Caravans, explains: “Some of our customers often say they want to take their family to theme parks but are not sure where to stay nearby. Our guide is

Fortum completes divestment of its Swedish electricity distribution business

FORTUM CORPORATION STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 01 JUNE 2015 at 13:30 EET Fortum has today completed the divestment of its Swedish electricity distribution business, which was announced on 13 March 2015. The transaction has all the necessary regulatory approvals and the customary closing conditions have been met. The total consideration from the divestment is SEK 60.6 billion on a debt- and cash-free basis (corresponding to approximately EUR 6.5 billion). Fortum will book a one-time sales gain of approximately EUR 4.3 billion corresponding to close to EUR 5 per share. The final sales gain

Finance package helps bring HQ building services into the 21st Century

Leading cloud-based software company Software Europe has marked its 25th anniversary with an overhaul of the building services at its Lincoln headquarters thanks to a new, financed package from Mitsubishi Electric. The head office was running a 15-year-old air handling unit (AHU) with a Gas fired LTHW coil and a DX chiller coil ducted air system. But the parts were obsolete and failing, and there was poor temperature control in the building. Business Support Assistant Fiona Jenks says: “You couldn’t regulate the old system. It was a nightmare, as it was usually too cold or too hot. We

Chevron and ATS Euromaster help UK drivers clean up on fuel savings with Techron

· Techron can help motorists increase mpg and lower emissions · Widely available now through ATS Euromaster servicing and MOT centresChevron Lubricants and ATS Euromaster have announced a partnership to offer Techron fuel system cleaning products to support fleet and private drivers across the UK. Modern engines may suffer from build-up of deposits caused by variations in fuel quality, new types of fuel and even changes in motorists’ driving patterns. These deposits can have a detrimental effect not only on fuel consumption but also emission levels and overall vehicle performance.

Fazer’s new visitor centre will offer a unique experience

Fazer is building a new state-of the art visitor centre at its factory area in Vantaa, Finland. The new centre will expand the capacity of Fazer’s visitor marketing and develop the company’s visitor marketing concept into a more educational brand experience.Fazer has welcomed visitors to its factory area for over 60 years and is a very popular destination. In fact, about 50,000 people visit Fazer every year and many more would like to come. The main part of the visitors are Finnish schoolchildren and students. In addition, increasing amounts of visitors come from Sweden, Russia, Estonia and

Central & West Fife Show

Something for all the FamilyCentral and West Fife Show, will be held on Saturday 6th June with a strong focus on Food for Fife.  The show will allow the public to see a variety of animals including dairy and beef cattle, sheep, poultry, Clydesdale horses, ponies and show jumping.  The main ring entertainment includes Clydesdale Horse Turnouts, Terrier Racing and Fly Ball. The show is continuing its strong focus on local food and crafts, with cookery demonstrations by Jenny Thomson from Courses for Cooks and the national heat of Young Farmers, Ready Steady Country Cook competition.    The

Disclosure of voting rights

In connection with the Annual General Meeting of Opera Software ASA to be held on 2 June 2015, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Sverre Munck, has been given proxies without voting instructions for 7 916 578 shares in Opera Software ASA representing 5,44% of the total shares and voting rights in the company. The proxies are only valid at the Annual General Meeting. Sverre Munck in addition holds 25 000 shares in Opera Software ASA through his wholly owned company Libras AS. This notification is made pursuant to the Norwegian Securities Trading Act section 4-2. Petter Lade, Investor

GREAT YORKSHIRE SHOW – UNDER STARTER’S ORDERS

Three youngsters were definitely ready for the off at the Great Yorkshire Showground with an early warm up for England’s premier agricultural event next month.The three will all be competing in the Shetland Pony Grand National which takes place in the Main Ring at the Great Yorkshire Show.  Ten year old Evie Hole-Todd, her cousin, 11 year old Ruby Todd and Charlotte Tindale aged 11 and their Lilliputian mounts reveled in the opportunity to try out a fence in the famous arena which has hosted such famous names as showjumping royalty John and Michael Whitaker.  Dates for the show are Tuesday

Demand grows for BeA products

BeA is seeing continued growth in demand for its products.  The business, which manufactures fastening tools and consumables for the building, timber frame and off-site construction industries, has shown strong performance for its last financial year with much of this success attributable to an increase in sales. John Mercer, managing director at BeA (UK), explains: "BeA, like many companies, continues to evolve and the UK business has seen many exciting developments over recent years. These developments have been implemented as part of ambitious plans for our future and in line with

NEL ASA: Invitation to investor presentation following acquisition of H2 Logic

Oslo, 1 June 2015 NEL ASA ("NEL") will host a company presentation Wednesday 3 June 2015 following the announced agreement to acquire H2 Logic A/S ("H2 Logic"). With reference to the stock exchange notice from 31 May 2015 regarding the acquisition, the company invites investors, analysts and journalists to a company presentation: Date: Wednesday 3 June 2015 Time: 11:00 CET Location: Hotel Continental, Stortingsgaten 24/26, Oslo Speakers:- Øystein Stray Spetalen, Member of the Board of Directors NEL- Jacob Krogsgaard, Managing Director H2 Logic- Bjørn Simonsen,

Gearhouse Broadcast aces for fifth time at French Open

Watford, UK, 1 June 2015 – Worldwide broadcast services specialist, Gearhouse Broadcast , has been contracted by Input Media , one of Europe’s premier sports production companies, and Japanese satellite and pay-TV broadcaster WOWOW  to provide onsite broadcast facilities for the 2015 French Tennis Open. Its fifth time providing major services on the clay courts of Roland Garros, Gearhouse is currently providing Input Media with two outgoing cuts for the International Super Signal (ISS), the prime and

Parents offered first chance to invest in Bertram Bonds as nursery group seeks to expand

The award-winning Bertram Nursery Group has launched the Bertram Bond on the crowd-funding platform, Crowdcube, in a bid to raise up to £3m. The Edinburgh-based childcare provider, which owns and operates 37 nurseries in Scotland and the North West of England, plans to expand and has already secured £3.5m in debt financing via Rockpool Investments Ltd, following an offer to its high net worth investors last year. The Bertram Bond, which in the first instance is being offered to parents and grandparents of children attending Bertram nurseries, offers investors the opportunity to invest

Oliver Wight launches Integrated Business Planning Maturity Self-Assessment tool

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) experts, Oliver Wight, have launched an online IBP Maturity Self-Assessment tool designed to determine how mature a business’s processes are. In order to embark on a successful journey of performance improvement it is imperative that a business identifies its true level of business maturity; this can be accurately judged using the Oliver Wight Maturity Model.The Oliver Wight Maturity Model characterises a business as being in one of four key phases of maturity: Co-ordination, Business Process Control, Automation and Integration. It outlines an organisation’

Volvo continues to invest in attracting young people to the industry

Volvo Group’s three-year initiative, the Volvo Step, will continue and become part of the business operations. A new round of vocational training will commence in autumn at 11 of Volvo Group’s facilities, offering 100 participants a paid, one-year training course in industrial production.When the third round of Volvo Step participants graduate at the end of October, a total of 1,200 young people will have completed the training course and acquired skills for a future in this industrial sector. Due to the positive response to the Volvo Step, Volvo Group has decided to continue the training

PowerCell Sweden appoints Karin Nilsson as new CFO

The newly listed fuel cell company PowerCell Sweden AB (publ)  has appointed a new CFO. Karin Nilsson assumes her new position in August 2015.Karin Nilsson joins PowerCell from vehicle digital market place KVD Kvarndammen AB, where she has served as CFO since 2010. She will take up her new position as CFO for PowerCell Sweden AB in August 2015.Karin has extensive international experience from several financial positions, e.g. Sibelco AB and Gunnebo AB. During her time at KVD Kvarndammen AB she was also responsible for the HR and IT functions."We are happy and

Opera and Google sign agreement

Oslo, Norway, June 1, 2015. Opera Software ASA and Google Inc. have entered into a new agreement to integrate Google as the default search partner for the Opera mobile and desktop browsers (Opera Desktop, Opera Mobile and Opera Mini). This agreement replaces the agreement entered into on 22.08.2012 and is effective through 31.12.2017. This agreement covers all global territories and includes all of Opera's standard mobile and desktop Web browsers. Petter Lade, Investor Relations Tel: +47 2369 2400 About Opera Software ASA Opera enables more than 350 million internet consumers

LUCKY CLIVE PRICE TRANSPORT WINS A TRUCK FROM MICHELIN

Stoke-on-Trent – June 01, 2015Directors at Hereford-based bulk haulier, Clive Price Transport, contest the idea there is “no such thing as a free ride” after winning a new Euro VI Scania R-Series truck in a Michelin competition. The team became eligible for the prize after they bought a set of Michelin X MultiWay 3D tyres from their local ATS Euromaster centre in Brecon, and after being selected as winners now has use of the vehicle. Russell Price, Director at Clive Price Transport, says: “It’s not often you can claim to get a free ride in this world – and never one with a tailored

Bricknode supplies engine for crowdfunding platform

Bricknode (www.bricknode.com) has signed an agreement with crowdfunding platform Co-owning (www.coowning.com) to supply the core software for managing investors, investments, accounts, money transfers and powering a secondary market for crowdfunded investments among other things.Bricknode develops and offers a cloud based financial business platform including modules like back office, financial advisory, account management, customer portal, real time trading and insurance. Bricknode has recently began working with companies within crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending. Using the API of

HiQ WINS FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT WITH HANSEL

HiQ signs a framework agreement with Hansel, the government's central purchasing body in Finland. The agreement covers IT services in the area of project management and integration as well as specification and architecture.The agreement is valid for four years with option to extend up to two years. The agreement means that number of Finnish authorities and public organisations can use HiQ as a supplier. “We are proud of this renewed framework agreement. The digitalisation of society affects all organisations at all levels enabling huge potential – especially in public sector. We look

Zenterio enters partnership with Stream Group

Zenterio and Stream Group have partnered to launch an integrated end-to-end solution that enables content providers and operators to deliver value added services, such as Video-On-Demand, Catch up TV and Live TV via the Internet, cable, satellite or terrestrial TV. The solution can either be fully cloud based or hosted locally.The partnership includes the integration of Stream Group’s back-end system with Zenterio OS. The Stream Group solution is a proven Cloud TV platform, capable of delivering multi-screen, live and VoD services. By integrating with Zenterio OS, which enables fast

Recipharm appoints Chief Strategy Officer

Recipharm, the leading contract development and manufacturing organisation, is pleased to announce that it has appointed Jean-François Hilaire to the new position of Chief Strategy Officer to join Recipharm’s Group Management Team with effect from today.Jean-François Hilaire is a pharmacist and graduated from the university of Bordeaux and alumni of the CEDEP General Manager Program (campus INSEAD – Fontainebleau). He brings a broad experience base acquired in Commercial as well as in Manufacturing & Supply leadership roles at Fournier, Solvay and Abbott. Commenting on the appointment,

VIA Rail Canada chooses resource planning from IVU

A new planning and dispatching system for the Canadian national passenger railwayBerlin, 1 June 2015 – With VIA Rail Canada (VIA Rail) another major national railway places its trust in the software solutions from IVU Traffic Technologies AG. In future, IVU.rail will provide for efficient duty scheduling and dispatching of some 1,200 personnel. VIA Rail operates passenger rail services in eight of Canada’s ten provinces. Around 500 trains are operated every week on a route network of ca. 12,500 kilometres. In the country with the second-largest surface area in the world, the trains often

MWH signs £ 1 million contract with IFS to support growth

IFS , the global enterprise applications company, announced today that MWH , a global company providing technical engineering, construction services and consulting solutions to protect, enhance, store and distribute water, will expand its use of IFS Applications as part of a contract valued at over £1,000,000. The contract is for additional user licenses, which will support MWH’s expansion through a number of joint venture projects.

Germany’s largest biomedical research institute foster the use of Phase Holographic Imaging technology

German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg and Phase Holographic Imaging have signed a collaboration agreement, to foster the use of HoloMonitor technology at DKFZ. A HoloMonitor M4 with a motorized XY-stage will be centrally installed at the Imaging and Cytometry Core Facility and made available to the over 1 000 cancer researchers at DKFZ.“DKFZ is one of the leading cancer research centers in Europe, if not the leading. Our strategy is to continue to demonstrate the benefits of HoloMonitor technology with leading research institutions and key opinion leaders on the forefront of

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