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Tokmanni improves its score in global CDP climate assessment

Tokmanni     Press release     11 December 2020 at 5:05 p.m. (10 December 2020 in Finnish) Tokmanni has been credited with the third highest score of B given by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) organisation  in its latest global climate change assessment. This is an improvement on the score received in the assessment published in January 2020, where Tokmanni achieved the fifth highest rating of C. The considerably higher score shows that Tokmanni has made significant progress in its responsibility work related to climate change. The fact that Tokmanni

Chiquita Once Again Honored with Progressive Grocer’s Category Captain Award

World’s leading banana company has earned coveted title for twenty-one consecutive yearsFort Lauderdale, FL – December 11, 2020 – Year after year, leading grocery publication Progressive Grocer  recognizes overall excellence in innovative, profit-generating category management efforts that help retailers grow sales and profits while satisfying shoppers through its Category Captain Awards. This year, stakes were even higher, as suppliers were also evaluated based on their agility, resourcefulness, and responsiveness as they navigated an unprecedented

Axactor SE – Bond issue successfully placed

Reference is made to the stock exchange announcement by Axactor SE (OSE: AXA) (the "Company") on 9 December 2020 regarding the contemplated bond refinancing.  The Company has successfully placed a new senior unsecured bond issue of EUR 200 million, with a three year tenor.  ABG Sundal Collier, Arctic Securities, DNB Markets, a part of DNB Bank ASA, and Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge acted as joint lead managers in connection with the bond issue.

Bellman Group acquires Ivarssons Entreprenad

Bellman Group AB (“Bellman Group”) has today signed an agreement to acquire Ivarssons Entreprenad i Göteborg AB, (“Ivarssons Entreprenad”), an excavation and civil engineering company mainly operating in the Gothenburg region. Ivarssons Entreprenad already collaborates with some of the Group's subsidiaries in projects related to Västlänken and the acquisition further strengthens Bellman Group's position in the Gothenburg region.The purchase price amounts to SEK 98.5 million, of which SEK 31.3 million consists of shares in Bellman Group (corresponding to 3.02 percent of the shares in Bellman

The Swedish Competition Authority approves AcadeMedia's acquisition of Swedish Education Group

The Swedish Competition Authority today approved AcadeMedia's acquisition of RE Skolor, the ultimate owner of AB Swedish Education Group. The acquisition is expected to be completed on 17 December 2020, in line with previous communication. The acquisition complements AcadeMedia’s existing business and strengthen our position in the growing markets of upper secondary school and adult education. The Swedish Education Group AB had a turnover in 2019/20 of approximately SEK 360 million and EBITDA of approximately SEK 35 million. Turnover was distributed as 23 percent compulsory school, 59

Tackling climate change: 5 years after the Paris Climate Agreement

The 12th December marks the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement, which was adopted by 197 nations at the UN Climate Change Conference in 2015. Ingka Group is committed to the agreement, which means pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.Since the agreement was adopted there has been a surge of business leadership across the world to tackle and address the climate crisis and pursue a net-zero future, which was unimaginable back in 2015. The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has shown how fragile the world we live in can be and reinforced

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Wallenstam publishes updated base prospectus for existing MTN program

Wallenstam has updated the base prospectus for the company’s existing MTN program (Medium Term Notes), which provides the opportunity to issue bonds in the Swedish market.The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority today, on December 11, 2020, has approved and registered the updated base prospectus. The base prospectus is available on Wallenstam’s website, www.wallenstam.se, and on www.finansinspektionen.se. As of today’s date, Wallenstam has an outstanding issued volume of SEK 2.8 billion within the MTN program, which has a total framework amount of SEK 5 billion. Svenska

Crunchfish presents a new interview season “Cash goes digital – a payment pandemic"

On Monday, December 14[th], Crunchfish airs the first episode of the second interview season “Cash goes digital – a payment pandemic”. This season will mainly focus on our Digital Cash Solutions, our radical thinking and new technology within the payment space. The season will run over 36 episodes and our CEO Joachim Samuelsson will interview employees, board members, owners as well as payment experts, gesture interaction experts, Crunchfish alumni, social application specialists, partners, advisors, and many more.The first week, starting on Monday December 14, will focus on The

CapMan Real Estate acquires highly visible office building in northern Stockholm area in renovation and lease-up scheme

CapMan Real Estate press release 11 December 2020 at 3.15 p.m. EET CapMan Real Estate acquires highly visible office building in northern Stockholm area in renovation and lease-up scheme CapMan Nordic Real Estate III Fund has agreed to acquire Sadelplatsen 1, a vacant office building in Järva Krog, Solna, from Fabege in an off-market transaction. The 6,360 sqm property consists mainly of office and showroom space as well as a parking facility and is currently 94% vacant. CapMan is evaluating various plans for the development of the property, which, due to its flexibility, could

Game on! Students take on 24-hour hackathon

Students from Staffordshire University joined forces with Stoke-on-Trent City Council and VX Fiber for a fast and furious virtual hackathon to generate concepts for a state-of-the-art gaming hub for Stoke-on-TrentUnder the guidance of senior academic staff, undergraduates from Graphics, Product Design, Education, Engineering, Computing, Games and Visual Effects at Staffordshire University took part in the 24-hours challenge to develop their ideas and then pitch in Dragon’s Den style to a panel of judges. The interdisciplinary teams created inspiring visions for the gaming hub,

Webstep ASA: Notice of extraordinary general meeting

Oslo, 11 December 2020. An extraordinary general meeting of Webstep ASA (the "Company") will be held on Tuesday 5 January 2021 at 12:00 hours (CET) at Epicenter Oslo, Edvard Storms gate 2, 0166 Oslo, Norway.The notice and agenda for the general meeting is attached hereto and will also be sent to the Company's shareholders with a known address today. Further, the notice and its appendices have been made available on the Company's webpage, www.webstep.com. Due to restrictions caused by COVID-19, the shareholders are encouraged to exercise their shareholder rights without attending the

New acquisition in Norway increases Instalco's market share in service

Instalco is growing its heating & plumbing operations in Norway with the acquisition of Metro Rørleggerservice AS. The company is located in Baerum, a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region of Norway. It has annual sales of approximately SEK 65 million.Metro provides pipe installations, along with the installation of heating, plumbing and cooling systems, as well as service and maintenance. “Metro is one of the top companies for service. It has a very strong local brand and great reputation, making it an excellent fit with Instalco. The acquisition of Metro increases our market share in

ABAX ends 2020 with a unique 24 hour ‘hackathon’ to explore new innovative solutions

ABAX is well known for being a unique place to work and is now arranging a “Hackathon” for the second year to further inspire their developers. Throughout the 2-day intensive code-marathon, all in-house developers at ABAX will work on and share their future ideas for the company.24 hours to solve a problemOn the 10[th] and 11[th] of December, ABAX is offering a challenge different from a developer's usual daily work, regrouping them into small teams and giving them a 24-hour window to be innovative. The event lets developers play with code and ideas looking for the next big thing for the

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Atea Sweden wins large public sector frame agreement within Software and Cloud computing

Atea Sweden AB has been awarded a large public sector frame agreement for software and cloud computing services by SKL Kommentus Inköpscentral AB (SKL Kommentus). The frame agreement consists of Software (on-premise and cloud services) and Software-related consultancy services such as installation, configuration, project management and Software Asset Management. The frame agreement has a four-year term, with an option for early termination. The total volume of purchases under the frame agreement is expected to be SEK 2.9 billion over four years. Atea is one of four suppliers on the frame

Fabege sells Sadelplatsen 1 in Solna

Fabege has sold the property Sadelplatsen 1 in Solna to CapMan.The property is located at Vallgatan 11 by Järva krog, and has housed an Audi car showroom for many years. It has 6,360 m2 of leasable floor space for car sales activities and offices, as well as a car park. The property is basically empty at the moment. The sale will take place in the form of a company with an underlying property value of SEK 260 million, and will generate a pre-tax profit of SEK 43 million and a after-tax profit of SEK 52 million.  The profit will be recognised in the fourth quarter. The transfer will

Valmet’s President and CEO Pasi Laine granted the honorary title of vuorineuvos

Valmet Oyj’s press release on December 11, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. EETThe President of the Republic of Finland has granted the honorary title of vuorineuvos to Pasi Laine, President and CEO of Valmet Oyj. Pasi Laine, President and CEO, and vuorineuvos, was born in 1963. Laine has acted as President and CEO of Valmet since December 2013. Before that, he worked in various management positions at Metso Corporation. Pasi Laine was a member of Metso Executive Team in 2006–2013, Metso’s Executive Vice President, and Deputy to the CEO between 2011–2013. Pasi Laine has been entrusted with the

Castellum divests Halmstad University

Castellum is selling properties in the university area in Halmstad. The buyer is Intea Fastigheter, which thereby increases its portfolio in the area. The total lettable area is 36,376 square meters and the sales price amounts to SEK 714 million net after deductions for deferred tax and expenses of approximately SEK 16 million, which exceeds the most recent valuation of the properties.The transaction includes the properties Fanborgen 3 and part of Fanan 39, both part of the university area in Halmstad. As Halmstad's second tallest building, the Fanborgen 3 property under the name Trade

Gary Glendinning appointed area director of UK and Ireland

Gary Glendinning will start as an area director of the UK and Ireland and as the managing director of Ponsse UK Ltd. on 1 January 2021. The Group’s subsidiary Ponsse Machines Ireland Ltd. will be responsible for providing PONSSE customer support and sales in Ireland.Glendinning will transfer to his new position from the position of Ponsse Group’s area director in charge of Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, in which he has worked since the beginning of 2018. He started at Ponsse in 1997, working in various maintenance service positions and being the managing

Wulff Group Plc’s financial reporting and annual general meeting 2021

STOCK EXHANGE RELEASE DECEMBER 11, 2020 AT 14.00 P.M Wulff Group Plc will release the following financial reports in 2021: Financial Statements Release 2020 Monday February 22, 2021Annual Report Wednesday March 10, 2021Interim Report January-March 2021 Monday April 26, 2021Half-Year Report January-June 2021 Monday July 26, 2021Interim Report January-September 2021 Monday October 25, 2021 The Annual General Meeting of Wulff Group Plc will be held on Thursday April 8, 2021. The notice of the Annual General Meeting will be published

Partnership with Nordic Swan Ecolabel for environmental leadership

The Nordic Swan Ecolabel is one of the most prestigious brands in the Nordic countries. For Kiilto, partnership with the label is an important part of environmental leadership, and even a precondition for sales in the case of some products. The Nordic Swan Ecolabel criteria are revised approximately every five years, and Kiilto works hard to meet them.The certification has been awarded to Kiilto products for over twenty years now. Kiilto is one of the first operators in the cleaning sector to earn the label for its products.  It went without saying that Kiilto would apply for the

Doptelet® (avatrombopag) receives positive opinion from CHMP for treatment of ITP

Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (publ) (Sobi™) (STO:SOBI)  today announces that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion of Doptelet® (avatrombopag) for the treatment of primary chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) in adult patients who are refractory to other treatments (e.g. corticosteroids, immunoglobulins). The opinion is now referred to the European Commission for a decision. Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune disorder characterised by low numbers of platelets,

Board and management exercises warrants of series TO 2

Initiator Pharma A/S (“Initiator Pharma” or “the Company”) exercise period for warrants of series TO 2 (“TO 2”) is currently ongoing and it ends on Tuesday, December 15, 2020. The Company can today announce that members of the Board and management has exercised TO 2 for a total amount corresponding to approximately SEK 0.5 million. Among those who have exercised their TO 2 are, among others, the Company's CEO Claus Olesen and chairman Magnus Persson.TO 2 was issued in connection with the Company's rights issue of units and directed issue of units in June 2020. The capital the Company can be

Adapteo Plc: 4,442,025 new shares registered with the trade register

Adapteo Plc – Regulatory press release – 11 December 2020 at 12.50 p.m. CET NOT FOR PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH AFRICA OR SINGAPORE, OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. Adapteo Plc ("Adapteo") announced 10 December 2020 the result of the offering of new shares (the "Placing Shares") in a private placement to institutional and other qualified investors (the "Placing"). In the Placing, Adapteo issued a

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