Corporate Centre and Orkla companies in Sandakerveien to be grouped at a single location

Orkla has entered into an agreement with the company Evry to lease office premises at Nedre Skøyen vei 26 in Oslo. The purpose is to group most of Orkla's operations in the Oslo area under the same roof. In the autumn of 2013, Orkla's Corporate Centre and the headquarters of the Orkla companies Lilleborg, Lilleborg Profesjonell, Nidar, Sætre, KiMs, Pierre Robert Group and Axellus will be grouped at a single location. The lease at Nedre Skøyen vei 26 will run until the scheduled completion of Orkla's new headquarters at Drammensveien 149 and 151. All in all, the real estate projects

Swedbank Boindex, Q4, 2012

Invitation to the Annual General Meeting of Kungsleden AB (publ)

Listed Swedish property company Kungsleden AB (publ) is convening its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 18 April 2013 at Hotel Rival, Mariatorget 3, Stockholm, Sweden. The invitation states the business to be considered at the AGM and a proposal to authorise the Board of Directors to decide on the re-purchase of treasury shares.For the election of the Board of Directors, the Nomination Committee has proposed the election of Magnus Fernqvist, Peter Gustafson and Göran Larsson, and the re-election of Joachim Gahm, Lars Holmgren, Kia Orback Pettersson, Biljana Pehrsson and

Mandatory notification of trade

Stavanger, 12 March 2013: The board of Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) has as part of the company’s employee incentive scheme resolved to issue 448,778 new shares at a price of NOK 4.11 per share. The shares will be issued following registration of the share capital increase in the Register of Business Enterprises. After this capital increase, total number of shares issued in Noreco will be 356,094,095. The following primary insiders have subscribed and been awarded Noreco shares: Hilde Alexandersen has subscribed to 12,338 shares, new balance is 116,301 shares. Kjetil Bakken

Atlas Copco to acquire hydraulic torque wrench business

Stockholm, Sweden, March 12, 2013: Atlas Copco has agreed to acquire the business of U.S-based Rapid-Torc, which develops and markets hydraulic torque wrenches. The acquisition broadens Atlas Copco’s product range and will extend its expertise to new customers.Rapid-Torc, with offices in Houston, Texas, and Brussels, Belgium, has about 30 employees and had revenues in 2012 of MUSD 11 (MSEK 75.) The company is specialized in hydraulic torque wrenches and also supplies bolt tensioners and related accessories for high-torque applications. “This acquisition broadens our offering for

Kongsberg Automotive wins new EUR 5.3 mill. contract with a major European commercial vehicle OEM

Fluid Transfer Systems (FTS) are pleased to announce a contract award from one of Europe's Premier manufacturers of commercial vehicles worth €5.3 m Euro's over the next 3 years.Technical hose assemblies used in the fuel and brake systems will be delivered to a various range of heavy duty vehicles from the FTS facility in Epila, Spain. Production will already start in the summer of 2013 and will use some of the unique forming technologies that give FTS it's competitive advantage in this growing sector. This new award confirms the positive growth trend for FTS in the commercial vehicle area.

Aspiro TV launches hosted Premium Live transcoding platform

Aspiro TV, a Norwegian company providing Multi-Screen TV services and products, today announced the launch of a premium hosted platform with flexible time-based encoding capacity. This platform which caters to Live Channels and Events will significantly reduce the cost and complexity of broadcasting events like sport and news, since capacity can be booked on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.The cloud solution complements Aspiro TV’s traditional hosting offering and will support ingest of live feeds and integration to a CDN of the customer’s choice. The platform offers pre-configured

Electrosonic to Exhibit at the Counter Terror Expo and Offer Attendees a Free Audio Visual Service Health Check for their Control Room

London (March 12, 2013) – Electrosonic’s Control Room and Service and Maintenance teams will be exhibiting together for the first time at the Counter Terror Expo in London on 24-25 April, at stand G70. Electrosonic’s control room business provides a complete set of audio-visual services for secure and mission critical environments. Their security cleared teams can provide a range of services including technical design, systems integration and 24x7x365 service and maintenance. During the expo, Electrosonic will be offering visitors the opportunity to book either a free two hour ‘Audio-

Arctic Paper S.A. opposes dividend in its subsidiary Rottneros AB

Arctic Paper S.A. (“Arctic Paper”), the second-largest European producer of bulky book paper in terms of production volume and one of Europe’s leading producers of fine graphic paper, hereby announces its intentions in respect of the voting at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting of Rottneros AB (“Rottneros”). The current Board of Directors of Rottneros has proposed that the Annual General Meeting of Rottneros to be held on March 22, 2013, resolves on a dividend of SEK 0.10 per share in Rottneros, corresponding to in aggregate SEK 15.3 million. The dividend policy of Rottneros

Semcon signs a new partnership project with global German auto supplier

The project is for developing an existing model with new architecture. About 150 engineers will be involved in this project, of which around 40 in Germany and 110 in Sweden, Trollhättan. The first phase of the project is expected to run until the end of 2015 with the option of further partnership projects.This project includes developing the complete bodywork, exterior and interior. Semcon has been involved in the project since the end of last year. When the development phase gets underway in Q2, manpower will be increased successively and during the third quarter total include around 150

East Capital Financials Fund sells holding in Bank of Georgia

The East Capital Financials Fund (ECFF) has today sold its 10.17% stake in London Stock Exchange listed Bank of Georgia Holdings PLC (BGEO). The fund received close to EUR 57m for its stake in BGEO which, together with dividend income received during the holding period implies a total cash on cash return of 65% on the investment in euro terms. The sale proceeds correspond to roughly a fifth of the fund’s end-January NAV.The East Capital Financials Fund is a private equity fund launched in 2006 with a term of seven years, plus three possible one-year extensions. As the first extension period

SKF appoints new CFO and Executive Vice President for the Group and new President Industrial Market, Strategic Industries

Henrik Lange is appointed Group CFO succeedingTore Bertilsson who is retiring. Rakesh Makhija becomes President SKF Industrial Market, Strategic IndustriesSKF today announced that Tore Bertilsson, Executive Vice President and CFO, has decided to retire from SKF after nearly 24 years of service. Up until his retirement later this year, he continues as Executive Vice President. Henrik Lange has been appointed Executive Vice President and CFO. He assumes the role as Executive Vice President with immediate effect, and the role as CFO, from 1 May 2013. Henrik currently serves as President SKF

KONECRANES PLC - KONECRANES APPLIES FOR LISTING OF STOCK OPTIONS 2009B ON NASDAQ OMX HELSINKI

In accordance with decision by the Board of Directors, Konecranes Plc applies for listing of stock option rights 2009B of Konecranes Plc Stock Options 2009 program on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki stock exchange to commence on April 2, 2013.A total of 750,000 stock options 2009B were issued. There are currently approximately 140 key employees holding a total of 708,500 stock options 2009B. Konecranes Plc currently holds 41,500 stock options 2009B.Each stock option 2009B entitles its holder to subscribe for one share of Konecranes Plc at a subscription price of EUR 21.79. The amount of the

Clas Ohlson: Interim report, 1 May 2012 – 31 January 2013

Third quarter * Sales totalled SEK 2,169 M (2,049), up 6%.    In local currencies, growth was 6% * Operating profit amounted to SEK 247 M (307), down 19% * Profit after tax was SEK 204 M (220), down 7% * Earnings per share were SEK 3.22 (3.46), down 7% Nine months * Sales totalled SEK 5,245 M (4,988), up 5%.   In local currencies, growth was 6% * Operating profit amounted to SEK 450 M (550), down 18% * Profit after tax totalled 349 M (393), down 11% * Earnings per share were SEK 5.51 (6.18), down 11% * Cash flow from operating activities amounted to SEK

Local New York Businesses, Such as Frames Bowling Lounge, Weigh in on Mayor Bloomberg’s Soda Ban

New York, NY---After much back and forth negotiation, a Judge ordered the repeal of Bloomberg’s imminent soda ban, due to roll out Tues, March 12th. It was apparently determined to be wildly unconstitutional, reeking of Prohibition-era type politics, and has been shelved for now. In preparation, many restaurants and businesses made costly changes from purchasing new glassware to printing revised in-house materials. In lieu of this ban on the sale of sugary drink pitchers, Frames Bowling Lounge seized the opportunity to expand on fresh beverage options available to customers, and

RNBs sales in February 2013

RNB’s total sales in proprietary stores in February 2013 amounted to SEK 147.6 M, compared with SEK 155.2 M in the corresponding month a year earlier (including the closed down business in Norway), which is an decrease of 4.9%. In local currencies the decrease was 4.6%. Sales in comparable stores in Sweden in February 2013 decreased by 6.9% compared with the corresponding month in the preceding year. Total sales in local currencies in comparable stores in all countries decreased by 6.3%. The number of proprietary stores amounted to 234 at February 28, 2013, compared with 221 a year

Fingerprint Cards has completed directed share issue of SEK 40 million

Fingerprint Cards AB (”FPC” or ”the Company”) has completed a directed share issue of approximately SEK 40.3 million in accordance with the placing agreement with Carnegie Investment Bank AB (”Carnegie”) in order to finance the accelerated growth and intensify participation in the on-going market expansion.Carnegie has, on behalf of FPC, on 11 March 2013, placed and sold 1.4 million newly issued class B shares, at a volume weighted average price of approximately SEK 28.81 per share. In respect thereof the Board of Directors of FPC has, pursuant to the new issue authorization granted by the

Stora Enso in Ethisphere Institute’s list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies

Stora Enso has been included in Ethisphere Institute’s 2013 list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. The Ethisphere list recognises companies’ ethical leadership, compliance practices and corporate social responsibility. This is now the sixth time running that Stora Enso has been selected for the list, and it is the only Finnish company and one of only five Nordic companies in the 2013 list.“Not only did more companies apply for the World’s Most Ethical Companies recognition this year than any year in the past, which demonstrates that ethical activity is an important part of many of

KONE wins super high-rise order in Chongqing, China

KONE Corporation, press release, March 12, 2013 KONE has won an order for 94 elevators and 36 escalators to be installed in the super high-rise tower, two lower towers and podium of the Chongqing International Trade and Commerce Center under construction in Chongqing, Southwest China. The deal includes seven KONE DoubleDeck elevators, 64 KONE MiniSpace(TM) elevators, 23 KONE S MonoSpace® elevators, 36 KONE TravelMaster® escalators, and the KONE E-Link remote monitoring system. Once completed, the Chongqing International Trade and Commerce Center's tallest tower will rise to a

Kværner ASA : Kvaerner wins EPC contract for Hebron GBS project

12 March 2013 - ExxonMobil Canada Properties has released the option for Kvaerner's joint venture company Kiewit-Kvaerner Contractors to provide the full scope of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for the Hebron Project gravity based structure (GBS). The contract value for Kvaerner's share of the full EPC contract is approximately USD 1.5 billion and includes work conducted to date on the Hebron project. The authorization to proceed with the full EPC contract follows the substantial completion of the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) and site preparation

BWG Homes acquires Kärnhem

BWG Homes ASA has entered into an agreement to acquire Swedish house builder and project developer Kärnhem AB. BWG Homes acquires all shares in the company for SEK 60 million. An earn-out agreement has been made where the sellers will receive 50 % of the operating result before interest and taxes (EBIT) during the coming three years, starting in 2013. The share purchase agreement is conditional of the approval by the Swedish competition authorities. The transaction will be executed after such approval has been granted, however at the earliest on 2 April 2013.Kärnhem has a number of new

Etrion Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2012 Results

March 11, 2013, Geneva, Switzerland – Etrion Corporation (“Etrion” or the “Company”) (TSX: ETX) (OMX: ETX), an independent solar power producer, today released its annual consolidated financial statements and related management’s discussion and analysis (“MD&A”) for the year ended December 31, 2012. Marco A. Northland, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, commented: “Our operational platform in Europe continues to over perform and the seasonality of our business should smooth over time as we add additional projects in Chile and other parts of South America, positively impacting our net

SRV housing sales continues at a record level

Investor news12.3.2013SRV’s housing sales reached a new record last year, when the company sold total of 745 developer contracting housing units. 477 units were sold to consumers and the rest to institutional investors. The early months of the year has also started in positive trend. A new record was made in February, when SRV sold a total of 88 apartments throughout Finland. “The change in the capital transfer tax at the beginning of March encouraged house buyers to complete their purchases early in the year and this was evident in the good February sales. Nevertheless, I don’t

New open CAD/CAM solutions for dentists and dental laboratories from Planmeca

Planmeca now introduces a full range of open CAD/CAM solutions for dentists and dental labs to complete its offering in industry-leading dental equipment and software. The dentist or lab can choose either the entire workflow solution or only certain parts, according to their needs.  This is made possible with Planmeca’s unique and open interfaces between devices and software. From high-precision desktop milling units to sophisticated CAD software, this unique solution includes all necessary tools for open CAD/CAM dentistry.Integrated workflow for dentists Planmeca PlanScan™ is a digital