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Karolinska University Hospital to take part in new EU project aiming to save more lives through remote monitoring

The purpose of the Nightingale project is to develop a wireless portable technology for the remote monitoring of vital functions, for example pulse, heart rate and breathing, in high-risk patients, both at the hospital and in the home, among other things following an operation. The objective is for care providers to receive information in real time if a patient’s situation should deteriorate, for example through bleeding or pneumonia. Early information increases the possibility to prevent serious complications, which is expected to save more lives.The project is part of a new EU programme

GJEB - Increase of share capital

Reference is made to announcements on 7 September 2016, 26 October 2016, 9 January 2017 and 17 February 2017 regarding the merger between Gjensidige Bank ASA and Gjensidige Investeringsrådgivning AS. The Board of Gjensidige Bank ASA has today, 8 March 2017, proposed to the General Meeting to increase equity by NOK 21 454 276 through a private placement with the parent company Gjensidige Bank Holding AS. Of the NOK 21 454 276 capital issue, NOK 876 000 would be share capital and NOK 20 578 276 would be allocated to premium reserves. The increase of share capital will immediately after the

Alma Media plans to change Pohjolan Sanomat into Lapin Kansa

Alma Media Corporation        Press release                               8 March 2017 at 12:00 noon  ALMA MEDIA PLANS TO CHANGE POHJOLAN SANOMAT INTO LAPIN KANSA  Alma Media is planning to merge its two daily newspaper titles published in Lapland, Lapin Kansa and Pohjolan Sanomat, to create one media brand of Lapin Kansa. The plan is to continue publishing a newspaper six days a week in the Kemi-Tornio (Sea Lapland) area and a digital media service by the name Lapin Kansa.  The operations of Pohjolan Sanomat and Lapin Kansa—editorial work, advertisement sales and production—were

Gender equality increases profitability of forest estates

By 2025, women will account for 40-60 percent of Södra’s elected representatives. This is one of the targets contained in the action plan for increasing diversity and gender equality in Södra’s membership organisation."The action plan represents an important milestone in our efforts to achieve gender equality. Elected representatives, who act in the interests of our owners, have an important role to play and we need to develop our membership organisation to address the changes occurring both within and outside Södra. Through greater diversity, such as a larger share of female elected

Trigon Agri: Major Shareholder Announcement

Trigon Agri A/S hereby pursuant to Section 29 of the Danish Securities Trading Act announces receipt of the following major shareholder notification: Sparinvest S.A., a UCITS and AIFM approved management company/alternative fund manager and portfolio manager, on trade date 7th March 2017 via ID-Sparinvest, Filial af Sparinvest S.A., Luxembourg divested 3,993,870 shares in Trigon Agri A/S. As a result of this divestment Sparinvest SICAV (a Luxembourgish UCITS, managed by Sparinvest S.A.) as of 7th March 2017 owns directly 81,123,084 shares corresponding to 4.694% of the issued shares

Hubert K. to be Sponsor of Solitude Revival

Hubert K. will be one of the sponsoring partners of this year´s Solitude Revival on July 21-23, 2017. In addition, Hubert K. will take care of the media relations for this event. Solitude Revival is a demonstration event of driven historic racing and road vehicles performing on the former Solitude circuit near Stuttgart, Germany, which consists of public traffic roads closed for this event. At the Solitude Revival, there will be Racing Motorcycles and Racing Sidecars up to 1972, Racing and Sports Cars up to 1947, Sports Racing Cars and Prototypes from 1948 up to 1976, Grand Touring

Waystream gets frame order worth 3 MSEK from NetNordic Solutions AS

Waystream, who develops and sells advanced digital infrastrucutre such as switches and routers for fiber-based broadband networks, has via the partner NetNordic Solutions AS, received a frame order worth 3 million SEK from Varanger Kraft, Tinn Energi, Alta Kraftlag and Austevoll Kraftlag.The order includes the Waystream switch ASR6000  and optical tranceivers and will be shipped during Q1 and Q3 of 2017. The products will be used for expanding and upgrading the networks of the following customers: Varanger

Scila Surveillance for Real Time Market Surveillance Goes Live at Börse Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf, Stockholm - 8 March 2017 Börse Düsseldorf, the German exchange, has gone live with Scila Surveillance for real time market surveillance covering equities, funds and equity linked products (ETFs, ETNs). Scila Surveillance is a powerful and highly flexible solution developed and delivered by the leading independent trade surveillance technology solution provider Scila in Stockholm.“Börse Düsseldorf will use our market surveillance solution to prevent market abuse, specifically attempted market manipulation and insider dealing and therefore ensure trading is done in a fair,

OX2 and Aquila Capital sign agreement for wind farm in Finland

Aquila Capital, a leading European manager of alternative investments, has signed a purchase agreement with OX2 for the 14,4 MW Ykspihlaja wind farm. This is the third agreement in a short time between the parties.Ykspihlaja wind farm, with four wind turbines, will be built in Kokkola, some 100 kilometres north of Vaasa. This is one of Finland’s most favourable wind positions with an average wind speed of approximately 7,7 m/sec at the hub height of the turbines. Production has been estimated at approximately 55 GWh per year. According to plan, the wind farm will be handed over to Aquila

Konecranes wins another BOXHUNTER RTG order

In February 2017, Konecranes signed an agreement with the Gold Bond Group Ltd (Conterm) in Israel for the supply of two BOXHUNTER Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes to Conterm’s logistics center in Ashdod. The cranes will be delivered at the end of 2017. The parties involved have agreed not to disclose the value of the deal. Conterm’s Ashdod logistics center is a terminal equipped with facilities providing a variety of storage and handling services for cargo of all types, including containers. The terminal is an important import-export link for trade in Israel. The Konecranes BOXHUNTER

Valmet to supply two containerboard machines for Nine Dragons in China

Valmet Oyj's press release on March 8, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. EET Valmet will supply two containerboard production lines and related automation systems for Nine Dragons Industries Co., Ltd. in China. The new production lines (PM 39 in Quanzhou and PM 40 in Chongqing) are planned to produce high-quality testliner and fluting grades out of 100 percent recycled raw materials. The start-ups of the machines are scheduled for 2018. The order was included in Valmet's fourth quarter of 2016 orders received. The value of the order will not be disclosed. The value of an order of this type and scale

Nytida and Vardaga provide mentors for new arrivals to Sweden

Ambea announces a new project in which some 30 employees in the Nytida and Vardaga business areas will receive training as guidance counselors and language mentors for asylum-seekers arriving in Sweden. The program is being arranged within the framework of ESF Project KISA, an initiative from the Swedish Employment implemented cooperation with education provider Consensum.The training will take place at Vardaga Villa Hovstallet in Uppsala, with participants from Nytida and Vardaga facilities in Uppsala, Gävle, Enköping and Upplands Väsby. “We started this project so that Ambea employees

Year-End Report 2016

Fourth quarter of 2016 · Revenue amounted to SEK 0.3 (0.0) million from a few smaller initial projects, one of which was an expansion project related to one of the first project orders. The ConverLight™ product is generating considerable interest among property owners, architects and other players in the flat glass market. · The net income for the period amounted to SEK -11.7 (-13.0) million, corresponding toSEK -0.64 (-2.01) per share. The company is a development company in the process of transforming itself into a sales and production company. Sales are initially low and thus

Enviro appoints new Sales Manager with international focus

Enviro has appointed a new Sales Manager to operate and develop the sales process of recycled materials. The recruitment is the result of several commercial advances in the past year and a growing international interest in the company’s successful recycling process. – With extensive industry experience and proven success in sales of complex products, our new Sales Manager will focus on demonstrating the breadth of applications where our circular material is an alternative to fossil fuels. All new expertise that we add to the team is critical to Enviro’s continuing progress, says Thomas

Information Builders Helps Companies Act on the Internet of Things

Customers Across Verticals Turning to Industry Leader for IoT Integration and AnalyticsStockholm, Sweden and Grapevine, TX, March 8, 2017 – Today, at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2017, Information Builders , a leader in business intelligence  (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, announced that it is helping numerous customers derive value from their Internet of Things (IoT) investments. The company’s big data integration and analytics tools ensure the

Strokefinder used in clinical study on patients with head injury

Department of Neurosurgery at Sahlgrenska University Hospital has published a study in the Journal of Neurotrauma. http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/neu.2016.4869The publication named “Clinical evaluation of a microwave-based device for detection of traumatic intracranial hemorrhage" describes the enrolment of 20 patients admitted for surgery of chronic subdural hematoma and 20 health volunteers. Microwave examinations with Medfield Strokefinder was compared to the patients’ CT-scan. The result shows that the microwave method has great potential to detect bleedings in this group of

Swedish ICA stores – February sales figures

Sales in the Swedish ICA stores increased by 0.3% in February 2017 compared with the corresponding month last year. Sales in like-for-like stores decreased by 0.3%.+-----------+-----+-------+--------+------+-------+--------+| | February | January || | 2017 | – Februar || | | y 2017 |+-----------+-----+-------+--------+------+-------+--------+|Store sales|Mkr |Change |Change |Mkr |Change |Change ||excl. VAT | |all |like-for| |all |like-for|

Resurs Bank examines the possibility to issue bonds within existing MTN-programme

Resurs Bank AB (Publ), a subsidiary to Resurs Holding, has mandated Carnegie and Swedbank for a 4 year senior unsecured SEK denominated bond transaction under its existing SEK 3 bn Medium Term Note Programme. The transaction is expected to take place in the near future, subject to market conditions. For additional information:Peter Rosén, CFO Resurs Holding, peter.rosen@resurs.se  +46 736 564 934Gunilla Wikman, Investor Relations Manager, gunilla.wikman@resurs.se; +46 707 638 125 About Resurs Holding The Resurs Group, which operates through subsidiaries Resurs Bank and Solid

Resurs Bank examines the possibility to issue bonds within existing MTN-programme

Resurs Bank AB (Publ) has mandated Carnegie and Swedbank for a 4 year senior unsecured SEK denominated bond transaction under its existing SEK 3 bn Medium Term Note Programme. The transaction is expected to take place in the near future, subject to market conditions. For additional information:Peter Rosén, CFO Resurs Holding, peter.rosen@resurs.se +46 736 564 934Gunilla Wikman, Investor Relations Manager, gunilla.wikman@resurs.se; +46707638125  About Resurs Bank  Resurs was founded in 1977 and is one of the fastest-growing niche banks in the Nordic region. During the 1980s we

Selvaag Bolig ASA: Purchase of treasury shares

Selvaag Bolig ASA purchased 6 500 treasury shares on 7 March 2017. The shares were purchased at an average price of NOK 39.35. The shares were purchased for the company's share programmes for employees. After the transaction, Selvaag Bolig owns 663 514 treasury shares. Further information fromSverre Molvik, CFO, Selvaag Bolig ASATelephone: +47 401 00 585, e-mail: smo@selvaagbolig.no Selvaag Bolig ASA is a residential property developer controlling the entire value chain from acquisition of land to sale of homes. The company has several thousand homes under development at any

SAS traffic figures - February 2017

• Scheduled traffic (RPK) increased 13% and the capacity (ASK) was up 5%, despite the leap year in February 2016.• The load factor improved by 4.8 p.u. versus last year to 67.9%.• SAS carried 2 million scheduled passengers in February, up 2.6% vs. last year.• The preliminary currency adjusted yield and PASK were down 8% and 1% in February 2017. The nominal yield was down 6% while the nominal PASK was up 1%.Market developmentAlthough the demand is growing, the operating environment is more challenging, with the yield at historically low levels. In addition, jet fuel prices have

Filing of Form 20-F with SEC

8 March 2017 07:00 GMT FILING OF ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 20-F WITH THE US SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION AstraZeneca PLC (the Company) announced today that, on 7 March 2017, it filed its 2016 Annual Report on Form 20-F with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The document is available for viewing on the SEC website at www.sec.gov and also on the Company's website at www.astrazeneca.com. The Company will send any holder of the Company's securities, upon request, a hard copy of the Company's complete audited financial statements free of charge. Requests may be made by

ICA Gruppen publishes annual report 2016

ICA Gruppen’s Annual Report for 2016 is now available at www.icagruppen.seThe annual report, which also includes ICA’s sustainability report, is available both in an online version and as a downloadable PDF document. To read or download the annual report in Swedish, go to: http://www.icagruppen.se/arsredovisning-2016 To read or download the annual report in English, go to: http://www.icagruppen.se/en/annual-report-2016 The printed annual report will be available at the company’s head office from 13 March. The printed annual report can be ordered at arsredovisning@ica.se

Fredrik Nilzén new Head of Group Sustainability at Swedbank

Swedbank continues to strengthen its work on sustainability and has recruited Fredrik Nilzén as new Head of Group Sustainability for the group. Fredrik will be responsible for developing, monitoring and reporting of Swedbank’s sustainability strategies and goals.Fredrik comes from a position as Nordic CSR Lead at Accenture where he, since 2010, has been responsible for the Nordic work. Since 2004 Fredrik has worked as consultant at Accenture Sweden within businessdriven sustainability, digitalisation and strength-based coaching. He has also experience as consultant from Inno Consulting and

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