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Volvo Group – the fourth quarter and full year 2016

“2016 was a year with somewhat lower volumes. Our revenues declined by 3% to SEK 302 bn. Nonetheless, our profitability improved with an adjusted operating margin of 7.0% for the full year 2016. This reflects our ability to manage volume changes in different regions as well as continued cost reductions and productivity improvements. The fourth quarter followed the pattern of previous quarters with somewhat improved profitability on lower volumes. Adjusted operating income was SEK 5,660 M, corresponding to a margin of 6.9%,” says Martin Lundstedt, President and CEO.THE FOURTH QUARTER 2016

SEB's Annual Accounts 2016

Excluding items affecting comparability the operating result was SEK 20.3bn and return on equity 11.3 per cent. The operating result for 2016 amounted to SEK 14.9bn (20.9) and the return on equity was 7.8 per cent. "Following a cautious start of the year, business sentiment grew more positive and event-driven transactions picked up. Large corporate credit demand rose and SEB participated in a number of large initial public offerings in the Nordic region. Both in Sweden and in the Baltic countries we saw that domestically focused SMEs showed a growing willingness to invest. Customers need

What kind of lover are you?

Travel agents can win vacation in Sweden and ChinaFrankfurt, 7 February 2017 – Worldhotels’ new awareness campaign asks travel agents questions about their preferences to find out what kind of lover they are. By entering the contest, travel agents can win the following prizes: The first prize includes a four-night stay at the Hotel C Stockholm, Sweden for two persons, an IceBar couple package, transfer to and from the airport and return flights. The second prize consists of a four-night stay at the Dorsett Wanchai, Hong Kong, China with breakfast for two persons in the Sony theme suite and

Jennifer Boccara appointed the Vice President of Development for EMEA Region at Worldhotels

Reinforcement of the Development StrategyFrankfurt, 31 January 2017 – Worldhotels is strengthening its development force by appointing Jennifer Boccara as its new Vice President of Development EMEA. Jennifer Boccara will substantially expedite the company’s development in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Boccara, who joined the group on January, 2nd 2017, will be based in the Worldhotels office in Paris, France. Jennifer Boccara is a hotel expert with extensive work experience with hotels throughout Europe and a strong sales and marketing background. Before joining the Worldhotels’

Practice before the operation: medical models from the 3D printer

Patient-specific reproductions from Magdeburg help doctors to prepare On February 14 and 15, 2017, G Saxony-Anhalt presents the future forward potentials of the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt as 3d printing location at the Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo  in Singapore at stand C9. Today, we want to present you one of the success stories of Saxony-Anhalt in the field of 3d printing. --- A few years ago 3D printing still sounded like science fiction. Today, “additive

UTA, Botanical Research Institute of Texas partner to spur discoveries, job creation

Two of Tarrant County’s leading research institutions have formed a distinctive partnership with an eye on future job creation and greater sustainability through discoveries in plant and environmental sciences. The University of Texas at Arlington and The Botanical Research Institute of Texas or BRIT announced they are collaborating to offer expanded research opportunities for graduate level studies. The research jointly conducted by UTA students, faculty and BRIT scientists could lead to higher crop yields, disease-resistant crop varieties, cheaper food, new biofuels and an improved

RaySearch increases the operating profit by 126 percent in the fourth quarter

RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ) releases preliminary numbers for the fourth quarter and the full-year 2016 earlier than the year-end report due to the strong increase in the operating profit.Sales increased by 45 percent to 191 (132) MSEK in the fourth quarter and the operating profit increased by 126 percent to 100 (44) MSEK. Sales for the full-year increased by 34 percent to 531 (398) MSEK and the operating profit increased by 109 percent to 200 (95) MSEK. The above numbers are preliminary and a final year-end report will be released on 17 February 2017 at 07.45 CET as previously

Invitation to Resurs’s full-year and fourth quarter 2016 report presentation

Resurs will publish its full-year and fourth quarter 2016 report on Tuesday 7 February 2016 at 8.00 am CET. Resurs’s CEO Kenneth Nilsson and CFO Peter Rosén will host a presentation starting at 10.00 CET and will be followed by a Q&A session. Presentation material will be available at that time on Resurs’s website: www.resursholding.com.The presentation will be held at the IVA Konferenscenter, Grev Turegatan 16 in Stockholm. Coffee will be served from 09.45 CET. For participation at the event, please register in advance here .

RIDE, THE HIT TV SHOW THAT DEBUTED IN THE U.S. YESTERDAY, INKS PUBLISHING DEAL WITH CANDLEWICK ENTERTAINMENT

First book in series to launch in September 2017   Somerville, MA, Jan. 31, 2017 – Ride, a hit TV series in the U.K. and Canada that debuted in the United States yesterday on Nickelodeon, has inked a publishing deal with Candlewick Entertainment.   Candlewick Entertainment, an imprint of Candlewick Press, has acquired world rights in all languages to a series of books for young readers based on Ride the TV series, which is currently airing daily on Nickelodeon at 8:00 p.m. (ET/PT). The books were acquired by Joan Powers, group editorial director for Candlewick Entertainment and

UTA’s Innovation Day 2017 to showcase student “Shark Tank”- style competition, student and faculty startup pitches

The University of Texas at Arlington will feature a high school and college student “Shark Tank”-style competition, student and faculty startup pitches and posters, and a showcase of community startup companies and services for entrepreneurs at its annual InnovationDay@UTA, 8:40 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday Feb. 6, at the E.H. Hereford University Center, 300 W. First St., in Arlington. “UTA is rapidly becoming a focal point for innovation in the North Texas region, not only for our faculty and students but for the surrounding community as well,” said Duane Dimos, UTA’s vice president for

New features and capabilities of the CLEAVEMETER 3D

The CLEAVEMETER 3D has been one of NYFORS’s bestselling products in the past year. This year we are announcing several new features that expand the scope of the devices capabilities. The device now comes with a new control software that not only simplifies its operation, but also offers a variety of new analysis features for fiber end-face inspection. Furthermore the development of new holders now allow for the quality inspection of fiber connectors and a larger field of view of 2000um.The CLEAVEMETER 3D is NYFORS’s fiber end-face inspection interferometer. It can analyse a cleaved fiber

AUTOPREP 3 – NYFORS’s new automatic fiber stripping and cleaving device presented at Photonics West (Booth 5147)

At Photonics West 2017 in San Francisco, CA, NYFORS TEKNOLOGI AB (publ) is proud to present our new fiber preparation device - the AUTOPREP 3. The device is designed for automatic stripping and cleaving of fibers with extremely fast cycle times. The new unit comes with an integrated touchpad and WiFi capabilities.The AUTOPREP 3 is a fully automatic, high-speed fiber preparation device that can strip, clean and cleave a fiber in less than 15 seconds. For this it uses a precise thermal stripping device that leaves a clean stripping area and retains a fiber strength of more than 30 N. The

Simple and square recoating with the MINICOATER 2S from NYFORS TEKNOLOGI AB

NYFORS TEKNOLOGI AB (publ) is proud to present the most cost efficient recoater on the market.  The new MINICOATER 2S will combine our proven technology from the 90s with our more recent developments. The resulting device comes at a lower price than any other recoater on the market.With 30 years of experience in fiber processing technology NYFORS is now reinventing its technology from the 90s to produce an extremely cost efficient recoater. The device will be using square silicone moulds to create simple recoats. While offering all the advantages our other silicone moulds offer. NYFORS is

Trevian divests a retail property portfolio of €34 million

Trevian Asset Management’s two Retail Sector Property Funds, Trevian Retail Fund I and Trevian Retail II, have today sold six retail properties to Sirius Fund II. The properties are located in the Helsinki Metropolitan area as well in other fast growing urban areas in Finland. The properties are currently leased to S Group’s and K Group's retail stores, the largest property being Citymarket Savonlinna. The transaction price was little over EUR 34 million, corresponding to a yield of about 6.0 - 6.5% depending on the location of each property. Trevian’s Retail Funds book a sales gain of

New fully automatic thermal stripper from NYFORS TEKNOLOGI AB - the AUTOSTRIPPER 3

The AUTOSTRIPPER 3 is NYFORS’s new thermal stripping device designed for fast and chemical free window stripping of optical fibers. It can remove acrylate-coatings between 250 and 550 μm and claddings between 125 and 300 μm, leaving behind a cleanly stripped fiber while retaining a high fiber strength.The device operates with a controlled hot air flow that instantly vaporizes the fiber coating. This process yields results that show a clean fiber at 400x magnification. The stripping also retains the strength of the fiber, which can be tested with a built-in tensile strength tester up

Improved accuracy on fiber end-face inspection with the CLEAVEMETER 3D+

NYFORS TEKNOLOGI AB (publ) has developed a new CLEAVEMETER, which significantly improves the accuracy of the measured fiber end face. The CLEAVEMETER 3D+ takes several measurements of the angle thereby significantly increasing the accuracy to 0.02°.By upgrading the software and hardware of our current CLEAVEMETER 3D, we have managed to significantly improve the accuracy of the measured angle of the fiber end-face. The device can extract an angle with standard deviation less than 0.02° in less than 1 minute. Even higher accuracies can be attained by taking more measurements. The device is

Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association Brings Legends For Youth Baseball Clinic Series To Dominican Republic

Free youth baseball clinics hosted by Edwin Encarnación and Manny ActaColorado Springs, Colo. – Local youth will have an opportunity to play with their big league heroes at the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association (MLBPAA) Legends for Youth baseball clinics on Sunday, February 5, 2017 and Wednesday, February 8, 2017. In conjunction with Edwin Encarnación and 2016 Brooks Robinson Community Service Award recipient Manny Acta, the free clinics will feature current and former Major League Baseball players who will teach baseball skills, drills and life lessons for a total of

Change of number of shares and votes in East Capital Explorer

In accordance with the decision at the Extraordinary General Meeting on 23 January 2017, concerning cancellation of own shares and to carry out a bonus issue without issuing new shares, 2,500,000 shares have been cancelled. Following the cancellation, the number of outstanding shares and votes in East Capital Explorer AB, per 31 January 2017, amounts to 25,661,563. The Company holds 158,979 own shares corresponding to 0.62 percent of the total number of outstanding shares and votes in the Company. Contact information Mia Jurke, CEO, East Capital Explorer, +46 8 505 885 32 Lena

Allianz Global Assistance Announces Winners of its “ScholarTrips” Scholarship Program

Winning Entries Receive Cash Prizes to Help Students Explore the WorldAllianz Global Assistance USA , a leading provider of travel insurance, has announced the winners of its 2016 annual “ScholarTrips” essay and video contest.  More than 70 students have received nearly $40,000 in prizes in this year’s contest, bringing total prizes awarded by the program to almost $150,000. Due to an overwhelming number of entries received, prizes were dramatically expanded for this year’s contest.  The ScholarTrips  program seeks to

Number of outstanding shares in Elekta AB

STOCKHOLM, January 31, 2017 – The total number of shares in Elekta as of January 31, 2017, amounts to 382,829,435 divided between 14,250,000 A-shares and 368,579,435 B-shares.The increase of 388 new B-shares is attributable to the conversion of shares within the framework of the 2012/17 convertible bond. One A-share entitles the holder to ten votes and one B-share to one vote. # # # For further information, please contact:Tobias Bülow, Director Financial Communication, Elekta ABTel: +46 722 215 017, e-mail: tobias.bulow@elekta.comTime zone: CET: Central European Time This

Press release from the Extraordinary General Meeting of Rabbalshede Kraft AB (publ)

Rabbalshede Kraft AB (publ) (the “Company”) held an Extraordinary General Meeting today, January 31, 2017, in Gothenburg under the chairmanship of Karl-Erling Trogen. The Meeting resolved on the reduction of the share capital for allocation to unrestricted shareholders’ equity, on a directed share issue to Greystone Sweden Venture AB, (the “Investor”) and appointment of new board members. Bertil Villard was elected as new Chairman of the Board.The Extraordinary General Meeting resolved on the reduction of the Company’s share capital for allocation to unrestricted shareholders’ equity with

Number of shares and votes in Orexo

Uppsala, Sweden – January 31, 2017 – The number of shares and votes in Orexo AB has changed as a result of the exercise of warrants in connection with the company’s incentive programs. Today, the last trading day of the month, there are in total 34,874,585 shares - whereof 34,539,585 are ordinary shares and 335,000 class C shares - and 34,573,085 votes in the company. For further information, please contact: Orexo AB (publ.) Lena Wange, IR & Communications ManagerTel: 018 780 88 00email: ir@orexo.com About Orexo Orexo is a specialty pharmaceutical company

Favorable opinion regarding Distillers Grains produced using XyloFerm®

The expert panel convened by Taurus Energy has issued a favorable opinion regarding Distillers Grains (animal feed) produced using XyloFerm®.The Panel concludes, independently and collectively, that the process utilizing the modified strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae XyloFerm strain Taurus13 produces DG grains with nutrient profiles comparable to DG described in the peer-reviewed literature. The Panel further concluded that, in those instances where the DG generated using the modified strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae exhibited higher nutrient concentrations than the control, the

Nomination committee’s recommendation for Board of Directors ahead of the 2017 Annual General Meeting

Holmen’s nomination committee proposes to the AGM the re-election of the current Board members: Fredrik Lundberg (who is also proposed for re-election as chairman of the Board), Carl Bennet, Lars Josefsson, Lars G Josefsson, Carl Kempe, Louise Lindh, Ulf Lundahl, Henrik Sjölund and Henriette Zeuchner.   The nomination committee’s other proposals will be presented in the notice convening Holmen’s AGM 2017, held in Stockholm on 27 March.   Prior to the 2017 AGM, Holmen’s nomination committee is made up of Mats Guldbrand, L E Lundbergföretagen, Alice Kempe, Kempe Foundations, Hans

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