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Britain’s PAs and office managers gear up for office* 2016

Thousands of PAs, EAs, VAs, and office managers are preparing to visit next week’s office* – the UK’s biggest dedicated event for office support professionals.  The popular two-day show taking place at London’s ExCeL on 11-12 May, looks set for another record turnout with over 4,000 attendees expected. Pre-registered visitors include office executives from Pfizer, Harrods, Ministry of Defence, Crossrail, British Airways, American Express, House of Commons, Channel 4, Pepsico, Virgin, Deloitte, Barclays, BBC, Odeon Cinemas, Transport for London, British Red Cross, Siemens, Ann Summers,

Raised ambitions with new climate target

ICA Gruppen today presented its sustainability report for the first quarter of 2016. The report addresses important issues and initiatives regarding the environment, quality, ethical trade, health and community engagement.ICA Gruppen’s greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 24% during the period April 2015 to March 2016 compared with 2006. “At ICA we have been working actively and with determination for a number of years to reduce our climate footprint,” comments Per Strömberg, CEO of ICA Gruppen. “We achieved our previous target back in 2014 through a sweeping set of changes. At the end

Invitation to Resurs’s first quarter 2016 interim report presentation

Resurs will publish its interim report for the first quarter 2016 on Tuesday 10 May 2016 at 08.00 am CET. Resurs’s CEO Kenneth Nilsson and CFO Peter Rosén will host a presentation starting at 12.00 CET. 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. A light meal will be served from 11.45 CET. For participation at the event, please register in advance via email to hearings@financialhearings.com. The presentation will be webcasted live on www.

Falken’s James Deane wins UK round of EXTREME Drift Allstars

Deane kicks off his 2016 season with success at BHP Performance ShowFalken Tyres-backed James Deane scored an emphatic victory at round two of the EXTREME Drift Allstars at Lydden Hill in Kent this weekend. Having qualified second, Deane piloting his 730bhp Nissan S14, faced changing weather conditions to scoop victory in the final beating Jerome Vassia from France. The EXTREME Drift Allstars is now recognised as one of the fastest growing professional drifting competitions with 2016 seeing the championship expand beyond Europe taking in rounds in the UAE, Thailand and South Africa to

A New Digital Era for a Hundred Year Old Business

Mark-up Tools are delighted to announce the launch of their new trade only website powered by B2B Cloud . With offices in Europe, China and Pakistan, and a trading history that spans four generations, Mark-Up Tools have built a strong reputation for delivering quality products and high standards of service to the wholesale and retail trade. Markuponline.com  is a brand new ecommerce channel that will showcase a large catalogue of building, decorating, gardening, automotive tools and more, spanning 3500 products, and

“We will present Enviro to the Chilean president”

Chile’s president, Michelle Bachelet, is coming to Sweden following an invitation by H.M. the King. Enviro has also been invited to this state visit, the primary theme of which is Innovations with a focus on sustainable urban development. “For Enviro, this is a fantastic opportunity to present to President Bachelet our solution for increased sustainability within the rubber industry. My hope is that this will have a positive effect on our ongoing negotiations for a recycling plant in Chile”, says Thomas Sörensson, CEO of Scandinavian Enviro Systems. Enviro’s CEO, Thomas

HARMAN racks up accolades at the Red Dot Awards

The connected lifestyle services company has been honoured with more than 200 awards over past four yearsSTAMFORD, CT – HARMAN International Industries , Incorporated (NYSE: HAR), the premier connected technologies company for automotive, consumer and enterprise markets today announced it has won a total of 23 product innovation and design awards at the 2016 Red Dot Design Awards. HARMAN’s brands JBL, AKG and Harman Kardon all picked up accolades this year, taking HARMAN’s award recognition over the past four years globally to 200 wins, more than double its closest

Metsä Group's wood products business to increase customer focus in its organisational structure

Metsä Group press release 4 May 2016Metsä Wood, the company responsible for Metsä Group’s wood products business, is renewing its management structure and moving to a process-based organisational model. At the same time, the existing structure based on business lines will be dismantled. Henrik Söderström has been appointed SVP in charge of the Customer Relationship process in the Metsä Wood Executive Management Team and Jari Tikkanen SVP in charge of the Production and Technology process. The appointments are effective immediately. The other members of the management team continue with

New Valmet-delivered pulp drying lines started up at Klabin in Brazil

Valmet Corporation's trade press release on May 4, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. EET Two new pulp drying lines, delivered by Valmet, have been started at Klabin's new pulp mill located in Ortigueira city, Paraná state in Brazil. The first pulp bale was produced according to schedule on March 4th, 2016. Klabin's new pulp mill will have the capacity to produce 1.5 million tons of pulp per year, with 1.1 million tons of bleached hardwood pulp (BEK) made of eucalyptus and 400,000 tons of bleached softwood pulp (BSK) made of pine. Part of the softwood will be converted into fluff pulp, making the

Catella advisor in sale of property portfolio in Jyväskylä area in Finland

City Kauppapaikat Oy has sold a property portfolio consisting four retail properties located in Jyväskylä area. Shopping centre Torikeskus is situated in Jyväskylä CBD, two of the retail properties in Seppälä area and the shopping centre Forum in Jämsä. Catella acted as the seller’s advisor on the transaction.The buyer Business Network Oy is a local real estate investor, which owns part of the shopping centre Torikeskus already. With concentrated ownership, it is easier to develop the shopping centre further. The lettable area of the portfolio is approximately 24,500 sqm and the

First quarter results presentation on 10 May

Scandi Standard will publish its report for the first quarter 2016 at 07.30 CET on Tuesday, 10 May 2016.Conference call at 10.00 CETThe company will host a conference call for the financial community at 10.00 CET the same day. The conference will be hosted by Leif Bergvall Hansen, CEO and Tobias Wastensson, Head of Group Finance.Dial in numbers:Sweden: 08-50 510 036UK: 020-3059 8125All other locations: +44 20 3059 8125  The presentation material will be published at www.scandistandard.com prior to the conference call.The conference will also be audio webcasted in “listen-

Taylor & Francis Group launch TandFChina.com: its online hub for Chinese customers and partners

Launching today, TandFChina.com  is Taylor & Francis’ online hub for the scholarly community in China. It offers key resources for authors, researchers, journal editors, research librarians and learned societies in Mandarin, as well as being a gateway to all Taylor & Francis content, both books and journals and from all imprints (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press and Garland Science). More than 70,000 China-based researchers published in Taylor & Francis journals in 2015, almost five times the figure in 2010, and accounting for 16% of authors published

Minutes of Monetary Policy Meeting 20 April 2016

At its monetary policy meeting on 20 April, the Executive Board of the Riksbank decided to purchase government bonds for a further SEK 45 billion during the second half of 2016. The purchases include both nominal and real government bonds, corresponding to SEK 30 and SEK 15 billion, respectively. The repo rate was held unchanged at -0.50 per cent. There is still a high level of preparedness to make monetary policy even more expansionary if this is needed to safeguard the inflation target.It was noted at the meeting that the Executive Board agreed on the picture of economic prospects and the

Haldex and VIE announce joint venture to develop electromechanical brake systems

Haldex (XSTO: HLDX) and Zhejiang VIE Science and Technology Co., Ltd. (VIE) (SZSE: SZ002590) today announced a joint venture to design, develop, produce, and sell electromechanical brake systems for commercial vehicles with an initial focus on the electric bus market in China.As manufacturers and governments seek solutions to combat climate change, China is seen as taking a global lead in the market for fully electric commercial vehicles. Electromechanical brakes is expected to be a fast growing niche within this market, especially supported by the recent strong development of the electric

TagMaster strengthens its organization further with hiring of a group CFO

Press release, Stockholm, Sweden, May 4, 2016 TagMaster, the leading producer of advanced RFID products & ANPR cameras for long range vehicle identification in Traffic Solutions and Rail Solutions, strengthens its organization by appointing Margaretha Narström as group CFO.  “TagMaster is in a rapid expansion phase and have a growth strategy containing further acquisitions to build a relevant position as technology provider towards Smart Cities solutions. Last year we acquired CitySync Ltd in UK and last week we announced our intent to acquire Balogh in France. We are very glad that

Humana expands into Finland through acquisition

Humana AB, a leading Nordic care company, acquires the leading Finnish psychosocial care provider Arjessa. As a result of the acquisition Humana establishes a strong platform for continued growth in Finland.Humana AB has entered into an agreement to acquire all shares in Arjessa Oy (“Arjessa” or the “Company”) from funds managed by Sentica Partners Oy and a number of private individuals. The transaction is subject to approval by the Finnish competition authorities and is expected to be finalized by the end of the second quarter of 2016. The enterprise value of the acquisition target is

Tieto to support Ahlstrom’s IT transformation

Tieto and Ahlstrom into agreement for faster and agile response to Ahlstrom's business needs.The leading Nordic software and services company Tieto and global fiber-based materials company Ahlstrom have agreed to extend their long business relation and are now deepening the partnership in the area of order fulfillment services. With the agreement, Ahlstrom aims for improved and more effective end-to-end service management. Tieto will take the end-to-end responsibility for Ahlstrom’s order fulfillment services including the manufacturing execution system CarelMill and order-to-cash ERP

Itiviti expands support of equity options markets

–      Itiviti adds ISE and PHLX to expand equity options market reach; Plans for connectivity to BATS Chicago – Wednesday, May 4, 2016 – Itiviti, a world-leading technology provider for the capital markets industry, today announced the release of two new gateways in the equity options space, augmenting the current offering of Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and CBOE’s C2 with connectivity to Nasdaq PHLX and the International Securities Exchange (ISE).With the addition of ISE and PHLX, clients can now access half of the US equity options volume on the three most liquid exchanges

Nokian Tyres: Disclosure under chapter 9, section 10 of the securities market act

Nokian Tyres plc Stock Exchange Release 4 May 2016 at 09:45 a.m. Nokian Tyres has received an announcement from BlackRock, Inc. on 3 May 2016, according to which BlackRock, Inc.'s indirect holding in Nokian Tyres shares has gone above the threshold of 5 % of the share capital in Nokian Tyres plc, as a result of a share transactions concluded on 2 May 2016. The indirect shareholding of BlackRock, Inc. in Nokian Tyres has increased to 7,014,013 shares, corresponding to 5.20% of Nokian Tyres’ shares and voting rights. The mutual funds managed by BlackRock, Inc. held on deal date a total

CONTINUED SALES GROWTH

January – March · Net sales rose by about 32% to SEK 3,808k (2,886k). · Comprehensive income improved by SEK 1,552k to SEK -3,454 (loss: 5,006k). · Comprehensive income per share, basic and diluted, improved by SEK 0.14 to SEK -0.09 (-0.23). · Cash flow from operating activities was SEK -2,498k (-4,854k). · The Board of Directors of Genovis AB (publ) has resolved on a rights issue subject to approval by the Annual General Meeting on May 12, 2016 · Genovis signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Alphalyse A/S that will provide access to Alphalyse’s expertise

Cxense Signs Agreement with Vulcan Productions

Oslo, Norway – 4 May 2016 – Cxense ASA  (OSE: CXENSE) today announced that Vulcan Productions  signed an agreement with Cxense, which includes licensing for Cxense Video . Vulcan Productions produces compelling films, television programs and digital content, that inspire people to take action on the critical issues of our time. Vulcan Productions will leverage Cxense Video to power a hosted online video portal for search and streaming of more than 500 90-minute interviews of World

Transplanted nerve cells survive a quarter of a century in a Parkinson’s disease patient

In the late 1980s and over the 1990s, researchers at Lund University in Sweden pioneered the transplantation of new nerve cells into the brains of patients with Parkinson’s disease. The outcomes proved for the first time that transplanted nerve cells can survive and function in the diseased human brain. Some patients showed marked improvement after the transplantation while others showed moderate or no relief of symptoms. A small number of patients suffered unwanted side-effects in the form of involuntary movements.Ever since the first transplantations were carried out, a fundamental

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