SYDNEY, Aug. 24 --AsiaNet/InfoQuest
SPONSORSHIP AGREEMENTS...
SINGAPORE: ESPN STAR Sports, Asia's number one sports broadcaster has concluded broadcast sponsorship deals with four of Asia's most recognizable brands - Tiger, Toshiba, Toyota and Nokia - for Asia's most popular TV sport, the English Premier League (EPL).
CONTRACT SIGNED...
RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (NYSE: RIO) (CVRD), one of the leading players of the global ferromanganese alloys market, informs that it signed with Corus, one of the largest European steelmakers and a major CVRD iron ore client, a contract to supply ferromanganese alloys for three years, totaling annual deliveries of 30,000 tons.
http://wwww.cvrd.com.br
MANUFACTURING PLANT...
CHICAGO: Danaher Industrial Controls Group, a global supplier of industrial controls and feedback devices, announced that it has established a manufacturing center in Tianjin, China in order to improve responsiveness to its customers in
China and Southeast Asia. About 150 people are employed at the 12,800 square meter (2.3 million square foot) facility, and it is expected that 200 people will be employed there by the end of 2004.
http://www.dancon.com
PATENT POOL...
MONTREAL: VoiceAge Corporation is pleased to announce the conclusion of a joint patent pool for the AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) Wideband Plus codec, a candidate in 3GPP audio coding standardization, with Ericsson and Nokia. The creation of this patent pool will accelerate market development by providing users of the AMR-WB+ codec with simplified access to the technology.
http://www.voiceage.com
HOOTERS ANNOUNCEMENT...
ATLANTA: Today, Hooters of America, Inc. announced plans for H.O.I. Pvt. Ltd. to open up in major cities in India next year.
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$550 million on Semptember 1 and 2, 2004 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
PRA INTERNATIONAL...
MCLEAN: PRA International, one of the world's leading clinical research organizations, today announced that Bucky Walsh, Senior Vice President of Business Services will be heading the Company's Quality and Process Management Team as well as PRA's Clinical Pharmacology Center Unit.
http://www.prainternational.com
PEPSICO ANNOUNCEMENT...
PURCHASE: PepsiCo today announced that Larry D. Thompson, 58, would assume the role of senior vice president and General Counsel for the corporation, succeeding David R. Andrews, 62, who will retire in February.
http://www.pepsico.com
SEARS ANNOUCEMENT...
HOFFMAN ESTATES: Sears, Roebuck and Co. today named former J.C. Penney executive Rodney M. Birkins, Jr. to the post of senior vice president of sourcing, effective Sept. 1.
http://www.sears.com
APPROVAL GRANTED...
MILAN: Eurand today announced that it has received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Abbreviated New Drug Application for potassium chloride 20mEq tablets.
http://www.eurand.com
INDUCTIS WINS...
NEW DELHI: Inductis, a U.S. based management consulting and analytics firm having its offshore analytics center in India, won the best performance award in one of the world's most prestigious analytics competitions - the KDD (Knowledge and Data Discovery) Cup 2004.
http://www.inductis.com
http://kodiak.cs.cornell.edu/kddcup/index.html
SEBASTIAN COE...
LONDON: Sebastian Coe, double Olympic 1500 metre champion (1980 and 1984), will be available for interview between 10.30am - 12.00 on Tuesday 24 August in the broadcast area inside the Olympic stadium in Athens.
CHRONIC CONSTIPATION...
BASEL: Novartis Pharma AG announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved a supplemental indication for its pro-motility agent Zelnorm(R) (tegaserod maleate) for the treatment of chronic idiopathic constipation in male and female patients less than 65 years of age.
http://www.novartis.com
WITHDRAWAL ANNOUNCED...
EDINBURGH: Axios Systems, which announced earlier this year it had become the first organization in the world to achieve BS15000 certification as verified by the IT Service Management Forum, announced today it had withdrawn from the scheme.
http://www.axiossystems.com
INDONESIAN ELECTIONS...
PERTH: A group of Curtin University of Technology Indonesian students are encouraging other Indonesian students to vote in the upcoming September 20 election following an inspiring visit by the Indonesian Ambassador to Australia.
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