SYDNEY, Sept. 15 -- AsiaNet
PAC-RIM OFFICE...
NGEE ANN CITY: Management consulting and engineering firm R.
W. Beck recently announced the opening of its Representative
Office in Singapore, effective Sept. 15. Bill Reynolds, head of
R. W. Becks Energy Asset Consulting Practice says, With an
office in Singapore, we will be able to better serve and
support our clients in the Pacific Rim area, and be more
responsive to them.
http://www.rwbeck.com
PRICE INCREASE...
WILMINGTON: DuPont Titanium Technologies today announced a
price increase in Asia Pacific for DuPont titanium dioxide
grades. Effective Oct. 1, 2004, DuPont is increasing the price
of all titanium dioxide grades by US$100 per tonne in Asia
Pacific.
http://www.dupont.com
ACQUISITION COMPLETED...
READING: EnerSys, one of the world's largest manufacturers,
marketers and distributors of industrial batteries, announced
that on September 10, 2004 its Australian-based subsidiary,
EnerSys Australia PTY Ltd., entered into an agreement to
acquire First National Battery Limited, based in Brisbane,
Australia.
http://www.enersys.com
APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED...
HAMILTON: W.P. Stewart & Co., Ltd. announced today that Jan
J. Spiering, F.C.A. has been appointed to the Board of
Directors of the Company, effective immediately. Mr. Spiering
is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in
England and Wales and is the retired Managing Partner and
Chairman of Ernst & Young Bermuda, a firm which he joined in
1979.
http://www.wpstewart.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$50
million on September 24, 2004 at a redemption price equal to
100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued
interest. It will also redeem $US40 million worth of MTNR
issues on the same date.
http://www.fanniemae.com
KOIZUMI PRAISED:
WASHINGTON D.C.: American Council of Life Insurers'
President and CEO, Frank Keating, praised Japanese Prime
Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization initiative
and the basic principles set forth in a newly-released plan by
the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy for the privatization
of Japan's postal businesses.
http://www.acli.com
AGREEMENT SIGNED...
MILAN: Eurand today announced that an agreement has been
signed with Recordati S.p.A. for the development of a
modified-release formulation of lercanidipine , Recordati's
original calcium channel blocker for the treatment of
hypertension.
http://www.eurand.com
DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT...
LONDON: Gizmondo Europe Ltd., subsidiary of Jacksonville,
Florida-based Tiger Telematics Inc. (OTC: TGTL.PK), announced
today that John Lewis, one of the UK's top retail businesses
with 26 John Lewis department stores, has agreed to launch the
new, handheld Gizmondo device, games and accessories in a
majority of its stores, as well as on-line.
http://www.tigertelematics.com
http://www.johnlewis.com
http://www.gizmondo.com
COST REDUCED...
HEILBRONN: Atmel Corporation announced today the
availability of a highly integrated high-performance complete
RF solution for digital cordless phones operating at the
license-free 5.8 GHz frequency band. Thanks to their high
integration, low number of external components and easy
handling, the new devices will help to reduce manufacturing
costs of cordless phones by about 25 per cent, depending on the
design. This solution also supports multi-handset
applications.
http://www.atmel.com
FLASH MICROCONTROLLERS...
SAN JOSE: Atmel Corporation announces five new AVR Flash
Microcontrollers that significantly expand the MegaAVR product
family. These devices are designed to decrease power
consumption and enable battery-powered applications. The AVR
provides various power management techniques including multiple
sleep modes, exceptional C-code density, fast starting
high-precision internal RC oscillator and high throughput
architecture
http://www.atmel.com
LYMPHOMA AWARENESS...
NEW YORK: International television and film celebrity Rob
Lowe, who has experienced the impact that lymphoma can have on
a family, is calling for people around the world to be aware of
the disease, one of the least known and fastest growing cancer
types.
http://www.thenewsmarket.com
http://www.lymphomacoalition.org
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