SYDNEY, April 28--AsiaNet/InfoQuest OBI EXPANSION... WERMELSKIRCHEN: The supervisory board of OBI AG decided toincreasingly focus the company's expansion course on Europeancountries. Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy andSwitzerland in particular will play a central role as potentialgrowth markets in the expansion policy of Europe's leading DIYbrand. BANCO ITAU... SAO PAULO: Banco Itau Holding Financeira S/A has announced aMay 4 Webcast about its results for the first quarter of2005. http://itauir.com PEPSICO MEETING... PURCHASE, N.Y: PepsiCo announced that its annualshareholders' meeting will be webcast live from Plano, Texas,over the Internet on Wednesday, May 4, at 11 AM local time(12:00 noon ET). http://www.pepsico.com STATS CHIPPAC... SINGAPORE: STATS ChipPAC Ltd., an independent semiconductortest and advanced packaging service provider, has announcedresults for the first quarter ended March 31, 2005. www.statschippac.com STANLEY WORKS... NEW BRITAIN, Conn: The Stanley Works announced that JeffChen, 46, has been named Vice President, Global Operations andhas been elected a corporate executive officer effectiveimmediately. http://www.StanleyWorks.com KOMAG RESULTS... SAN JOSE, Calif: Komag, Incorporated, an independentsupplier of thin-film media for disk drives, has announcedrecord finished disk shipments of 22.2 million units, netincome of $18.5 million, and diluted earnings per share of$0.59 on $140.3 million of revenue for the first quarter of2005. http://www.komag.com CVRD RESULTS... RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce will release itsfirst quarter 2005 earnings on Wednesday, May 11, 2005, aftermarket close. http://www.cvrd.com.br SPEEDERA NETWORKS... SANTA CLARA, Calif: Speedera Networks Inc., a globalprovider of on-demand distributed hosting and content deliveryservices, today announced Speedera SinoCDN, the only servicefor in-country delivery of Web content within China that isprovided by a truly global content delivery service provider. www.speedera.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)