SYDNEY, June 2--AsiaNet/InfoQuest INCREASED BUSINESS... BRISBANE: A dramatic increase in FX business in Brisbane forCustom House Global Foreign Exchange "has meant doubling staffnumbers and moving into larger premises," said Fraser Jeffries,Vice President, Asia Pacific. "In less than two years, Brisbaneand Queensland have become important markets for Custom House,"said Jeffries. Custom House is the world's largest non-bankforeign exchange company. The new offices in Brisbane are atLevel 5, 97 Creek Street. www.customhouse.com BATTERY BUSINESS... READING: EnerSys the world's largest manufacturer, marketerand distributor of industrial batteries, announced today thatit completed the acquisition of FIAMM's motive power batterybusiness effective June 1. FIAMM motive power operatesprimarily in Europe and had sales of approximately euro 70million (approximately $90 million) for its fiscal year endingDecember 31, 2004. http://www.enersys.com DISPLAY AWARD... SANTA CLARA: AKT, Inc., an Applied Materials company and theworld's leading supplier of PECVD(1) systems to the flat paneldisplay industry, was honored with the Advanced Display of theYear 2005 Award for its AKT-40K PECVD system. The award, whichrecognizes first-class manufacturers of FPD equipment, wasgiven to AKT at Finetech Japan, one of the world's largest FPDexhibitions. This is the second win for AKT in the award's10-year history. www.appliedmaterials.com KEYNOTE SPEECH... SUNNYVALE: IDEMA (The International Disk Drive Equipment andMaterials Association) announces that Mark Geenen, IDEMAPresident, has been chosen to give the special keynotepresentation at the International Symposium on ConsumerElectronics sponsored by IEEE. This symposium takes place atthe University of Macau on 14 June. http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~isce2005/ http://www.idema.org PRESIDENT NAMED... MENASHA: Banta Corporation announced the promotion ofPadraic Allen to President of the Banta Supply-Chain ManagementGroup. Allen has been with Banta the past two years, first as aconsultant and most recently as Director, Strategic Planningfor Banta Supply-Chain Management, based in Cork, Ireland. http://www.banta.com BEST 100... RESTON: PRA International, a leading global clinicalresearch organization, announced that it was named toBusinessWeek's 2005 list of the 100 Best Small Companies.Debuting at number 55, PRA International was thehighest-ranking CRO on the list. http://www.businessweek.com http://www.prainternational.com KOMAG PRESENTS... SAN JOSE: Komag, Incorporated, a leading independentsupplier of thin-film media for disk drives, announced that theCompany will be presenting at the following investorconferences: -- Bear Stearns 16th Annual Technology Conference in NewYork, New York, June 7, 2005 at 8:00 a.m. PDT / 11:00 a.m. EDT -- Thomas Weisel Partners Growth Forum 7.0 in SanFrancisco, California, June 13, 2005 at 2:05 p.m. PDT / 5:05 p.m. EDT Live and archived webcasts for both events will be availableon Komag's website at: http://www.komag.com/investors/ir_webcasts_events.html http://www.komag.com FRAPORT AGM... FRANKFURT: Some 1,802 shareholders and shareholderrepresentatives attended Fraport AG's fourth annual generalmeeting (AGM). Held at the Jahrhunderthalle inFrankfurt-Hoechst, Germany, the AGM officially ended atapproximately 18:20 yesterday. http://www.fraport.de APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED... AMSTERDAM: Leading scientific publisher Elsevier isdelighted to announce the appointment of Youngsuk "Y.S." Chi,an accomplished figure in international publishing, to head thecompany's global academic and customer relations. Reporting toCEO Erik Engstrom, Y.S. will become Vice Chairman atElsevier. http://www.sciencedirect.com http://www.mdconsult.com http://www.news.scopus.com PRICE INCREASE... WILMINGTON: DuPont Titanium Technologies has announced aprice increase in Asia Pacific for DuPont titanium dioxidegrades. Effective July 1, 2005, DuPont is increasing the priceof all titanium dioxide grades by US$150 per tonne in AsiaPacific, excluding Japan. This increase is supported by thecontinued tight supply-demand situation for TiO2 around theglobe. http://www.titanium.dupont.com INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS... VIENNA: Effective, non-invasive and practically without sideeffects -- extracorporeal shock wave therapy has demonstratedimpressive results not only in orthopedics and traumatology,but also in treating fresh and chronic wounds as well ascirculatory disorders of the myocardial muscle. These findingswere presented at the ISMST-Congress in Vienna, Austria (May30/31, 2005). The event is sponsored by the Austrian SocialInsurance for Occupational Risks. http://www.auva.at FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTNR securities issues amounting to a total of US$25million on June 13, 2005 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com TA ASSOCIATES... NEW YORK: Creditex, Inc., the leading provider of electronicexecution services in the credit derivatives market and TAAssociates, a leading private equity firm, announced that TAwill take an approximately $50 million minority stake in thecompany. http://www.creditex.com http://www.ta.com JAPANESE SECURITIES... NEW YORK: Investment Technology Group, Inc., a leadingprovider of technology based equity trading services andtransaction research, announced that beginning June 8, 2005, itwill commence offshore operation of the POSIT crossing systemfor the matching of Japanese securities. http://www.itginc.com NETCRACKER SOLUTION... WALTHAM: NetCracker Technology, a leading provider of OSSand IT Infrastructure Management Solutions, announced that theArmy and Army National Guard have begun Phase I of a project toleverage its vast network and associated resources. TheNetCracker solution will lay the foundation to improveprocurement, network planning, network management and assetmanagement activities. http://www.netcracker.com BANNER YEAR... FRANKFURT: "2004 was a banner year in every respect,"declared Fraport AG's executive board chairman Dr. WilhelmBender, at the beginning of his presentation at this year'sAnnual General Meeting in Frankfurt-Hochst. He also took theopportunity to thank the company's employees: "All Fraportemployees worked hard and with great motivation during the pastyear to transform the strong revival in world air traffic intoexcellent financial results for us." http://www.fraport.de NEW EXECUTIVES... SEATTLE: RealNetworks, Inc, the leading creator of digitalmedia services and software announced the addition of severalnew executives and a new assignment for one of the company'scurrent senior executive officers. The new appointments willenhance the company's position as a global, integrated mediacompany. http://www.realnetworks.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)