SYDNEY, Nov. 8--AsiaNet/InfoQuest DISTRIBUTION PARTNERSHIP... HONG KONG: Arrow Electronics Australia Pty Ltd. Tuesday announced a distribution partnership in Australia and New Zealand with Renesas Technology Corp (Renesas), a global leader in the semiconductor market. http://www.renesas.com http://www.arrowasia.com FLEXTRADE ACQUIRES... NEW YORK: FlexTrade Systems Inc. has acquired a 72% majority stake in FIT-Traderforce, a European leading provider of financial information platforms, in an all cash deal. http://www.traderforce.com http://www.flextrade.com FOREX TRANSACTIONS... AUCKLAND: "Local companies are going online faster than in the US to carry out increasingly large numbers of cross-border business transactions," says Fraser Jeffries, Vice President Asia Pacific for Custom House Global Foreign Exchange. http://www.customhouse.com ALCAN RESPONDS... MONTREAL: Alcan Inc. Monday affirmed, in consultation with its independent registered public accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, that it does not expect any of its previously reported consolidated financial statements to be affected by the review which Novelis Inc. has announced it will conduct respecting Novelis' own financial reporting. AUTO SHOW... LOS ANGELES, Calif.: Chris Bangle, BMW Group's chief of design, will provide an engaging and thought-provoking look into the world of design as the opening speaker for the Design Los Angeles automobile designers' conference at the Los Angeles Auto Show. http://www.LAautoshow.com EARNINGS RESULTS... SAO PAULO: Banco Bradesco, Brazil's largest private bank, posted a 102.3 per cent on-year jump in net income of R$4.051 billion in the 9-month period of 2005 (equivalent to EPS of R$ 8.26), compared to a net income of R$ 2.002 billion in same period of 2004 (equivalent to EPS of R$ 4.22). http://www.bradesco.com.br/ir HEALTHCARE REPORT... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Faced with rising costs, diminished resources and growing demands, health systems around the world are under siege and many will be unsustainable within 15 years unless fundamental change occurs, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers in a groundbreaking report released Monday. http://www.pwcglobal.com EXCELLENCE AWARD... FARMINGTON, Conn.: Otis, a unit of United Technologies Corporation and the world's leading elevator and escalator company, was awarded the prestigious Quality Innovation Partnership Award (QUIP) for excellent customer service by M+W Zander, a leading facility management company. http://www.otis.com PROCESS TECHNOLOGY... SEOUL and SUNNYVALE, Calif.: MagnaChip Semiconductor, Ltd. (MagnaChip), a leading worldwide semiconductor foundry, and Advanced Analogic Technologies Incorporated (AnalogicTech), a developer of power management semiconductors for mobile consumer electronic devices, Monday announced the installation of AnalogicTech's proprietary 0.35-micron multi-voltage mixed-signal ModularBCD process technology in MagnaChip's advanced 200-mm submicron fabrication facilities in South Korea. http://www.analogictech.com http://www.magnachip.com INNOCENTIVE WINS... ANDOVER, Mass.: InnoCentive Monday announced that it has won the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award (WIBTA) 2005, in the "Enterprise Business Transformation" category. http://www.infosys.com http://www.innocentive.com HDTV SOLUTION... HONG KONG: Arrow Asia Pac Ltd. (Arrow) has just announced an exclusive partnership agreement with leading Independent Design House (IDH), Innor Tech (Innor), a rapidly growing Hong Kong-based company. http://www.arrowasia.com http://www.innortech.com KN APPOINTS... TOKYO: Kenmar-Nihon Venture Capital, LLC (KN) Monday announced the appointment of Mr. Toyoo Gyohten to its International Advisory Board (IAB), chaired by the Right Honourable Jean Chraac?tien, former Prime Minister of Canada. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)