SYDNEY, Mar. 1--AsiaNet/Infoquest IBM SOFTWARE... BEIJING and ARMONK, N.Y - IBM today announced that COSCON,China's largest container shipping company is relying on IBMsoftware and services to help streamline its businessprocesses, increase efficiency and enhance collaboration withits customers, partners and suppliers. http://www.ibm.com/ondemand CREDIT FACILITY... LUXEMBOURG - European Capital, SA SICAR announced Tuesdaythat it has obtained commitments from affiliates of WachoviaBank, NA and Harris Nesbitt Corp. for a euro 400 millionmulti-currency revolving credit facility, denominated in Euros,Pounds Sterling and U.S. Dollars. http://www.americancapital.com http://www.EuropeanCapital.com MOSCOW AIRPORT... MOSCOW - Moscow Domodedovo Airport, operated by East LineGroup, expects its passenger traffic to more than double by2015, with the forecast based on the positive dynamics ofgrowth since 2001. http://www.domodedovo.ru http://www.eastline.ru FRENCH INVESTMENT... PARIS - European Capital, S.A. SICAR announced it hasinvested euro 22.5 million in the mezzanine facility of AlmaConsulting Group, the leading French provider of tax recoveryand cost reduction services for companies. http://www.EuropeanCapital.com http://www.americancapital.com PRODUCT PORTFOLIO... MILPITAS, Calif. - California Micro Devices has introduced anew generation of its proprietary Praetorian architecture andproducts as part of its ASIP (Application Specific IntegratedPassive) EMI (electromagnetic interference) filter portfolio. http://www.calmicro.com BAT RESULTS... LONDON - British American Tobacco has announced thepreliminary results for the year ended 31 December, 2005. http://www.bat.com CARREFOUR AGREEMENT... HONG KONG - Europe's biggest retailer Carrefour has signed astrategic agreement with Checkpoint Systems, the global leaderin product identification and shrink management solutions, toroll-out a "source tagging" programme to reduce lossesincluding customer and staff theft. http://www.checkpointsystems.com http://www.checkpointeurope.com http://www.carrefour.com http://www.perifem.com COMMITTEE COMMENT... SEOUL - Steel Partners II, L.P. and Icahn Partners LP, IcahnPartners Master Fund LP and High River Limited Partnership,collectively known as The KT&G Full Value Committee hasannounced that they were disappointed to learn by press releasethat KT&G Corporation, rejected its proposal to enter intofriendly negotiations to acquire KT&G. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)