SYDNEY--2 Aug--AsiaNet/InfoQuest BORDERS BOOKS... AUCKLAND: Borders Queen Street, Auckland was awarded theprestigious Bookseller of the Year award this week at the 2007THORPE-Bowker New Zealand Book Industry Awards. AVON REPRESENTATIVE... NEW YORK: Actress Reese Witherspoon during the pressconference for AVON to Introduce Oscar-Winning Actress ReeseWitherspoon as the First-Ever AVON Global Ambassador on August1, 2007 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills,California. http://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=74658 REESE WITHERSPOON... NEW YORK: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AVONProducts Inc. Andrea Jung and Actress Reese Witherspoon duringthe press conference for AVON to Introduce Oscar-WinningActress Reese Witherspoon as the First-Ever AVON GlobalAmbassador on August 1, 2007 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel inBeverly Hills, California. GLOBAL AMBASSADOR... NEW YORK: Avon Products, Inc. has announced that it hassigned world-renowned, Oscar-winning actress, ReeseWitherspoon, as the company's first ever Global Ambassador. Photos: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070801/LAW220-a http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070801/LAW220-b http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070801/LAW220-c SUPERBLADE PRODUCT... SAN JOSE: Super Micro Computer, Inc., a worldwide leader inapplication optimized, high performance server solutions, hasannounced volume shipping of its new SuperBlade product line. http://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=74498 COURSE REQUIREMENT... EVANSTON: The Kellogg School of Management at NorthwesternUniversity has announced the introduction of a global courserequirement to its MBA curriculum. http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu FRANKFURT OFFICE... FRANKFURT: Fried Frank announced on Wednesday that Dr.Michael Schlitt has joined the Firm's Frankfurt office fromAllen & Overy LLP, where he was head of the German EquityCapital Markets Practice. http://www.friedfrank.com COPACABANA CLUB... NEW YORK: World Product Centre LLC has announced that it hassigned a letter of intent with Gary Barnett's ExtellDevelopment Company to occupy a specially designed 1 millionsquare foot building that Extell will construct to WPC'sspecifications at the former site of the Copacabana nightclubat 11th Avenue and West 34th Street. HEATH APPOINTED... PLEASANTVILLE: Paul Heath has been appointed President ofReader's Digest Asia Pacific, it was announced by Mary Berner,President and Chief Executive Officer of The Reader's DigestAssociation, Inc. http://www.rda.com AERCAP RESULTS... AMSTERDAM: AerCap Holdings N.V. has announced that it plansto issue a press release with its second quarter 2007 financialresults on Tuesday, August 7, 2007 before the market opens. http://www.aercap.com SIEMENS BOARD... MUNICH: Effective October 1, 2007, the Corporate ExecutiveCommittee of Siemens AG has appointed Dominik Asam, 38, to bethe new Group President and Head of the Management Board ofSiemens Financial Services GmbH. http://www.siemens.com/finance WABCO DEBUT... NEW YORK AND BRUSSELS: WABCO, a leading global provider ofelectronic braking, stability, suspension and transmissioncontrol systems for commercial vehicles, has made its debut onthe New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol WBC. http://www.americanstandard.com http://www.wabco-auto.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.