SYDNEY--3 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest FASHION WEEK... PARIS: The house of Louis Vuitton, with Marc Jacobs as Artistic Director,Sunday closed fashion week in Paris with its Fall Winter 2008-2009 collectionin the historic "Cour Carree" of the Louvre.http://www.vuitton.com MAKAN NAMES... ABU DHABI: Makan Capital Group, (MCG), a prominent real estate privateequity group and investment banking firm, announced Monday that industryveteran Samer Wahbeh has been named Director of the Property Development Fundand acting Chief Financial Officer.http://www.makancapitalgroup.com CEBIT 2008... HANNOVER: ICT in Germany will be a major focus of the CeBIT 2008, theworld's largest trade fair in the IT and telecommunications industry. The tradeshow runs from March 4-9 at the Hannover Convention Center in Hannover, Germany.http://www.invest-in-germany.com NORTHROP WINS... LONDON: Northrop Grumman Corporation Friday announced that its Europe-basedsubsidiary, Park Air Systems, has been awarded a multi-million dollar contractfrom Airports Authority of India to provide a range of ground-to-aircommunication equipment as part of their VHF upgrade programme.http://www.northropgrumman.com LICENSE AGREEMENT... NEW YORK: Coty Inc., a leader in global beauty and the world's largestfragrance company, announced Friday that it has entered into a licenseagreement with Playboy Enterprises, Inc. to develop a new, global men'sfragrance line under the Playboy brand name.http://www.coty.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of 15securities issues amounting to a total of US$736.618 million on March 10, 11,12 and 14 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amountredeemed plus accrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com DIGI RELEASES... MINNETONKA, Minn.: Digi International Friday introduced the XBee-PRO ZNet2.5, an extended-range RF module designed for ZigBee mesh networking.http://www.digi.com JANUARY RANKINGS... TOKYO: comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, Fridayreleased its January 2008 rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internetproperties and site categories in Japan, based on data from the comScore WorldMetrix audience measurement service.http://www.comscore.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.