Zurich Market Talk - 20-12-2011
20.12.11 07:45

SGS
is pleased to announce the acquisition of 4 food laboratories located in Turkey, namely Özel MSM Gıda Kontrol Laboratuarı ve Danışmanlık Hizmetleri Ticaret A.Ş. ("MSM"), MRL Merkez Kalıntı Araştırma Laboratuarı A.Ş. ("MRL"), Sanilab Gıda Kontrol Laboratuarı ve Danışmanlık Hizmetleri Tic. ve San. Ltd. Şti. ("Sanilab") and Özel Hatay Gıda Kontrol Laboratuarı ve Danışmanlık Hizmetleri Tic. Ltd. Şti. ("Özel Hatay"). Link: Click Here

gategroup
, the world's leading independent provider of onboard products and services for passengers, has appointed Doug Goeke as Group Senior Vice President and President of its North America region. Goeke, 46, has been serving as President and Managing Director for Gate Gourmet Canada since November 2010 and has been instrumental in successfully leading the integration of the acquisition of Cara Airline Solutions. Link: Click Here

Novartis
announced that following the seventh interim review of data from the ALTITUDE study with Rasilez®/Tekturna® (aliskiren), a decision to terminate the trial has been taken on the recommendation of the independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) overseeing the trial. Link: Click Here



Economy
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Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication is growing rapidly.
It is estimated that there will soon be more machines communicating directly with each other than there are mobile phone users. Swisscom wants to drive communication between devices even more strongly, and to this end it is establishing a separate M2M department. Link: Click Here


 
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