BASF announces fourth quarter and full year 2012 results. Full year 2012: -Sales €78.7 billion (plus 7%) -EBIT before special items €8.9 billion (plus 5%) -Record year in Agricultural Solutions and Oil & Gas; earnings in ...
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Aixtron SE (FSE: AIX; NASDAQ: AIXG), the Germany-based manufacturer of deposition equipment for LED materials growth, has appointed a new CEO. Paul Hyland, the company’s current president and CEO, will leave effective February 28, ...
Tags: LED materials, LED, LEDs
The head of Daimler and Mercedes-Benz has been given three more years to lift his company’s lethargic profits and sales and attempt to close the gap to its luxury German rivals. The supervisory board of Daimler AG voted to extend ...
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Marjan Oudeman, AkzoNobel executive committee member responsible for organizational development and human resources, has accepted an offer to become president of Utrecht University, one of Europe's leadinguniversities. She will leave ...
Coming on the heel of the resignations from Holger Jürgensen (deputy chairman of the supervisory board) and Karl-Hermann Kuklies (ordinary member of the supervisory board) of Aixtron, the company has announced that Paul Hyland, ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has announced that its president and chief executive officer Paul Hyland will leave the firm by mutual agreement with effect from 28 February 2013, for personal reasons. Martin ...
Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has announced the resignation of Bernard Raboutet from his position on the firm’s supervisory ...
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Hans-Peter Keitel (*1947), former President of the Federation of German Industries e. V. (BDI), has been elected to the Shareholders Committee and the Supervisory Board of Voith GmbH at the Voith Shareholders ...
Sulzer achieved order intake and sales of over CHF 4 billion in 2012. Profitability remained stable in the double-digit range. The company continued to focus on customer partnership and profitable growth. Driven by the major pump ...
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The Bentley SUV has reportedly been given the green light for production by the supervisory board of parent company Volkswagen, paving the way for the controversial new model to launch by mid-decade. Industry journal Automotive News ...
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Aixtron has announced two changes to its supervisory board. Dr Holger Jürgensen (deputy chairman of the supervisory board) and Karl-Hermann Kuklies (ordinary member of the supervisory board) have informed the management board of their ...
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has announced two changes to its supervisory board. Dr Holger Jürgensen (deputy chairman of the supervisory board) and Karl-Hermann Kuklies (ordinary member of the ...
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General Motors has appointed former Volkswagen chief Dr Karl-Thomas Neumann to the role of CEO of its European operations, Opel. Neumann, 51, becomes chairman of the management board of Adam Opel AG, effective March 1, 2013, as well as ...
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United Parcel Service (UPS) and TNT Express have been informed by the European Commission (EC) that it is working on a decision to prohibit the proposed acquisition of TNT Express. The EC has raised a number of concerns about the merger, ...
From January 1, 2013 Nathalie Benedikt (36) will be responsible for Finances/Controlling, IT and Human Resources in the Management Board at Pfeiffer Vacuum. Ms. Benedikt has been with Pfeiffer Vacuum for 13 years now and has headed the ...
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