Dole Europe Features Its Grapes Business and Announces Investments in the Production of Early Grapes in South Africa at the 2014 Fruit Logistica

At the 2014 Fruit Logistica in Berlin on Feb 5 to 7th, Dole Europe will be highlighting its projects and achievements in the grape category and announcing the potential acquisition of a controlling share in an early grape farm in South Africa, its first direct investment in fruit production in the country. Fruit Care Services (Pty) Ltd., one of Dole Europe’s subsidiaries located in South Africa, has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a view to purchasing Rekopane, a 600-hectare farm located on the banks of the Orange River, 30km from the South African town of Upington.

Dole Fresh Fruit Europe and Matanuska Africa Limited Establish Commercial Partnership

Dole Fresh Fruit Europe is announcing it has reached a long term commercial partnership with Matanuska Africa Limited by which Dole will assume all sales operations and become the sole distributor of Matanuska’s Mozambique banana production in the Middle East, Europe and Africa. In addition Dole will assist Matanuska logistically and supply technical support in its farming operations.

Ledzworld Delivers Knockout to CMH Lamps; Introduces Industry’s First High Output, Single Source LED PAR38 Lamp

Ledzworld, the innovator behind the top brands in commercial LED lighting, announced today a new LED lamp that makes traditional ceramic metal halide (CMH) bulbs a thing of the past. The perfect choice to replace outdated and inefficient CMH bulbs, Ledzworld’s Platinum LED PAR38 lamp is the industry’s first 2000 lumen, single source LED lamp without active cooling.

MasterCard Announces Two New Retailer Partnerships in Support of the World Food Programme and the Fight against Global Hunger

MasterCard, http://newsroom.mastercard.com/ (NYSE:MA) today announced that major Middle Eastern retailer Lulu Hypermarket and Auchan Italy have become the latest partners in MasterCard’s campaign in support of fundraising efforts for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Through these fundraising campaigns, MasterCard is leveraging its network, tools and marketing expertise to enable brands and consumers to connect and engage with the issue of hunger worldwide. The campaign simplifies the donation process and provides retailers and consumers more options in how to donate to WFP.

Jon W. Harvey and F. Robert Pargac Join Navigant’s Global Investigations and Compliance Practice

Navigant (NYSE: NCI) announced today that Jon W. Harvey and F. Robert Pargac have joined Navigant’s Global Investigations and Compliance Practice. Harvey is a Managing Director and the leader for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region for the practice and is located in Navigant’s London office. Pargac is a Director in the New York office.

Otsuka Receives Opinion from CHMP on Delamanid

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Otsuka) today announced the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a negative opinion for delamanid for the treatment of pulmonary multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in combination with an optimised background regimen (OBR) according to WHO guidelines in patients. The CHMP considered that the duration of treatment (two months) in the Phase IIb randomised controlled trial (Trial 204) was too short to establish the effectiveness of delamanid in treating tuberculosis when added to other anti-tuberculosis medicines.

Panduit Introduces SmartZone™ Intelligent Infrastructure Management

Panduit Corp., a global leader in Unified Physical InfrastructureSM (UPI)–based solutions, announces SmartZone™ Solutions for physical infrastructure management, which bring together Panduit intelligent appliances, gateways, software and services for the data center and enterprise to deliver optimized monitoring and analysis of environmental and energy data at a zone level critical to your business requirements.

Rimini Street Doubles New Client Sales in EMEA

Rimini Street, Inc., the leading third-party maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, including SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) software and Oracle Corporation’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Oracle Database and Hyperion software, today announced that in fiscal year 2012 it more than doubled new sales in EMEA, with 117 percent year-over-year growth in new client invoicing; achieved more than $42 million in new EMEA sales bookings, a 175-percent year-over-year increase; and nearly doubled the total number of clients in EMEA. The Company also announced its expansion and additional investment in EMEA to meet continued growing demand for its SAP and Oracle support services.

Western Union Unveils New Education Initiative around UEFA Europa League to Deliver One Million School Days

The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU), a leader in global payment services and new Global Partner of the UEFA Europa League, and the Western Union Foundation, today announced they will turn every successful pass in this season’s competition into funding to support one day’s education for young people around the world.

Loomis Sayles Investments Limited Appoints Head of Consultant Relations for Europe, Middle East & Africa

Effective immediately, Loomis Sayles Investments Limited has appointed
longtime consultant relations professional Chris Yiannakou to director
of consultant relations, based in its London office. Chris reports to
Jeff Seaver, managing director of European, Middle East & Africa (EMEA)
institutional services of Loomis Sayles Investments Ltd.