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THE BRAND AND THE VISION
[EDIT: Aachen, December 15]
Jürgen Drewes is the General Manager of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Industry and also the president of the World Trade Center (WTC) at Avantis, the cross-border science and Business Park. The park links Germany and The Netherlands,...[more]
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VODAFONE IN TURKEY
[BIZ: London December 14]
The Vodafone Group has stormed into the Turkish market with the announcement today it has acquired second placed operator Telsim for USD 4.55 bn.According to Mark Newman, Informa Telecoms & Media's Chief Research
Officer, "Vodafone's ...[more]
NEW OWNER FOR VCST ST. TROND
[BIZ: St. Trond, December 12]
VCST Industrial Products, a supplier of automotive parts, has been taken over by the French-German Alpha Fund and the investment company HarbourVest Partners. Both companies took over the majority of shares from Fox Paine, a San...[more]
ISOLA IN THE BLACK IN 2005
[BIZ: Düren, December 12]
The Düren manufacturer of circuit boards ISOLA will be in the black again for the first time in years. The precise figures have not yet been communicated and the grounds for the improvement are said to be internal improvement. ISOLA...[more]
CASINO IN MAASTRICHT
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 12]
News has leaked out to the discomfiture of Valkenburg that Ernst & Young and the project developer 3W are prepared to develop a casino in Maastricht. The opening question at the moment is whether this will be Harrahs from Las Vegas...[more]
BIG SAUSAGE
[BIZ: Liège, December 11]
The specialist pork butchers of ‘L'Etal d'Or’ have succeeded in producing the biggest sausage, or ‘boudin de Liège’ [a white pudding] in the world. It is 570m long and it is being sold at the Christmas Village for the benefit of the...[more]
KAISERBARACKE EXPANDS
[BIZ: Eupen, December 11]
The Kaiserbaracke business park in East Belgium can be expanded by a further 34 hectares, and has been given a ministerial recognition as a business park. A number of companies will be setting up there, creating another 200 jobs....[more]
HOEGAARDEN WHITE TO JUPILLE
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 10]
Pascale Thewissen in Dagblad de Limburger reports that the world’s most famous white beer, Hoegaarden, is going to be brewed in Jupille (between Liège and Maastricht). The brewery where it was originally brewed has been sold and...[more]
CROSS-BORDER BUSINESS PARKS
[BIZ: Rotterdam, December 9]
Mark Schenkel in the Dutch quality paper NRC Handelsblad has written an article on cross-border business parks, of which there are three in The Netherlands. His principal focus was on Avantis, the science and Business Park located...[more]
GEUSSELT CONSTRUCTION PLANS
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 9]
Maastricht’s gateway, formed by the Geusselt Stadium and the Chamber of Commerce building, is to receive a major facelift. The plans, designed by the Amsterdam bureau Bentvelsen Fleermet, include 400 rental apartments, offices,...[more]
GEFCO: NEW LIMBURG LOCATION
[BIZ: Genk, December 9]
The Gefco group plans to set up a new agency for its network activities in Eastern Belgium, according to the general manager Philippe Vincent for Gefco Benelux. Gefco is among Europe’s top ten logistics groups, a subsidiary of the PSA...[more]
KUBOTA EDC FOR BORN
[BIZ/LOG: Born, December 9]
The Broekman Group from Rotterdam has received the contract to set up and run Kubota construction equipment EDC (Kubota Baumaschinen GmbH from Zweibrücken in Germany). First contacts with Kubota date from 2005 at the Dutch investment ...[more]
PATENT PROTECTION
[BIZ: Aachen, December 8]
There was an appeal for patent protection in Aachen, part of the 2005 Innovation Day, held at the technology center, AGIT the Aachen Development Company’s HQ, in the presence of important political and academic leaders, members of the...[more]
DSM WITH ORYXE ENERGY
Following the share interest DSM Venturing took in ORYXE Energy in May of this year, DSM's corporate venturing unit announced today that it has invested an additional $1 million in this start-up, following achievements in product marketing and development of future...[more]
600 JOBS AT FORD GENK
[BIZ: Genk, December 7]
Management at Ford Genk will be recruiting an extra 600 temporary staff during the months of January/February 2006, with a view to the production of three new models at Genk. A few months ago 280 were taken into service for this purpose,...[more]
TNT LOGISTICS FOR SALE
[BIZ: Amsterdam, December 7]
TNT is putting the greater part of TNT Logistics up for sale. The postal, logistics, and the express company announced this in a press release. The activities for sale are worth annual revenues of EUR 3.4bn. The sale is expected...[more]
LIOF’S STAKE IN BIOMETRIC CENTER
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Gulpen, December 7]
The BioMetrisch [Biometric] Center BV (BMC) in Gulpen is going to expand its activities considerably. The company offers a program of measurements for physical functions and treatment for a range of complaints, include ADHD,...[more]
EUR 150M FOR VERVIERS
[BIZ: Verviers, December 7]
Dutch project developer Foruminvest is to invest EUR 150m in the renovation of the commercial center at Verviers. The idea is to get consumers to stay in Verviers, whereas they now go to Liège, Aachen, or Maastricht to do their shopping....[more]
PROBLEMS AT LRM
[BIZ: Brussels, December 7]
The Flemish government is taking measures to investigate irregularities at its Limburg investment company. Minister of Finance Dirk Van Mechelen has appointed an advisor to look at the situation, where a dismissed accountant has made...[more]
NEW DSM BOARD MEMBERS
[BIZ: Heerlen, December 7]
The Supervisory Board of DSM will propose the appointment of Mr N. (Nico) Gerardu to the Managing Board to the Annual General Meeting on 29 March 2006 to take effect immediately. Nico Gerardu is currently director of the DSM Anti-Infectives...[more]
A COLONEL WITH A VIEW
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 6]
The new Colonel building has been opened by the project developers 3W. This major office building, next to Maastricht’s central station, is a cooperative project between 3W and Dutch Rail NS Real Estate and was designed by the Berlin...[more]
VACUUM PACKED
[BIZ: Genk, December 6]
Home Styled Meals is a new company in Genk that provides vacuum-packed food and meals for major chains at home and abroad. The current 5,400m2 location has to be doubled in three years, and the company has invested EUR 7m in their operation,...[more]
MOERMAN WANTS A400M
[BIZ: Brussels, December 6]
Belgium should be a candidate for the maintenance and training contracts for the A400M military cargo aircraft, the successor to the C-130, according to the Flemish Minister of Economy Fientje Moerman (VLD). This would redress the...[more]
TRICEPS IN CHINA
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 6]
Triceps has entered an international cooperative association with its sister organization Golden Top Consulting International in China. The objective of this alliance is to strengthen and expand the international HR activities of...[more]
AACHEN HIGH-TECH PATENTS
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Aachen, December 6]
Aachen leads in the European patent stakes. According to the most recently published data from the European Patent Office, applications in Aachen rose from 19 in 1998 to 106 in 2002. This is, in particular, thanks to the research...[more]
NRW-NL NEWSLETTER
[BIZ: Düsseldorf, December 6]
Interned informs us that Germany is dropping its mortgage tax deduction benefit as of January 1, 2006. There will be a MechaTronika event on February 21 and 22 in Wunderland in Kalkar. There will also be a new registration procedure...[more]
TGV MAASTRICHT
[BIZ/LOG: Maastricht, December 6]
From December 11, Maastricht will have a high-speed connection to the Thalys that goes via Liège and Brussels to Paris. This is now possible because the Belgian railways have changed their schedule. The new connection in Liège...[more]
SCHWARZKOPF CHOOSES FAVINI
[BIZ: Meerssen, December 6]
International hair care leader Schwarzkopf Professional has chosen Favini’s Majestic Marble White for the promotion pack of their new premium hair care brand called SEAH HAIRSPA. “The prestige appearance of the paper brand as well...[more]
REGULATORS: CAPACITY AUCTION
[BIZ/INFRA: Brussels, December 6]
At the end of October, Elia and RTE had submitted a request for approval to their respective regulators CREG and CRE in order to apply new allocation rules on the French-Belgian interconnection as from the beginning of 2006....[more]
TNT SHARPENS STRATEGIC FOCUS
[BIZ/LOG: Amsterdam, December 6]
In its move to a focus away from the areas of logistics of which it is divesting itself, TNT Key announcements include:
- Refined strategy focuses on networks
- Exit logistics business
- Initiate EUR 1 billion share...[more]
A MISSION FROM LOUISIANA
[BIZ/GOV: Liège, December 5]
Michaël Olivier, the Secretary of Economic Development for the State of Louisiana, led an economic mission to the ‘old continent’ between December 5 and 10. The seven-strong delegation went to the United Kingdom, The Netherlands,...[more]
DSM 2ND B2B MARKETING AWARD
[BIZ/EDU: Heerlen, December 5]
Tine Buyl of the University of Antwerp (Belgium) is the winner of the 2005 DSM B2B Marketing Award. For her thesis entitled 'From product to total solution: a chain perspective' (Van produkt naar totaaloplossing: Een ketenperspectief)...[more]
THE A2 TUNNEL
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 3]
At a debate organized by Maastricht city newspaper ‘De Ster’ new information came out about the highway tunnel through Maastricht. The current situation is that the costs could be much higher, currently estimates are EUR 360m. The...[more]
EUROSCOOP GENK GETS EUR 1.65M
[BIZ/GOV: Genk, December 2]
The Flemish government has made an expansion grant of EUR 1.65m to the Euroscoop cinema complex at the old mining site ‘Winterslag’ in Genk. This was at the proposal of the Flemish Minister of Economics Fientje Moerman. The total...[more]
EASYJET TO GROW IN GERMANY
[BIZ/LOG: London, December 2]
EasyJet, which runs flights between Maastricht-Aachen Airport and Berlin, wants to grow in Germany in 2006. The low-cost airline wants to increase its activities in the German market, bringing them up to a two-digit percentage in...[more]
STEVE BALLMER AND I-CITY
[BIZ: Hasselt, December 2]
Steve Ballmer, CEO of the Microsoft Corporation, has shown a lot of interest in the Flemish IT project I-City, in which broadband mobile solutions are to be developed and tested in respect of their social applications in e-Care and...[more]
MARSHALL PLAN FOR FLANDERS
[BIZ: Brussels, December 2]
The Flemish PM Yves Leterme is preparing a strategic or business plan similar to the Marshall Plan for the Walloon country, according to the French-language business paper L'Echo. The plan revolves around the revitalization of investment...[more]
FORD SUPPLIERS MERGE
[BIZ: Genk, December 2]
Two suppliers for Ford Genk, Collins & Aikman and Lear, are going to become part of the same group, following the take-over of the European subsidiaries of the American parent company of Collins & Aikman by the American investor Wilbur...[more]
JOHNSON CONTROLS - OVP
[BIZ: Overpelt, December 2]
Johnson Controls is taking over the injection molding activities of Overpelt Plascobel (OVP). OVP is part of Punch International, a group close to the West Flemish businessman Guido Dumarey. Johnson Controls is the biggest customer...[more]
TOINE PLATEN AT EURADA
[BIZ/GOV: Brussels, December 2]
Antoine Platen (53) from Maastricht has been elected Vice Chairman and re-elected as Chairman of Eurada, where he will be representing the Limburg development company, LIOF for the next two years. Eurada is a European association...[more]
IMPROVEMENT ON THE RAILS
[BIZ/LOG: Aachen, December 2]
Following a conference at the Aachen Chamber of Commerce, a major group of regional representatives from politics, business, and the chamber has drawn up a memorandum for improvements to the rail infrastructure and the connections...[more]
PRESENTATIONS IN GERMANY
[BIZ: Aachen, December 2]
The Dutch-German Chamber of Commerce in The Hague offers professional assistance in presentations in Germany. Contact Ulla van Dijk on 070 311 4133. Check the website....[more]
1000 IN LOMMEL CHOOSE NUON
[BIZ/INFRA: Vilvoorde, December 2]
The local department of the General Christian Employee’s Association (ACW) in Lommel has investigated the options for energy supplies for the group purchase of gas and electricity in their municipality; and, taking all the...[more]
IPO VAL SAINT LAMBERT
[BIZ: Seraing, December 2]
The crystal manufacturers, Val Saint Lambert International NV will be going public on the Brussels exchange, Euronext on December 30. This was announced at the company’s headquarters in Seraing. The company wants to issue 428,572 new...[more]
HOUSING EXPANSION ATLAS
[BIZ/INFRA: Brussels, December 2]
The Flemish Minister of Finance, Budget, and Spatial Planning has presented a new atlas covering housing expansion areas. 5,089 hectares can soon be taken into use, which will produce around 86,100 new housing units.The atlas ...[more]
CRH CONSOLIDATES IN BELGIUM
[BIZ: Brussels, December 2]
Four Flemish subsidiaries of the Irish construction group CRH, which also has interests in The Netherlands Limburg, will be merging next year to form one business called Stradus. The new business is targeting infrastructural projects...[more]
CHAMBER NEWS
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 2]
The South Limburg Chamber of Commerce’s newsletter dated November 25 provides some interesting information on tax questions. A website has been developed to answer some of the business community’s questions about tax law. See: http://www.fiscaal.comTraining ...[more]
TRICEPS STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 2]
The Triceps community evening held on November 14 held a discussion among 50 knowledge workers, managers, and entrepreneurs on the conditions and feasibility of the Province of Limburg’s ‘acceleration agenda’, targeting future economic...[more]
YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 2]
The Province of Limburg is encouraging cross-border entrepreneurship and has approved three contributions for the Euroregional starters initiative to run in the overlapping Euroregion of Meuse-Rhine North, which will receive EUR...[more]
OUTSOURCING COATING
[BIZ/GOV: Hasselt, December 2]
On November 18 there was a meeting between business outsourcers and surface coating operations in the Benelux central area - Benelux Middengebied (this Euroregion overlaps Meuse-Rhine). Those who attended the meeting in Hasselt...[more]
FAVINI Q3 RESULTS
[BIZ: Meerssen, December 2]
Favini, specialty paper producer with mills in the Netherlands and Italy, announced its third quarter results. In common with the rest of the specialty paper industry the trading environment has been difficult due to a combination...[more]
NEW BIZ TEAM AT CYCOS
[BIZ: Alsdorf, December 2]
Unified Communications specialist Cycos AG has started its new financial year with a re-structured marketing, communications and business development department. Major targets of the team – made up of existing and new staff – are branding,...[more]
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NEW STRETCH ON EUREGIO BAHN
[LOG: Alsdorf, December 7]
A fourth new stretch of track between Herzogenrath-Merkstein and Alsdorf city center was opened recently with a party at the mining museum Anna II. From Sunday, December 11, the new, modern, comfortable Talent trains, produced by Bombardier,...[more]
TNT PASSENGERS FROM LIÈGE
[LOG: Liège, December 2]
The Belgian airline, TNT Airways, active at Liège Airport, is going to start passenger flights from Liège in April 2006, according to La Libre Belgique. TNT will also take 100 pilots into service next year. “Thus far we’ve always flown...[more]
THOMAS COOK FLIES FROM LIÈGE
[LOG: Liège, December 2]
The Belgian airline Thomas Cook Airlines TCA will be flying twice a week to Barcelona and once a week to Palermo from Liège Airport. TCA is responding to a new trend in which charter companies are adding scheduled flights to their core...[more]
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WALLOON MINISTER IN NRW
[GOV: Düsseldorf, December 13]
The Minister responsible for External Affairs for the Walloon French-speaking community, Marie-Dominique Simonet, has been to Düsseldorf to meet with the representatives of the state government of North-Rhine Westphalia. The government...[more]
THE EUROREGIONAL COUNCIL
[GOV: Maastricht, December 8]
The Euroregional council needs to start all over again, said members at the meeting in Maastricht, and the two chairmen, Abel Desmit from Soumagne and Jos Hermans from Geleen, were compelled by the very low turnout of members over...[more]
PROMOTING SCIENCE
[EDU: Geleen, December 8]
On December 8 an agreement was signed between the national Bèta Techniek Science Platform and the provincial science partners comprising the business community, knowledge institutes and government. The objective is to support all parties...[more]
DUTCH HEALTHCARE CHANGES
[GOV: Brussels, December 3]
On January 1, 2006, the new Dutch healthcare law will come into effect, and to assist in providing information to Dutch citizens resident in Belgium, a call center and website has been set up. The telephone number in Brussels is 02...[more]
HENRY FORD II STUDY PRIZE
[EDU: Cologne/Aachen, December 2]
Four students from Aachen’s RWTH University were awarded the Henry Ford II Study Prize. They were Inga Janina Wolf, Adrian Ispas, Matthias Bösing, and Rob Bronneberg for their excellent scholarly performance at the Faculty of...[more]
LANGUAGE PROMOTION
[GOV: Seraing, December 2]
The first Euroregional neighboring-languages conference attracted 150 experts. At the invitation of the Chairman of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion Michel Foret and the Chairman of the Euroregional Council Abel Desmit, teachers, school...[more]
FLOOD AWARENESS & PREVENTION
[GOV: Maastricht, December 2]
A meeting of 27 participants from six countries was held to discuss a number of projects relating to flood awareness and prevention in Flanders and The Netherlands. This is an EU-funded network focusing on knowledge and experience...[more]
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CELLS AT WORK
[LIFE-SCI, Maastricht, December 14]
The Texts appended below give an overview of some topics presented at cells at work III (held recently in Maastricht) and provide biographical sketches of some of the speakers.BIOGRAPHY Rob ten Hoedt Rob ten Hoedt is ...[more]
LIFE SCIENCE PROJECT CLOSES
[LIFE-SCI: Liège, December 9]
The Heartbeat of Life Sciences in Europe project closed on December 9. It had lasted three years and had been run by the RWTH University in Aachen, the University of Maastricht, and the University of Liège (through Interface Entreprises-Université),...[more]
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ARCELOR INNOVATION PRIZE
[SCI-TECH: Liège, December 13]
The Arcelor steel company’s innovation prize, which has been awarded since 1999, has this year been given to Laurent Geron, a civil engineer, physicist, and doctor in the applied sciences, for a highly original theory on dealing...[more]
BIOMIMETICS 2
[SCI-TECH: Liège, December 9]
The Walloon Newsletter reports:that Arcelor and the University of Liège plan to demonstrate that they are contributing to the creation of new economic activities in the Liège region. In the words of Professor Martial "we have to...[more]
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INTERCLASSICS
[LEI: Maastricht, December 8]
Interclassics, the vintage car fair, will be holding a preview on Thursday, January 12, with live cooking by Hans van Wolde from the two-star Michelin restaurant in Maastricht, and a performance by Loïs Lane.This ‘Interclassics ...[more]
JACK MILLION CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
[LEI: Maastricht, December 7]
On December 20, the Jack Million Big Band will be having a ‘big band dance party’ at Fort St. Pieter in Maastricht. Music will be devoted to nostalgic and romantic Christmas music. The address is Fort St. Pieter, Luikerweg 80 in...[more]
HELIPORT STAR
[LEI: Liège, December 6]
The heliport restaurant on the Meuse, opposite the Holiday Inn in Liège and headed by Frédéric Salpetier has received its first Michelin Star....[more]
ANOTHER RIEU
[LEI: Fouron, December 2]
Friends at the Music Barn in Fouron le Comte have recommended this site, which belongs to Jean Philippe Rieu — another member of the distinguished family....[more]
JOGGING AROUND HEERLEN
[LEI: Heerlen, December 2]
On Sunday, November 27, the Rondje Herle (or Around Heerlen) route was officially opened. This is a safe route for jogging and wandering in Limburg that has been developed in cooperation with the Dutch Heart Foundation and the Royal...[more]
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