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Switzerland-based communications and event management company MCI has launched a new office in Seoul, South Korea.
MCI Korea has been established in joint venture with destination management company, Kim’s Travel, whose meeting & events subsidiary, M&C Planners, will be rebranded into MCI Korea. Chun Kim, founder of Kim’s Travel, will serve as Chief Executive Officer of MCI Korea, Peter Lee, current Director General of M&C Planners, will become Executive Director for meetings & events and destination management, while Steve Kim, previously with the Daejeon Convention Bureau & Center, will join the South Korean team as Executive Director for congress management.
“We are proud to be able to bring MCI to Korea”, said Chun Kim. “MCI is the leading event management company in the world and we believe it is a great step for the Korean meetings industry to have one of the global leaders firmly established in our country. We can see significant new business through this joint venture, which will bring great benefit to all our clients, partners and suppliers.”
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SEVEN Networks, a California-based developer of mobile e-mail and messaging solutions on mass market devices, plans to set up an R&D centre in Tallinn, Estonia, with a staff of up to 100 people.
Isabelle Dumont, head of product and corporate marketing, said that the company planned to open a new office in Tallinn to support its worldwide growth and to enter into new product areas that tackle some of the most challenging problems faced by the telecom industry today.
The company, she says, is a profitable business and continues to expand worldwide.
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Ohio-based motion and control technologies company Parker Hannifin Corporation has opened its third outlet in St Florian, Upper Austria.
Parker Hannifin supplies 350 industrial companies and retail distribution partners which indirectly serve several thousand firms. Its products include pneumatic and hydraulic fittings for the mechanical engineering sector.
Since the beginning of July 2010, Austria is also responsible for coordinating sales in 17 Central and Eastern European markets.
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Austria-based manufacturer of easy-to-use mobile phone for seniors Emporia Telecom has opened an office in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
At the same time, Emporia Deutschland was founded and Klaus Gerhard Meckel was named as country manager.
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Ohio-based software company Seapine Software has recently moved to larger offices in Munich, Germany
This will allow Seapine to extend its relationships with its European customers, said Kevin Stewart, vice president of worldwide sales, Seapine Software.
“Seapine’s new facility will allow us to triple the size of our staff in both sales and pre-sales support,” Stewart said. “In addition, we are now able to provide in-house training and briefings for our customers, which will help them see a faster return on their investment in our tools and solutions.”
Seapine customers will now be able to receive personalized product demonstrations at the new site, as well as a variety of product and process training.
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Norway-based automotive logistics specialist Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and ROLF SCS, an auto logistics business in Russia, have confirmed that they are in the final stages of discussions designed to establish a joint venture between their Baltic and Russian terminals activities.
The joint venture will operate the auto and RoRo terminals in Kotka in Finland, Petrolesport port in St Petersburg and Vostochny in Far East Russia, which constitute the principal entry ports by sea into Russia.
Through this joint venture, WWL and ROLF SCS will be able to provide international vehicle manufacturers with increased flexibility and choice in their options for the import of cars and RoRo cargo into Russia and neighbouring CIS countries.
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Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos will add 150-200 staff at its units in Hungary by the end of 2010, according to managing director of Grundfos Magyarorszag, Laszlo Torok.
The new recruits will bring staff numbers at the units in Tatabanya and Szekesfehervar back to levels before the economic crisis.
Grundfos has invested HUF 20 billion in Hungary over the past three years.
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Texan pump equipment firm Flowserve has announced the recent opening of a new Learning Resource Centre in Desio, Italy.
Under the direction of Flowserve Educational Services, this new facility is designed to offer plant engineers, operators, reliability experts and maintenance technicians with a balanced combination of hands-on training and operational theory for pump, seal and valve equipment and systems.
The opening of the new Desio facility furthers the commitment of Flowserve to support its customers through a network of Learning Resource Centres, including facilities in Irving, Texas, Suzhou, China; Tlaxcala, Mexico; Sao Caetano, Brazil; and Singapore.
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Washington State-based online retailer Amazon is to establish a new logistics centre in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Following Bad Hersfeld and Leipzig, the company is now planning to open a logistics centre in Werne/Münsterland in a first step in September 2010. In the next step, Amazon plans to open a new, as yet unbuilt logistics centre in North Rhine-Westphalia, which will be completed in 2011.
Amazon has not yet announced the location of the logistics centre still to be built. The company searched throughout Germany for nearly a year before finally deciding in favour of the location in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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New York-headquartered IT company IBM and the Wroclaw University of Technology have announced an agreement to establish the first university cloud computing centre in Poland.
As part of the partnership, the Wroclaw University of Technology will create a new academic curriculum, making cloud-focused courses available to more than 1,500 students.
"The new cloud centre will provide a common platform for students and professors, industry partners and government agencies to work on real solutions based on cloud computing that will align people and technology effectively, and will generate value for both services providers and clients," said Professor Czeslaw Smutnicki, Director of the Institute of Computer Engineering, Control and Robotics, Wroclaw University of Technology. "We plan to start immediately with a cloud computing practice for over 500 students later this summer. The cooperation will continue in the field of education, PHD programmes and research."
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