[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Jejoong Medical, Co, Ltd., (CEO: Kim In-Soo, www.jejoong-medical.com) a company specialized in electrosurgical units and medical film illuminators, attempted once again to reach out to the world through participating in ‘Florida International Medical Expo 2012 in Miami (hereinafter called as “FIME 2012”)’ held from August 8 to 10. FIME 2012, held at the Miami Beach Convention Center, is one of the largest international medical device fairs in North America with the exhibits of approximately 950 professional medical device suppliers and approximately 45,000 visitors. It is
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Online Bingo site Boylebingo.com has launched a “refer a friend” scheme this week. The uptake has exceeded expectations so far, which is not surprising given that the initiative was requested by the site's regular players. Boylebingo.com, which is renowned for its customer care, decided to seek and implement customer suggestions to improve its online bingo offering. The most popular suggestion was for a bingo refer a friend scheme. As a result, players can request their friends to start playing on the site. Both the referrer and friend receive a free ten pound “refer a fr
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]A fantastic Final battle between two-time event winner Mathieu Richard and Keith Swinton was won by the young Australian whilst Pierre-Antoine Morvan gave his overall Alpari World Match Racing Tour challenge a boost with a third-place finish today. Light and shifty Maloja winds held out just long enough on Lake St. Moritz to complete a tense Final battle between former Champion Mathieu Richard (FRA) Loire Atlantique Sailing Team and Keith Swinton (AUS) Black Swan Racing, who made it to his first Tour event Final in his first year as a Tour Card Holder for his best career
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Kantar Health, a leading healthcare-focused global consultancy and marketing insights company, has promoted Graeme Jacombs to Managing Director of the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA) region. He was previously Deputy Managing Director, APMEA. In his new role, Mr. Jacombs will be responsible for Kantar Health's regional strategy, local business planning and client support in Asia, Australia/New Zealand, India, the Middle East and Africa. He is well-prepared for this new role, having served Kantar Health and its legacy companies in a variety of roles across this
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Korean medical device-specialized company, Medigate (CEO, Kim Seong-hwan, www.medigate.biz) announced, “we participated in FIME 2012: Florida International Medical Expo from 8th to 10th in Florida, USA and got results of making exporting contracts with 10 countries.” It is the 22nd anniversary of FIME 2012 this year as the largest medical device expo in the North America. From the worldwide including America, China, South America and Korea, 1,300 companies and 30,000 buyers took part in and presented various high-tech medical devices and accessories. Medigate showed elect
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]GM Korea Company announced today that it sold 9,808 vehicles in Korea and exported 35,359 vehicles in August, for total monthly sales of 45,167 vehicles. The company’s domestic sales in August were down 14.0 percent from 11,408 vehicles sold in August 2011, while the automaker’s vehicle exports in August decreased 17.8 percent from 43,036 vehicles exported in the same month last year. August vehicle sales were negatively impacted by weak domestic market demand, the company’s traditional summer shutdown and an inventory shortage due to work stoppages related to ongoing lab
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Smart TV Alliance, launched in June this year by founding board members LG Electronics and TP Vision with Toshiba joining shortly after, has expanded with new members with expertise from different areas of the Smart TV industry. As it continues to expand its market reach, the Smart TV Alliance will publish specifications for its software development kit (SDK) 2.0 on its official website www.smarttv-alliance.org. The actual SDK tool will be made available by the end of the year for use by developers. In addition to Smart TV manufacturers, organizations that contribute in d
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Citibank Korea Inc., (CKI, CEO YK Ha, www.citibank.co.kr) today reported net income of KRW 40.5 billion for the second quarter 2012, on revenues of KRW 388.0 billion. Net income was 71.9% lower than the second quarter 2011 and 55% lower than the first quarter 2012 while revenues were 14.9% lower than the prior year period and 8.0% lower than the first quarter 2012. CKI’s Basel II Capital Adequacy Ratio and Tier 1 Capital Ratio at June 30, 2012 were 16.94% and 13.94%, respectively. Interest revenue was down 2.4% year over year and down 4.8% from the prior quarter to KRW 37
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Dental equipment manufacturer Maruchi Co., Ltd. (CEO Sung-Wook Jang, www.endocem.com) announced to have acquired Venture Company Certificate (No. 20120106106) from KIBO last June 28th. Venture Company Certificate system is to select small and medium enterprises with excellent technology or innovation which satisfy venture certification criteria in accordance with Act on Special Measure for the Promotion of Venture Company, and it provides various benefits in tax reduction and financing. Maruchi announced that “we could acquire Venture Company Certificate with our dental c
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Citibank Korea Inc. (CKI, CEO Yung-Ku Ha, www.citibank.co.kr) and Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA, President Young-Ho Oh, www.kotra.or.kr) have announced that CKI and KOTRA sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the bilateral cooperation for the high potential middle market enterprises operating the overseas business at the HQ of KOTRA in Seoul on Aug. 29, 2012 (Wed.). CKI and KOTRA will cooperate closely by utilizing their global network in order to provide services for the middle market companies operating the global business. The MOU conclusion be