[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG), a Worldwide Olympic Partner, officially welcomed moms and families of Olympians to the P&G Family Home to kick off the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. In the P&G Family Home, brands including Pantene®, Gillette®, Bounty® and Olay® will serve families of Olympians from all over the world, every day of the Games. The P&G Family Home is the heart of the company’s Thank You Mom program for Sochi 2014, in which P&G brands honor the role moms play in helping their kids achieve their dreams. Tide® athlete, Nick Goepper (USA), Pampers® athlete, Oksana
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Panasonic Corporation (TOKYO:6752) today announced it has signed an agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to renew its Official Worldwide Olympic Partnership agreement for a further eight years through to the 2024 Olympic Games. The signing ceremony in Sochi was attended by IOC President Thomas Bach and Kazuhiro Tsuga, President of Panasonic Corporation. Under the terms of the agreement, Panasonic will provide its cutting-edge technologies and products to support the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and the summer and
[By NBC-1TV H.J Yook]To underline its ongoing commitment to the Asia-Pacific region, Greater China and India, Bombardier Aerospace will present a strong line-up of its industry-leading business and commercial aircraft at the 2014 Singapore Airshow. Visitors will also have the opportunity to tour the CSeries aircraft demonstrators that will be on display at Bombardier's CSeries pavilion. As a world leader in the design, manufacture and support of innovative aviation solutions, and in concert with the company‘s strategy to expand its geographic footprint, Bombardier Aerospace’s activities within
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (GMCR) (NASDAQ: GMCR) announced today that the companies have signed a 10-year agreement to collaborate on the development and introduction of The Coca-Cola Company’s global brand portfolio for use in GMCR’s forthcoming Keurig Cold™ at-home beverage system. Under the global strategic agreement, GMCR and The Coca-Cola Company will cooperate to bring the Keurig Cold™ beverage system to consumers around the world. In an effort to align long-term interests, the companies also entered into a Common Stock
[NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Entegris, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTG), a leader in contamination control and materials handling technologies for highly advanced manufacturing, released a new wafer shipping solution for the safe and reliable transport of 200 mm wafers used in the manufacturing of semiconductors, LEDs and MEMS. The new shippers allow silicon suppliers and device manufacturers to ship and store the latest generation of lens/bumped wafers, which are thinner and more sensitive to damage and contamination. “The semiconductor industry is shifting to thin and ultra-thin wafers in order to make smaller, hig
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Entegris, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTG), a leader in contamination control and materials handling technologies for highly advanced manufacturing environments, announced Protego® Plus HT/HTX with 7 nm rated retention, the most advanced purifier/filter for removing metallic contamination from deionized (DI) water while also removing more fine particles than other purifiers on the market. As the latest addition to Entegris' Protego family of liquid purifiers and purifier/filters, the Protego Plus HT/HTX removes metal ions and other contaminants from DI water, a critical material used i
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Philippines, January 18, 2014 - The 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee (IAGOC), Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Otsuka) and the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) signed the Sponsorship Agreement for the Asian Games during the 32nd OCA General Assembly in Manila, which enables Otsuka’s product, Pocari Sweat to be recognized as an official sports drink for Asia’s biggest sports event. The Incheon Asian Games will mark the fifth time the Pocari Sweat manufacturer has been an official Partner of the Asian Games since they first participated in the 1994 Hiroshima Games
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]nritsu Company, as part of its commitment to develop innovative test solutions to meet the needs of signal integrity engineers, announces a working cooperation with Wild River Technology. The two companies are collaborating to provide test solutions that meet the rigorous test requirements associated with high-speed serial data interconnects, SERDES testing, cables, and backplanes used in Next Generation Networks (NGNs). As part of the cooperation, Anritsu has introduced the Wild River Technology CMP-28 and CMP-32 Channel Modeling Platforms (CMPs) as complements to the An
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]New York Life Investments announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Dexia Asset Management, a leading international asset manager, with management centers in Brussels, Paris, Luxembourg and its investment boutique, Ausbil, based in Sydney, for EUR 380 million. Dexia Asset Management joins New York Life Investments’ diversified family of investment boutiques, complementing its current capabilities in fixed income, equities and alternative investments and adds $100 billion in assets under management, bringing New York Life Investments’ total assets under mana
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]TECFIDERA® (dimethyl fumarate) has been approved by the European Commission (EC) as a first-line oral treatment for people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), the most common form of multiple sclerosis (MS). Biogen Idec(www.biogenidec.com) (NASDAQ: BIIB) will begin to introduce TECFIDERA in initial European Union (EU) countries in the coming weeks. TECFIDERA was first approved in the United States in March 2013 and became the country’s number one prescribed oral therapy for relapsing forms of MS after six months.[1] TECFIDERA was also approved in Canada an