LACHEN, Switzerland-Sunday 17 March 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

    Reporting revenue of €1.8 billion and operating income of €346 million
    Group sales increased 4.5% compared to 2017 (on a constant currency basis, the growth rate is 6.6%)
    All our products performed well, but to be highlighted are the year-on-year growth of our immunglobulin product portfolio, as well as Nuwiq® and fibryga®

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Commenting on the Group’s results, Octapharma CEO and Chairman Wolfgang Marguerre said: “In 2018, we continued to drive growth in many of our products. I am particularly pleased with the important regulatory approvals for our new fibrinogen concentrate, fibryga®, which received regulatory approval in Switzerland, our new 10% IVIG product, panzyga®, approved for the US market, and our new SCIG product, cutaquig®, which was approved by both Health Canada and the FDA. ... Read more »

Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates-Sunday 17 March 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

The American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) hosted the AURAK Job Fair 2019 to encourage interactions between job market employers, AURAK students, and Ras Al Khaimah residents seeking employment opportunities.

AURAK, an independent, public, state-owned, non-profit, coeducational institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees based on the North American model and the cultural characteristics of the Gulf region, hosted a two-day job fair, providing opportunities for company representatives and job seekers, both students and Ras Al Khaimah residents, to interact, attracting company representatives from both the governmental and private sector and job seekers from all across the Northern Emirates, including students from several other universities. It was organized by the AURAK School of Engineering and sponsored by the Public Services Department, Majan Printing and Packaging ... Read more »

TALLINN, Estonia-Sunday 17 March 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Medicalbit Foundation, which is currently undergoing an initial virtual currency coin offering (ICO) in Estonia, has decided to make its ASCA tokens publicly available as the first step in the Asclepius Network project.

The goal of Asclepius Network is to make leading-edge medical treatment available to all peoples of the world, and Japan has been chosen for the first location in Asia to expand business.
The project’s mission is to accumulate the world’s cutting-edge medical treatment knowledge and medical records within a blockchain system. This would form a mechanism that would enable anyone in the world to receive the benefits of leading-edge medical treatments anywhere in the world. To further that end, the project is forming a network of leading-edge medical researchers from Japan, as well as from Europe and the United States.
In practical terms, the project is en ... Read more »

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates-Sunday 17 March 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

NMC, the largest private healthcare provider in the Middle East, was presented with the ‘UAE Deal of the Year’ award for their five-year USD$400m Sukuk transaction at the Islamic Finance News (IFN) Awards 2019.

Commenting on the win, Prasanth Manghat CEO of NMC Healthcare, said: “I am very pleased to accept the UAE Deal of the Year Award; this would not have been possible without the trust and faith investors have shown in us.”

Prasanth Manghat added: “Providing healthcare since 1975, NMC continues to grow and expand, and this award provides further incentive to help accomplish our present and future goals.”

At the prestigious IFN Awards 2019 several big names in the industry compete for a range of recognitions which are judged primarily under two categories, the Best Bank Polls, and Deals of the Year. Leading industries across the region were judged ba ... Read more »

Company already leveraging Rimini Street support for SAP products, expands support services scope to include Salesforce products

LAS VEGAS-Sunday 17 March 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner, today announced that EBSCO Industries, a global holding company with more than 26 business units around the world, has chosen Rimini Street Application Management Services (AMS) for Salesforce to maximize the value and ROI of their Salesforce investment. EBSCO has been successfully leveraging Rimini Street support for its SAP system since 2015, and has now expanded their Rimini Street support service scope to include its Salesforce system.

EBSCO Leverages Rimini Street AMS for Salesforce

Many of EBSCO’s business units use Salesforce to help grow th ... Read more »