Berlin (ots) - 50,000 Bertelsmann employees have already received their free Internet PCs - "planet B" Internet portal provides information, entertainment and tutorials in five languages Over the past few months, 50,000 free personal computers with Internet access were shipped to Bertelsmann employees all over the world as part of the "PC 4 All" campaign. Initiated by the Bertelsmann Executive Board, the ...
Berlin (ots) - The international media company Bertelsmann achieved revenues of 20.04bn EUR in Fiscal Year 2000/01 (ended June 30, 2001). At 3.5bn EUR above the previous year's turnover (16.5bn EUR), this translates to a 21 percent increase. This growth is attributable to the first-time full-year consolidation of RTL Group (1.4bn EUR), as well as to acquisitions (1.4bn EUR) and exchange-rate effects (0.7bn EUR). ...
Berlin (ots) - Revenues increase by 21 percent to 20bn EUR / Earnings before interest, taxes and amortization rise by 79 percent to over three billion EUR / Annual net income up by 44 percent to 968 million EUR / Transition at Bertelsmann: half of current corporate value attributable to initiatives and decisions implemented after 1995 / RTL Group biggest business with highest profits / Turnaround in the club ...
Ingolstadt (ots) - * Professional or standard search * Around 55,000 entries covering Germany and Europe * Research in 18 languages The Audi online exchange car and company car mart, on http://www.audi.com and http://www.audi.de, now has a new look and additional features. This relaunch is the outcome of a study conducted to assess the usability of the previous service. The user now has the ...
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Heidelberg (ots) - At the Annual General Meeting of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg), held in the Stadthalle Heidelberg, Chairman of the Management Board Bernhard Schreier looked back over the most successful fiscal year (April 1, 2000 through March 31, 2001) in the company's history. The milestones ...
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Heidelberg, Germany / Chicago, USA (ots) - Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) is continuing to expand its leading position on the world market. At this year's largest trade fair for the graphic arts industry, Print 01 (September 6-13, 2001, Chicago), Heidelberg received orders worth US $ 345 million, of ...
Frankfurt, Germany (ots) - - Cross-reference: photos were sent via satellite and are available at: http://www.presseportal.de/galerie.htx?type=obs - Provocative and practical - Quick-change artist: all-in-one roadster, convertible and pick-up - Roller cover replaces conventional roof, PDA supercedes conventional instruments It's as ...
Ingolstadt (ots) - Satellite: Eutelsat TEL-2A, F2- 352° east Transponder: KO3 Downlink: Slot 2 Frequency: 12,610.500 MHz Polarity: RY, vertical TV format: 625 PAL Code: MPEG-2, 4:2:0, QPSK ...
Ingolstadt (ots) - Never before has Audi sold as many cars in the first eight months of a year as it has in 2001: a total of around 484,000 cars bearing the four rings of the Audi badge were handed over to customers worldwide. 442,154 vehicles were sold in the same period last year. This is equivalent to an ...
Ingolstadt (ots) - * Last year's result already exceeded by August * FAW-Volkswagen joint venture celebrates ten-year anniversary * Premiere of the Audi A8 L 6.0 quattro at the International Automobile Exhibition in Changchun * China is Audi's largest market outside Europe after the USA Audi's success in China remains undiminished. With more than 20,000 cars delivered to customers, the sales success for the whole of last year (2000: 17,451 ...
- Cross-reference: photo was sent via satellite and is available at: http://www.presseportal.de/galerie.htx?type=obs Ingolstadt (ots) - * World's first combined ESP/shaker test rig * Fully automatic refuelling system The motto "Vorsprung durch Technik" applies not just to the cars manufactured by Audi, but also to their production. One ...
Ludwigshafen/London (ots) - We shall be publishing the interim report on the first half of 2001 on the occasion of the half year press conference on August 7, 2001, in London. You will be receiving it at 7:30 a.m. (CEST). You can also read further information in the Internet at the following addresses (according to the transmission embargo): - Information in German: www.basf.de/pk - Information in English: www.basf.de/pcon - Interim report second quarter ...
Ingolstadt (ots) - Audi has reported the best first-half result for vehicle sales and sales revenues in company history. The figures now released further exceed the estimates only recently announced at the Annual General Meeting in Ingolstadt. Sales revenues in the first six months rose by 14.5 percent instead of the estimated 13.7 percent to around DM 22.350 billion. Vehicle sales improved on the previous year by ...
Gütersloh (ots) - The Bertelsmann AG Supervisory Board has appointed Hartmut Ostrowski, 43, as a deputy member of the Bertelsmann Executive Board, effective October 1, 2001. Ostrowski is scheduled to become a regular Executive Board member on September 1, 2002. He will then become the successor to Gunter ...
Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft
Frankfurt (ots) - BRE Bank, majority owned by Germany's Commerzbank, recently received the prestigious President's Award as Poland's best financial institution. This was the fourth year the awards, referred to as Poland's "Economic Oscars", have been awarded. Poland's President Alexander Kwasniewski made the final selection. The President's Economic Awards ...
Ingolstadt (ots) - Exploiting innovative key technologies in the electronics sector - this is the goal AUDI AG is pursuing with the establishment of the fully-owned subsidiary "Audi Electronics Venture GmbH" in the third quarter of 2001. The company will be based in Ingolstadt and have a share capital of ...
Gütersloh (ots) - Parallel to the acquisition of 25.0 per cent voting and 0.1 per cent non-voting Bertelsmann shares by the new shareholder Groupe Bruxelles Lambert S.A. (GBL), the Bertelsmann Aktiengesellschaft Supervisory Board has been expanded from formerly 12 to 15 members. On July 2, 2001, the ...
Ingolstadt (ots) - Special shifts to cope with a special economic situation: Audi continues to defy the market trend. While the economic situation of the automotive industry is recessive in many markets, Audi has been able to make further increases. Although, for example, the overall passenger car market in Germany declined by more than six percent in May, Audi was ...
Ingolstadt (ots) - The Audi commercial "The Fan" was also The King with creative and marketing experts at this year's "48th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival 2001" in Cannes: at the weekend the jury awarded the Silver Lion in the category "Cars" to the commercial for the continuously variable ...
Gütersloh (ots) - STRONGER MARKET PRESENCE, SYNERGIES, AND EXPANDED SERVICE TO CUSTOMERS EXPECTED FOR SONOPRESS, TOPAC AND DIGITAL WORLD SERVICE Bertelsmann AG's Sonopress will undergo an in-house move, from the Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) to the Arvato AG. The world's leading manufacturer of ...
- Embargo: 28.05.2001 14.30 h - Ingolstadt (ots) - Working at Audi has become even safer: in the year 2000 the number of industrial accidents at the Audi plants in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm dropped once again compared with the previous year: with 6.3 industrial accidents per million hours worked, Audi was able to reduce the previous year's level (1999: 6.8) by 7.4 percent. In doing so Audi outperformed the average ...
Hamburg (ots) - The Bertelsmann Content Network has launched its first-ever large-scale nationwide ad campaign, in which it scouts for new, unusual and creative ideas with the slogan: "Großen Ideen folgen wir - egal wohin" (We pursue big ideas - no matter where they lead us). In a double-page advertising ...
Ingolstadt (ots) - From now on the Audi online pre-owned car exchange, at http://www.audi.de and http://www.audi.com, will be even more customer-friendly: users can now search for cars to suit their requirements in six different languages. Over the next few weeks this service will be extended to include up to 18 ...
Gütersloh (ots) - The EU Commission in Brussels has approved Bertelsmann AG's acquisition of a controlling interest in Europe's leading television and radio conglomerate, the RTL Group. Bertelsmann Chairman and CEO Thomas Middelhoff today welcomed this as a significant landmark in enhancing growth and success ...
London/Gütersloh (ots) - After intensive exploratory talks, Britain's EMI Group plc and Bertelsmann AG have decided not to continue the negotiations about merging their music businesses. The companies have mutually concluded that the regulatory hurdles Brussels and Washington would most likely impose on an EMI/Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) merger would require a complicated, lengthy investigation and approval procedure. Also, preliminary talks indicated that there would ...
Ingelheim, Germany, and New York (ots-PRNewswire) - Boehringer Ingelheim and Pfizer Inc announced today that they have entered into a long-term worldwide agreement to jointly market SPIRIVA(r) (tiotropium), a novel once-a-day inhaled treatment for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), which includes ...
