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FTPB News
n°5 - 15 February 2007 |
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In January and
February, a lot of companies and other organisations define their priorities
for the 12 months ahead. This includes making choices regarding
public-relations operations in the coming year and finalising budgets. Usually,
by early March, we, at FTPB, have a clearer idea of what the March-to-June
and the September-to-November periods have in store for us — given the
fact the periods in between tend, in practice, to be nullified by holidays. Having said all that,
one project we are extremely pleased about is being finalised and promises to
be very interesting for all concerned: in close co-operation with (and with
the support of) UBIFRANCE (our parent-organisation in France), the Trade
Section of the French Embassy in London (or Mission Economique), and
the Invest in France Agency (in charge of international investments and
the promotion of inward investment), FTPB has successfully prepared the
ground for the publication, in late April of this year, of a Supplement
devoted to the best of France’s information-technology sector. The Supplement will be
researched, written and published by leading British IT magazine Information
Age, which, no doubt, most of you have heard of. Half a dozen French
regional authorities are backing the project (from Within each region,
the Supplement will give the opportunity to established players of the French
IT industry as well as start-ups to present what they do. It fits in with the
aim of promoting the high-technology hubs set up with the backing of the
French government across the country. (They are known in French as pôles
de compétitivité, as you may well be aware already.) We also have a range
of IT companies — large and small — that have come on board,
which should be featured in the Supplement. Together with the
Invest in France Agency, and with our support, the French regions involved
are going to organise a press trip for the Information Age journalists
tasked with researching the content of the France IT Supplement, so that they
will have the opportunity to meet many of the executives involved in situ. FTPB, together with
our institutional partners, will most probably look into having another
industry-specific supplement put together in collaboration with a specialist
British magazine at a later stage in 2007, or else in the first half of 2008.
It will be about another industry, next time, where French technology and
know-how also deserve to be given that little bit of extra media coverage
that it is not always easy to secure otherwise. I will keep you informed of
course. Other large-scale
projects are in the pipeline, as far as the press bureau is concerned. The
region of Indeed, the Corsican
regional authorities (with the active support of the local chambers of
commerce) are very keen to get traditional and high-quality Corsican food
products and wine better known outside the region — especially in
Britain. In due course, this should lead to a press trip that the press
bureau will organise on behalf of our Corsican partners to this beautiful and
fascinating island-region. We expect other press
trips to come up, but it is too early for me to give any specifics; we will
get in touch with you as soon as topics, dates, blueprints, etc. have been
finalised with our partner-organisations. Finally, if you go to
our dedicated website (www.ftpb.co.uk), you will see that we are expanding its content on an ongoing basis.
We have recently added a Special Reports section that gives you
sectorial information (in French and/or in English) on a range of industries
— get in touch with us if you want further details about any of those. I hope you will enjoy
reading the February edition of FTPB News, and I also hope 2007 has started
in positive and productive fashion for all the readers of this bulletin. The
next edition of FTPB News should come out round mid-April. Philip Jolly, Managing
Director, FTPB |
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OPTIMEX, a manufacturer of centrifugal, sealless,
canned motor pumps for handling hazardous liquids, has launched a new range
of pumps for the transfer of liquefied gases. These pumps are reliable and
safe, with no risk of leakage.
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MID, a manufacturer of fitting systems for hoses,
produces the Variacor® joint system, which makes all hoses flexible
and adjustable, whatever the pressure and rigidity. MID is seeking
international distributors.
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Novacel, a manufacturer of protective films, has installed a state-of-the-art, 2850mm wide, high-speed coating line in order to meet growing demand for surface protection film from the automotive and electronics industries.
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Gérard
Pons Voyages has launched a range of Dialysis while Cruising holidays,
which offer completely safe travel for dialysis patients undergoing
continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and people with renal
failure, as well as for their friends and family. |
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As part of
the 3GSM World Congress |
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The Mobile
Office trade show was held from 5 to 7 December |
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CTS
International, a leading provider of network planning, design and
optimisation solutions, is to provide Hutchison 3G Austria GmbH (Group
Hutchison Whampoa Ltd) with its Ellipse Microwave Planning Tool
Suite. |
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ESI Group,
which supplies digital simulation software based on the physics of materials,
has federated its multi-disciplinary solvers technology in the Visual
Environment platform. |
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ESI Group
has announced the release of the 2007 version of its CFD products. ESI’s
Advanced CFD solutions include CFD-ACE+ for multidisciplinary and
multi-physics simulation and CFD-FASTRAN for aerodynamic and
aerothermodynamic simulation. |
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FRANCHISE
EXPO will be held in |
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ACCESS MBA
was held on 25 November 2006 at the Amsterdam Hilton. The event gave attendees
the opportunity to meet the admissions directors of international business
schools. ACCESS MBA represents over 120 different MBA programmes across more
than 20 countries. |
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The SITL
Real Time trade show will be held in |
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PORALU
MARINE, a manufacturer of aluminium marinas, and ARNAVING France have
developed Mobi-Deck, a new system of floating
mobile pontoons for mooring 6- to 15-metre boats (types II to VII). |
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wish to receive further information from us please send us an email to the
following adress : contact.ftpb@ubifrance.fr