All Bell ceremonies

Namur

On 5 May 2014 Euronext Brussels celebrated the listing of bonds (Medium Term Notes) issued by the city of Namur. The Mayor of Namur, Maxime Prévot rang the Opening Bell in the presence of Belfius representatives.

Gong marks Remembrance Day and Liberation Day

Amsterdams 4 en 5 mei comité visits Beursplein 5 to sound the gong for Remembrance Day and Liberation Day.

The Amsterdam committee is commissioned by the City of Amsterdam and is responsible for organizing the Remembrance Day May 4 and Liberation Day May 5 program. Through a joint effort by many parties, the program consists of more than 250 activities. In addition to the National Memorial on Dam Square on May 4, there are activities like commemorations in the city, remembrance events in theaters, cinemas or concert halls, Open Jewish Houses and Houses of Resistance, Liberty Meals and the Liberation Festival in the Westerpark. Member of the board Amsterdams 4 en 5 mei comité and managing director of the Johan Cruyff Foundation, Carole Thate, opens trading.

For more information: www.4en5meiamsterdam.nl

Download photo

Jong Ondernemen visits Beursplein 5

Jong Ondernemen Foundation (Young entrepreneurs foundation) visits Beursplein 5 to sound the gong.

The student company KnifeCleaner, creators of a professional knives cleaner, sound the gong together with Arko Veefkind, director of the foundation Jong Ondernemen. KnifeCleaner registered at the Chamber of Commerce recently, still during the entrepreneurship program of the foundation.

Jong Ondernemen is an entrepreneurial organization that allows young people to undertake during their school period and provides entrepreneurship programs at all educational levels. Through continuous learning and close involvement from business annually almost 26,000 pupils and students from primary school to university develop entrepreneurial skills. Jong Ondernemen is made possible by ABN AMRO, APG, CCHO, Delta Lloyd, ExxonMobil, ING, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, SME Service Desk, MN, NAM, NBA, PWC, SNS REAAL Fonds Twinfield, Van Lanschot and VNO-NCW.

For more information: www.jongondernemen.nl

Download photo

Klinkenberg Traders celebrates 15th anniversary

In honor of the 15th anniversary of Klinkenberg Traders, Mark Meinen, Director Emissions trading, sounds the closing gong.

Klinkenberg Traders was founded in 1999 as a trading company in stock options. With a small specialist team Klinkenberg Traders nowadays trades in equities, derivatives, hard metal options and carbon emission trading.

Download photo

Kendrion Executive Committee opens trading

CEO of Kendrion, Piet Veenema, sounds the gong together with the Executive Committee and opens trading at Euronext Amsterdam.

The Executive Committee sounds the gong in preparation of the publication of the first quarter results which will be published on 8 May 2014.

Kendrion develops, manufactures and markets innovative electromagnetic and mechatronic systems and components for customers all over the world. Kendrion's operations are carried out by the Division Industrial and the Division Automotive. Kendrion has leading positions in a number of business-to-business niche markets. Germany is Kendrion's main market, although other countries are becoming increasingly important.

For more information: www.kendrion.com

Download photo

Fundação Realizar um Desejo toca o sino para comemorar o ‘World Wish Day’

À semelhança do que tem acontecido nos últimos anos, a Euronext Lisbon junta-se às restantes localizações europeias do Grupo para comemorar o ‘World Wish Day’, através do toque do sino de encerramento da sessão de bolsa.

A cerimónia de toque do sino conta com a presença da directora executiva da Fundação Realizar um Desejo, Mariana Carreira, e duas crianças que já viram os seus desejos serem realizados.

O primeiro desejo realizado pela Make-A-Wish ocorreu, nos EUA, quando um rapaz com leucemia, Chris Greicius, realizou o seu sonho: ser polícia por um dia.

A Fundação Realizar um Desejo, filial da Make-a-Wish em Portugal, acredita que a concretização de um sonho a uma criança que luta corajosamente contra uma doença grave, lhe transmite uma mensagem positiva de esperança, de força e de alegria quando ela mais precisa.

Young student entrepreneurs from various schools in the Ile de France region

The students were invited by Euronext for an intensive training session in order to prepare the Regional Championship taking place in June 2014 prcede by ringing the opening bell . This falls under the initiative of the Corporate Responsibility Group at Euronext. 

Make-A-Wish The Netherlands sounds gong on World Wish Day

CEO of Make-A-Wish The Netherlands, Peter Douwes, sounds the gong for World Wish Day together with volunteers and area ambassadors. The bells are also sounded for this occasion at the other Euronext exchange locations.

Every year on the 29th of April Make-A-Wish celebrates World Wish Day all over the world. In 1980 the first wish was granted to the 7-years old Chris, he suffered from leukemia. The whole village contributed enthusiasm to fulfil his dearest wish: being a cop. Make-A-Wish The Netherlands is founded in 1989 and annually fulfills more than 500 dearest wishes of children between 3 and 18 years with a life-threatening illness. Fulfilling a wish means a world of difference for these children and provides them and their family with hope and strength for the future.

For more information: www.makeawishnederland.org

Download photo

Mr. Peter Crosby, President and CEO of Mainstay Medical, opens the European trading day in Paris

Mainstay Medical is an Irish medical device company that is developing an innovative implantable neurostimulation device, ReActiv8, for people with debilitating Chronic Low Back Pain.

Chronic Low Back Pain is generally defined as Low Back Pain where the pain persists for more than three months. Low Back Pain is a leading cause of activity limitation and work absence throughout much of the developed world, imposing a high economic burden on individuals, families, communities, industry, and governments. The Company estimates that in approximately 7% of all cases of Low Back Pain, the pain persists for more than three months.

ReActiv8 represents a new approach to the treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain. ReActiv8 is an implantable neurostimulation device which applies electrical stimulation to nerves that supply one of the key stabilising muscles in the back, the lumbar multifidus muscle. The hypothesis on which ReActiv8 is based is that electrical stimulation of the nerve that innervates the lumbar multifidus muscle to cause contraction of the muscle can help reactivate the muscle control system, thereby leading to improved spine stability and a reduction in the effects of CLBP.

Further information is available at www.mainstay-medical.com

Euronext Brussels celebrated World Wish Day

On 29 April 2014 Euronext Brussels celebrated World Wish Day with Sofie

Make-A-Wish France, Maison Lenôtre and wish child Victor celebrate World Wish Day in Paris

Euronext supports Make-A-Wish France who grants wishes for children with life-threatening medical conditions. For the 5th edition of World Wish Day, Make-A-Wish France is invited to celebrate the anniversary of the first wish granted. A ceremony will take place where Victor,  Wish Child of the day, will be put in the spotlight. Victor's wish  was granted in April with the support of Maison Lenôtre: "I wish to make pastry with a famous Chef".

National Maritime Museum celebrates one millionth visitor

Het Scheepvaartmuseum (The National Maritime Museum) in Amsterdam welcomed the one millionth visitor to the museum since the re-opening 2.5 years ago. Between 2007 and 2011 the museum was closed for the public, because it underwent a large remodeling and renovation project. Deputy Director, Ric van Wijk, sounds the gong.

Students of the school ‘CSG Ulbe van Houten’ were the lucky ones. They visited the museum for an educational program and were surprised by the museum staff. The National Maritime Museum, with its 13 exhibitions, explores the role of the sea in the becoming of the Netherlands. Visitors can discover the Dutch maritime past and present and step aboard the replica ship Amsterdam ( East Indiaman) and experience a real sailor’s life.

For more information: www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.nl

Download photo

Euronext and De Financiële Telegraaf launch Orange Index

By sounding the gong Euronext and De Financiële Telegraaf (DFT) launch the new AEX DFT Oranje Index (AEX DFT Orange Index).

The AEX DFT Oranje Index contains a cross section of companies of Dutch origin with a rich history. At its launch, the Oranje Index is made up of sixteen Dutch listings with the holding or a significant business unit bearing the Royal predicate. This applies to the listings of Royal Dutch Shell, Philips, Ahold, KPN, DSM, Vopak, Boskalis, Air France-KLM, Post NL, BAM, Imtech, Ten Cate, Wessanen, Reesink, Brill and Porceleyne Fles.

The Oranje Index caters to the continual interest among private investors for renowned Dutch companies. This group of investors can now closely track the performance of this cross section of the Amsterdam exchange alongside the AEX main index and other leading international indices. During the trading day, investors can follow the index in real-time via the websites aex.nl and dft.nl, as well as via the daily quotations page in De Financiële Telegraaf newspaper.

De Telegraaf is listed on Euronext Amsterdam as a part of the Telegraaf Media Group (ticker symbol: TMG). Editor in Chief De Telegraaf, Sjuul Paradijs, and Chief De Financiële Telegraaf, Ronald Veerman, sound the gong.

For more information: www.aex.nl

Download photo

EnterNext welcomes Theraclion on Alternext in Paris

Theraclion specializes in developping, manufacturing and marketing echotherapy medical equipments associating therapy by focused ultrasound (HIFU) and monitoring by ultrasound. The company provides Echopulse, a device for the non-invasive and outpatient treatment of the fibroadenoma of the breast and thyroid nodules.

The Manitou Group celebrates the 30th anniversary of its IPO

The Manitou group has a genuine right to acknowledge itself as a midsize company : As a French industrial group with 3,200 employees, of which, more than half in France, 75% of Manitou’s sales were realized internationally in 2013. Since its founding, the group designs, assembles and distributes material handling solutions, equipment, throughout the entire world for the construction, agricultural and industrial markets. Wherever it’s necessary to lift, load, place or store, you’ll find Manitou forklifts, telehandlers or aerial work platforms. The Manitou group depends on the quality, innovation and reliability of its products as well as its expertise and know-how.

Presidency of the FEB-VBO 2014-2017

Euronext Brussels celebrated the new Presidency of the FEB-VBO 2014-2017. Michèle Sioen, the new President rang the Opening Bell on 24 April 2014

Gong marks kick-off LOEY Awards 2014

The 2013 LOEY Award winners, Valentijn Bras (Scoupy) and Rogier Thewessen (StudentenWerk), sound the gong to kick-off the LOEY Awards 2014 that will take place on 3 September.

The LOEY Award is an independent award for the best entrepreneurs in the Dutch online industry and is established to promote and encourage online entrepreneurship. The innovative strength of this industry is enormous and the importance of online entrepreneurs for the Dutch economy is evident. By announcing successful entrepreneurs, the LOEY awards contribute to further development of online initiatives and partnerships. The 2014 winners will visit Euronext Amsterdam on 5 September.

For more information: www.loeyawards.nl

Download photo

Gong ceremony marks first edition of Eye on index investing

In honour of the first edition of Eye on index investing, moderator of the event, Annette van Soest, sounds the gong. Eye on index investing is an event focusing on ETFs and index funds, which has been set up on the initiative of iShares, Vanguard, Think ETF’s, State Street Global Advisors, and ETF Securities, in cooperation with Euronext. The purpose of the event is to increase knowledge of ETFs and index products.

Worldwide there has been a sharp rise in the use of index products and ETFs over the past two years. Using these investment products effectively on a day-to-day basis requires a thorough knowledge of their specific features and the potential they provide. Europe alone expects to see growth of between 15 and 20%, distributed among various investor segments; the current focus is on the preferences of retail investors in relation to ETFs and index funds. The event consists of both online and live meetings. Top speakers from the Netherlands and abroad will discuss current trends and visions of the future of ETFs and index funds via interactive webcasts. A limited number of tickets for the live event in Amsterdam on 8 May is available for investment industry professionals.

Moderator, Annette van Soest, sounds the gong in the company of Gert-Jan Verhagen (iShares), Martijn Rozemuller (Think ETF’s), Philippe Roset (ETF Securities), Jasper Bugter (SPDR), Koen Hoogenhout (Vanguard) and Roger van Elderen (Euronext).
 

For more information: www.eyeonindexinvesting.nl

Download photo