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Female Tech Heroes open trading day

The Female Tech Heroes Network – a new initiative to make more women enthusiastic about tech – looks back to a successful launch. To celebrate this, initiators Hilde de Vocht and Ingelou Stol will open the trading day, together with their ambassadors.

Female Tech Heroes

Female Tech Heroes is a new initiative of High Tech Campus Eindhoven dedicated to women working in technology.

Hilde de Vocht & Ingelou Stol: ‘At present, the percentage of women working in tech worldwide is still relatively low. We work in an environment heavily dominated by men, and we need more women. Diversity is the key to success. Female Tech Heroes is going to create role models, among other things, to inspire women how amazing it is to work in tech.’

High Tech Campus Eindhoven is the square kilometer in Europe with 200 high tech companies. The Female Tech Heroes Network has been created with the support of ambassadors like Philips, TomTom, ASML, NXP, Thermo Fisher Scientific, TNO and Adyen.

For more information: hightechcampus.com/femaletechheroes

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20th listing anniversary Pharming Group

Pharming Group celebrates 20 listed years

Sijmen de Vries, CEO of the Euronext listed Pharming Group (ticker symbol: PHARM) sounds the gong at the Amsterdam exchange. Pharming Group is celebrating 20-years as a listed company.

Pharming Group is a specialty pharmaceutical company developing innovative products for the safe, effective treatment of rare diseases and unmet medical needs.

For more information: www.pharming.com

20th listing anniversary Pharming Group

Pharming Group celebrates 20 years of listing

Sijmen de Vries, CEO of the Euronext listed Pharming Group (ticker symbol: PHARM) sounds the gong at the Amsterdam exchange. Pharming Group is celebrating 20-years as a listed company.

Pharming Group is a specialty pharmaceutical company developing innovative products for the safe, effective treatment of rare diseases and unmet medical needs.

For more information: www.pharming.com

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NN Investment Partners wins Diversity Award

NN Investment Partners wins the “Gouden Pump” Diversity Award

NN IP won the Golden Pump, an award given by the Association of Women in Institutional Pensions (Viip). To mark the occasion Gül Poslu, Director Institutional Clients Netherlands, sounds the gong.

As the stand-alone asset manager of NN Group (ticker: NN), they manage €260 billion in assets for clients.

For more information: nnip.com

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Green gas installation BECH starts production

Water Board Vallei and Veluwe and Jan Bakker initiated the green gas production plant BECH. AFS Energy has facilitated and mediated the Gas Purchase Agreement with Essent that sealed the purchase for the upcoming years. To celebrate this, Bert van Vreeswijk and Jan Bakker, shareholders of BECH, will open the Amsterdam exchange.

Green gas as a sustainable alternative

Green gas is produced from the fermentation of waste products as manure. This procedure reduces manure surplus and offers a sustainable alternative to natural gas. The Water Board Vallei and Veluwe, and Jan Bakker have jointly initiated and set up the green gas production plant BECH in Harderwijk. AFS Energy had a mediation role that allowed the closing of the Gas Purchase Agreement with Essent. All parties involved contribute to the energy transition in the Netherlands.

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W.P. Stewart Holdings Fund celebrates 30-years

The W.P. Stewart Holdings Fund (“WPSH”) started in 1989 and portfolio manager Jim Tierney opens the trading day.

The Euronext Amsterdam listed fund focusses on a concentrated portfolio of approx. 20  growth companies. After the acquisition of W.P. Stewart & Co. in December 2013, WPSH became part of the AllianceBernstein fund platform. Jim Tierney and his team are also responsible for the AB Concentrated US Equity Portfolio.

For more information: alliancebernstein.com

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PostNL by “In the Boardroom”

Euronext presents the third broadcast of "In the Boardroom” with CEO Herna Verhagen and CFO Pim Berendsen.

In the Boardroom

These broadcasts are designed to give private investors a peek behind the scenes or, in this case, In the Boardroom – a place which is normally only accessible to a company’s most senior executives.

For more information: aex.nl

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SD Worx’s Bond Listing

Filip Dierckx, Chairman of SD Worx, opened the trading day in Brussels during a Bell Ceremony to celebrate SD Worx’s bond issuance.

SD Worx provides worldwide services in the areas of payroll, HR, legal support, training, automation, consultancy, and outsourcing. It focuses on customer centricity, fully embraces digitization and is committed to international growth. To find out more: https://www.sdworx.com/en

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De Smaakspecialist opens trading day

Pieter Dirven, founder Smaakspecialist B.V., sounds the gong to mark the occasion of KidsProof.

About KidsProof

Kidsproof is a free educational program about responsible nutrition in middle school. This program was created by food company De Smaakspecialist, producer and distributor of sustainable food. They produce organic products, largely under their own brands such as Smaakt, BioToday and RAW Organic Food.

For more information: kidsproef.bio

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IPO Marel

Marel lists on Euronext Amsterdam and issues new shares 

Marel, a leading global provider of advanced processing systems, software and services for the poultry, meat and fish processing industry, today began trading on Euronext Amsterdam, adding to its existing listing in Iceland.

Founded in 1983, Marel had €1.2 billion in revenues in 2018 and more than 6,000 employees in over 30 countries on six continents. Marel is the largest company in Iceland by market value.

The listing on Euronext Amsterdam, in addition to its listing on Nasdaq Iceland, sees Marel enter the next phase of its growth. The Amsterdam listing strengthens Marel’s capital structure and provides a global currency for acquisitions in support of its growth strategy, while expanding its shareholder base and enabling Marel to access international capital markets.

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Citi’s 100 years In Belgium

Mike Corbat, CEO of Citigroup, closed the trading day during a Bell Ceremony to celebrate Citi’s 100 years of presence in Brussels.

Citi is a leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. To find out more: https://www.citigroup.com/

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Start National Prokkelstagedag

State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment, Tamara van Ark sounds the gong together with Hans Sprong, cliënt of Philadephia.

It is also the starting signal for the National Prokkelstagedag: a day when thousands of people with an intellectual disability to do a traineeship at a company, a governmental or public organization.

Secretary of State Van Ark: “Work is important for many reasons. People tell me they like to feel needed, to feel challenged and to work with colleagues. It is a good thing the number of people finding work is growing but obstacles remain. With the start of the project “Het Breed Offensief” (The Broad Offensive) we will, together with employers trying to remove these obstacles”. 

About Prokkel

Since 2007 The Stichting Prokkel organizes throughout the country “exiting encounters”  between people with and without intellectual disabilities. To show how important en valuable these meetings are, Stichting Prokkel organizes a ‘ Week of the Prokkel’ every year: One week as an example and inspiration for the rest of the year. In 2019 the Week of the Prokkel starts on Monday the 3^rd  of June and ends on Saturday the 8^th  of June.

For more information: prokkel.nl

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Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield celebrates its first anniversary

Gerard Sieben, Member of the Senior Management Team at Unibail-RodamcoWestfield, sounds the gong to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the premier global developer and operator of flagship shopping destinations.

For more information: urw.com

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Cerberus investment club

Cerberus investment studieclub celebrates 35th anniversary

Cerberus celebrates her 7th anniversary. In honour of this president Allart Constandse sounds the gong. This investment studieclub has been in the possession of 35 years and has achieved a high degree of profitability over the years.

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Best European ETF Market Maker

Optiver Awarded  2017, 2018 & 2019 Best European ETF Market Maker

The Optiver ETF team opened the Amsterdam Stock Exchange to celebrate its achievement as Best European ETF Market Maker 2019 for the third consecutive year awarded by ETF Express. Optiver is a leading Delta 1 Market Maker on European Exchanges in 1000s of Cash Equities, ETFs, Futures and Options.

About Optiver

Optiver’s story began in 1986 with a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s options exchange. Today, it is at the forefront of trading and technology with more than 1000 employees across four continents continuously striving to improve the market. As a proprietary trading firm, Optiver trades 24 hours a day in a wide range of financial products on all major financial markets globally, with its own capital at its own risk. It offers competitive, tradable prices to market participants in all market conditions, constantly providing liquidity and volume to ensure the stability and smooth functioning of fair, transparent and reliable markets.   

For more information: optiver.com

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Roparun sounds the gong

Roparun will start Saturday, June 8^th in Hamburg and Paris and finishes Whit Monday in Rotterdam. Bas Nijhuis, ambassador for Roparun sounds the gong accompanied by participants of team ING and team Deloitte.

About Roparun

The Roparun is a relay race of more than 500 kilometers from Paris and Hamburg to Rotterdam, in which people work as a team to give a combined sports performance in order to raise money for people who suffer from cancer. This year’s 28^th edition has 324 teams participating in this challenge.

Besides the physical challenge, the team must also make an effort to raise money for the cause. Teams do this by organizing various activities. The three teams who raise the most money are honored during the final celebration of the Roparun, which takes place a few weeks after the finish. Over the past twenty-seven editions of the Roparun, more than eighty-three million Euro has been raised.

For more information: roparun.nl

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World MS Day

The chairman of the board of the MS Vereniging Nederland, Jan van Amstel sounds the gong in honor of World MS day.

What is World MS Day?

World MS Day is a yearly international event on May 30^th, with the goal of creating awareness for the disease multiple sclerosis. During the entire month of May several events are organized to raise attention for MS. The theme this year is ‘Movement & Mobility’, which is why they are organizing mobility scooter, walking and cycling tours throughout the country for our members and other interested parties. Their activities are organized by the regional team of the MS Vereniging Nederland, who create an awareness of the association and its activities.

About the MS Vereniging Nederland

MS Vereniging Nederland is the only patient organization in The Netherlands for people who have multiple sclerosis (MS) and their loved ones. For its approximately 8,500 members the organization offers activities and services which assist these members with questions and concerns. MS Vereniging gives people with MS a voice by representing these people at health care providers, governments, and health insurers.  They also provide information sessions about the disease and life with MS in an effort to allow people to make choices in order to stay in control of their own life.

For more information: msvereniging.nl

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Vesteda opens trading day

Vesteda successfully issued its inaugural Green Bond. This is the second benchmark-size bond under its €2.5 billion EMTN program and the first EUR Green Bond by a residential fund. To mark the occasion Frits Vervoort, CFO, sounds the gong.

The proceeds of the bond will be used to finance homes with a minimum EPC label A, and homes which have made an improvement of at least two EPC label-steps up to a minimum EPC label C. Vesteda will report on the estimated energy savings and greenhouse gas emission avoidance of the assets under this green bond. The €500 million bonds have a term of 8 years and a coupon of 1.5%. The bond was more than 6 times oversubscribed. ABN AMRO (Green Bond Structuring Advisor), BNP Paribas, ING, Rabobank, and SMBC Nikko acted as Joint Bookrunners. The bond will be listed on Euronext Amsterdam.

Vesteda

Vesteda is an entrepreneurial investor with a clear focus on the Dutch residential real estate market. Vesteda invests funds for institutional investors such as pension funds and insurers. Vesteda has total capital of €7.3 billion invested in real estate. Its rental portfolio stands at a total of approx. 28,000 residential units. Vesteda’s homes are mainly located in the economically strong regions and core urban regions.

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