Business Wire Expands European Presence with Opening of Scandinavian Office in Stockholm; Andrew Dobbin Named Manager/Nordic Region.To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Business Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available STOCKHOLM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2003 Building upon its successful sales operations in London and Frankfurt, Business Wire today announced the next phase of its European expansion with the opening of a Scandinavian office based in Stockholm, Sweden, Cathy Baron Tamraz, president, announced today. Andrew Dobbin has been named manager/Nordic region, with responsibility for sales in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. Dobbin will report to Gregg Castano, senior vice president, global sales. Rudi DeCeuster is managing director of Business Wire Sweden. DeCeuster, who has been director of Business Wire Europe since 1999, previously was general manager of Agence Belga from 1983-99. He also served three terms as president of the European Alliance of News Agencies, and is a former board member of the World Association of Newspapers. "Business Wire is excited by the prospect of introducing its global media and investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. networks to the northern European market," said Tamraz, in making the announcement. "Scandinavian companies are well versed in the effective use of corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. to reach the news media and investment community. Business Wire is seeking to replicate its success in the D/A/CH region and the United Kingdom by offering Nordic companies direct access to comprehensive distribution networks, state-of-the-art multimedia products, and quality customer service." Business Wire is the only U.S.-based commercial news service that has direct network access to the four major Nordic news agencies: TT (Sweden), Ritzaus (Denmark), STT-FNB (Finland), and NTB NTB Non-Tariff Barriers NTB National Tire and Battery NTB Norsk Telegrambyrå NTB NASA Tech Briefs (NASA magazine/newsletter) NTB No Turning Back (band) NTB Nuclear Test Ban NTB Not Too Bad (Norway). Business Wire will provide Scandinavian companies with an outlet to global markets via its strong news agency relationships worldwide. Dobbin brings more than two decades of financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and information industry sales experience to his new post. Most recently, he served as sales executive/Nordic and Baltic regions for Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July , based in Stockholm. Dobbin also has worked for Nordbanken Trading AB and Erik Penser Erik Penser (August 22, 1942 in Eslöv, Skåne) is a Swedish businessman. After the collapse of his financial empire, which included Carnegie, in the early 1990s, he fought a bitter legal feud with what later became Nordea which had repossessed much of his wealth and holdings. Fondkommission AB in Sweden, as well as Prudential Securities and Rodman & Renshaw in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Business Wire's new office is located at Stureplan 4C, Stockholm 114 35. Phone number: +46 (0) 8 463 10 86. About Business Wire: Business Wire was founded in 1961 by chairman/CEO Lorry I. Lokey, veteran journalist and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most executive. Business Wire's multi-channel delivery network provides real-time, simultaneous access to key audiences--the news media, trade publications, institutional and individual investors, business-to-business decision-makers and consumers. The company electronically disseminates some 1,000 full-text news releases daily to news media, the Internet, online services and databases, and the global investment community. Business Wire has network access to some 60 international and national news agencies, financial information providers, and Web-based news services throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Business Wire has 26 U.S. offices, Frankfurt, London, Brussels and Stockholm offices, and reciprocal offices worldwide. Note: Photos available at URLs: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.091703/bb2 http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.091703/bb2a |
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