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Dr. Petra Garnjost
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new director, new direction Dr. Petra Garnjost gets down to business in her new post. At her welcoming reception in February, Dr. Petra Garnjost outlined some of the changes she hoped to see during her time as Director. She said that it was the vision of Sacred Heart to contribute and to offer more to Luxembourg and the Greater Region. In the future, there will be changes to the programme to ensure that there is a real relevance (for example for managerial positions), a strengthening with business partners and better networking with local, regional and other universities. She added that she did not believe that the other local institutions – most notably the University of Luxembourg and the Campus of the Miami University in Luxembourg – were in competition, but rather could benefit from a ��� M. C. closer relationship. (see also March paperJam page 74).� ||
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elevator cartel fined Nico Daubenfeld, founder of General Technic, which later became General Technic-Otis Luxembourg, “shocked”. In February the EU fined Otis Elevator Co. and four other elevator and escalator makers 1.3 billion US for allegedly running an illegal cartel. The antitrust-regulating EU Commission accused the companies of “rigging bids, fixing prices, carving up markets and exchanging proprietary information to increase their profits in installing and maintaining elevators and escalators in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and The Netherlands between at least 1995 and 2004.” Otis received a fine of 225 million euros. Otis parent, United Technologies Corp., said it would appeal the amount. “We are in shock,” said Nico Daubenfeld, Managing Director of the number one company in the sector in Luxembourg and a 2006 nominee for “Entrepreneur of the year”. “It may be that Otis in the US said they were appealing the fine but this may or may not be the reality. There have been no decisions. We are still speaking to lawyers. The fine is crazy. It has nothing do with economic reality.” || M. C.
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European Data Centre 2007 nominations Due to high demand, voting for the first European Data Centre Awards was extended until 15 March. The companies with the highest number of nominations will be announced at a special gala ceremony to take place at the Millenium Hotel London Mayfair on the evening of 22 March. Datacenter Luxembourg is the only Luxembourg company to be amongst the nominees. The objective of the organisers of this industry event is to provide a platform to raise awareness of the sector in Europe. www.datacentres.lu
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Les dernieres nouveautes Depuis le temps qu’il était attendu, le site Internet de Manpower Luxembourg (www.manpower-luxembourg.com) est enfin en ligne. Réalisé par le concepteur mosellan Alchymi GFX, il propose, en deux clics, l’essentiel des informations pour les candidats à un emploi ou pour les entreprises demandeuses. Le site se veut une réelle plate-forme d’échanges entre Manpower, ses candidats, futurs collaborateurs intérimaires, ses clients, ses partenaires sociaux et institutionnels. Le nouveau site de Mike Koedinger Editions (www.mikekoedinger.com) est également en ligne. Développé par Nvision, en collaboration avec l'agence Vidale-Gloesener, ce site présente toutes les activités et événements de la maison éditrice, notamment, de paperJam, Index et Explorator. Autre petit nouveau sur la toile: l’atelier de communication Kosmo (www.kosmo.lu), site flash haut en couleur et en musique, développé avec Bunker Palace. A noter enfin que la compagnie VLM Airlines propose désormais, sur son site amélioré www.flyvlm.com (les réservations en ligne ont été simplifiées pour les voyageurs d’affaires), une fonctionnalité d’enregistrement en ligne des passagers couvrant la majorité de son réseau.
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