OSAKA, Japon - Samedi 29 Novembre 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Panasonic Corporation déploie le « 100 Thousand Solar Lanterns Project » (Projet des cent mille lanternes solaires), visant à faire don d'un total de 100 000 lanternes solaires à des populations de régions du monde n'ayant pas accès à l'électricité, et ce d'ici l'année 2018 qui marquera le 100ème anniversaire de la fondation de Panasonic. Dans l'espoir de sensibiliser davantage le grand public aux défis que rencontrent les populations des régions privées d'électricité, Panasonic offrira la possibilité aux citoyens du monde entier de participer au projet « Cut Out The Darkness » (Éliminons l'obscurité), en fournissant à des écoles et foyers situés dans des régions ne bénéficiant pas d'un accès à l'électricité des lanternes solaires et des abat-jours fabriqués sur la base de modèles dessinés par des créateurs du monde entier.

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OSAKA, Japan - Wednesday, November 26th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Panasonic Corporation is promoting its “100 Thousand Solar Lanterns Project,” in which a total of 100,000 solar lanterns will be donated to regions around the world without access to electricity by the year 2018, which marks the 100th anniversary since Panasonic's establishment. In hopes of getting more people to know about the challenges faced by people in regions without access to electricity, Panasonic will open up the "Cut Out the Darkness" project for participation to people all around the world, delivering solar lanterns and manufactured shades based on designs recruited from all over the world to schools and households located in regions without access to electricity.

Currently, there are approximately 1.3 billion people worldwide living their lives without electricity. Many of those people live in homes that commonly use kerosene lamps for lighting, but the ... Read more »

Tokyo - Friday, November 28th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
Directed by Emerging Japanese Anime Creator Hiroyasu Ishida
Theme Song by Techno-Pop Trio, "Perfume"
Conveying YKK Fastening's slogan, "Little Parts. Big Difference." to the world
-Spanish, French and Chinese subtitles are available-
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- YKK Corporation (Headquarters: Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Kanda Izumi-cho 1, “YKK”) has created a short animation titled, “FASTENING DAYS,” in an effort to enhance the recognition of the YKK® brand and YKK® fastening products.
The short animation, “FASTENING DAYS,” was created around the theme “fastening” in order to convey YKK’s brand message, “Little Parts. Big Difference.” to the world. The story takes place in a near future cosmopolitan city where people from many different countries live together. The main characters, Yoji and Kei, who help others with their ha ... Read more »

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BARRINGTON, Ill - Thursday, November 27th 2014

EcoPlanet Bamboo Group continues its executive recruitment of world class individuals from the largest plantation forestry and fiber based manufacturing companies in the United States, Europe and Latin America with the hiring of Francisco Ferreira as Managing Director of EcoPlanet Bamboo’s Central American operations.

Mr. Ferreira brings 30 years of large scale forestry and nursery experience, most recently responsible for forestry research and a 20 million tree nursery of a 135,000 hectare plantation in Uruguay. Within those responsibilities Mr. Ferreira managed an organization with hundreds of employees, multi-million dollar annual operations budgets, and the construction of a new $17 million nursery. Mr. Ferreira joins EcoPlanet Bamboo from Montes del Plata, a joint venture company of Stora Enso and Arauco. Stora Enso, a company with Swedish and Finnish origins, has 28,000 emplo ... Read more »

Deal connects top tier merchants to holders of 4.5 billion UnionPay cards

AMSTERDAM - Thursday, November 27th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) - GlobalCollect, an Ingenico Group company, and UnionPay International, a subsidiary of the fast growing global payment network China UnionPay, today unveiled a worldwide partnership that sees GlobalCollect become a worldwide acquirer for the UnionPay network. UnionPay is the number one international card brand in the world measured by the number of cards issued.

With the agreement, GlobalCollect can now connect its client base of leading, international eCommerce companies with the holders of 4.5 billion UnionPay cards, creating access to rapidly growing eCommerce markets across Asia and beyond.

Merchants offering their consumers to pay with UnionPay cards through GlobalCollect now benefit from faster boarding and implementation, full service processing and consolidated reporting. GlobalCollect processes Unio ... Read more »