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JM acquiring building rights in Mölndal, Gothenburg
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Property company, JM announces that it is acquiring the “Kvarnbyvallen”
project in Mölndal, Gothenburg. The deal is worth SEK 112 million
including recognized costs in the project. Occupancy and payment will
be in June 2013.
Johan Dennelind appointed New President and CEO of TeliaSonera
Sunday, 16 June 2013
Swedish - Finnish telecoms company, TeliaSonera has had an appointment
of a new CEO to replace Lars Nyberg, who resigned in February. He is
Johan Dennelind.
British Airways makes order for 10 787 Dreamliner planes
Sunday, 16 June 2013
British Airways is reported to have made an order of 10 787 Dreamliner
planes, confirmed news reports from the UK according to Reuters news
agency. The deal is a worth about $2.5 billion (1.5 billion pounds)
...more from Reuters.
Norwegian registers its Dreamliner in Ireland not Norway - Why?
Saturday, 15 June 2013
Airliner, Norwegian has registered its new Dreamliner aircraft in
Ireland instead of Norway as the company escapes Norwegian labour laws.
More money pumped into Volvocars Corporation
Friday, 14 June 2013
The Chinese owners of Volvo Cars Corporation, Geely, led by Li Shufu
has used its power as the strong shareholder and pumped in nearly
Skr1.8 billion into the company.
Just saying: Fire at a top Swedish nuclear power plant Ringhals
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
There was a large fire this morning at the nuclear power station Ringhals in
Sweden.
Fashion chain H & M'S sales worse than expected
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
H & M same-store sales were flat in May (+3). Total sales rose by 9
percent compared with the same month last year when sales growth was 12
percent.Sales figure is excluding currency fluctuations and including VAT.
Swedish free school company, JB Group files for bankruptcy
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Swedish free school company, JB Group is
filing for bankruptcy, signalling the death of one of Swedish biggest
education companies.
Fell asleep on the job, transferred billions, colleague got fired ad a court order the colleague's return
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Interesting
tale in a German work scene in which a banker fell asleep on the
computer keyboard during working hours. He transferred load of money to
some one and got his colleague fired. BBC reports
Alfa Laval wins SEK 85 million energy-efficiency order in the Middle East
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Alfa Laval announces that it has won an order to supply Alfa Laval
Packinox heat exchangers to a petrochemical plant in the Middle East.
Loomis wins a major cash handling assignment in Norway
Monday, 10 June 2013
Cash handing and security Service Company, Loomis announces that its
Norwegian subsidiary has been appointed by DNB, the largest bank in
Norway, to take over all their cash handling services in the country.
Swedbank announces tender offer for government guaranteed notes
Monday, 10 June 2013
Swedbank today announced a tender offer to the holders of certain
series of its outstanding notes which are guaranteed by The Kingdom of
Sweden.
How shortage of wind supply in Denmark lead to record expensive electricity prices. One core disadvantage of wind power.
Friday, 07 June 2013
Denmark just presented an example of the negative side of wind energy.
With limited wind speed in the past months, in Denmark, electricity
prices have sky rocketed.
DNB Livsforsikring ASA discontinues its operations in the public sector occupational pensions market
Thursday, 06 June 2013
Primary efficacy and safety data from four phase III Japanese studies of Simeprevir presented at The Japan Society of Hepatology
Thursday, 06 June 2013
Increased sales reported in IKEA
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
Last year Swedish furniture giant, Ikea reported a new sales record.
Total sales was reported to reach Skr250 billion through the company's
340 stores.
Volvo Car Corporation inaugurates Chinese plant
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
Volvo Car Corp., opened its doors for its new factory in Chengdu, China
that will employ 1,100 people and plans to produce for the Chinese and
Asian market.
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FlexLink opens operations in Turkey
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Kongsberg Automotive wins key contract for driveline systems worth €15
Evidence that Volvocar has started seeing increasing sales in China
Tuesday, 04 June 2013
There is increased evidence that his year, Volvocars has started seeing
increased car sales in China. According to reports, sales grew by 27
percent compared with the same period last year.
Autoliv employee receives U.S. Government Award for Safety Engineering Excellence
Tuesday, 04 June 2013
Autoliv Inc., automotive safety systems manufacture announces that Dr.
Rikard Fredriksson, Director of Biomechanics and Restraints at Autoliv
Research in Vårgårda, Sweden, has received a U.S, Government Award for
Safety Engineering Excellence.
Evacuation from a Norwegian North seas oil platform
Friday, 31 May 2013
63 people were evacuated from the platform, Island Innovator in Askøy
outside Bergen on Friday after it started moving uncontrollably.
Alfa Laval acquires provider of niche heat transfer products to the U.S. energy market
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Swedish based heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling,
company, Alfa Laval said it has acquired U.S. based Niagara
Blower Company (NBCo), a manufacturer of energy-efficient niche heat
transfer solutions.
Loomis wins prestigious cash handling business in Turkey
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Loomis announces that its Turkish subsidiary has signed a three-year
agreement with HSBC Turkey for cash handling services across Turkey.
How the British TV channel 4 gave a different picture of the Swedish fashion house H&M
Monday, 27 May 2013
In an exclusive news report, the British TV channel 4 known for its
in-depth investigative news reports has exposed in a first hand view of
how worker in Bangladeshi sweatshop factories work.
Danger highlighted in female boxing as Swedish boxing featherweight champion, Frida Wallberg knocked down cold in title defence fight.
Saturday, 15 June 2013
Swedish female boxing featherweight powerhouse, Frida Wallberg lost her
title defence game of the Featherweight WBC belt to the Australian,
Diana Prazak in a dramatic fashion that caused panic in the fight
auditorium.
A type of drug that transform a human to animal becoming very popular in Sweden
Friday, 14 June 2013
A type of drug that transforms a human being from human to an animal,
otherwise known as "deadly cannibal drug" or "zombie drug" has almost
made Sweden its home.
Risky areas in the Swedish housing market - Gothenburg for various reasons...
Friday, 14 June 2013
Despite Swedish house prices, expanding at astronomical levels with
reports of the prices here being over valued, there is increased talks
of aspects of risk in some sectors of the market.
Pay gap between Women and men mangers in Swedish state own organisations show a massive gender-pay bias
Friday, 14 June 2013
Swedish top female managers working for the state owned corporations
struggle to earn maximum incomes when compared with their male
counterparts.
Germany has been facing up to the reality of southern European immigrants
Thursday, 13 June 2013
As more Southern Europeans have been leaving their countries as their
economies fail, guess where they have been heading to in search of that
dream - Not Britain - Northern Europe and Germany. Greeks and
Spaniards in particular, fleeing recession and sky-high unemployment at
home have been flocking to Germany, reports Market Watch
Sweden warn Arab buyers: Buying junk plots and desolate houses in Sweden would not lead to residency permit
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Swedish embassies have been warning people in countries such as Egypt
and Dubai not to allow themselves to be lured into buying properties,
pieces of land and / or start businesses in Sweden believing that it
will lead to automatic residency.
More evidence that Sweden survived the economic crisis best
Thursday, 13 June 2013
In the aftermath of the economic crisis, which started in earnest in
2008, in which Sweden has not yet fully emerged from, it is being said
that investments made by Swedish people has grown on average by 6
percent since the 2008.
Sweden could send troops to Syria but pressed to be part of a larger Scandinavian rapid fire force
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
There are indications in Sweden that Swedish troops could be sent to
Syria after reports that Carl Bildt, foreign minister had a chat with
Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary general.
Bananas with cocaine found at Coop warehouse in Denmark
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Several cases of banana was found to contain up to 100 kg drugs -
possibly cocaine - found in bags placed in banana boxes from Colombia
and shipped to Coop Denmark in Brøndby.
Sweden complains that EU proposals threaten its smaller airports
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Sweden hardly complain about EU proposal but this time regional
airports authorities here feel that an EU rule on subsidies to them is
a blow below the belt. If the proposal Brussels is talking about goes
on and implemented, then Sweden fears that over 30 of its regional
airports risks closure.
Conventional news media loosing trust or just a shift: An increasing number of Swedes rejects conventional news media
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
New figures from the survey of the Swedish media viewership and
readership from conventional news sources show that many Swedes are
opting out of TV channels and various official news programs such as
morning newspaper.
How children persistently work as slaves - ILO
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) says that hundreds of
millions of girls and boys throughout the world are engaged in work
that deprives them of adequate education, health, leisure and basic
freedoms, violating their rights.
A new Swedish study show the link between obesity and premature birth
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
A new Swedish study has shown clearly the increased risks in obesity
and premature birth. According to it, a third of all pregnant women who
are overweight or obese are enrolled in prenatal care.
How British workers are getting poorer as real wages falling more in real terms than ever before driven by a tough economy
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
British workers have experienced extraordinary falls in their wages in
the past five years, with more than a third seeing their pay cut or
frozen, This is driven by employers responding to tough economic
conditions which make them cut wages rather than laying off workers the
institute for Fiscal Studies showed Wednesday- BBC
Former bosses of Nokia doing their best to make Finland attractive to investors
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
The graduate dissipation of Nokia, Finland's strongest IT Company had
left a huge vacuum in the country's tech department. This has made the
former directors and specialists of the company to use their contacts
and connections to force moves to attract investment in to the country.
Danish economist givens the verdict on Swedish houses Prices: They are 15 percent overvalued
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Danish economist identifies that Swedish house prices are
over valued by 15percent. This reflects what have been said and written about the
Swedish house prices situation now for the past two to three years by various
home and foreign organisations.
Nordic cities not too expensive for expatriates - But not Norway which is the priciest and Helsinki the cheapest
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Scandinavia is reputed o its expensiveness but it turn out that other
cities around the world has tended to be more expensive than expected.
Children of immigrants in Denmark participate less in politics than their parents
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Descendants of non EU Immigrants, born and raised in Denmark,
participate less in democracy than their parents, who immigrated to
Denmark from non-Western countries.
French president Hollande says the Euro- crisis is over - Do you believe
Monday, 10 June 2013
Despite record unemployment in the continent, anemic growth at best and a manufacturing sector in contraction, French President Francois Hollande said this weekend that the euro zone crisis is over. More from CNBC
Looks like Swedish people are fully making up their minds about their next government
Monday, 10 June 2013
Months after months the Swedish government and its Alliance coalition keep on loosing support in opinion polls. The latest one out today, Monday, show how the current governing coalition will struggle to keep power after the next election if the current opinion polls are to be believed.
Academic posit that the Norwegian mass murderer, Anders Breivik could have been stopped
Monday, 10 June 2013
The Norwegian security service would have been able to stop the
Norwegian mass murderer, Anders Behring Breivik. But they failed
because their definition of terrorist was skewed towards people with
background of Islamist character.
Swedish household continue to fee depressed on house prices
Monday, 10 June 2013
Swedish households experienced a weaker trend in home prices in June
compared to what they did the previous month, the Swedish bank. SEB
seem to think.
Novo Nordisk in tax bust up with Danish tax authority as the company accused of channelling billions to tax havens
Sunday, 09 June 2013
The Danish tax authority is seeking Dkr5.5 billion in additional tax
from healthcare company, Novo Nordisk. The grounds for that is
accusation that the company has been channelling unaccounted amounts of
money abroad to tax havens. Novo however has rejected accusation.
American Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Goes Berserk During BBC Show
Monday, 10 June 2013
An American radio talk show host, chronic conspiracy theorist, Alex
Jones, who also owns a conspiracy website called Infowars.com,
appeared on the BBC's Sunday Politics show and created a massive scene
about the Bilderberg Conference. Here is how it turned out..
Sweden's Social Democrat leader, Stefan Löfven takes big step towards popularity
Sunday, 09 June 2013
The leader of the Swedish Social Democrats party, Stefan Löfven who
should be the next Prime Minister should his current opposition party
and coalition win the next election is seeing his popularity shift
upwards somewhat.
News that Swedish train drivers forced to wear skirt after shorts Prohibition gain international traction
Sunday, 09 June 2013
Perfect
loophole in the law which meant that it must be granted - refusal
will allow the anti discrimination law will kick in.
Royal wedding in Sweden Today - a cool extravaganza the Swedish way. Very posh
Saturday, 08 June 2013
Today, Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill got married in the Castle Church in Stockholm.
Swedish prosecutors want to know how Swedish television obtained the materials, which it used to explosed Telia-Sonera's business in Uzbekistan
Friday, 07 June 2013
Talking about biting the figure that feed you, the Swedish national
state own television, Swedish television (Svt) seems to have made its
master angry when it exposed critical questionable ethical behaviour
about one of Sweden state owned power companies, Telia Sonera.
Swedish top politicians as well as officials from the Scandinavia in the Bilderberg Group meeting in Watford, UK
Friday, 07 June 2013
Two Swedish top government cabinet Ministers, Finance minister, Anders
Borg and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt are part of the legendary secrete
group, the Bilderberg Group that is currently meeting in Watford in the
UK. The meeting started Thursday.
Confidence booster to the British anti EU movement: A third of Danes wants to leave the EU as more of Europe expand scepticism
Thursday, 06 June 2013
The support is still small for the Danish perspective but it is getting
significant when the Danes are questioned about their support for the
EU. The Danish population, according to a new poll from Gallup are
beginning to wonder away from the lofty European Union project.
Danish police driving licence database hacked by a top rated Swedish hacker
Thursday, 06 June 2013
Danish Police is complaining that its driving license database registry
which also contain social security numbers was hacked in the summer of
2012, and there may have be changes made to its content.
Swedish princess in stormy weather before the wedding: Madeleine drove on the bus lane.
Thursday, 06 June 2013
The Swedish Princess Madeleine, three days before her wedding with
Chris O'Neill was stopped by the police for driving on the bus lane in
Sweden. The debate now is whether she should pay for the fine and
sectioned as anybody else.
Danish Chamber of Commerce call on the unemployed: Learn from the Eastern Europeans
Thursday, 06 June 2013
Danish unemployed should learn from eastern Europeans and start asking for lower wages, according to the Danish Chamber of commerce, igniting the argument that eastern European workers are thus attractive just because of their acceptance of low pay rather than their ability to work better.
The Swedish newspaper, which reported that Russia bomber fighters train close to its territory reported to the police.
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
The Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet that reported about Russian jet
fighters practicing nears the Swedish border on good Friday night, with
the Swedish military not reacting is reported to have been reported to
the Swedish security police, SAPO.
Norway presents a powerful missile that can know a huge hole is any ship
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
Norwegian defense contractor, Kongsberg, has a new ship-killing missile
that can deliver a 275-pound high explosive warhead from more than 100
miles away.
Sweden's Christian-Democrat top politician feels that Sweden should join NATO
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
Christian Democrat defense policy spokesperson, Mikael Oscarsson want
Sweden to become a member of NATO
Examining the reasons why Sweden has high youth unemployment, Not so bad though when nitigrity of the figures are examined and compared
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
The Swedish education system has been identified as one reasons why the country may partly have such high youth unemployment relative to other comparable countries.
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt roughened at the Russian border - Forgot passport
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
Foreign Minister, Carl Bildt was stopped by border guards on Tuesday
when during the Barents Sea meeting in Kirkenes in Norway tried to get
into Russia to visit a church.
The image is of the Barents
Euro-Arctic Summit 2013
Evidence of workers exploitation in the Western European economies or just a one off
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
How can a worker in Sweden earn Skr30 an hour? This is what some
Latvian buss drivers employed by the Swedish bus company, Bergkvarabuss
were paid. They had been loaned Bergkvarabuss by an agency last year.
Iceland could be debt free this year - plans the New prime minister
Tuesday, 04 June 2013
Not long ago Iceland was the laugh of all, castigated and threatened by
the likes of the UK and Holland after the country suffered from the
financial crash of 2008. But now the economy has rebounded and its new
prime minister, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson is now talking of debt write off
this year. Read more from Reuters
Sweden calls for the removal of all dangerous breast implants from rogue French producer
Tuesday, 04 June 2013
The dangerous breast implants manufactured by the French company Poly
Implant Prothèse (PIP) which is currently in the bodies of about 4,000
women in Sweden have been recommended to be removed.
Swedish opposition now has a clear majority in a powerful opinion poll
Tuesday, 04 June 2013
If a general election was to be held in May 2013, the current
governing political parties or the Alliance Coalition, at this moment
would received 40.7 percent votes. This means the governing parties are
being pounded
Swedish government accused of presiding over a failed energy policy
Tuesday, 04 June 2013
The Swedish government has been accused in a new data analysis of
presiding over a failed and costly energy policy.
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Slight increase in new car registration in the Swedish market
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Swedish PMI rose to 51.9 in May showing a slightly improved manufacturing activity for the second half
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Improvement in Norwegian industrial expectation as PMI edge upwards
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U.K. manufacturing PMI rises to 14-month high of 51.3 in May - Investing.com
Finnish Engineers via their worker Union seek to press for limited short-term work permits
Monday, 03 June 2013
Finland is seeing astronomical rise in unemployment in the IT sector
and for this reason the Union of Professional Engineers in Finland are
calling for a limit on the number of foreign specialists allowed to
work in Finland.
How the Swedish far right party, Sweden Democrats leader became the highest paid politician in Sweden
Sunday, 02 June 2013
The head of the Swedish far right party has emerged the best-paid
politician in the country with much of the pay coming from taxpayers,
which includes those his hard anti immigration, anti EU and racist
rhetoric are attacking.
How Romanian criminals continue to irritate western countries and killing interest in welcoming them in. This time they are accused in Finland for breaking fuel pumps
Sunday, 02 June 2013
In Finland, Romanian criminal gangs have been burgling dozens of
self-service fuel pumps in southern Finland, half of them in the
Kanta-Häme region and they were caught in the act. Shame to Romanians
who continue to invite western resentment of them.
Challenges to the Swedish free school idea as one of the biggest school providers collapses
Friday, 31 May 2013
The Swedish free school idea, which has been copied by the British
government under the leadership of David Cameron and its Conservative
party, is heading to a brick wall. JB Group, which is one of the
nation's biggest provider of private schools known here as friskolar is
shutting down some school jeopardising the future of students
Why are the rich always stingy? Wealthy Embassy refuses to pay tradesmen
Friday, 31 May 2013
The rich country of
Are Swedish business executives giving up on China?
Friday, 31 May 2013
China, with its strong growth has long been extremely attractive for
Swedish manufacturing companies. But now the interest is fading as more
Swedish business executives start looking at China no longer as a
favourable place a place to stake their future growth trajectory.
Stagnant Eurozone record some of the highest unemployment in recent memory in April
Friday, 31 May 2013
The European economic philosophy of massive austerity continues to push
many people into the unemployment statistic. This is because the Euro
zone unemployment reached 12.2 percent in April a new record.
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