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The Orange Association opens the trading day on Queen’s Day.
The Orange Association celebrates the Queen’s birthday by opening the trading day. Secretary mr. Slagboom sounds the gong.
The objective of the Orange Association is to promote and strengthen the relationship between the Dutch people and the House of Orange. It was set up on 26 January 1995 following the merger of the Christian Federation of Orange Associations in the Netherlands (founded in 1910) and the Federation of Dutch Orange Associations (1952). Over 350 Orange associations, foundations and committees are currently members of the Orange Association.
As secretary of Orange Association, Theo Slagboom is able to draw on over 40 years of experience as a labour analyst and businessman. Over the years he has served in various capacities on the managing boards of over 40 associations, some of which he co-founded. Mr Slagboom has been the secretary of a medium-sized accountancy firm for over 20 years. He has been a member of the Orange Association since 2004, and secretary of the organisation since 2005. |
30/04/2009
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Guido van Woerkom, managing director of the ANWB (The Dutch Automobile Association) opens the trading day on the occasion of the May holiday.
The ANWB is an association that promotes the interests of its members in the areas of mobility, holiday travel and leisure time. The ANWB also strives to foster the sustainable development of society. Guido van Woerkom is the current director of the ANWB.
The ANWB’s focus is mainly on interaction with the government and political groups, but activities on behalf of its members can also bring it into contact with the business community, industry trade organisations and other interest groups. Its services are chiefly related to providing emergency services, travel, insurance, publishing, road signage, advice and information.
The ANWB has over 3,800 employees and an annual turnover of approximately 1 billion euros.
Mr G.H.N.L. Guido van Woerkom is the current director of the ANWB. He studied business law at the University of Leiden and business administration at the IBO (Institute for Business Administration) in Zeist. From the 1980 until 1984 he worked as the secretary of the Dutch Retailers’ Association, and after that for the supermarket chain Albert Heijn, where his last position was that of quality director. In 1991 he was appointed director of Signum Informatie projects, and since 1999 he has been managing director of the ANWB. He has many auxiliary functions, many of them in social organisations.
Read more: www.anwb.nl (Dutch only) |
29/04/2009
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Ruud Sleenhoff, chairman of the managing board of DACSI, opens the trading day.
The Dutch Advisory Committee Securities Infrastructure (DACSI) is a harmonisation working group set up by financial institutions to serve as a forum for harmonising discussions about the Dutch financial market. Ruud Sleenhoff is one of the founders of DACSI.
DACSI recently held a seminar on the clearing of credit default swaps. Trading in these financial products has soared in recent years, and in the current credit crisis it has attracted even more attention from banks, regulators and governments. Not only do these products present a complex range of risks, the settlement of the transactions is also complicated. A number of current initiatives are aimed at improving both risk management and settlement by arranging to have a central counterparty clear the transactions. The seminar organised by DACSI – whose objective is to improve the efficiency of the settlement process for securities transactions – raised awareness of the problem among a broad public and put forward a number of possible solutions during a panel discussion. |
28/04/2009
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Koos Kramer, CFO of CSM, opens the trading day.
CSM N.V. is the world’s largest producer of bakery products and a market leader in the areas of lactic acid and lactic acid derivatives.
CSM began as a sugar beet processing company in 1919.Over the years, the product portfolio has grown, and the company has moved into the bakery market, and the food and confectionery industry. It operates in business-to-business markets in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. The manufacturer operates in more than 23 countries with a staff of around 8,700 employees and it is listed on Euronext Amsterdam: CSM.
From 1993 till 2004 Koos Kramer held various positions at the Dutch company Koninklijke Wessanen, of which the last five years as CFO and member of the Executive Board. In 2005 he was interim Finance Director at Vroom & Dreesman, a subsidiary of Vendex/KBB. On 1 December 2005 Kramer joined CSM as CFO and member of the Managing Board.
Read more: www.csm.nl |
27/04/2009
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Andy Michuda, CEO of Sopheon N.V. , opens the trading day.
Sopheon provides organisations with solutions for content management and collaborative software.
Sopheon’s solutions and their support services are used in vertical industries such as health care, manufacturing and defence, and are aimed at best practice sharing, productivity enhancement and revenue generation. Its software instruments increase accessibility and make it easier for companies to produce and reuse critical information throughout the organisation. Sopheon has a listing with NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam: SOPH
Mr Michuda is an internationally recognised authority on the use of knowledge management and techniques aimed at improving critical business processes, such as product development. His comments on knowledge management have been reproduced in publications such as Fortune, Business Week, Forbes and CIO. He began his career as a general manager for Control Data Corporation, which eventually became Decision Data, the world’s largest independent service provider in the area of computerisation. He is a former chairman of the worldwide product Development and Management Association (PDMA) and of the Minnesota High Tech Association. Mr Michuda has been CEO of Sopheon since 2000, and was CEO of Teltech Resource network Corporation until its takeover by Sopheon.
Read more: www.sopheon.com |
24/04/2009
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First try-out of the musical Sjakoo.
Lieuwe Roonder, lead player in the musical Sjakoo, opens the trading day on the first try-out date.
Sjakoo is a musical that conjures up a unique ambiance in a unique outdoor location: the IJ in Amsterdam. The musical brings to life the street hero Sjakoo, a boy surviving on the streets of Amsterdam during the Golden Age. He and his friends rob the rich to help the poor. Sjakoo is being staged on the waterfront next to the NEMO science center, Oosterdok 2, Amsterdam.
Read more: www.sjakoodemusical.nl |
23/04/2009
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André Mirck, Member of the Supervisory Board of Vivenda Media Groep, opens the trading day.
Vivenda has been active as a publisher and multimedia company for over 20 years. It specialises in multimedia for the real estate industry, including internet and print press publications. Mr Mirck is currently interim manager of the Vivenda Media Groep. Vivenda is listed on NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam: VIVE.
Vivenda is the market leader in its branch, and is primarily active in the Dutch market. The company’s objective is the further expansion of its leading position in the area of multimedia communication products for the real estate industry.
Vivenda’s aim is to support estate agents and their clients at all stages of the process of buying and selling houses. Its goal is to strengthen and expand its position as a leading provider of media, marketing and internet services in the real estate industry. Its target groups are estate agents, the advertising market and the consumer.
Mr André Mirck (1955) joined Foto Factotum in 1989, and became director and co-owner of the company in 1989. In the early 1990s he was responsible for major computerisation projects in this graphics company, and helped to introduce database publishing to this industry. Foto Factotum was at the time a prime example of innovation in the graphics industry due to its unconventional approach. Mr Mirck continued to be involved with the company following its sale. In 2007 Mr Mirck was appointed to the Supervisory Board of Vivenda Media Groep, of which Factotum has been a part since 2008.
Read more: www.vivendamediagroep.nl |
22/04/2009
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Arthur Docters van Leeuwen closes the trading day on his last day with the Holland Financial Centre (HFC).
Today Mr Docters van Leeuwen will take part in his last meeting as chairman of the managing board of the Holland Financial Centre. He plans to resume his academic career after he hands over responsibility to his successor Sjoerd van Keulen on 1 May.
Docters van Leeuwen began his career in 1969 as a public servant working for several ministries. He quickly built up a solid reputation and was appoint head of the Internal Security Service of the Netherlands in 1989.
From 1995 until 1998 he worked as procurator general at the court of The Hague and as chairman of the Board of Procurators General. He was the chairman of the managing board of the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets from September 1999 until 1 June 2007.
Following his retirement, Docters van Leeuwen served as chairman of the Holland Financial Centre, research fellow at the Netherlands School of Public Administration, and as chairman of the advisory council of IRS, a company specialising in integrity and security matters, In November 2008 he was appointed as member of the Supervisory board of the Aegon.
The Holland Financial Centre is a Dutch foundation set up in July 2007 as a joint initiative of 48 different parties in the financial industry (government and business), whose objective is the development of initiatives aimed at strengthening the open and competitive position of the financial industry in the Netherlands.
Read more: www.hollandfinancialcentre.com |
21/04/2009
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Sacha Shoes celebrates its 100th anniversary.
Paul Termeer, CEO and owner of Sacha opens today’s trading on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the company.
In 1909 Mr Termeer grandfather opened his first shoe boutique in Brabant. Now, 100 years later, but still passionate about shoes, Sacha is a trend setting chain of stores selling shoes and accessories. With 65 stores in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, the Tilburg-based company Sacha is an innovative company that is always open to new ideas.
Read more: www.sacha.nl |
21/04/2009
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Boskalis celebrates mega order from the Bahamas.
Hans Kamp, CFO of Boskalis opens the trading day to celebrate the major contract the company recently concluded with the Bahamas.
Boskalis has landed an order to expand the cruise terminal in Nasssau on the Bahamas. The mega project involves increasing the size of an existing island by dredging 1.5 million cubic metres of sand and rock – approximately 18 million wheelbarrows full.
Koninklijke Boskalis Westminster N.V. is an international company providing services in the areas of dredging and maritime infrastructure. It delivers creative, innovative total solutions around the globe for infrastructure challenges in maritime areas, coastal regions and river deltas including the construction and maintenance of harbours, the creation of land in water, and coastal and riverbank defences.
With significant home market positions in Europe and in other parts of the globe, the company provides a full range of services related to dredging and maritime infrastructure. It has also formed strategic partnerships in the Middle East (Archiodon) and in offshore service provision (Lamnalco). Boskalis is listed on NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam: BOKA
Boskalis has a versatile fleet of over 300 units at its disposal, and is active in approximately 50 countries, spread over five continents. Boskalis has approximately 10,000 employees (including its share in various partnerships).
After completing his business degree, Hans Kamps worked as a management consultant for Ernst & Whinney, and for two years as a controller at Schuitema N.V. before joining Boskalis in 1986. At Boskalis he worked in various jobs in the areas of controlling, treasury, tax matters and strategy and business development. As CFO, he joined Group Management in 2004, and has been a member of the Managing Board since 2006.
In addition to financing and control his focus areas include IT, legal affairs and pensions. He is on the supervisory board of several pension funds.
Read more: www.boskalis.com |
20/04/2009
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Rob Jansen, Director CC&IR of AMT N.V., opens the trading day.
The biopharmaceutical company AMT leads the market in the development of gene therapy to cure serious and life-threatening diseases. AMT focuses on gene therapy for hereditary and rare diseases (orphan diseases).
The company has scientific knowledge and expertise in the areas of metabolic disorders, liver disease, blood disease, and diseases of the nervous system. AMT’s research programme currently has nine products in various stages of development.
The Dutch-based company has developed a unique gene therapy platform offering solutions for the many obstacles that have thus far prevented the worldwide breakthrough of gene therapy. The company uses adeno-associated viral vectors (AAV) to transport therapeutic genes. It was also the first company to develop and validate a stable, scalable platform for AAV production.
AMT is based in Amsterdam where it has a highly trained staff of approximately 90 people who have extensive scientific and business experience. It also has ultra-modern research, control and GMP production facilities.
Gene therapy is a technology aimed at correcting or replacing defective or missing genes that cause disease. It has the advantage of being able to cure disease instead of simply counteracting the symptoms. Successful gene therapy can achieve long-lasting and in some case lifelong results with a single treatment.
AMT is listed on NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam: AMT
Read more: www.amtbiopharma.com |
17/04/2009
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National Secretary Day.
Today is National Secretary Day, a day honouring the work that secretaries do. Secretaries from a number of companies and organisations, including AkzoNobel, the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets, the Dutch Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance, and NYSE Euronext sound the gong.
National Secretary Day on the third Thursday in April gives managers an opportunity to thank their secretaries for their hard work. It was introduced in the Netherlands in 1989, but has been celebrated in the US since 1952. In the US it is observed on the last Wednesday of April, as Administrative Professionals Day.
Read more: www.secretaressedag-2009.nl (only available in Dutch) |
16/04/2009
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THE SOCIETY SHOP marks the end of a successful campaign by closing the trading day.
THE SOCIETY SHOP, a Dutch clothing store, recently made news with an advertising campaign that was closely tied to the level of the AEX index. Martin Groen, the store’s commercial manager, celebrates the end of the campaign by sounding the gong.
The chain of fashion stores recently sold tailor-made men’s suits for approximately € 500. The exact price of the suit was linked to the level of the AEX index; the higher the index, the cheaper the suit.
THE SOCIETY SHOP caters to men who have achieved success, but also to those who have yet to prove themselves. The collections are geared to the various phases in a man’s life.
Martin Groen, who has worked for THE SOCIETY SHOP since 2007, is responsible for sales and marketing. Before that he worked in the automotive industry, where he gained a reputation for creativity and for attention-grabbing marketing activities.
Read more: www.societyshop.com |
15/04/2009
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John Eijgendaal, CFO of Aalberts Industries N.V., opens the trading day.
Aalberts Industries is an international group of industrial companies with two core activities: Industrial Services and Flow Control. John Eijgendaal has worked for Aalberts since 1989, and was appointed CFO in 1999.
The group companies are among the market leaders in their respective fields, and are continuously striving to strengthen their position. An ongoing process of innovation in terms of products, application and technology, combined with a targeted approach to the market, has helped the group companies to secure a leading position in their main markets. Aalberts Industries is a decentralised company in which the management of the group companies have final responsibility for daily operations.
Aalberts Industries is listed on NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam: AALB
Read more: www.aalberts.nl |
15/04/2009
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Prof. dr. Theo W.A. Camps, Chairman of the board of Berenschot Group Ltd. opens trading day.
Berenschot is an independent firm of consultants employing around 450 staff in the Benelux. Berenschot is Dutch-based with an international orientation. With an office in Brussels, the capital of Europe, and as a partner in the E-I Consulting Group, a European partnership of leading consulting firms, they can combine tradition with current trends.
Prof. dr. Th.W.A. Camps (1955) is Chairman of the board of Berenschot Group Ltd., established in 1938. During his still ongoing career as a consultant he is involved in a wide variety of organisations in both strategy and change processes. Theo Camps also holds a Professorship of Organisational and Management Science at TiasNimbas Business School of the University of Tilburg.
Read more: www.berenschot.com |
14/04/2009
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School Group from Purmerend closes also today's trading day.
The Professional Education College of Purmerend provides 3rd and 4th year education in the areas of economics, health and welfare, and technology. |
09/04/2009
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Aad Jacobs, former CEO of ING opens the trading day.
Aad Jacobs is the former chairman of the managing board of the ING group. Since his retirement in 1998 he has served as chairman of the supervisory boards of Shell and VNU.
As the son of a currency trader, Aad Jacobs chose a career in finance at a very young age. In 1962 he began his career with the insurance company De Nederlanden, which later merged with other companies to eventually become the Internationale Nederlanden Groep. Under Mr Jacobs’ management, the company experienced a period of major expansion.
On several occasions, FEM Business magazine named Mr Jacobs the ‘most powerful supervisory board member in the Netherlands’.
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09/04/2009
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School Group from Purmerend closes the trading day.
The Professional Education College of Purmerend provides 3rd and 4th year education in the areas of economics, health and welfare, and technology. The college is working hard to improve coordination with the programmes offered by the senior secondary vocational schools in the area. Next year, the lower levels of the secondary vocational education programme will be housed with the senior levels in the same, newly renovated building. |
08/04/2009
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Ron Icke, CEO USG People, opens the trading day.
Ron Icke has been CEO of USG People since November 2005. USG People offers total solutions in the area of temporary employment, secondment, human resources and the customer care services. With a turnover of over €4 billion in 2008, USG People is the number four human resources service provider in Europe. The headquarters of USG People is located in Almere, and the Group is active several European countries, including the Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, and Switzerland.
USG People’s brand portfolio includes names like Proflex and Start People (general staffing) - Ad Rem Young Professionals, ASA Student, Content, Creyf’s, Express Medical, Geko Zeitarbeit, Receptel, Secretary Plus, StarJob, Technicum and Unique (specialist staffing) - Legal Forces, USG Capacity, USG Energy, USG Financial Forces, USG HR Forces, USG Innotiv, USG Restart and USG Juristen (professionals) - Call-IT (other services).
USG People is listed on NYSE Euronext Amsterdam (USG) and is included in the Amsterdam Midcap Index (AMX).
Read more: www.usgpeople.com |
08/04/2009
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Michael S. Geltzeiler, CFO NYSE Euronext, closes the trading day.
Michael Geltzeiler is accompanied by John K. Halvey, General Counsel NYSE Euronext.
Read more: www.nyse.com |
07/04/2009
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World Health Day.
The week of 6 to 12 April is World Health Week, and today is World Health Day. For this occasion, dr. N.S. Klazinga, chairman of the Netherlands Public Health Federation (NPHF), opens the trading day.
2009 marks the sixth anniversary of World Health Week, the purpose of which is to focus media attention on the issue of health by organising a number of activities, under the auspices of the Netherlands Public Health Federation. This year’s World Health Week theme focuses on health and the impact of the financial and economic crisis on society as a whole. Governments have taken steps to limit the impact of the crisis, and a number of parties have stressed that the economic recovery must include measures aimed at sustainable investment and strengthening the knowledge economy. The NPHF wants to highlight the fact that public health should also be included in this picture. The notion that Health equals Wealth is truer than ever before. The NPHF wants to encourage the public to use the week from 6 to 12 April to invest in their own health, and to encourage its members and many other organisations to continue emphasising the need to invest in health, even during the economic downturn.
Read more: www.nphf.nl |
07/04/2009
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Première Opera Granida.
Dani Cuypers and Wim Trompert striking the gong for the première of the ‘opera’ Granida van P.C. Hooft. Granida opens on April 6 in the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Beatrix.
Granida is a musical play about passion and deeply felt love: two young people, a shepherd and a princess, fight for their happiness. The Ipermestra Foundation brings this early gem of musical theatre (1605) back to the stage. Granida shows that Holland was as much a frontrunner in popular musical theatre as it was in the shipping trade, in painting, and in social tolerance.
Dani Cuypers and Wim Trompert are the founders of the Ipermestra Foundation. Their aim is to realize (musical)theatre productions en connect (musical)theatre and other forms of art, motivated by a cultural or social necessity. P.C. Hooft took his melodies from the international ‘hitparade’ of his time. Timeless themes, musical variety, and an elegant and humorous text - all presented in an up-to-date staging - make of Granida a contemporary opera. With, amongst others, Tania Kross, Jeroen de Vaal, Carol Linssen, and music by La Sfera Armoniosa conducted by Mike Fentross.
Cuypers and Trompert feel there is an urgent need to restore this important but neglected heritage, not only from a historical point of view, but because Granida can be read as a parable for our time. The themes presented in this 17th-century masterpiece are those we struggle with today: the clash of cultures, stemming in large measure from ignorance, and social integration (how best to connect socially isolated groups for the betterment of the whole).
Read more: www.ipermestra.nl (Dutch only) |
06/04/2009
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The Dutch Association of Museum opens the trading day on the first day of the national museum Weekend.
This year the Dutch Association of Museum will hold its 28th National Museum Weekend.
Over 500 museums will participate in the event, charging a reduced fee or granting free entrance, and organising a wide variety of special activities surrounding this year’s theme Seduction. The target group is the incidental museumgoer, or people who never visit a museum . Every year the Museum Weekend attracts between 800,000 and 1 million visitors.
Museums will learn “seduction” techniques such as asking visitors what item they would choose from the collection, or what they would choose for an exhibition, or how they would like to be welcomed. Museums hope that this will make new visitors feel comfortable and enjoy themselves, even if it is their first visit.
For a list of all participating museums and opening hours and activities, go to: www.museumweekend.nl (in Dutch only) |
03/04/2009
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World Autism Awareness Day.
Ms Henny Vermolen-van Gerwen, vice chair of the National Board of the Dutch Autism Association, focuses attention on World Autism Awareness Day by opening the trading day. The General Assembly of the United Nations has named 2 April World Autism Awareness Day.
The Dutch Autism Association’s objective is to support and promote the interests of people who are afflicted with one of the conditions along the spectrum of autistic disabilities, as well as the interests of those directly affected by autism, such as parents, partners, other family members and carers.
The vice chair of the National Board of the Dutch Autism Association, Ms Henny Vermolen-van Gerwen, has been active in the NVA for many years. She has a daughter who is autistic. Her term as vice chair will end in September of this year, but she will continue to be involved with NVA activities.
Read more: www.autisme.nl (Dutch only) |
02/04/2009
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40th-anniversary of the Homburg Groep.
Richard Homburg, chairman of the managing board of Homburg Groep, sounds the gong on the occasion of the company’s 40th anniversary. The Homburg Groep is a real estate investment and development company with investments and offices in Canada, the United States and Europe.
The Homburg Groep’s service concept includes providing a range of services, from management and administration to commercial and technical real estate management.
Group company Homburg Invest and its subsidiaries have a diverse real estate portfolio with offices, shops, warehouses, apartments and houses throughout Canada, the United States and Europe.
Richard Homburg, who occupies a number of positions within the Homburg Groep, was born in the Netherlands, and moved to Canada at the age of 23. There he developed and expanded the import/export company he had set up as a teenager. He invested his profits in real estate. In 1991Mr Homburg was appointed director of Uni-Invest N.V, a publicly listed Dutch real estate company.
In addition to his activities in the business community, Mr Homburg holds a number of supervisory positions, including Investment Property Owners of Nova Scotia (of which he is a former supervisory board chairman), Evangeline Trust and the World Trade Center in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and also serves on the boards and advisory bodies of a number of major charities.
Read more: www.homburgcanada.com |
01/04/2009
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April Fool’s Day trick by Peter Vogel, Dutch Master of Magic.
Peter Vogel has conjured up the gong and opened this morning’s trading.
Amsterdam Market Opening
Peter Vogel combines table magic techniques. i.e. creating optical illusions using lightning-fast hand and finger movements, with the art of pick pocketing.
Peter Vogel was born in Amsterdam and learned magic tricks from his father at early age. He began performing at the age of 9 in the Elleboog children’s circus, and began his professional career as a magician at the age of 17 when he toured for three months in Japan.
He and his fellow magician Ronald Moray were awarded the title of "National Table-Magic Champion". They gained national notoriety with their television performances, including their accurate predictions of the outcome of World Cup football matches.
Mr Vogel is a member of Dutch Magic, an association of magicians and illusionists, a professional organisation whose members win domestic and international prizes every year. Dutch Magic helps magicians to provide tailor-made, fast, top-of-the-line services. Read more: www.petervogel.nl en www.dutchmagic.nl (Dutch only) |
01/04/2009
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