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SME Export Award

Winner MKB Export Award sounds gong

The 29-year-old Anne Pleun van Eijsden, owner of the company On the Rocks, opens trading. With a sounding of the gong she celebrates winning the MKB Export Award, an annual prize from MKB-Nederland, TNT and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl). The prize is intended to stimulate SME entrepreneurs to cross the border or to expand their existing international activities.

On the Rocks makes high-quality notebooks of stone paper; a durable type of paper, made of gravel and without the use of trees, water or bleach. The paper is water resistant, extra strong and writes soft and smoothly. The jury of the MKB Export Award is impressed by the mission and vision of the young entrepreneur, who combines sustainability and quality into a special and promising export product. In total, almost 100 companies had signed up for the SME Export Award.

For more information: www.mkbexportaward.nl

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Societe Generale joins Best of Book

Societe Generale becomes a partner of Euronext and its Best of Book service

Laurent Goutard, Head of Societe Generale Retail Banking in France open the European Paris trading day.

Societe Generale becomes a partner of Euronext and its Best of Book service. 
By offering this service to its individual customers, Societe Generale guarantees the best possible execution of their buy and sell orders on all European stock markets. 

RTL Z Beursspel

Start RTL Z Beursspel by sounding gong

RTL Z presenter Janneke Willemse sounds the gong at Euronext Amsterdam. RTL Z’s Beursspel starts on Monday April 23 and runs until Friday June 1.

With 100,000 euros fictional starting capital, players can learn how to invest on the stock market through the Beursspel. The player who achieved the highest return after six weeks wins an all-inclusive trip to New York, including a visit to Wall Street. Around 10,000 players compete for the main prize.

For more information: www.rtlzbeursspel.nl 

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20th listing anniversary Ctac

Ctac sounds gong for 20th listing anniversary 

This year Ctac (ticker symbol:CTAC) has been listed on Euronext Amsterdam for twenty years. On this occasion, Henny Hilgerdenaar, CEO Ctac, opens the trading day by sounding the gong.

Ctac is an IT company that specializes in Business & Cloud integration. As a SAP Platinum Partner and Microsoft Gold Partner it offers IT solutions and consulting services. Ctac has substantive expertise and broad experience in the Retail, Wholesale, Manufacturing, Housing Corporation and Real Estate industries.

Additionally, Ctac offers various proprietary products such as the XV Retail Suite which consists of an omnichannel driven point-of-sale and loyalty platform and a cloud solution for Housing Corporations.

For more information: www.ctac.nl

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CFA Society VBA Netherlands

CFA Society VBA Netherlands celebrates merger

CFA Society VBA Netherlands arose from the merger between CFA Society Netherlands and VBA investment professionals.

The association has more than 2,200 members in the Netherlands and shows strong growth. The association has a wide range of professional training opportunities, including the internationally recognized vocational training for Chartered Financial Analyst, the postgraduate VU-VBA course 'Investment Management', the postgraduate course 'Risk Management for Financial Institutions', the CIPM training focused on performance measurement and general CFA Foundations training.

CFA Society VBA Netherlands offers a wide range of possibilities for maintaining knowledge and skills and keeps a register of the permanent education of its members. With members working in virtually all disciplines within the financial sector, the association is deeply embedded in the Dutch industry. The association is part of the international network of CFA Institute.

For more information: www.cfasociety.org

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Arcadis

Arcadis celebrates new assignment

Arcadis (ticker symbol: ARCAD) recently received instructions from Rijkswaterstaat to ensure that 135 movable bridges, locks, aqueducts and eleven tunnel complexes continue to work for the long term. It is a three-year contract on national conservation advice, as it is called. Arcadis does this together with the specialists from A-Quin and Dover Traffic Measures.

Rijkswaterstaat has many movable bridges, locks, tunnels and other complex objects. The extent to which the objects function properly determines the 'performance' that roads and waterways deliver. The Netherlands has a very good performing infrastructure. At the same time, the objects age faster due to more intensive use. To ensure that the performance of these properties remains at the highest level, Arcadis uses the latest digital techniques to predict risks as well as possible and to make the management and maintenance regime as efficient as possible.

For more information: www.arcadis.com

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20th Listing Anniversary Kinepolis

Kinepolis’ 20^th Listing Anniversary

Eddy Duquenne and Joost Bert, CEOs of Kinepolis Group, opened the trading day in Brussels.
In Europe, Kinepolis has 50 complexes throughout Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Spain, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Poland. In addition to its cinema business, Kinepolis is also active in film distribution, event organization, screen advertising and property management.

The company is listed at Euronext Brussels with trading symbol: KIN 

To find out more about Kinepolis: corporate.kinepolis.com

Société Générale Turbo Life

Société Générale introduces Turbo Life in the Netherlands

With the official launch of the Turbo Life on Euronext Amsterdam, Société Générale is taking  a new step on the market for turbos. Ernst Gevaerts, Head of Cross Asset Retail Distribution Sales, opens the trading day by sounding the gong.

Turbos are listed investment products with leverage. In contrast to classic turbos, the innovative Turbo Life will not be deactivated if the stop loss-level is exceeded. Within 15 minutes after reaching the stop-loss level, an adjustment of the product features (funding level, stop loss level, parity) takes place, after which it can be traded again.

Ernst Gevaerts, responsible for the distribution of listed products of Société Générale in the Netherlands: ‘This innovation meets the often-heard desire of turbo-investors to have the ability to remain in the market and therefore benefit from a possible recovery after a sudden movement in the market.’

For more information: www.societegenerale.com

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Kempen Life Sciences conference

Kempen kicks off Life Sciences Conference

Kempen is proud to host the annual Kempen Life Sciences conference on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 April 2018. On this occasion they visit the Amsterdam exchange to open trading. Alex Cogut, Co-Head Life Sciences Research, sounds the gong.

The Kempen Life Sciences conference has become a central meeting place for global institutional investors and European Life Sciences companies, with its signature format focused on one-on-one meetings and small group meetings, as well as a networking lunch and showcase session. Like previous years, the conference will be attended by executives from a wide range of companies from continental Europe including pharma, biotech, diagnostics and medtech.

As one of the few focused merchant banks in Europe, Kempen is uniquely positioned as a specialist in the Life Sciences and Healthcare markets. Over the past years, Kempen has enhanced their position in securities brokerage, mergers and acquisitions, and equity capital market transactions.

For more information: www.kempen.com

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Bol.com strongest retail brand

Bol.com named strongest retail brand 

Bol.com, part of the Euronext listed Ahold Delhaize (ticker symbol: AD), has been declared the strongest retail brand in the Netherlands for the fourth time in a row. This was recently announced by Hendrik Beerda Brand Consultancy, who carries out a yearly Retail Brand Survey.

Today, a group of bol.com’s newest employees are on the gong stage, they will be working together with their colleagues to ensure a bright future for the company.

For more information: www.bol.com

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Ease2pay

Ease2pay celebrates takeover MyOrder

Gijs van Lookeren Campagne, Jan Borghuis and Thomas Brinkman sound the gong to celebrate Ease2pay's recent acquistion of MyOrder. 

Ease2pay N.V. (Ticker symbol: EAS2P) is a (payment) transaction platform that allows you to create a pin terminal on a smartphone. The payment-app can be used for a number of different functionalities including parking, refuelling, scan & pay shops and trip registration services.

For more information: www.ease2pay.nl

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Armanext first Spanish listing sponsor

Armanext becomes the first Spanish listing sponsor to be authorised by Euronext

Antonio Fernández from Armanext open the European Paris trading day

The new Listing Sponsor will be able to counsel, supervise and coordinate the incorporation of SMEs onto the Euronext Access and Euronext Growth compartments of the Paris and Lisbon exchanges.

Armanext is specialized in two fields: advising REITs on their fulfilment of their obligation to be listed, and the delivery of services directed at SMEs from all sectors (technology, real estate, health and transport etc), that wish to prepare themselves for new stages of growth.

Armanext is led by Antonio Fernández, president of Armabex, a leading Nominated Advisor in the incorporation of REITs into capital markets. He is joined on the founding team by Ana Hernández and Rafael Núñez. Hernández brings notable experience in stock markets and REITs, while Núñez boasts a long history in the fiscal and restructuring sectors.

Listing Retail Estates

Listing Retail Estates

Retail Estates strengthens its presence in the Netherlands through an additional stock exchange listing on Euronext Amsterdam.

Nine months after its entry into the Dutch retail property market, Retail Estates will now also be listed on Euronext Amsterdam.

For more information: www.retailestates.com

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Ordina TalentPower

Ordina launches TalentPower with the opening of trading

Ordina (ticker symbol: ORDI) opens the trading day and celebrates the launch of Ordina TalentPower.

Ordina TalentPower was set-up to recruit and train new talents. Young Professionals who join Ordina will now be trained and guided via the Ordina TalentPower business unit. This includes a two-year training programme to not only increase their know-how and expertise, but also to boost their personal development. The company is currently running a recruitment campaign with the theme High performance teams, and have already hired more than fifty Young Professionals in the first quarter of this year. This is a very promising start for Ordina TalentPower, which has the ambition to recruit a large number of Young Professionals in 2018.

Ordina, founded in 1973 and listed at Euronext Amsterdam since 1987, is the largest independent IT services provider in de Benelux, with more than 2,650 employees. They devise, build and manage IT applications in the public sector, financial services sector, in industry and in healthcare.

For more information: www.ordina.com  

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KPN The Digital Dutch

Sounding of the gong for KPN The Digital Dutch

Esther Hoeve sounds the gong for KPN Digital Dutch. On 12 April KPN Business Segment is organizing The Digital Dutch for the third consecutive time. The Digital Dutch is an interactive event for corporate customers and business partners of KPN (ticker symbol: KPN).

After two earlier editions of the event KPN decided to bring back customers into the world of digital transformation. With The Digital Dutch, KPN wants to show companies  - from SMEs to large corporates - how ICT solutions can be specifically applied to better serve their customers. This year’s Digital Dutch promises to be a spectacular experience where visitors get inspired and learn from some of the top companies in the Dutch business world.

For more information: www.kpn.com

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365th anniversary Royal Delft

Royal Delft celebrates 365th anniversary 

Royal Delft celebrates its 365^th anniversary. CEO Henk Schouten opens the trading day in Amsterdam with a sounding of the gong.

On 28 March 2018 Royal Delft turned 365 years old and this will be celebrated throughout the year. Highlights of the year are the exhibition “Nouveau Blue: vision to realisation” and the painting of a Delft Blue tile painting by 365 people during the year.

In the 19th century the company laid the foundation for the earthenware that is made to this very day by producers throughout the world: new Delft Blue was born. A few people in the history of the company played a huge part in this development. Get to know these extraordinary people and their innovations by visiting this inspiring exhibition.

For more information: www.royaldelft.com

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ATENOR list Retail Bonds

ATENOR’s Public Offering of Retail Bonds

Sidney D. Bens, CFO of ATENOR, opened the trading day in Brussels.

The public subscription offer launched by ATENOR for the first time mainly for retail investors (private persons) has immediately met with great success (having been subscribed more than twice over), achieving the maximum sum expected, i.e. 50 million Euro in total for the two tranches proposed.

ATENOR is listed at Euronext Brussels with trading symbol: ATEB

To find out more about ATENOR: www.atenor.be

BioCapital Company of the Year

Ablynx - BioCapital Company of the Year 2018

Ablynx NV CEO Edwin Moses sounds the gong, celebrating the company’s recent ‘BioCapital Company of the Year’ award. This award is presented yearly by Life Sciences Partners (LSP) during the BioCapital Europe Conference in Amsterdam.

LSP was proud to offer Ablynx the “BioCapital Company of the Year” award on February 6^th 2018. LSP has been hosting The BioCapital Europe conference in Amsterdam for the past 16 years. The event brings together some of the most innovative healthcare companies across Europe. The “Company of the Year” is selected by approximately 250 delegates on the day of the conference. Ablynx was the clear winner at this year’s event, thanks to its outstanding performance.

Moses embraced the award in recognition of the exceptional progress the company has made since its IPO on Euronext Brussels (ticker symbol: ABLX) in 2007. The company has a unique Nanobody drug discovery and development platform which it uses to develop new medicines in various therapeutic areas. In October 2017, the company presented positive Phase III data validating the potential of its lead compound caplacizumab to become a key component of the new standard-of-care for acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP), a life-threatening blood clotting disorder, with potential approval and first launch anticipated in 2018.

For more information: www.ablynx.com

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