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SnowWorld opens 300 meter track

SnowWorld celebrates opening new 300 meter track

The ski season is opened at SnowWorld (ticker symbol: SNOW). Koos Hendriks, CEO of SnowWorld, sounds the gong to celebrate the occasion.

This week, after a long preparation period, the new 300 meter track will be taken into use. The first slopes at SnowWorld Zoetermeer opened in 1996. In 2001, a third track was inaugurated. This run has been extended over the past six months as far as 300 meters. It has become the steepest indoor ski slope in Europe. This red run is therefore only suitable for advanced skiers. A viewing platform at the top of the slope offers the opportunity to enjoy the widest view over the surroundings.

SnowWorld has experienced rapid growth since its inception in 1996 and is, with its two indoor ski facilities in the Netherlands, one of the leading companies in this industry in the world. In line with the strategy of SnowWorld ,to further roll out the proven successful concept, SnowWorld has made the step to list on Euronext Amsterdam in 2013.

For more information: www.snowworld.com

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10th anniversary online broker LYNX

Online broker LYNX celebrates 10th anniversary

From the beginning on, online broker LYNX has facilitated her online trading platform to many active investors. This year, LYNX is celebrating her 10th anniversary. To seal this milestone, the company is opening the Amsterdam exchange by sounding the gong. In 2006, LYNX was established specifically to provide active investors the  trading possibilities on stocks all around the world.

Sander Schwanen, branch manager of LYNX Netherlands, is proud of this achievement: “10 years is a real milestone. But that’s not all; we’re still growing in all seven countries in which we operate. Recently we opened an office in Slovakia and the plans to expand to other countries within Europa are in an advanced stage.”

To celebrate her 10 years anniversary, LYNX gives away $250 transaction credits to new customers. Also, the fares of the American products are lowered for all clients and there are great prizes to be won.

For more information: www.lynx.nl

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SmartFunding

Sounding of the gong for SmartFunding at Beursplein 5

Fred van der Stappen, founder SmartFunding, opens the trading day by sounding the gong at the Amsterdam exchange of Euronext. In doing so, he launches a new initiative that supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in their access to finance. SmartFunding will support SMEs with their business case, financial projections and loan application between €250.000 and 5 million euros.

On the basis of independent advice, local insights and personal guidance, supported with an independent balance rating, SmartFunding leads each entrepreneur towards the best fitting financial solution. SmartFunding sets the new standard for SME’s finance in supporting SME’s in their growth plans. SmartFunding opens their first office in Utrecht. This year they will expand with four more offices.

For more information: www.smartfunding.nl

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Top Woman of the Year

Top Woman of the Year sounds gong to celebrate election

Ingrid Thijssen, Board Member of Alliander and COO, has been named Top Woman of the Year 2016 and celebrates the title by sounding the gong.

With the election, The Top Woman of the Year Foundation wants to give female talent the attention they deserve. It offers successful women a platform to be visible and to be able to act as role models for other women.

Ingrid Thijssen is praised by the jury because of her choice for challenges, her courage and connective leadership style steered her organization through difficult years. The jury is convinced that she is a role model and inspiring example to young women – and men – and not just within her own organization, says Pamela Boumeester, jury president.

For more information: www.topvrouwvanhetjaar.nl

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Inspiration 360

Inspiration 360 opens trading

During Inspiration360, of which nlgroeit is partner, Richard Branson, Al Gore, Anita Elberse and Bear Grylls talk about ‘’ultimate survival’’. The nlgroeit network is present and will surely inspire each other. Nlgroeit visits Beursplein 5 and sounds the gong to encourage all entrepreneurs to grow even further.

Nlgroeit is the meeting place for entrepreneurs with more than 1 million sales and a healthy dose of ambition who want to excel in their business. It is a network of entrepreneurs, mentors, coaches and trainers who understand what growth entrepreneurs are doing, what motivates them and what challenges they face. With their platform they want to inspire entrepreneurs in the Netherlands and make them dream bigger, think more and become an entrepreneur.

Nlgroeit is an initiative that rose from a public-private partnership between the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Chamber of Commerce and NLevator.

For more information: www.inspiration360.nl

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SME Innovation Top-100

Winner SME Innovation Top-100 opens trading

The winner of the SME Innovation Top-100, Yoni.care, visits Beursplein 5 and opens trading by sounding the gong.

Yoni.care, a company that places organic cotton tampons, sanitary napkins and panty liners on the market, has won the eleventh edition of the SME Innovation Top-100. The independent panel led by Ruud Koornstra recently announced this. The Chamber of Commerce publishes this yearly ranking of 100 innovative companies in Dutch SMEs. The winner can call itself the most innovative SME-company of the Netherlands for one year.

All companies on the Top-100 have implemented successful innovation in the field of a product, service, process or organization. The SME Innovation Top-100 is a non-cash prize. The ranking provides a good image of the innovative power of SMEs at present. The announcement of the eleventh SME Innovation Top-100 recently took place at the Klokgebouw in Eindhoven during the Chamber of Commerce Day of Innovation.

For more information: www.mkbinnovatietop100.nl

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IPO Takeaway.com

Euronext welcomes Takeaway.com

Euronext welcomes Takeaway.com (ticker symbol: TKWY), a leading online food delivery marketplace, on Euronext Amsterdam. Jitse Groen, CEO Takeaway.com, sounds the gong to celebrate the listing.

The IPO on Euronext Amsterdam will enable larger institutional investors to invest in the company, further enhance Takeaway.com’s public profile and develop its leading position in the company’s active markets.

Takeaway.com is a leading online food delivery marketplace focused on connecting consumers and restaurants through its platform in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Poland, France, Luxembourg, Portugal, Switzerland and Vietnam. Takeaway.com’s platform across its markets had c. 7.6 million Active Consumers as at 30 June 2016 and c. 40.4 million Orders in the twelve months ending 30 June 2016. With around 500 employees, the Company recorded GMV of €651 million and revenue of €77 million in 2015. As at 30 June 2016, there were 30,486 restaurants on the Company’s platform across its markets.

For more information: www.takeaway.com

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Dress Red Day

Dutch Heart Foundation visits Beursplein 5 on Dress Red Day

In celebration of The Dutch Heart Foundation's Dress Red Day, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange colours red today. Every year on September 29, the Heart Foundation calls upon women to dress up in red to raise awareness for heart- and vascular diseases amongst females.

There is a need for further research to better understand specific female symptoms and improve the healthcare regarding this #1 disease amongst women. Every year 20.000 women die to the effects of heart- and vascular diseases. Unfortunately the symptoms are quite often recognized in a later stage of the disease. Most diagnosis- and treatment methods have been tested on man and are not completely compatible for women.

The Dress Red day is the final chapter of the annual Queen of Hearts-campaign. Their overall objective: ‘’We won’t accept the fact that heart-vascular disease is still the #1 cause of death amongst women.’’

For more information: www.hartstichting.nl

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ING Sprinters Markets Club

ING Sprinters sounds gong for launch Markets Club

This week, leverage product issuer ING Sprinters launched a new platform for active investors. Sander van Baren, Head of Sprinters, sounds the gong on this occasion at the Amsterdam exchange.

“We launched a new tool because of an increasing demand for news and technical analysis from our Sprinter clients” says Sander van Baren, Head of Sprinters. “Our Markets CLub platform brings all information together on a customized webpage”.

Investors can create a personal dashboard with graphs, news updates and a watch list to follow the latest price developments of their favorite shares. Investors benefit from daily technical and fundamental analysis published by the well-known Dutch analyst Bas Heijink and his ING Investment Office colleagues. Furthermore investors can follow a daily live video stream about developments on the financial markets. Investors can subscribe via www.ingsprinters.nl to gain free access to the platform.

For more information: www.ingsprinters.nl

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International Breast Health Month

A Sister’s Hope opens trading to mark International Breast Health Month

Opening trading at the Amsterdam exchange marks the official opening of the International Breast Health Month worldwide. Each October, people across the globe put a spotlight on the challenges of battling breast cancer and the promise and progress for the finding of a cure.

The mission of A Sister's Hope is to find any and every avenue for raising vital significant funding for breast cancer research. As part of that, they are hosting events in order to raise funds and boost awareness. Simultaneously they are looking to stimulate mental and physical participation from individuals across all sectors of society who deal with this disease. Since 2007, A Sister's Hope has given more than $6 million to researchers.

For more information:  www.asistershope.org

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Amsterdam Capital Week

Amsterdam Capital Week opens trading

This week, from 26 to 30 September, the Amsterdam Capital Week takes place. Amsterdam Capital Weeks kicks off the week with a strike on the gong of the Amsterdam exchange of Euronext.

The 11 start-ups (including Bynder, ABOSS, Roamler, InvoiceFinance) who have raised a major investment in recent months are present at the gong ceremony. After the ceremony several events will take place at various locations in Amsterdam. Pitching, learning and networking will be the main focus points.

During the festival week, over 35 events, pitch events and meet-ups will take place, aimed at linking national and international investors to start-up founders. The festival focuses on both young start-ups and advanced scale-ups and companies that are about to go public. Amsterdam Capital Week is the largest funding festival in Europe.

For more information: www.amsterdamcapitalweek.nl

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Dag van de Actieve Belegger

Sounding of the gong for Dag van de Actieve Belegger

The Dag van de Actieve Belegger is an event for active private investors. Kamran Ullah, who will be the host during the event, sounds the gong and thereby opens the final trading day of the week.

The Dag van de Actieve Belegger takes place in Spant! in Bussum Friday 30 September. A combination of education, information and inspiration is highlighted during the event via different educational master classes from professionals and top gurus and original and active opening ceremonies.

The Dag van de Actieve Belegger is a public event for everyone who is interested in investing. Next to the active investor the event also focuses on the start-up investor. During the event visitors can meet other Dutch investors and ask their questions to experts. This could take place in the special lounge area that is set up, but also via an interactive app on your smartphone.

For more information: www.dagvandeactievebelegger.nl

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Bol.com wins Webshop Awards

Bol.com sounds gong for winning four Webshop Awards

During the annual ABN AMRO Webshop Awards (Retailer of the Year), bol.com, part of the Euronext listed Ahold Delhaize (ticker symbol: AD), won four public prizes. Bol.com was chosen as the best webshop in the Netherlands in the categories Toys, Warehouse, Reading Materials and Music, Films and Games, winning four out of its five nominations. On this occasion they visit the Amsterdam exchange and open trading by sounding the gong.

More than 277,000 Dutch consumers voted in the Awards. Dutch consumers view the range and price/quality ratio of online stores as being particularly important. Aspects such as service and delivery are also becoming more important, according to the review. As a category winner, bol.com is nominated for the overall prize in the ABN AMRO Webshop Awards. The award ceremony will take place on 27 October 2016.

Bol.com has been one of the most popular stores in the Netherlands and Belgium since it started up in 1999. Around 6.5 million consumers from the Netherlands and Belgium shop at bol.com. They can choose from a range of more than 14 million items, including not only books, music, films, games and toys, but also electronics, jewellery, baby items, garden and DIY items and everything for home and living, animals, sport, leisure and personal care. Bol.com works with other retailers in the Netherlands and Belgium in order to be able to offer consumers as broad a range as possible. They can sell their product range through bol.com. Bol.com has been a subsidiary of Ahold Delhaize since 2012.

For more information: www.bol.com

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The King's Commissioner Province of Limburg

The King’s Commissioner for the Province of Limburg sounds gong for Brightlands

Theo Bovens, the King’s Commissioner for the Province of Limburg, opens Euronext trading in Amsterdam with the traditional sounding of the gong. In doing so, Bovens pays attention to Brightlands, the name of four Limburg campuses that have been built by the Limburg chemical group DSM, pension administrator APG in Heerlen, the Province of Limburg and Maastricht University.

These campuses represent the materials of the future, top biomedical research and development, safe and healthy nutrition and new services resulting from the smart use of data.

The latest campus, the Brightlands Smart Services Campus in Heerlen, was opened earlier this month by His Royal Highness Prince Constantijn and Henk Kamp, the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs. The campus has experienced a flying start, attracting KPN, Conclusion, Accenture, the Bank of New York Mellon, as well as Statistics Netherlands (CBS). Big data is used as the raw material for developing new smart services.

For more information: www.limburg.nl

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Gimv opens trading Prinsjesdag

Gimv opens trading on Prinsjesdag

Euronext listed Gimv (ticker symbol: GIMB) opens trading on “Prinsjesdag”. By annual tradition, the The Hague-based team surprises their contacts within the Dutch financial community with a tasty treat. This year, they are invited to join Gimv at the traditional gong ceremony.

Last year, many new investments were welcomed to the Dutch portfolio, such as IthoDaalderop, Brakel, Equipe Zorgbedrijven, Arplas Systems and Joolz.

Gimv is a European investment company with over three decades experience in private equity and venture capital. The company is listed on Euronext Brussels and currently manages around 1.8 billion EUR (including co-investment partnerships) of investments in about 50 portfolio companies within four investment platforms: Connected Consumer, Health & Care, Smart Industries and Sustainable Cities. Each of these platforms works with a skilled and dedicated team across Gimv’s home markets of the Benelux, France and Germany and can count on an extended international network of experts. Gimv has an office The Hague with 15 Dutch companies in their portfolio, and where 17 people are employed.

For more information: www.gimv.com

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The National Maritime Museum

The National Maritime Museum sounds gong for upcoming exhibition ‘Drive’

Managing Director of The National Maritime Museum, Michael Huijser, opens trading at the Amsterdam exchange to announce the upcoming exhibition ‘Drive’.

‘Drive’ explains why we collect by using the collection history of The National Maritime Museum and 350 exceptional objects. It is a showcase of people who want to show off their wealth, have an urge to hoard, give immortality to their collection, or create a microcosm. One of the highlights of this new exhibition is the painting ‘Gezicht op het IJ met ’s Lands Zeemagazijn’ (View of the river IJ with 's Lands Zeemagazijn) in Amsterdam, dating from 1664, by Reinier Nooms. This exhibition allows visitors to see this masterpiece for the very first time.

The exhibition ‘Drive | 100 years of collecting’ is on show at The National Maritime Museum from 1 October 2016 to 2 July 2017 inclusive. An audio tour, guided tour, and special lectures are being organized to accompany the exhibition. The exhibition has been made possible with the support of, amongst others, KLM.

For more information: www.hetscheepvaartmuseum

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UBS Asset Management visits Beursplein 5 and sounds gong

UBS Asset Management has reached a major milestone with more than US $ 1 billion in assets under management in its SRI ETF range. Marcel Danen, Head of UBS ETF’s Netherlands, sounds the gong and opens trading on this occasion.

Marcel Danen, Head of UBS ETF’s Netherlands: “Reaching this milestone shows that investors are keen to use the opportunities offered by UBS SRI ETFs”. Recently, a study conducted by UBS to SRI investing has shown that there is no negative effect on yield and risk compared portfolios that were not screened for sustainability criteria.

UBS Asset Management has over 15 years of experience, specifically in the field of ETFs and more than 35 years experience in index investing. A large number of UBS ETFs are traded on Euronext Amsterdam since the beginning of this year. These ETFs cover, next to topics as sustainable and factor investing, also several regional building blocks. In addition, the ETF offer includes a wide range of currency hedged share classes. All ETFs listed in Amsterdam follow their respective benchmark by physical replication.

For more information: www.ubs.com

King's Commissioner in the Province of Zeeland Han Polman opens trading for Zeeland 'Prinsjesfestiva

The King's Commissioner in the province of Zeeland Han Polman opens the trading day by sounding the traditional gong. He does so in the presence of Zeeland entrepreneurs and former Prime Minister Prof. Dr. J.P. Balkenende.

The gong ceremony also marks the start of the Zeeland 'Prinsjesfestival' that starts the same day in The Hague. The Province of Zeeland is strategic partner in the Prinsjesfestival from Thursday September 15th until Prince's Day Tuesday September 20th. Zeeland organizes many (lobby) activities in the Zeeland Embassy in Nieuwspoort The Hague.

For more information: www.zeeland.nl

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