Outlook for 2018 remains positive
Automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler increased its revenue to 14.0 billion euros in 2017 (prior year: 13.3 billion euros). This corresponds to growth of 5.9 percent on a currency-adjusted basis.
read more...IoT expert Dr. Tanja Rückert will join the Bosch Group on July 1, 2018 and take over the management of the Bosch Building Technologies division (2017: 1.9 billion euros in sales; 9,000 associates) on August 1. She is currently head of the IoT and Digital Supply Chain division at SAP SE in Walldorf.
read more...This year, CEBIT is starting in the summer for the first time and is completely reinventing itself. From the topics to the formats to the design: CEBIT will become a "business festival for innovation and digitalization" and will address the influence of digitalization on business, politics and society from different perspectives. The associated changes on the labor market play an equally important role.
read more...Ground-breaking ceremony for new production...
On March 5, the ground-breaking ceremony for the Emag Group's new production and office wing in Salach took place together with representatives from the company, construction companies and politicians.
read more...Vacuum specialist Leybold has been supporting the Swissloop team's Hyperloop project with its vacuum expertise since 2015. The next round will begin in summer 2018.
read more...Students from ETH Zurich won the SpaceX competition organized by US entrepreneur Elon Musk with their Swissloop concept against thousands of other teams. Now, the Swiss will be able to prove themselves again in the next round in summer 2018 with their further developed capsule.
read more...IFS, the global provider of business software, has appointed Darren Roos as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
read more...IoT expert Dr. Tanja Rückert joins the Bosch Group on July 1, 2018 and takes over the management of the Bosch Building Technology division on August 1. In her new position, she succeeds Gert van Iperen.
read more...Alfred Weber, Chairman of the Management Board of Mann+Hummel, is resigning from his position with immediate effect.
read more...New Chief Production, Logistics and...
Andreas Schick will become the new Chief Production, Logistics and Purchasing Officer at Schaeffler effective April 1, succeeding Oliver Jung in his new position.
read more...Weiler Werkzeugmaschinen is once again sponsoring high-tech components for Erlangen student racing cars this year.
read more...GTT Communications, Inc., a leading cloud and network provider for multinational customers, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Interoute. The purchase price for the operator of one of the largest independent fiber optic networks and cloud network platforms in Europe is approximately EUR 1.9 billion in cash.
read more...Ericsson, TIM and Comau are showcasing their Cloud Robotics solution at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona as a first implementation result of the "5G for Italy" cooperation agreement signed last year.
read more...Deutsche Telekom and Cologne-based mobile communications provider 1NCE are presenting Europe's first data flat rate for networked devices on the Internet of Things at the Mobile World Congress: Customers pay a one-off fee of ten euros in the prepaid tariff and receive a data flat rate of up to 500 megabytes for the lifetime of the respective smart end device of 10 years.
read more...Sigfox at the Bosch ConnectedWorld
At booth A14 at Bosch Connected World 2018, Sigfox, service provider for IoT connectivity, will present products and proof-of-concepts for Sigfox-based IoT connectivity together with various Bosch divisions.
read more...For the fourth time in a row, plant engineering company Teamtechnik is one of the TOP employers in Germany.
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