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Finns consumed fair trade products with enthusiasm last year. Sales totalled 54.4 million euros in Finland last year, an increase of 57 per cent on the previous year. At this moment more than 1,000 fair trade products are on sale in Finland, the most popular last year being bananas, coffee, flowers, cotton and wine. Worldwide, sales of fair...
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Metso has signed a contract with the Chinese Zhanjiang Chenming Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd., for the supply of the world's largest fine paper production line to the company's greenfield pulp and paper mill in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, China. The total value of the order is approx. EUR 130 million. The new paper line order is included in Paper...
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Finnair's Departure 2093: Five Visions of Future Flying has received a Golden World Award from the International Public Relations Association (IPRA). The IPRA jury selected Departure 2093 as the best public relations campaign in the Publications category. "The prize is comparable to an Oscar in PR. It's a splendid indication of how there is...
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Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA) and a graffiti workshop at Tapiola service centre organized a course for elderly people with the intention of making them familiar with graffiti culture. The climax of the course was a work legally created by nine over-60s on a wall situated at Suvilahti in the Sörnäinen district of Helsinki. Before the...
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Biolan, which specializes in environmental products, is setting up a sales company in St Petersburg. Biolan has been looking into and clarifying the business opportunities in Russia for a couple of years, particularly in the areas bordering Finland. The company intends starting sales in Russia at the beginning of next year. Biolan's impression...
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Finns are making their summer cottages more functional. One in five cottage owners have equipped their leisure-time residence with a broadband connection, more than 70 per cent of which have a wireless router. This information came to light in a questionnaire carried out by the telecom operator DNA. Surprisingly, broadband is especially...
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Santen Pharmaceutical, which produces ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, has signed a worldwide marketing authorization agreement under which distribution will be expanded in Europe and North and South America. Santen, a Japanese company specializing in ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, has the centre of its European business operations and its research...
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The Global Compact Office that operates under the United Nations Secretary-General applauds Kesko for outstanding communication on progress. Kesko's Global Compact communication is included in Kesko's corporate responsibility reporting for 2008. Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan launched the Global Compact Initiative in 2000. The...
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The European Research Council has granted the researcher Marko Terviö over a million Euro funding for the project Talent and Learning in Imperfect Markets. The funding has been allocated for a five-year period. Terviö will begin his new post as Professor at the Department of Economics at the Helsinki School of Economics on July 1st. He is...
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The number of foreign travellers in Finland was 6,1 million in 2008. The number is 6 per cent more than the previous year's corresponding number. The amount of money spent by foreign travellers in Finland increased also by 5 per cent to a total of 1,7 billion Euros. The information was revealed by a survey carried out by Statistics Finland and...
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The construction of the new Primula production and logistics centre will commence this summer in the town of Järvenpää, about 40 kilometres north of Helsinki. The construction work of the approximately 13 000 floor square metre project will begin immediately. The factory will start its production in early autumn 2010. - This is a large scale...
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Midnight Balloon Rally embellished the night sky of Central Finland from 24.-28.7. The event, which was held for the very first time witnessed the very first hot air balloon sauna flown up into the sky. The hot air balloon rally attracted all in all 17 balloon teams. Six teams arrived from overseas particularly for the event. The furthest away...
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