Kelly Mahon Tullier to Join as Executive Vice President and Deputy General Counsel in June — Transition to General Counsel October 1; Ellen Richey to Become Vice Chairman October 1
FOSTER CITY, Calif - Friday, April 11th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE) Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) today announced that Kelly Mahon Tullier will join the company as Executive Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, effective June 16. She will also serve as a member of the company’s Executive Committee. Ms. Tullier will transition to the role of Executive Vice President and General Counsel on October 1, 2014. She joins Visa from PepsiCo, Inc., where she was the Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel.
Ellen Richey, Chief Legal Officer, Chief Risk Officer, and member of the Executive Committee will continue in those roles through September 30, when she will become Vice Chairman – Risk and Public Policy. The Chief Risk Officer and the Chief Audit Execu
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NEW YORK. - Friday, April 11th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE) Turkish Airlines, one of the world’s fastest growing airlines that was recently voted Europe’s Best Airline for the third year in a row, has been awarded the Most Viral Celebrity Spot in Advertising Age’s 2014 Viral Video Awards for “Kobe vs. Messi: The Selfie Shootout”, at the fifth annual ceremony held on April 1 in New York City.
The Crispin Porter + Bogusky-created commercial spot, originally rolled out in December as a part of Turkish Airlines “Widen Your World” ad campaign, features global brand ambassadors and international sports megastars Kobe Bryant and Lionel Messi.
In the campaign that emphasizes the global network of the airline, Kobe and Messi resume their friendly rivalry from last year’s viral “Kobe vs. Messi” ad by trading “selfies” from exotic Turkish Airlines locations, including the Red Square in Moscow,
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TOKYO. - Thursday, April 10th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE) Shiseido (TOKYO:4911) has concluded a joint venture agreement with PT Sinar Mas Tunggal, a group company of the Indonesian conglomerate, Sinar Mas Group. Shiseido Co., Ltd. and the Sinar Mas Group will hold equity shares of 65% and 35%, respectively of the newly established PT Shiseido Cosmetics Indonesia. Business operations are scheduled to commence in July 2014.
In the Indonesian market, which offers high growth potential, Shiseido will strive to boost sales not only by continuing to foster its SHISEIDO global brand promoted around the world, but also by stepping up focus on the masstige* market. This sector is the largest cosmetics market zone and is anticipated to maintain strong growth.
* Masstige, coined from “mass” and “prestige,” refers to a category that is “more expensive than mass-produced products, but more moderately priced compared to prestige product
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Rimini Street Smart Proxy Server® Solves Compatibility Challenges between Oracle and SAP Enterprise Software Releases and Older, Current and Future Browser Releases
LAS VEGAS - Thursday, April 10th 2014
COLLABORATE 14 Conference – Rimini Street, Inc., the leading independent provider of enterprise software support for SAP AG’s (NYSE:SAP) Business Suite and BusinessObjects software and Oracle Corporation’s (NYSE:ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Oracle Database, Oracle Middleware, Hyperion and Oracle Retail software, today announced that Rimini Street Technology Support Services has delivered the Rimini Street Smart Proxy Server® (“RSI SPS”), an innovative browser compatibility tool that extends the life and performance of existing ERP systems. RSI SPS is available to all Rimini Street Support clients at no additional license cost.
Since 1999, ERP releases commonly u
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Service Has Helped Many Organizations Extend Their Release Life Span; Enables Company to Extend Guaranteed Release Support to 15 Years
LAS VEGAS - Thursday, April 10th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- COLLABORATE 14 Conference – Rimini Street, Inc., the leading independent provider of enterprise software support for SAP AG’s (NYSE:SAP) Business Suite and BusinessObjects software and Oracle Corporation’s (NYSE:ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Oracle Database, Oracle Middleware, Hyperion and Oracle Retail software, today announced the expansion and official launch of Rimini Street Technology Support Services (“TSS”). The TSS team was formed in 2011 to harness Rimini Street’s years of experience supporting hundreds of complex global enterprise software environments and deploy a range of advanced and innovative strategies, processes and tools that allow clients to extend the supported life of their enterprise
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Company Delivers New Tool at No Additional Cost to Further Reduce Total Cost of Ownership for Clients
LAS VEGAS - Thursday, April 10th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- COLLABORATE 14 Conference - Rimini Street, Inc., the leading independent provider of enterprise software support for SAP AG’s (NYSE:SAP) Business Suite and BusinessObjects software and Oracle Corporation’s (NYSE:ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Oracle Database, Oracle Middleware, Hyperion and Oracle Retail software, today announced that Rimini Street Technology Support Services has delivered a new tool for clients who subscribe to Rimini Street Support for PeopleSoft – the Rimini Street COBOL Compiler® (“RSI Compiler”). The RSI Compiler combines a Rimini Street pre-compiler with an IBM COBOL compiler, which, under agreement with IBM Corporation, are packaged, licensed and distributed together as an integrated solution. The RSI Compiler is imm
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TOKYO. - Wednesday, April 9th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE) Shiseido Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:4911) has long focused its research on skin immunity as an important means of maintaining skin’s health, and protecting it from external and internal stressors that can lead to dermatologic problems. Through this research, Shiseido discovered that one function of skin immunity, the self-protection function that sedates the stimuli response factors of Langerhans cells,1 is important to maintaining skin homeostasis and that this function declines with age.
Shiseido has developed a multiple component2 that effectively combines three ingredients, including β-glucan, to target the Langerhans cells and help recover their self-protection function. Shiseido has applied for a patent for this technology in nine countries, including Japan. Furthermore, with a prototype serum incorporating this multiple component, Shiseido proved for the first time that the skin’s self-pro
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Strategic partnership with UBS to result in rebranding of Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Indexes as Bloomberg Commodity Indexes
NEW YORK - Thursday, April 10th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE) Bloomberg LP and UBS today announced a strategic partnership that will result in Bloomberg Indexes being responsible for governance, calculation, distribution and licensing of the bank's market leading commodity indexes. The indexes will be renamed from the "Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Family" to the "Bloomberg Commodity Index Family" as of July 1.
"Benchmarks are at the heart of the financial system, and benchmark independence is key to the transparency and efficiency of global financial markets," said Dan Doctoroff, CEO and President of Bloomberg LP. "By providing true independence to a leading index family used by institutional investors and asset managers around the world, Bloomberg continues to support the needs of our clients an
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Research Triangle Park, N.C. - Wednesday, April 9th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Quintiles Transnational Holdings Inc. (NYSE: Q) will release its financial results for the first quarter of 2014 prior to its quarterly earnings call on Thursday, May 1, 2014, at 8:00 a.m. EDT.
The conference call will be accessible, live via webcast, on the Investor Relations section of the Quintiles website at www.quintiles.com/investors. To participate via telephone, please dial +1 (855) 484-7367 in the United States or +1 (631) 259-7541 outside the United States, approximately 15 minutes before the scheduled start of the call.
An archived edition of the conference call will be available online at www.quintiles.com/investors after 1:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 1st.
About Quintiles
Quintiles (NYSE: Q) is the world’s largest provider of biopharmaceutical development and commercial outsourcing services with a network of more than 28,000 employees co
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Top University Achieves Key Strategic Goals and Saves Jobs with Rimini Street Independent Support
LAS VEGAS - Wednesday, April 9th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
COLLABORATE 14
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- COLLABORATE 14 Conference – Rimini Street, Inc., the leading independent provider of enterprise software support for SAP AG’s (NYSE:SAP) Business Suite and BusinessObjects software and Oracle Corporation’s (NYSE:ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Oracle Database, Hyperionand Oracle Retail software, today announced that Brandeis University, one of the premier universities in North America, has been able to fund several key initiatives, including implementing a long-needed centralized records management and piloting an IT governance initiative, by reallocating an estimated 800 thousand dollars in total annual maintenance cost savings from switching to Rimini Street independent support. In addition to the cost savings, Brandeis successfully avo
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