EoW November 2007

english corporate news

Expansion is the way forward for Sikora Sikora’s purchasing department has just moved into a new building adjoining the company’s headquarters in Bremen, Germany. The move follows the move in January which gave production, research and development 1,000m 2 more space. The move follows a 15% increase in turnover compared to the previous year. The expansion in the measuring and control technology sector follows an increase in contract volume and workforce. Sikora has increasingly invested in research in order to meet all requirements for powerful and innovative products. The success is already reflected in various new measuring devices such as X-Ray 8000 NXT, Laser 2003 XY, Centreview 800 or the processor-based system Ecocontrol 1000.

Sikora AG – Germany Fax : +49 4214890090 Email : sales@sikora.net Website : www.sikora.com

View over the Sikora business premises in Bremen

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In Brief . . . CableOrganizer.com, one of the leading purveyors of cable, wire and equipment management-related products for use in business and at home, has been named in the 26 th annual Inc 500 list of fastest growing private companies in America, in the September issue of Inc magazine. The company ranked in the top 25% (126 th ) of companies named on the coveted list having realised astounding three-year sales growth of 1,413%! Shattering sales forecasts year after year, earlier this year CableOrganizer.com landed a coveted spot on Internet Retailer magazine’s ‘Top 500 Retail websites’ list – the one and only ranking of America’s 500 largest e-retail businesses based on 2006 online sales. CableOrganizer.com Inc – USA Fax : +1 954 861 2001 Email : sales@cableorganizer.com Website : www.cableorganizer.com Verlinde Technologies has appointed Simon Rothechild as business develop- ment manager for the UK and Ireland. Mr Rothechild was formerly UK sales manager for the company. Verlinde – France Fax : + 33 2 37 38 95 99 Email : info@verlinde.com Website : www.verlinde.com u u u

l Record levels for fibre optics in 2007 – CRU

Cable market analysis group, CRU, UK, has reported that the fibre optic cable market has recovered from the collapse of 2001. CRU’s wire and cable team, which includes newly acquired KMI Research, has documented double-digit growth in demand for 2005 and 2006. Fibre demand in 2007 is likely to exceed the previous peak year, 2001. Quarter-by- quarter analysis of markets for fibre and cable is given in CRU’s bi-monthly Optical Fibre and Fibre Optic Cable Monitor. The recent surge has been driven by local-loop upgrades, mainly to provide faster Internet access and new services, such as IPTV. CRU concludes that the current rise in the market is more solidly based than the telecom bubble that burst in 2001. In the last boom too many competing telecom carriers invested to serve the same geographic markets. Carriers are now funding network upgrades without excessive borrowing, keeping capital expenditures within safer limits. New in-depth reports from CRU-KMI, such as Worldwide Optical Fibre and Cable Markets and Markets for Fibreoptics in Broadband Access Networks, show that FTTx (fibre to the curb, home or node) will account for most demand growth over the next five years. In North America, where AT&T and Verizon have massive projects underway, FTTx already accounts for more than half of single-mode demand. In other regions, FTTx is a smaller percentage of demand, but is growing fast. The amount of fibre installed for FTTx globally will increase with 23% CAGR from 2006 to 2010. This contrasts with only 3% CAGR for fibre in other applications.

CRU the Independent Authority – UK Email : sarah.webster@crugroup.com

Fax : +44 207 903 2152

Website : www.crumonitor.com

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EuroWire – November 2007