ARCADIS Plans to Merge With Malcolm Pirnie, Creating a Major Position in the Global Water Market

AMSTERDAM - ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design, engineering and management services company, announced today that it has signed a merger agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Malcolm Pirnie, a White Plains, New York based company predominantly active in water and environmental consulting and engineering, currently owned by about 80 internal shareholders. At closing, Malcolm Pirnie will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of ARCADIS U.S. Malcolm Pirnie has more than 1,700 employees, 2008 gross revenues of $392 million (EUR280 million), net revenues of $294 million (EUR210 million) and profitability close to ARCADIS overall target EBITA margin of 10%.

Elsevier Releases Results of Alternative Energy Research Leadership Study Identifying Top 25 Institutions Worldwide

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- Over 1000 Members of the Research Community View Webcast to Learn About Findings and New Performance Measurement Method

Fortis Capital Company is Pleased to Report That the Court has Ruled in its Favour

AMSTERDAM - Today the court in Amsterdam delivered judgement in the summary hearing brought by Fortis Capital Company Ltd. (’FCC’) against Fortis N.V. and Fortis SA/NV (the ‘Fortis Holdings’). FCC is pleased to report that the court has ruled in its favour.

Avantium to Deliver Flowrence System to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands - The U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has signed an agreement with Avantium to enable the sale and delivery of an Avantium Flowrence(TM) parallel fixed bed reactor system. The Flowrence(TM) will allow PNNL to accelerate its catalyst research for infrastructure compatible biofuels and bioproducts.

Palace Cinemas and XDC Agree to Deploy 170 Digital Screens in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary

AMSTERDAM - Palace Cinemas, the leading exhibitor in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, and XDC, the leading Pan-European digital cinema service company, have agreed on the deployment of digital cinema systems in 170 of Palace Cinemas’ screens in Central Europe.

New Crowdsource Platform From Amsterdam Challenges Graphic Design Talent Around the World

AMSTERDAM - PimTim, the online marketplace for graphic design, used its own platform (www.pimtim.com) to challenge creative people from all over the world to design its new identity. Today, PimTim shows its identity and website to the world.

Glybera(TM) Shows Long-Term Health Benefits

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands - Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics (Euronext: AMT), a leader in the field of human gene therapy, announced today new data showing that a one-time administration of its lead product GlyberaTM results in significant long-term health benefits. Long-term follow-up data from two clinical trials show that one administration with GlyberaTM brings significant and clinically important reduction in acute pancreatitis in lipoprotein lipase deficient patients. Recurrent acute pancreatitis is the most debilitating complication of lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD) and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. These data were presented at the International Symposium on Atherosclerosis in Boston, one on the most prestigious conferences on arterial disease well-attended by expert physicians.

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AMSTERDAM - In the news release, “Elsevier Honored as “The Most Influential Publisher of the Last 100 Years in BioMedicine and the Life Sciences” by the Special Libraries Association” issued on 17 Jun 2009 12:21 GMT, by Elsevier over PR Newswire, the original was transmitted without the corresponding journal and society links.

MediaCatalyst Star in Japanese Manga

AMSTERDAM - MediaCatalyst Bring Japanese Manga to Mobiles With DOCOMO Netherlands

Amsterdam-based interactive agency MediaCatalyst have used their mobile expertise to help DOCOMO Netherlands, crack the European market and bring Japanese Manga to mobiles.

Elsevier Honored as “The Most Influential Publisher of the Last 100 Years in BioMedicine and the Life Sciences” by the Special Libraries Association

AMSTERDAM - SLA Centennial Observance Chooses 20 Elsevier Journals Among 100 Most Influential Journals in Past Century

Sylvie van der Vaart’s Operation was Succesfull

AMSTERDAM - One month ago, Sylvie van der Vaart was diagnosed with breast cancer in the early stages. Sylvie has since undergone a successful operation. There is no evidence of the cancer having spread to anywhere else in the body. Her oncologist has assured her that she will have a complete recovery. Starting in July, Sylvie will undergo preventive chemotherapy. Sylvie and Rafael are currently on holiday. They would appreciate being able to recover from this difficult period in private. I would like to ask the press and other media to give Sylvie and her family the time and space to come to terms with this news and work on her recovery.

ARCADIS Launches Another Large Landfill Gas Project in Brazil

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands - ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design and engineering company, announced the opening of the third large landfill gas (LFG) plant near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, named Novo Gramacho. The opening coincided with the celebration of the International Environmental Day. The new plant will consolidate the leading market position of Biogas, a company in which ARCADIS Logos holds 33%. In 2004, Biogas opened the Bandeirantes landfill gas project, followed by the Sao Joao project in 2007, both near Sao Paulo.

Ticket Service Nederland, Paradiso and Melkweg Announce Multi-Year Ticketing Extension

AMSTERDAM - Ticket Service Nederland, a Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc., (NASDAQ:TKTM) operating business, Paradiso corporation and Melkweg corporation today announced a multi-year extension of their more than decade-long ticketing partnership. The agreement extends Ticketmaster’s exclusive ticketing for Paradiso and Melkweg (Milkyway) for all Events taking place in these Music Venues. Both multi-purpose Venues are situated in the very centre of Amsterdam and are renowned worldwide for their ambiance supplying the ultimate live Music experience for over 1.000.000 enthusiastic visitors yearly.

Elsevier and NextBio Sign Partnership to Enrich ScienceDirect Content, Accelerating Life Sciences, Health Sciences and Chemistry Research

AMSTERDAM - Improving Research Discoverability and Productivity

Elsevier today announced a new partnership agreement with NextBio, provider of an innovative platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data to enrich ScienceDirect content. This agreement allows for an integration of NextBio’s unique set of ontology-based semantic tools and a compilation of high quality sources of public data on ScienceDirect, providing health science, life science and chemistry researchers with a dynamic platform to improve discoverability and research productivity.

Tetrahedron Symposium Launches Virtual Conference

AMSTERDAM - Virtual Environment Brings Renowned Organic Chemists Live From Paris to Your Desk Top

Scopus Works With European Science Foundation to Expand Arts & Humanities Coverage

AMSTERDAM - First Citation Database to Offer Access to Arts and Humanities Journals From Over a Thousand Different Publishers and Content Providers

Tommy Hilfiger Continues Growth in Year Ended 31 March 2009(1)

AMSTERDAM - Financial Highlights - Total Group net sales increased 21% to EUR1,600 million - Global retail value of net sales of EUR 3.4 billion - Sales growth in wholesale 16% and retail 29%, driven by organic growth, new store openings and the newly acquired Japan and European Footwear business (12% of total 21% growth). - Despite pressure on margins in the second half of the year, EBITDA equal to FY08 at EUR 270 million. - European sales up 14% to EUR795 million with an EBITDA margin of 23.2% (FY08: 27.2%) - North American sales of USD 898 million up 10% with an EBITDA margin of 10.4% (FY08: 15.2%) - Cash generated from operations at EUR 267 million (FY08: EUR 228 million) - Despite significant investments in stores, shop-in-shops and the acquisition of TH Japan, net debt lower than prior year at EUR 505 million (leverage ratio at 1.9) Operational Highlights - 100 new freestanding store openings, taking the global store portfolio to over 900 - Largest Tommy Hilfiger flagship store in Europe opened in Cologne, Germany in March 2009 - Business in Japan was swiftly integrated and contributed significantly to results - In March 2009, we announced our intent to integrate our US and Canadian business into Tommy Hilfiger North America - Strategic alliance with Macy’s, established in Fall 2008, successful and expanding product line to include children’s wear - First global flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City set to open September 2009

ARCADIS to do Facility Management for Essent and Enexis

AMSTERDAM - ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design and engineering company, through its 50% subsidiary ARCADIS AQUMEN FACILITY MANAGEMENT (AAFM), has signed a contract to perform facility management services for Essent and Enexis.

Bull SAS and ffA (Foster Findlay Associates Ltd) Have Entered Into a Partnership Agreement to Deliver ffA GPU-enabled 3D Seismic Analysis Software to the Oil and Gas Community on Bull High Performance Computing Systems

AMSTERDAM - Seismic interpreters are facing a growing amount of data to interpret and the demands for computational tools to underpin the 3D seismic interpretation process throughout the E&P workflow have never been more apparent. Through use of ffA’s high performance computational software, a data driven approach to 3D seismic interpretation can provide the step change in productivity required for geoscientists to fully exploit their data and deliver more accurate interpretations of the subsurface, improved understanding of uncertainty and better quantification of risk.

Mobileye and Visteon to Collaborate on the Development of Advanced Lighting Control Strategies

AMSTERDAM - Mobileye N.V. announced today an agreement with Visteon Corporation whereby the two companies will jointly develop strategies and technologies that will control tomorrow’s smart headlamp systems. Growing use of Mobileye on-board camera systems makes it possible to feed information to Visteon’s smart headlamp systems, expanding the possibilities of such systems. One specific application of the combined technologies may include automatically switching between high and low headlight beams. Additionally, other more advanced lighting control strategies are expected, which allow the driver better viewing with longer-range capabilities.

Bridgewater Systems Continues Global WiMAX Momentum

AMSTERDAM - New Customer Wins Through Successful Reseller Agreement With Alvarion

Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC), the mobile personalization company, today announced that it is continuing to extend its global market leadership in WiMAX(TM) through its successful global reseller agreement with Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider of WiMAX(TM) and wireless broadband solutions.

Dutch Appeals Court Orders Royal Dutch Shell to Begin Paying US$381 Million Settlement to Pan-European/Global Investor Group

AMSTERDAM - Binding declaration covers largest securities fraud settlement on record in Europe - Shell to pay foundation representing 150+ institutional investors in nineteen countries stemming from company’s prior misstatements of proven oil & gas reserves; US law firm Grant & Eisenhofer represents international investor group

AMT Receives EMEA Orphan Drug Designation for Acute Intermittent Porphyria

AMSTERDAM - Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics (Euronext: AMT), a leader in the field of human gene therapy, announced today that the European Medicines Agency has granted Orphan Drug Designation to AMT’s gene therapy product AMT-021 for the treatment of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP).

Agendia Supports Genentech’s Citizen’s Petition Urging FDA to Hold In-Vitro Diagnostic Tests to One Set of Scientific and Regulatory Standards

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, and AMSTERDAM - Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, today announced its strong support of Genentech’s Citizen’s Petition. Filed on December 5, 2008, Docket No. FDA-2008-P-0638-0001/CP petitions that all in vitro diagnostic tests be held to one set of scientific and regulatory standards. In response, on May 28, 2009, Agendia formally submitted a letter of support to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Genentech petition and other documents submitted in support of and in opposition to the petition can be accessed here: www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=FDA-2008-P-0638

Options ARCADIS Quoted as of Today

AMSTERDAM - ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design and engineering company, as of today is also listed on the NYSE Liffe option exchange in Amsterdam. The exchange decided to offer the possibility for trading in ARCADIS options because of the inclusion of ARCADIS in the Euronext Amsterdam Midkap Index(R) last year and the market demand for this type of investment vehicle.

Ubee Interactive Features EuroDOCIS(TM)-Certified 3.0 Products and U-Gateway(TM) Convergence Platform at ANGA Cable Show 2009

AMSTERDAM - DOCSIS 3.0 Modem & PacketCable(TM) 2.0 EMTA Meet Stringent Test Requirements, While U-Gateway Streamlines DVB-to-IP Migration

One-Stop Website Explains Everything You Need to Know About the New Internet Protocol, IPv6

AMSTERDAM - Internet Growth and Innovation Depends on Continued Availability of IP Addresses

- Over 800 European Organisations Give Their Support to the “IPv6 Act Now” Statement to Urge Speedy and Efficient Adoption of IPv6

AMT Issues Business Update for First Quarter 2009

AMSTERDAM - Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics (Euronext: AMT), a leader in the field of human gene therapy, today issues it’s business update for the first quarter of 2009, summarizing material events that took place during the quarter and providing an update on the cash position.

Made in Japan: Ayako Rokkaku, Takashi Murakami, Yoshiaki Ishikawa (’Marty’)

AMSTERDAM - Gallery Delaive at Art Amsterdam: Stand 105 RAI May 13-17, 2009

In 2009, the Netherlands commemorates 400 years of trade relations between the Netherlands and Japan. This year, Gallery Delaive will show the work of three Japanese artists at the Art Amsterdam.

European Payment Practices Worsen

AMSTERDAM - European businesses rate the payment practices of their domestic and foreign business partners less positively in early 2009 than in summer 2008, and receive a negative evaluation of their own payment practices from their international business partners. Despite a substantial worsening of the European and international payment landscape over the past six months, notable differences between countries remain.

UK Payment Practices Suffer in the Economic Downturn

AMSTERDAM - Latest Figures Show That UK Businesses Rate the Payment Practices of Their Foreign Business Partners in a More Positive Light Than Those of Their Domestic Counterparts.

Changes in Supervisory Board of ARCADIS

AMSTERDAM - ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design and engineering company, today announced that the Company’s Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on May 7, 2009 has appointed Ms Ruth Markland to the Company’s Supervisory Board. The meeting also reappointed Mr George R. Nethercutt Jr. for a second four year term.

AMT Starts Preregistration Trial for Glybera(TM)

AMSTERDAM - Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics (Euronext: AMT), a leader in the field of human gene therapy, announced today the treatment of the first patient in a preregistration clinical trial with Glybera(TM). This gene therapy product targets lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD), a seriously debilitating and potentially lethal disease.

Mobileye N.V. Teams With Delphi Corporation and With Volvo Car Corporation to Deliver Vital Vision Processing Technology for the Next Generation Volvo S60

AMSTERDAM - Mobileye N.V., a global pioneer and leader in vision-based driver assistance systems and analytics for automotive manufacturers and suppliers, teams with Delphi Corporation and with Volvo Car Corporation to deliver vital vision processing technology for the next generation Volvo S60, planned for a mid-2010 debut. The safety enhancements on the new S60 sedan take active safety to the next level with features like Full Speed Range Adaptive Cruise Control and a Collision Warning and Mitigation system with full automatic braking power, that not only detects moving and stationary vehicles but pedestrians as well. The system warns the driver of an imminent collision and automatically brakes the vehicle if the driver is not able to do so.

Light Up(R) Creates a Brighter Outlook

AMSTERDAM - Dutch Manufacturer Produces the First Ever Luminous Flags

The Dutch flag-maker Faber Flags has succeeded in producing flags that shine in the dark. Using a newly-developed, patented print process, coloured images printed on flags come to life in dimly-lit surroundings, giving them an entirely new dimension. The process can also be used for street-banners, pennants, display materials and sun-shades. The eye-catching new process is suitable for both indoor and outdoor use.