CINCINNATI - Chiquita Brands International, Inc. (NYSE: CQB) will release second quarter 2009 financial results on Aug. 6, 2009, after the market closes and will host a conference call at 4:30 p.m. EDT that day.

LONDON - The title of Diageo Reserve Brands World Class Bartender of the Year 2009 was decided in London yesterday. After a year long global competition which saw 6000 bartenders from 24 countries shake, stir and pour their way through national heats, just 18 remained to go head to head in three days of World Class challenges this week. Aristotelis Papadopoulos of Banquet in Thessaloniki, Greece claimed the overall title after impressing the most recognised names in the business - Dale DeGroff, Salvatore Calabrese, Simon Difford, Peter Dorelli, Gary Regan, Hidetsugu Ueno - with his exceptional mastery of cocktail craft.

NEW YORK - - Huge turnout for Light Reading's Packet-Optical Transport Evolution Virtual Tradeshow with the industry's leading optical experts, nearly 900 attendees, and 10 sponsors

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - The Chilean telecommunications market will grow at a CAGR of 6.6 percent over the next five years for a total of US$6.4 billion in 2014, mainly due to the increasing penetration of mobile services and the adoption of mobile Internet services including data cards and mobile browsing, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

LONDON - - The Disciplinary Committee (DC) of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons have suspended a veterinary surgeon for a period of six months for issuing two false horse passports, having found him to have been "consciously dishonest".