Birkirkara News (Malta)

FIMBank plc is supporting this year’s Malta Fashion Week and is the event’s official financial institution. The Malta Fashion Week is organised by Unique Promotions and being held between the 6thand 12th May.

Leading glassware producer Mdina Glass recently received the prize “Ġieħ l-Artiġġjanat Malti” during an awards ceremony presided over by the Minister for Fair Competition, Small Business and Consumers, the Hon. Jason Azzopardi.

Global toy manufacturer Playmobil has announced the record sale of 55 million toy sets worldwide in 2011. The figure also represents an 8 per cent increase over the previous year. Meanwhile, Playmobil’s sales in Malta grew by 9 per cent on 2010.

The workshop Communicating the Bioeconomy is part of the European Commission’s actions to promote the Bioeconomy and to engage key stakeholders in the debate at European and national level.

More than 100 theatre visitors who booked their theatre performance tickets on www.teatrumanoel.com.mt have received 50% cash back on their theatre tickets purchased, just in time for Christmas.

PLAYMOBIL Malta recently hosted a visit by representatives of German-speaking media organisations.

The European Commission is inviting children aged 9 to 11 to participate in a drawing competition about ‘Space and Aeronautics’. The winners, one from each EU Member State, will have a Galileo Programme satellite named after them.

Miss World Malta Claire-Marie Busuttil recently presented the winner of the DSearch televoting competition, Mr. Gaetano Borg, with a holiday in Paris for two courtesy of the competition’s main sponsor Easisave.

The benefits of Easisave, FIMBank plc’s high interest online savings account, will be promoted in Malta and Gozo during the next five weeks.

FIMBank Group reports USD 9.13 million after-tax profit during its Annual General Meeting which was held at the Hilton Hotel in St Julian’s, Malta, on the 10th May 2012.

Dinosaurs have always held a special place in the hearts of children.

FIMBank plc is supporting this year’s Malta Fashion Week and is the event’s official financial institution. The Malta Fashion Week is organised by Unique Promotions and being held between the 6thand 12th May.

Conservation work on the monument commemorating philanthropist Giovanni Di Nicolò Pappaffy, located at the Maglio Gardens in Floriana and the work of sculptor Vincent Apap, is now complete.

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) launches its new two-year Healthy Workplaces Campaign with the theme Working together for risk prevention.

EU Campaign on Benefits of Management Leadership and Worker Participation

Leading glassware producer Mdina Glass recently received the prize “Ġieħ l-Artiġġjanat Malti” during an awards ceremony presided over by the Minister for Fair Competition, Small Business and Consumers, the Hon. Jason Azzopardi.

Job-related stress is a concern for the large majority of the European workforce, concludes the 2nd European Opinion Poll on Occupational Safety and Health.

The European Commission has announced the winners of the Galileo drawing competition about ‘Space and Aeronautics’. Eleven year old Kimberley Camilleri from Mellieħa has been selected as the Maltese winner by a national jury panel.

The FIMBank Group registered a 35% increase in its after tax-profit during 2011, to reach USD9.13 million at the end of that year.

Seafood farming, or aquaculture, is an increasingly important food production sector, as natural populations of fish and shellfish grow scarce.

The EU is funding research to learn more about how bacteria and other microorganisms can better survive toxic settings so that they can be used to clean hazardous waste sites.

Leading glassware producer Mdina Glass has launched its new online shop, located at www.mdinaglass.com.mt, featuring over 2,000 glassware items which can be purchased securely from the comfort of one’s home.

Rising obesity levels have given a new urgency to efforts aimed at improving European eating habits. European research is helping by finding out how food labelling can change and improve consumer habits.

Global toy manufacturer Playmobil has announced the record sale of 55 million toy sets worldwide in 2011. The figure also represents an 8 per cent increase over the previous year. Meanwhile, Playmobil’s sales in Malta grew by 9 per cent on 2010.

The sudden, widespread death of bee populations in Europe and around the world is one of the most perplexing environmental mysteries of this century. In 2007, entire colonies of honey bees began to abruptly disappear, first in the US, then in Europe.

Though they have survived fires, insect outbreaks and logging, the forests of Europe may now face their biggest challenge ever: climate change.

The timber industry currently wastes huge amounts of precious wood by-products like chips, shavings and sawdust that could otherwise be put to use. European researchers, with the support of EU funding, are finding new ways to reduce waste.

The workshop Communicating the Bioeconomy is part of the European Commission’s actions to promote the Bioeconomy and to engage key stakeholders in the debate at European and national level.

European scientists have achieved a 50% reduction in the amount of energy used in the production of plants grown in a greenhouse.

Malta-based Trade Finance specialist FIMBank recently brought together the CEOs of all its international factoring JV to discuss corporate strategy and opportunities for growth within the context of the current global economic and financial scenario.

Open-ocean shark populations throughout the world are dropping, not only due to overfishing but also from inadvertent captures by fishermen in search of tuna.

Faster and cheaper screening tests for contaminants in honey are set to be on the market this year thanks to CONffIDENCE, a research project that has received €5.8 million in EU-funding.

Tomorrow’s plastics could come from an unusual source: slaughterhouse waste. European researchers are developing new approaches to produce biodegradable plastics from the waste products without using fossil fuels.

Global Finance, a leading global corporate finance monthly magazine with over 200,000 readers internationally, has proclaimed FIMBank as the Best Trade Finance Bank in Malta for 2012.

The PLAYMOBIL FunPark was once again the scene of the magical Breakfast with Santa event, one of the most popular activities amongst Maltese children and families during the holiday season, and Santa Claus’ last stop before heading to Lapland.

Malnutrition is the cause of about a third of the annual child death toll and of 20% of death during pregnancy worldwide. For a healthy diet, it is not only the quantity of food that counts, but also its quality.

More than 100 theatre visitors who booked their theatre performance tickets on www.teatrumanoel.com.mt have received 50% cash back on their theatre tickets purchased, just in time for Christmas.

Bluefin tuna is so highly prized that it is being driven to extinction from the high seas due to intensive and often illegal fishing.

The Sustaining Ethical Aquaculture Trade (SEAT) project was nominated for the Times Higher Education Award for International Collaboration of the Year.

Over the past weeks and months, PLAYMOBIL’s Santa Claus figure has been reaching the shelves of toy shops around the world. However, few of us know that all these figures are made in Malta and that the Santa Claus figure is still assembled by hand.

FIMBank plc and London Forfaiting Company Ltd, both forming part of the FIMBank Group, were recently declared Best Factoring House and Best Boutique Trade Finance Institution respectively by international trade finance magazine Global Trade Review.

- In an effort to improve access for rock climbers within the popular climbing site of Wied il-Għasel, the Malta Rock Climbing Club (MRCC) recently uncovered sections of a staircase which forms part of the Victoria Lines defensive wall.

Krzysztof Maksymowicz of Poland was awarded the first prize for his photograph ‘dress maker’ at the Healthy Workplaces Summit in Bilbao.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, FIMBank plc, the Malta-based trade finance bank, and BICBANCO launched BRASILFACTORS to offer domestic and cross border factoring and complementary services to Brazilian corporates and SMEs.

PLAYMOBIL Malta recently hosted a visit by representatives of German-speaking media organisations.

A national jury comprising Dr. Angelo Chetcuti, Ian Busuttil Naudi, and Tony Tanti, will be responsible for assessing the entries and selecting the Maltese winning drawing in a pan-European competition on “Space and Aeronautics”.

Twenty-one tourist destinations from across Europe were awarded the title of ‘2011 European Destination of Excellence in Tourism and Regeneration of Physical Sites’ at a Gala Awards ceremony in Brussels on 27 September 2011.

The European Commission is inviting children aged 9 to 11 to participate in a drawing competition about ‘Space and Aeronautics’. The winners, one from each EU Member State, will have a Galileo Programme satellite named after them.

Miss World Malta Claire-Marie Busuttil recently presented the winner of the DSearch televoting competition, Mr. Gaetano Borg, with a holiday in Paris for two courtesy of the competition’s main sponsor Easisave.

The FIMBank Group has announced an after-tax profit of USD4.08 million for the six months ended 30 June 2011, an increase of over 20% when compared with USD3.39 million registered for the same period in 2010.

The contribution of the elderly to society and particularly the well being of future generations is the focus of an experimental project being undertaken at the PLAYMOBIL FunPark in Ħal Far.

Egypt Factors has appointed Mr. Hisham Haikal as the company's Managing Director.

The services provided by FIMBank plc and London Forfaiting Company Ltd, two companies within the FIMBank Group, have been acclaimed as the best in their categories by the readers of prestigious international publication, Trade & Forfaiting Review.

The Easisave team will be available throughout the Malta Jazz Festival to highlight the attributes of this innovative savings product and explain its relevance for investors seeking a higher interest on their savings.

FIMBank, Malta-based specialist trade finance Bank, will be sponsoring the conservation of the nine monuments which adorn the Maglio Gardens (Floriana), better known to the Maltese as “il-Mall”. The project will be coordinated by Din l-Art Helwa.

Professional and amateur photographers across Europe are invited to submit photographs of health and safety at the workplace.

Seven pan-European organisations and multinational companies from a range of public and private sectors, AEIP, CPME, Dupont, ECTA, EORNA, Golder Associates and UEPG, have joined EU-OSHA’s Healthy Workplaces Campaign on safe maintenance.

Women remain the main carers of children and the elderly in all Member States of the European Union despite various attempts to implement policies and actions that increase gender equality.