ZUG, Switzerland, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Swiss Hawk AG's portfolio company Vitaboost International BV announced that it will start selling the Vitaboost Activator Multipack in supermarkets and drugstores starting from the 4th of March. Vitaboost started selling its Single Pack during December 2007. Today, Vitaboost Activator is available at Fitness First, Shell, D.A. Drugstores, Total, Texaco, Esso and BP. Vitaboost is growing rapidly and is expanding distribution on a daily basis. The main distribution channels for the Vitaboost products are: drugstores, supermarkets, fitness centres, pharmacies and petrol stations.

LONDON, March 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading Glaucoma Experts Act to Help Prevent Vision Loss as 50 Percent of Patients Remain Undiagnosed

LONDON, March 5 /PRNewswire/ --

On the first World Glaucoma Day (March 6, 2008), leading glaucoma experts globally are asking those who may be at risk of the condition not to leave their vision to chance - with a clear message that 50 percent of people with open-angle glaucoma and more than 50 percent of people with angle-closure glaucoma are unaware they have it.(1),(2) In addition, 50 percent remain untreated until a large amount of irreversible vision loss has already occurred.(1)

FRANKFURT/MAIN, Germany and TEANECK, New Jersey, March 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- T-Systems and Cognizant join forces to vigorously expand their businesses

Deutsche Telekom's enterprise customer division, T-Systems, and global IT services provider, Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), today announced that they have entered into a truly global Systems Integration alliance. The alliance is primarily aimed at catering to European corporations with global delivery requirements for system integration services. This unique partnership -- between a global delivery IT powerhouse and a European giant -- will enable customers to leverage the benefits of global delivery.

LONDON, March 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Mandate to Expand Internationally and Develop Product Range

Data Explorers, the specialist independent company that provides the global securities financing industry with analysis, monitoring and decision support tools, today announced the appointment of Donal Smith as Chief Executive Officer.

Smith becomes responsible for the day-to-day management of the Company, with the primary aim of expanding the business internationally and developing the product range available to existing and new customers. The company's founder, Mark Faulkner, will assume the role of Head of Innovation, and Chairman Bill Cuthbert will continue the development of strategic client relationships.

HOUSTON, March 5 /PRNewswire/ --

MADRID, Spain, March 5 /PRNewswire/ --

SolFocus today announced the appointment of Roberto de Diego Arozamena as Managing Director of SolFocus Europe, and Pedro Ladron de Guevara de Echavarria as Vice President and General Manager of the company's Tracking Systems Business Division. These appointments are crucial steps following the November election of the SolFocus Europe board of directors which includes business leader, economist, and Repsol Board member Paulina Beato and Germano Fanelli, Chairman of Arrow EMEASA. The announcement was made by company Chairman Gary D. Conley.

MILPITAS, California, March 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Appro to Support Renault's Drive for Performance in Formula 1 Racing

Appro (http://www.appro.com), a leading provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems, today announced that it has been awarded a contract for a 38TF Appro Xtreme-X(TM) Supercomputer for the ING Renault F1 Team Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Centre, a brand new modern technology-driven research facility designed to place Renault "in the pole position" in Formula 1 competition. This award marks another milestone for Appro's supercomputers in international HPC markets. The Appro Xtreme-X2 Supercomputer will be shipped and installed by Appro at the Renault F1 CFD Centre in the UK by the end of June, 2008.

PARIS and PRINCETON, New Jersey, March 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- A New Step Forward May Help Increase Appropriate Early Use of Plavix(R) by Simplifying Administration in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients

Sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) has issued a positive opinion recommending approval of the 300mg tablet of the antiplatelet Plavix(R) (clopidogrel bisulfate). This positive opinion from the CHMP needs to be ratified by the European Commission in the coming months before final approval.

SINGAPORE, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- ICIS pricing, http://www.icispricing.com/, the world's leading price reporting service for the global chemical industry, has launched a new daily Xylenes (Asia Pacific) report.

The daily Xylenes (Asia Pacific) report will offer daily spot assessments of isomer grade xylene and paraxylene (PX) written by an experienced aromatics team from ICIS pricing.

The section on isomer grade xylene includes spot CFR NE Asia and FOB Korea price assessments, while the portion dedicated to PX has spot CFR China, CFR Taiwan and FOB Korea price assessments.

A national database containing images of ballistic markings from all new and imported guns sold in the U.S. should not be created at this time, says a new report from the National Research Council. Such a database has been proposed to help investigators link ballistics evidence -- cartridge cases or bullets found at crime scenes -- to a firearm and the location where it was originally sold.

But given the practical limitations of current technology for generating and comparing images of ballistic markings, searches of such an extensive database would likely produce too many candidate "matches" to be helpful, the report says.