CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, September 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Essilor is pursuing its growth strategy in Eastern Europe's markets by acquiring a majority stake in Omega Optix. The company is a leading operator in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where its prescription laboratories generate total revenue of more than EUR10 million.

In addition to ensuring the long-term viability of a recognized market player, the acquisition will enable Essilor to offer local customers an alternative lineup of products and services, thereby driving fast growth in a rapidly developing market.

The current Omega Optix management team will remain in place and continue to operate the company independently.

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MELBOURNE, Australia, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- World's Richest Photographic Competition Proudly Supported and Sponsored by "Polaroid" "The Victorian Government" and "Clean Ocean"

The International Aperture Awards on-line photography competition is open to ALL professional and aspiring photographers, photographic students and anyone with a hidden gift for capturing a winning photograph. Enter up to four images from the following categories for your chance to win - People and Portrait; Sport; Landscape; Science and Nature; Commercial/Advertising; Abstract/Illustrative; Photojournalism/Press.

BASEL, Switzerland, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- 100+ Abstracts on Roche Medicines Feature at This Congress

More than 100 Roche abstracts have been accepted for the biggest cancer congress in Europe, the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), which opens in Stockholm on Friday (12th September). The Roche abstracts include the latest data on Avastin (bevacizumab), Herceptin (trastuzumab), Tarceva (erlotinib), Xeloda (capecitabine) and the new breast cancer drug, pertuzumab, which is currently in phase III trials. Roche's pipeline drug IGF-1R, which is in early development, will also feature.

Key presentations include:

SAN FRANCISCO, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Market Momentum Growing for VoiceCon's European Launch Where Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, KPN, Siemens and Royal Dutch Shell to Keynote

VoiceCon Amsterdam(R), produced by TechWeb, today announced its keynote and exhibitor lineup, which demonstrate the market's enthusiastic reception to the European launch of the VoiceCon brand. VoiceCon Amsterdam will be held 14-16 October at the Amsterdam RAI. Registration and conference details are available at http://www.voicecon.eu.

LONDON, September 9 /PRNewswire/ --

The 13 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pumped an average 32.81 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in August, a Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials showed September 9. This is 40,000 b/d higher than the July production of 32.77 million b/d.

Excluding Iraq, the 12 members bound by OPEC output agreements produced an average 30.41 million b/d, the survey showed. This is 100,000 b/d more than July's 30.31 million b/d and some 737,000 b/d greater than OPEC's 29.673 million b/d output target.

ANTWERP, Belgium, September 9 /PRNewswire/ -- N.V. Universal Bright from Belgium introduces TanBright+(TM), a new Professional Teeth Whitening System, in Russia at one of the world's top dental exhibitions: the Dental-Expo in Moscow. Link: http://www.dental-expo.ru/ from 9 to 12 September 2008.

TanBright+(TM) is a new unique user-friendly teeth whitening system for the dental market. With its superior results (up to 8 shades lighter) and faster procedure time, dentists experience it as one of the most time- efficient quality teeth whitening systems available on the market today.