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ONDON — Oxford Semiconductor has appointed ActiveComp GmbH as its representative agent in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The company will support Oxford’s complete range of USB interface ICs, serial communication bridges, FireWire and USB storage ICs and FireWire audio controllers.

LONDON — Abacus Group has set up an Embedded Systems Group as a group-wide, pan-European centre of excellence to support customers in the development of embedded computing solutions based around Microsoft Embedded operating systems.
The group, which is focussed specifically on the retail, gaming, industrial automation and hospitality sectors, will work with customers in the U.K., Scandinavia, Benelux and Italy and provide a local single point of contact in their local market that unites the display and embedded computing expertise of Trident, the wireless communication technology of recently-acquired TDC and the Microsoft knowledge of Abacus Polar’s team.

Conformément aux anticipations formulées par le groupe Dane-Elec début mars, l'activité du 1er trimestre a été ralentie par une baisse significative du prix des mémoires Flash et a ainsi créé un phénomène d'attente chez les grands donneurs d'ordres, notamment aux Etats-Unis.Malgré ce contexte perturbé, l'activité Flash de Dane-Elec a enregistré sur cette période une croissance de 22 % et a représenté 65 % des ventes. L'activité DRAM a connu une baisse sur le trimestre de 59 % de son chiffre d'affaires, comparable à celle enregistrée au cours des trois trimestres précédents. Pour mémoire, l'activité DRAM au 1er trimestre 2005 avait été particulièrement élevée et constitue ainsi une base de comparaison défavorable.Enfin, le repositionnement depuis plusieurs trimestres d'Intervalle, l'activité de grossiste en France, semble porter ses fruits avec une croissance des ventes de 21 %.Au total, le groupe a ainsi réalisé un chiffre d'affaires de 47,9 M€ en recul de 13 % .Par zone géographique, l'Europe a connu une baisse limitée de ses ventes de - 1,8 %, les Etats-Unis - 24,7 % et l'Asie - 41,1 %.

The Swedish EMS provider NOTE reported strong sales and results turned to profit for its first quarter 2006.
April 26, 2006 11:34 (evertiq)
by: Jesper Olsson
The smaller sized Swedish EMS providers have during the last year reported tremendous results and now it seems like the larger ones is back in the game to. NOTE´s sales for its first quarter rose by 22.6% to reach 43 MEUR and the company´s result landed on a profit of about 1.3 MEUR which can be compared to the loss of nearly 5 MEUR for the same period last year.

Swedish EMS provider PartnerTech almost doubled its profit for its first quarter 2006. PartnerTech´s net turnover increased 35.9 percent to reach 69 MEUR and gave a profit of 2.33 MEUR after taxes.
April 26, 2006 16:39 (evertiq)
by: Jesper Olsson
PartnerTech´s international sales grew to reach 40 percent of the company´s total revenue which is a significant increase from last year´s 17 percent of total sales. PartnerTech saw a growth in all of the company´s business units but especially within medical that grew 105.4 percent from the last year. The largest increase was shown in the "Terminals/Machine Solutions" that in value grew by almost 15 MEUR.
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Foxconn today closed its staff negotiations in Finland that started in March. 295 employees will lose their jobs.

Some of the employees in Finland have agreed on moving to other of Foxconns plants abroad. Therefore the number of redundancies was lower than expected. Initially 400 jobs were planned to be removed. That number has now been adjusted to 295. The reason why Foxconn needed to reduce its staff in Finland was because a large part of the European mobile phone industry has transferred operations to Asia