The Importance of actively searching for the limits of our progress In a weekly column, alternately written by Lucien Engelen, Mary Fiers, Maarten Steinbuch, Carlo van de Weijer, and Tessie Hartjes, E52 tries to find out what the future will…
People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, E52 has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Amanda Sleze Country of origin: Latvia Work: PR…
Growth in this year will be another 20% VDL expects turnover to continue to grow in 2018 to approximately € 6 billion, a rise of 20 percent. All the divisions will contribute to this growth, President and CEO Willem van…
Thanks to a clever mix of high-tech, design and knowledge, Brainport Eindhoven’s position has become more powerful than ever in recent years. The region has thus become a leader in the areas that are seen worldwide as crucial to solving…
The headquarters will remain in Eindhoven and the branch office in California is still under development, but Additive Industries also thinks it’s time to get a foothold in Asia. To achieve this, it will build a Process & Application Development Center in Singapore…
Famous guitar maker struggles with itself and its Philips-heritage The world-famous, more than 100 years old American guitar maker Gibson only has five months to prevent bankruptcy. If this does not succeed, it will also mean the end for Philips…
For the first time, the voting guide for the municipal council elections are not only available in Dutch, but also in English. The guide gives you 28 statements, with which you can agree or disagree. Based on your answers, the…
Eneco Group acquires the Dutch sales and supply activities of Uniper Benelux. Uniper is active in the Netherlands with some 200 employees in Eindhoven under the E.ON brand name. Eneco will gain around 200,000 private and corporate energy customers as…
The concept ‘Wurmpie Wurmpie‘ by Shasco Laugs (Fontys Applied Science) and Raf Errui (alumnus Communication Fontys University of Applied Science) is one of the four research projects recently funded by Fontys. The financial impulse (€25,000) is intended to investigate the…
Qualcomm has increased its bid for NXP from USD 39 billion to USD 44 billion. This amounts to $127.50 per share, where $110 was offered earlier. In addition, the takeover can now proceed if Qualcomm can acquire 70% of the…