ASIANET: Daily Summary for Wednesday, September 26, 2001.

SHIZOUKA: A Japanese green tea ("o-cha") festival will be hosted by Shizuoka City, the centre of green tea production in Japan, from October 5 - 10. "O-Cha, which has been cultivated in Asia, is now a integral part of people's daily lives and has a great influence on cultures and the arts. Nowadays, with the beneficial functions and cultural values of O-Cha more widely known, people have been paying more attention to O-Cha", the organisers said today.

IRVINE: Key athletic footwear producer, Asics Tiger Corporation, today said it will begin producing and distributing sporting footwear, apparel and accessories in Brazil via a partnership with Azaleia - one of the world's five largest footwear manufacturers. "This new venture will help to continue the globalization of the ASICS(R)", the company said.

TORONTO: Sherritt International Corporation today said that Deutsche Bank Canada has abandoned its claim against the company, involving "no settlement, payment or admission of wrongdoing by Sherritt", according to a media release.

DUSSELDORF: A humble detergent factory grew into Henkel - an international group of companies with 64,000 employees in 75 countries, with sales of Euro 12.8 billion, the company celebrating 125 years said today.

HEIDELBERG: Graphic arts company, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, today reported its most successful fiscal year ever, citing its move into digital printing, the opening of the Print Media Academy and the advent of Dusseldorf's drupa trade fair. Sales rose by more than 15 per cent to Euro 5.3 billion (previous year: Euro 4.6 billion), the company said.

SANTA CLARA: Software distribution company, Stream Theory, has appointed Nissho Electronics Corporation as its reseller in Japan, the company said today. Nissho will also take equity in Stream Theory, a news release announced.

SUNNYVALE: Jungo Software Technologies will open a new office in Taipei to penetrate the broadband market in Southeast Asia, the company announced today. John Lin, "a seasoned veteran with extensive experience in aggressively growing a variety of highly successful companies in South East Asia, will be joining Jungo as the Managing Director for the Asia Pacific region", according to a company statement.

SYDNEY: Enterprise and service provides will be able to better protect their networks with the help of Netscreen Technologies latest firewall and VPN resilient software, Netscreen has announced.

MILPITAS: LSI Logic Storage Systems would make its fibre channel disk drives available for its MetaStor E-series storage system, supporting the storage of larger quantities of information, according to a news release issued today.

CARLSBAD: Callaway Golf Company today said that present executive vice president of marketing, Mr Ian Rowden, would be promoted to chief marketing officer, to incorporate his newly-created function of product management. He would manage four major product groups - drivers and woods, irons, wedges and putters, licensing and accessories, and golf balls, according to a media release.

OAKBROOK TERRACE: Apropos Technology today named Mr Vincent Ho as vice president, Asia-Pacific. Mr Ho will develop and drive a business strategy to increase Apropos' market share and revenue objectives, the company said.

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