Sentences with phrase «icelandic companies»

The conservation and welfare groups have identified specific Icelandic companies as potential targets for trade sanctions, including major seafood industry players directly tied to Iceland's whaling industry.

To ensure that this issue continues to receive the highest level of attention, I direct: (1) relevant U.S. delegations attending meetings with Icelandic officials and senior Administration officials visiting Iceland to raise U.S. concerns regarding commercial whaling by Icelandic companies and seek ways to halt such action; (2) Cabinet secretaries to evaluate the appropriateness of visits to Iceland depending on continuation of the current suspension of fin whaling; (3) the Department of State to examine Arctic cooperation projects, and where appropriate, link U.S. cooperation to the Icelandic government changing its whaling policy and abiding by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (4) the Departments of Commerce and State to consult with other international actors on efforts to end Icelandic commercial whaling and have Iceland abide by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (5) the Department of State to inform the Government of Iceland that the United States will continue to monitor the activities of Icelandic companies that engage in commercial whaling; and (6) relevant U.S. agencies to continue to examine other options for responding to continued whaling by Iceland.

DeCODE Genetics, the Icelandic company that made a name for itself with its personalized medicine work before running into a financial mud pit, tried to be optimistic today about its future.

The $ 1,000 genome — brought to you by CliffsNotes Heads up, Christmas shoppers: Icelandic company deCODE Genetics has launched a new service that, for a mere $ 985, will take your FedExed cheek swab and scan the enclosed DNA for a sprinkling of genetic variations linked with 20 or so diseases, as well as ancestry and physical traits such as eye color (in case you don't have a mirror handy).

Bionic Body has also opened up many new doors for Edgard: the 30 - year - old bodybuilder is both a sponsored Myprotein athlete and an ambassador for Ossur, an Icelandic company specializing in noninvasive orthopedic equipment and prosthetics.

The Icelandic company's long - serving CEO Hilmar Veigar tells PCGI about the impact the firm has had on the games market

Geely is a shareholder ($ 45.5 - million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International (CRI), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO2 emissions sourced from a local thermal... Read more →

Digital CC started exploring alternative energy sources several months ago and, in August 2014, entered a multi-year hosting and power supply contract with an Icelandic company.

Mure VR, an Icelandic company, has found a way to integrate virtual reality with your work with the introduction of Breakroom.

Not exact matches

The Guardian reports that Gunnlaugsson co-owned a British Virgin Islands — registered company called Wintris Inc., which reportedly held shares worth nearly $ 4 million in three Icelandic banks that collapsed during the financial crisis of 2008.

At Icelandic Provisions, we are the only company in the U.S. that has access to these cultures because of our partnership with the oldest and largest dairy farmer cooperative in Iceland.

Icelandic Glacial is proud to be certified as carbon neutral by The Carbon Neutral Company which independently calculates and verifies our carbon footprint.

As a result, Icelandic Glacial is the world's first certified Carbon Neutral bottled water for both the product and the company's operations.

The line will likely be distributed through the Anheuser - Busch system, following the just - announced partnership between Bowery parent company Golden West Food Group and Icelandic Water Holdings, which moves its Icelandic Glacial bottled water on A-B trucks.

Icelandic Glacial recently landed new distribution at The Ingles Markets, Shaw's, Homeland Stores, Kum & Go, Love's Travel Stops, Yesway, and ampm, according to the company.

The deal, which was finalized two weeks ago, is the first step in turning Icelandic Glacial into a multi-brand global beverage company, according to CEO Reza Mirza.

With Icelandic Glacial, the company plans to first introduce the brand to high - end channels, later expanding into major convenience stores such as CVS.

Mirza noted that he the company was «very happy» with its partners at the beer conglomerate, which owns nearly 20 percent of Icelandic Glacial, and that its first option is always to work with existing distribution partners.

LOS ANGELES, CA (July 12, 2017)-- Premium, naturally - alkaline spring water brand, Icelandic Glacial ™, announced today a massive partnership with international trading company Golden Field ® for distribution throughout China.

We take great pride in running an environmentally friendly company, and since 2007, Icelandic Glacial has worked with The CarbonNeutral ® Company, a leading carbon emissions consultant to maintain a net - zero carbon foocompany, and since 2007, Icelandic Glacial has worked with The CarbonNeutral ® Company, a leading carbon emissions consultant to maintain a net - zero carbon fooCompany, a leading carbon emissions consultant to maintain a net - zero carbon footprint.

Even with the new additions to the Icelandic Glacial portfolio, Mirza said that the premium naturally alkaline water line would remain the «engine» driving towards the goal of becoming a multi-brand beverage company.

Meanwhile, Icelandic Glacial's glass bottle offerings, introduced in 2016, have been a booming success for the company in hotels and restaurants.

Icelandic Water Holdings, the parent company of premium water brand Icelandic Glacial, has entered into a partnership with Golden West Food Group Inc. to collaborate on marketing, sales and distribution for the latter's two beverage brands, Bowery Coffee Co. and the forthcoming KÖE Kombucha.

Renewable Under the direction of The CarbonNeutral ® Company, Icelandic Glacial purchases through investment in bonafide renewable energy products throughout the world.

Icelandic Glacial ™ has worked with The CarbonNeutral ® Company, a leading carbon emissions consultant, since 2007.

Under the guidance of The CarbonNeutral Company, Icelandic Glacial takes several steps to leave the smallest carbon footprint possible.

Last April, news surfaced that Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, the then prime minister, and his wife owned Wintris, an off - shore company that held debt from failed Icelandic banks — a fact he failed to disclose upon entering parliament in 2009.

However, company spokesman Edward Farmer says that whoever ends up buying the data is «immaterial» to its security because the conditions under which it is held are dictated by Icelandic and European data protection law.

Starting tomorrow the Nasdaq will no longer list the stock of deCODE Genetics, the troubled Icelandic genomics company that declared bankruptcy in November.

Researchers, medical ethicists, and data - protection specialists in many countries lobbied the Icelandic government last year not to pass a law giving a genetics company access to the health records of the entire country (Science, 1 January, p. 13).

Now a second company, called UVS — after Urdur, Verdandi, and Skuld, three witches who according to old Icelandic sagas determine human fate — will compete with deCODE.

In December 1998, the Icelandic parliament approved the creation of the national health database (Science, 1 January 1999, p. 13), and last month the health ministry put one company, called deCODE, in charge — a move that engendered heated opposition.

In this study, deCODE used its population - wide genealogy database and proprietary statistical tools to determine the parent of origin of a number of SNPs in some 40,000 Icelandic participants in the company's gene discovery programs.

But deCODE can track the parental origin of virtually any SNP in the genome of the tens of thousands of Icelandic participants in the company's gene discovery work.

It's perhaps significant that the Russian climber, Anatoli Boukreev, a mountaineer known for climbing without oxygen and strikingly well played by the Icelandic actor Ingvar Eggert Siggurosson, worked for Fisher's company rather than Hall's.

They were joined by numerous international rights managers from Spanish, German, Icelandic, British and American publishing companies, who set up meetings at the Publishers Rights Corner (PRC), which was created in 2016 at the request of many customers.

Teatime Games, the Icelandic social games company, has announced a $ 7.5 million Series A funding round and a prior $ 1.6 million Seed round, both led by Index Ventures, a venture capital firm that has backed some of the world's most successful games companies including King, Roblox and Supercell.

In 2013, the Icelandic shipping company, Eimskip, moved their North American headquarters to Portland.

Using Facebook Live, the company set out to wish every single Icelandic resident

Using Facebook Live, the company set out to wish every single Icelandic resident Gleðilega hátíð, or «Happy holidays.»

Timed with the latest meeting of the commission, in Slovenia, the nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency has issued «Slayed in Iceland,» a fresh critique of Iceland's whaling operation, which is all done by one business, Hvalur, with strong financial and operational ties to HB Grandi, a large Icelandic international seafood company.

Just before President Obama visited the Arctic in August, an Icelandic seafood company quietly sent 1,800 tons of frozen meat hacked from slaughtered endangered fin whales through the Arctic to Japan.

Both companies wrote to the Icelandic government to urge it to reconsider the decision and to inform the government that the companies do not trade with businesses linked to the commercial killing of whales.

In his bid to create a viable market for fin whale products in Japan, he has used the resources of another company for which he serves as Chair of the Board — Icelandic fishing giant HB Grandi.

At the center is Icelandic fin whaling company, Hvalur.

EVE Online's creators, the Icelandic indie game company CCP (my countrymen!)