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EuroWire – November 2007 18
english corporate news
View over the Sikora business premises in Bremen ▲
In Brief . . .
CableOrganizer.com, one of the leading
purveyors of cable, wire and equipment
management-related products for use in
business and at home, has been named
in the 26th annual Inc 500 list of fastest
growing private companies in America, in
the September issue of Inc magazine.
The company ranked in the top 25%
(126th) of companies named on the
coveted list having realised astounding
three-year sales growth of 1,413%!
Shattering sales forecasts year after year,
earlier this year CableOrganizer.com
landed a coveted spot on Internet Retailer
magazine’s ‘Top 500 Retail websites’ list
– the one and only ranking of America’s
500 largest e-retail businesses based on
2006 online sales.
CableOrganizer.com Inc – USA
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Verlinde Technologies has appointed
Simon Rothechild as business develop-
ment manager for the UK and Ireland.
Mr Rothechild was formerly UK sales
manager for the company.
Verlinde – France
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Cable market analysis group, CRU, UK, has reported that the fibre optic cable
market has recovered from the collapse of 2001.
CRU’s wire and cable team, which includes newly acquired KMI Research, has
documented double-digit growth in demand for 2005 and 2006.
Fibre demand in 2007 is likely to exceed the previous peak year, 2001. Quarter-by-
quarter analysis of markets for fibre and cable is given in CRU’s bi-monthly Optical
Fibre and Fibre Optic Cable Monitor.
The recent surge has been driven by local-loop upgrades, mainly to provide faster
Internet access and new services, such as IPTV.
CRU concludes that the current rise in the market is more solidly based than the
telecom bubble that burst in 2001.
In the last boom too many competing telecom carriers invested to serve the
same geographic markets. Carriers are now funding network upgrades without
excessive borrowing, keeping capital expenditures within safer limits.
New in-depth reports from CRU-KMI, such as Worldwide Optical Fibre and Cable
Markets and Markets for Fibreoptics in Broadband Access Networks, show that
FTTx (fibre to the curb, home or node) will account for most demand growth over
the next five years.
In North America, where AT&T and Verizon have massive projects underway,
FTTx already accounts for more than half of single-mode demand. In other regions,
FTTx is a smaller percentage of demand, but is growing fast.
The amount of fibre installed for FTTx globally will increase with 23% CAGR from
2006 to 2010. This contrasts with only 3% CAGR for fibre in other applications.
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l Record levels for fibre optics in 2007 – CRU
Expansion is the way
forward for Sikora
Sikora’s purchasing department has just
moved into a new building adjoining
the company’s headquarters in Bremen,
Germany. The move follows the move in
January which gave production, research
and development 1,000m2 more space.
The move follows a 15% increase in
turnover compared to the previous
year. The expansion in the measuring
and control technology sector follows
an increase in contract volume and
workforce.
Sikora has increasingly invested in
research in order to meet all requirements
for powerful and innovative products. The
success is already reflected in various new
measuring devices such as X-Ray 8000
NXT, Laser 2003 XY, Centreview 800 or the
processor-based system Ecocontrol 1000.
Sikora AG – Germany
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