HELSINKI, FINLAND — (Marketwire) — 03/06/13 — CGI Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A)(NYSE: GIB), a leading provider of information technology and business process services, and Neste Oil, a Finnish oil refining and marketing company, have signed an agreement where CGI will manage Neste Oil-s IT infrastructure environment for two additional years. CGI has been Neste Oil-s IT infrastructure partner since 2009.The renewed contract covers IT services for its employees across more than ten countries. CGI ma
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OSLO, NORWAY — (Marketwire) — 03/05/13 — CGI Group Inc., (NYSE: GIB)(TSX: GIB.A), a leading provider of information technology and business process services, is pleased to announce that Statoil has chosen to extend its Service Desk contract with CGI in Norway. The multifunctional Service Desk is used by Statoil-s 20,000 employees in 36 countries. The agreement is extended until 2016, with an optional one year extension until April 2017.For ten years, CGI has been responsible for delivering b
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PARIS, FRANCE — (Marketwire) — 03/04/13 — The Caisse nationale d-assurance vieillesse (CNAV) has selected CGI Group Inc. (NYSE: GIB)(TSX: GIB.A), a leading provider of information technology and business process services, to help upgrade its pension information system. The contract, which is valued at an estimated 5 million euros in total, is for one year and can be renewed twice, for a total of 36 months.The upgrade aims to improve service to pensioners and enable the system to rapidly adap
BUFFALO, NY — (Marketwire) — 03/01/13 — Rand Capital Corporation ("Rand") (NASDAQ: RAND)Rand Capital Corporation ("Rand") (NASDAQ: RAND) announced it has invested $6 million in portfolio companies during 2012 and ended the year with $29.8 million in portfolio investments, including $11.3 million in net unrealized appreciation.The December 31, 2012 net asset value of $25.8 million, or $3.90 per share, represents a $.06 per share increase from September 30, 2012, and a $.32
DARTMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA — (Marketwire) — 03/01/13 — Ultra Electronics Maritime Systems Inc. (UEMS) (LSE: ULE) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany. Under the contract, UEMS will provide conventional acoustic and seismic variants of sonobuoys. These sonobuoys were originally developed for anti-submarine warfare during the Cold War, but this application is quite different."Our g
MONTREAL, QUEBEC — (Marketwire) — 02/28/13 — CGI Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A) (NYSE: GIB), a leading provider of information technology and business process services, was recognized with both the Information Technology Industry Award as well as the Foreign Outbound – Global Award for the company-s acquisition of Logica plc. The award was presented by the Canadian Dealmakers during its gala last evening in Toronto.The Information Technology Industry Award recognizes the most outstanding transactio
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