The focus would be on both established and recently graduated unemployed professionals as well as experienced women contractors and business owners in the identified sectors.

It is critical that skills acquisition should be fast-tracked and that mentoring relationships between older professionals and younger entrants should be cemented.

Among the logistics arranged for successful participants are accommodation, health insurance, an allowance and return fares.

We are pleased to have found a partner that shares our business focus and complements our skills so well. We look forward to bringing more products and services to the marketplace in the future.

'Pharmacia' captures the focus of the new organization as an exceptionally fast-growing core pharmaceuticals business in the top tier of the industry,

We think (acquiring Whistle) is a very important acceleration of our focus of bringing e-business to small businesses around the world.