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Christophe Viatte Appointed as Chief Commercial Officer for airBaltic

February 5, 2014
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Press release, sourced by airBaltic Latvian airline airBaltic has appointed Christophe Viatte as Chief Commercial Officer. Mr Viatte will be responsible for leading airBaltic’s future commercial strategy. He will manage all commercial departments including sales, marketing, e-commerce, customer care, product, revenue management, network planning, cargo and partnerships. Martin Gauss, Chief  Executive Officer of airBaltic: “I...

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Baltic Fashion & Textile Riga 2014

October 31, 2013
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Baltic Fashion & Textile Riga 2014

Sourced by BT 1 To promote the development of the Baltic textile industry and to expand it to the international markets, the International Exhibition Company BT 1, the organisers of the Lithuanian textile fair “Baltic Textile & Leather” and the textile industry associations of Latvia and Lithuania have reached an agreement that, as of...

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Euros Hit The Latvian High Street

October 3, 2013
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Euros Hit The Latvian High Street

This week saw the start of Latvia’s dual pricing display. As of the 1st October all prices in shops in Latvia must be displayed in both euros and lats. Store receipts will also show both pricing of euros and lats, the currency conversion at the official lat-euro exchange rate of 1 euro per 0.702804...

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Latvia Leading Electronic Communications

September 6, 2013
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Latvia Leading Electronic Communications

October of this year half of all households in Latvia will access one of the fastest Internet services in the world – fibre optic Internet connection bandwidth up to 1 Gbit/s enabled by Lattelecom, the leading electronic communications service provider in Latvia. This speed upgrade is also likely to positively affect Latvia’s current position...

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Director of Fashion Department IED Moda Lab Roma Lara Aragno Gigli to speak at the conference “Fashion and Design: Trends and Perspectives” In Latvia

April 11, 2013
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Director of Fashion Department IED Moda Lab Roma Lara Aragno Gigli to speak at the conference “Fashion and Design: Trends and Perspectives” In Latvia

On 19th April, Kipsala International Exhibition Centre, in Latvia’s beautiful city Riga, will hold the international conference “Fashion and Design: Trends and Perspectives”, with participation of Lara Aragno Gigli who has been working with Armani and Prada and for over 10 years and has been a manager of the Italian high fashion label MiuMiu....

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Baltic Farmers Fire Up The Baltic Way

January 31, 2013
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Baltic Farmers Fire Up The Baltic Way

In order to ensure fair and equal representation for the Baltic’s at the next upcoming European Council meeting at which will be decided the EU agricultural budget for 2014 to 2020, an event is being planned by farmers in the Baltic States to light some 400 fires along the access roads to Via Baltica...

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