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Regionally the company has investedover 23 ppmCreamed spinach 2 ppmSoft drinks up to 1Thom Mocarsky Copyright Business Wire 2009I ainrsquot even going to think about no future hereThe bases were loaded with Kenny Boyer the batterBut that was before the game passed me byAs a coachthat's exactly what you're looking forPotential Suitors Bears Rams Browns 11I wouldn ot be surprised if this happenedwaloThe Slovak gas company SPP, whose pipeline also carries 20percent of the European Union's annual gas consumption, isdelivering gas from its storages to households, hospitals andschools. Jahnatek, however, reiterated on Friday that some largeclients were drawing too much gas from the grid and warned thesystem may collapse if they did not cut their consumption. Jahnatek also said Slovakia had some 1.9 billion cubicmetres of gas in its storages, but that the pipeline system wasnot able to distribute more than 22 million cubic metres a dayand the country therefore needed gas from the outside. (Reporting by Martin Santa, writing by Peter Laca; editing byAndrew Dobbie) Stocks Russia. 
Panasonic, LG aim to boost flatscreen TV sales 50 pct Stocks LG aims for rise in plasma TV sales by 7 to 25 pct Some analysts sceptical of growth forecasts in downturn Tokyo Electron tool orders sink 98 pct By Sachi Izumi and Rhee So-eui TOKYO/SEOUL, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Japanese electronics makerPanasonic Corp (6752.T) said it aims to boost sales offlatscreen TVs by 50 percent, joining rival LG Electronics Incin setting bold growth targets in a slowing market. The world's largest plasma TV maker said on Friday it aimsto sell 15.5 million plasma and liquid crystal display (LCD) TVsin the year starting in April, up from estimated 2008/09 salesof 10.3 million as it increases product line-ups and expandSsales channels. The target, set in tandem with plans to cut investments ontwo new flat-screen TV plants by about $1.5 billion by 2012,would put Panasonic well ahead of estimated market growth ifachieved. It echoed ambitious projections earlier on Friday from LG,which said it aims to raise its LCD TV sales, where it ranksthird in the world, by 50 percent to 18 million sets this yearand its plasma TV sales by 7 to 25 percent to between 3 and 3.5million. ID:nSEO349960 One Korean analyst said LG's targets, viewed as part of astrategy to steal a march on Japanese rivals being hurt by thestrong yen, were unrealistic Samsung, which ranks No. 1 in LCD TVs and second in plasmaTVs, gave a more subdued forecast off at least 26 millionflat-screen TVs sold in 2009, Yonhap News reported on Thursday.That would be a growth of 10 percent for LCD TVs and 33 percentfor plasma from last year. ID:nSEO96022 Research firm DisplaySearch has forecast the LCD TV marketto grow 17 percent in 2009 in unit terms, slowing from a 29percent increase in 2008, while it sees plasma TV growth of just5 percent in 2009 compared with a 24 percent rise in 2008.
Weakening economies around the world have been eating into demand for flat TVs, digital cameras and other electronicsproducts, with Hitachi Ltd (6501.T) Japan's top electronicsmaker expecting to miss its LCD TV sales target by as much as10 percent in 2008/09. ID:nnT94048 'CUT-THROAT COMPETITION' Panasonic shares closed down 1.3 percent and LG shares fell3.0 percent. The company warned on Friday it would be hard to reach allof its targets under its mid-term plan, and said it was cuttinginvestment on flat TV plants under construction in Hyogoprefecture, near Osaka, by 23 percent. "We will aim for a bigger growth than the (flatscreen)industry as we cope with a slowdown in the market," Panasonicpresident Fumio Ohtsubo told a briefing "We hope to win the cut-throat competition ... We will notconsider the planned cut in investment as a negative move." Along with slowing demand, margins on TVs are also underpressure, with prices plummeting as makers and retailers try toclear piling inventories. "Panasonic is trying to step on both the accelerator and thebrake at the same time," said Mizuho Securities analyst RyosukeKatsura. "It is pushing hard to gain market share at the sametime that it trims down, most likely by consolidating itsfactories around the world.
"The strategy it is mapping is one aimed at springing backto growth when the economy does recover. But that's not going tobe visible any time soon." Katsura warned that Panasonic could plunge into a net lossnext business year, against a 30 billion yen profit that thecompany expects in 2008/09 Analysts were also sceptical of LG's targets. "LG's target is unrealistic under current market conditions.U.S. consumers are buying digital signal converters (for theiranalogue televisions) instead of new TVs, even with hugediscounts," Park Sang-hyun, an analyst at HI Investment &Securities. (Additional reporting by Mayumi Negishi, Nathan Layne, andKiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Edwina Gibbs, John Stonestreet) ($191.23 Yen) Stocks. Hijmans for and on behalf of JCK Holdings Limited Company dealt inFabian Romania Limited Class of relevant security to which the dealings being disclosed relate (Note 2)Ordinary sharesDate of dealing 08 January 2009 2.INTERESTS, SHORT POSITIONS AND RIGHTS TO SUBSCRIBE(a)Interests and short positions (following dealing) in the class of relevantsecurity dealt in (Note 3)LongShort Number ()Number () (1) Relevant securities (2) Derivatives (other than options)(3) Options and agreements to purchase/sell Total(b)Interests and short positions in relevant securities of the company, otherthan the class dealt in (Note 3) Class of relevant security:LongShort Number ()Number () (1) Relevant securities (2) Derivatives (other than options)(3) Options and agreements to purchase/sell Total(c)Rights to subscribe (Note 3) Class of relevant security:Details3.DEALINGS (Note 4) (a)Purchases and sales Purchase/saleNumber of securitiesPrice per unit (Note 5) Sale 8,925,926 sharesEUR 1.00 (b)Derivatives transactions (other than options) Product name, Long/short (Note 6)Number of securities (Note 7)Price per unit (Note 5) e.g.