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UKFast Voted the UK's Most 'Environmentally Friendly'

It is official - UKFast is the most fun and friendly place to work in the UK. - May 28, 2010 - UKFast

Cass Business School Team Wins Prestigious Insurance Research Award

Cass academics Professor Chris Parsons and Dr Stanley Mutenga, together with MSc Insurance & Risk Management alumnus Faisal Baluch, have won the 2010 Geneva Association/International Insurance Society research award. - May 28, 2010 - Cass Business School

REIDSteel Select Workspace to Control Project and Enquiry Documentation

Steel Contractor Purchases Core Workspace, Asset Management and Email Vault. - May 28, 2010 - Union Square Software

Free Supply Chain Exchange Hits the Market

B2B Express 2.0 from Perceptant (http://www.perceptant.com) is free to use for low message volumes and comes pre-configured with UN EDIFACT, ANSI ASC X12, TRADACOMS, EANCOM and ODETTE EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) messages, including their XML equivalents... - May 28, 2010 - Perceptant Limited

Ariens® Purchases Majority Shareholding of Countax

American-owned Ariens® Company purchased a majority shareholding of the Oxfordshire, United Kingdom-based ride-on mower manufacturer, Countax Ltd. - May 28, 2010 - Countax

Cruises.co.uk Reveals 38% of Cruise Passengers Prefer to Remove Automatic Tipping

www.Cruises.co.uk, UK’s largest cruise information site has found shocking results from a new poll conducted online for automatic gratuities charged on cruises. The cruise poll revealed that 38% of UK cruise passengers prefer to cancel automatic gratuities and like to tip only those who have... - May 27, 2010 - cruise.co.uk Ltd

Sea Island Coffee Launches Elite “Rarest Coffees” Range

Sea Island Coffee is introducing coffee drinkers to rare and exotic coffees from across the world. With these coffees the consumer gets more than just a bean, the coffee comes with a story. Some of the coffees introduced in this press release are: Jamaica Blue Mountain, Kopi Luwak, New Caledonia and Hawaii Kona. - May 27, 2010 - Sea Island Coffee

Park Air Systems Use the DeviceMaster-RTS 16 to Monitor and Control VHF Radios in the North Sea

Park Air Systems are using the DeviceMaster-RTS 16 from Comtrol Europe to remotely monitor and control air traffic control ground to air VHF radios around the North Sea. These radios provide the vital communications to helicopters transporting equipment and personnel to the gas and oil platforms in... - May 27, 2010 - Comtrol GmbH

UK Chancellor Prompts FHE Marketing Cost Reduction Strategies Launch

In response to George Osborne’s education spending announcement UK based Stefan Drew Associates has brought forward the launch of a marketing support programme designed to help colleges and training providers reduce marketing costs whilst improving effectiveness. Devised and tested in a... - May 27, 2010 - Stefan Drew Associates

Oxford PR Agency, BOTTLE PR, to Offer Annual Breast Screening to All Its PR Consultants

As BreastHealth UK appoints BOTTLE PR to launch its breast cancer screening services, the Oxford PR agency promotes the cause internally by providing annual breast screening as part of its benefits package. - May 27, 2010 - BOTTLE

Countax Project Runningblade Takes World Record

The world's fastest lawnmower, the Countax Project Runningblade sets a new land speed record of 87.833mph. - May 27, 2010 - Countax

"The GPS for Investing": New Online Personal Investing Service Makes Smart Investing Accessible

Spotlight Investing (www.spotlightinvesting.com) is a web service that helps individuals build customized investment portfolios. The service guides an investor through the portfolio construction process and helps them create an investable portfolio that is designed to meet their unique needs and objectives. It delivers an institutional-grade portfolio construction and analytics platform in a simple, step-by-step approach, accompanied by learning and help throughout. - May 27, 2010 - Spotlight Investing

Avoid Toxicity and Optimise Treatment with the Improved Lithium Kit from Randox

The new and improved Lithium kit from Randox is intended for the quantitative in vitro determination of Lithium in serum and is suitable for use on a wide range of clinical analysers. - May 27, 2010 - Randox Laboratories

Cambrionix is Pleased to Announce the Success of the Professional Hub Series A4 – ‘Large Capacity USB Station’

After selling this product to companies worldwide Cambrionix Ltd has received excellent feedback regarding the performance of the product. The capacity and manufacturing quality of the product has seen repeat orders for the 'A4' across the globe. One of Cambrionix's customers, Mimoco Inc, the... - May 27, 2010 - Cambrionix Ltd

Cambrionix Hails the Success of the Professional Hub Series A6 - Large Capacity Charge and Sync Station

Suitable for those customers needing to charge multiple USB products at one time, the large capacity charging station has 49 connectors to enable customers to charge USB products via a PC all at once. This avoids the need for a large number of dedicated charger devices. The hub is suitable for... - May 27, 2010 - Cambrionix Ltd

Jobs.co.uk Offers Free 2-Month Trial to All Recruiters

Jobs.co.uk reached Page One on Google in record time - only a month after going live - and has maintained it's position since. The site is to give recruiters a big taste of it's success by offering unlimited job postings onto Jobs.co.uk free of charge for two months up until the end of July. This is a genuine no-strings attached offer. - May 27, 2010 - Jobsco UK Ltd

Healthcare Company Doubles in Size After Relocating to Avanta Reading

A Swedish-based healthcare company, which recently relocated from London to Reading town centre, has already doubled in size. - May 27, 2010 - Avanta

Shirtworks Responds to Increased Demand for Customisable Branded Workwear with New Website Section

Shirtworks, a leading supplier of customisable clothing, has launched a new section on its website dedicated to customised workwear in response to increased demand for workwear from brands such as Dickies, Helly Hansen, Redhawk and Grafter. - May 27, 2010 - Shirtworks

Europe’s Largest Independently Owned Insurance Intermediary Selects PPM Studio as a Governance Solution for Their Project Portfolio and Application Lifecycle Management

SemanticSpace today announced that Towergate Partnership Ltd, a UK based insurance intermediary has selected PPM Studio to manage their end-to-end IT Project portfolio needs. With over 4,000 committed staff based across 100 UK offices, Towergate offers over 200 specialist insurance products,... - May 27, 2010 - PPM Studio

The Future of UK GAAP: ACCA Costs the Change

New report from global accountancy body shows what shift to international standards would look like on small business’ books. - May 27, 2010 - ACCA

Last Chance to Get Early Booking Discount for the Cloud Computing World Forum

There are only three days left to take advantage of the early booking discount and reserve you place at the Cloud Computing World Forum Conference - www.cloudwf.com – taking place from June 29 to July 1, 2010 at Olympia Conference Centre, London. The conference will provide a full... - May 27, 2010 - Cloud Computing World Forum

Offees Launches Its Services : Commercial Properties Listing Direct from Landords, No Broker, No Fees

A new direct marketing service for commercial properties has just opened its doors ; www.Offees.com Commercial Properties, no broker, no fees. Offees is a commercial property marketplace, allowing Landlords to share their availabilities with Companies in search of Office, Retail or Industrial... - May 27, 2010 - Offees

LDRA Integrates LDRA Tool Suite® with Wind River’s River Workbench and VxWorks

LDRA has integrated the LDRA tool suite with Wind River Workbench and VxWorks to form a single work environment for safety-critical apps. Using an Eclipse plug-in, full transparency is available between the tools, allowing Workbench developers direct access to LDRA static, dynamic and unit test capabilities or command-line control of WR tools. - May 27, 2010 - LDRA Software Technology

Postcode Anywhere MD Guy Mucklow Joins Board of Intellect

Entrepreneur joins list of prominent technologists; aims to “represent interests of small to medium business.” - May 26, 2010 - PCA Predict

Low Carbon Building Programme Early Closure - Comment from Nu-Heat

The Government has closed the LCBP grants programme. - May 26, 2010 - Nu-Heat

The Holiday Ferret and Link-optimise Join Forces

Recently, Link-optimise and The Holiday Ferret joined forces to focus on marketing The Holiday Ferret via social media, and SEO means. The Holiday Ferret feels that this was a necessary and important step in the development of the company. - May 26, 2010 - The Holiday Ferret

Carlsberg England Team Talk Challenge: Can You Beat the Celebrities?

When Carlsberg launched the England Team Talk challenge, they didn’t expect so many celebrities to take part. As the official beer of the England football team, Carlsberg is giving fans the chance to really get behind the team by recording a rousing team talk – with the chance to meet stars of the England squad. As well as thousands of England football fans, celebrities such as Darren Gough, Trevor Nelson and Kyran Bracken have recorded their motivational team talks. - May 26, 2010 - Carlsberg

Livingston Autoparts Launches New E-Shop

Motor factor expands into retail sales with parts & accessories e-commerce site powered by MAM Software's Autonet Retail solution - May 26, 2010 - MAM Software

Animat Rubber Dairy Flooring Now Available in the UK from Intershape

Animat Interlock Rubber Flooring is used by dairy farmers worldwide to cover hard, slippery concrete floors with a safe, comfortable surface which mimics natural pasture. Livestock equipment supplier Intershape has just been appointed their exclusive UK distributor. Made in Canada from 100%... - May 26, 2010 - Intershape Ltd

WebCertain Announces International Partnership with IMN

Multilingual search marketing agency teams up with content-driven e-communications company. - May 26, 2010 - WebCertain

Snow-Search Japan Wins IPPY Award

WSG Media's latest title, Snow-search Japan, has won the Gold Medal in the best Travel Guidebook category at the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY’s). - May 25, 2010 - WSG Media

Global Missile Defence Market Worth $9.4bn - New Market Research on ASDReports.com

The new 'Missiles Market 2010-2020' report available on ASDReports.com, analyses the global market for missiles. The report calculates that in 2010 the global market for missiles will amount to over $9.4bn. Missiles remain at the core of defence acquisitions. After all, these are what provide... - May 24, 2010 - ASD Media BV

Military Communications Market Worth $15.2bn - New Market Research on ASDReports.com

The worldwide military communications market was worth a total of $15.2bn in 2009 with continuing demand in the global marketplace from 2010 onwards, new market research available on ASDReports.com. Modern armed forces operating on the network-centric battlefield of the future will depend on... - May 24, 2010 - ASD Media BV

Global Market for Maritime Security $15.4bn in 2010 - New Market Research on ASDReports.com

For decades maritime piracy on the high seas has been an almost accepted aspect of international trade. However, increasingly audacious attacks on high value assets such as larger oil tankers have changed the outlook. When pirates hijack vessels such as an oil-tanker carrying 2 million barrels of... - May 24, 2010 - ASD Media BV

Barcelo Hotels UK Names Apprentice Chef of the Year 2010

20-year-old James Waters recently scooped the prestigious ‘Chef of the Year’ award at the Barcelo Apprentice Chef Academy (BACA) graduation ceremony. - May 24, 2010 - Barcelo Hotels & Resorts, UK

Sani Resort Builds New Church in Halkidiki Greece

Sani Resort on Halkidiki’s azure coastline has long been a popular wedding destination for UK couples looking to tie the knot abroad. Now the resort has taken the extra step of building its very own church within its landscaped grounds. - May 24, 2010 - Sani Resort

Build Outbound Links with a New WordPress Plugin from Verdant Industries

Released today is a new plugin for WordPress that takes the pain out of building outbound links; Blogroll Builder. - May 24, 2010 - Verdant Industries Ltd.

Car Loan Finance in the UK Has a New Player

A new website has been added to the car loan and insurance market of the UK, “Car Loan Adviser.” Supported and backed by Carlyle Finance and the popular FirstRand bank. - May 24, 2010 - Carlyle Finance

Print Supplier Print Express Install Prestigious HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press; Relaunch Website

South Ruislip, England, 20th May 2010: Veteran print supplier Print Express has successfully installed a state-of-the-art HP Indigo 7000 digital printing press at its South Ruislip premises. To coincide, the company has re-launched its e-retail website. - May 23, 2010 - Printerinks.com

Risk in Business Intelligence Projects – Inspirational and Beneficial

TAH bucks the trend once again and will be asking business leaders to embrace risk in Business Intelligence initiatives, at a London Business Intelligence Round Table - May 23, 2010 - TAH Limited

New Analysis of UK Parliamentary Language from 1935 to 2010 Demonstrates an Increase in the Use of Jargon Terminology

Using raw data from parliamentary debates, the Content Strategy consultancy Contentini has compiled a series of analytical charts that highlight the important trends and priorities of various UK administrations over the past 75 years. Key trends include: An increased use of the word... - May 23, 2010 - Contentini

eRepublik.com License the EGASS Solution from Network Media Services

Network Media Services is extremely proud and excited to announce that multiplayer strategy game operator “eRepublik.com” has chosen their affiliate management solution (egass) to power its online affiliate program. eRepublik.com’s Marketing Manager, Raul de Salazar said... - May 22, 2010 - Network Media Services Ltd

DMC Software Credit Heavy Investment in Human Resources for Excellent Customer Service Levels

In order to maintain excellent levels of customer service, DMC Software, leading Sage Business Partner, has invested heavily in recruitment for its professional services team and the wider business. Mike Ramsay, Managing Director of DMC Software, said “As a business DMC Software places a... - May 22, 2010 - DMC Software Solutions

RocSearch - Driving CSR in the Corporate Arena

RocSearch India launched its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative in early 2007. After contributing to several initiatives by well known social organizations, RocSearch tied up with SOS Children’s Village (www.soscvindia.org) in the year 2009. As part of this tie-up, the company... - May 22, 2010 - RocSearch India Private Limited

Green Aircraft Tax Misses the Mark

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) – www.bifa.org – backs informed aviation commentators who have described a possible "plane tax" as an ill conceived proposal that will further damage an industry that is already on its knees. Furthermore, and importantly, it will do nothing to uphold the UK’s competitive edge as a major hub for international carriers serving Europe. - May 22, 2010 - British International Freight Association