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Northgate picks up £31m schools contract
Hemel Hempsted-based Northgate Information Solutions has won a five-year contract to provide ICT services to Northern Ireland primary schools worth £... Read More
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Alizyme surges following placing
Gastro-pharmaceutical specialists, Alizyme announced a placing at a 5 per cent market premium, raising £14.5m before expenses. The vote of confidence... Read More
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£300m expansion for care home operator
An Essex care home operator, whose homes include state of the art facilities like cinemas, has announced a £300m investment drive.Billericay based... Read More
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US deal for PanGenetics
Melbourn Science Park-based, PanGenetics has signed a deal with US company, Schering Plough that could be worth up to £26m ($50m.)PanGenetics, which... Read More
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Council rejects growth plans for existing Stansted runway
Leading business representatives have slammed Uttlesford District Council’s decision to refuse planning permission for increased capacity at Stansted... Read More
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TTP a hot contender for Innovation award
NEW ENTRY-East of England Business Awards 2006The Technology Partnership (TTP), a new entrant in the East of England Business Awards ‘Inno-vation,’... Read More
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Vidanti blazing an early trail in HD over IP
NEW ENTRY-East of England Business Awards 2006Formed in August 2005, Vidanti is blazing an early trail in the provision of pioneering software for... Read More
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DisplayLink CEO, Hamid Farzaneh
Backgrounder: DisplayLink in Cambridge designs chips which it says will power the “second display revolution.” The technology allows PC users to... Read More
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Region’s innovators seeking global change
Business Weekly has closely charted the progress of the succession of world-class ventures to be created by the former alumni of AT... Read More
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Peterborough on track to host its own university
Peterborough is on track to host its own university following plans by Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) to build a new £10 million university centre.... Read More
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Checking out China’s Yangtze River Delta
Six organisations in the East of England, last month, went on a trade mission to China and came back with more than £325,000 worth of business. The... Read More
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Herts firm helps Qatar gear up for Games
Hertfordshire-based firm Gearhouse Broadcast has installed the television and radio facilities for the world’s largest indoor sports venue, the 18-... Read More
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Backers pull plug on $50m financing for mining firm
Over 30 per cent was wiped off the value of Trans-Siberian Gold (TSG) after the company revealed backers are to pull their $50 million financing from... Read More
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Lloyds TSB funds Cobra expansion
Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets has provided a £4.2m funding facility to Cobra Beer to support its expansion into new markets. The Bangalore to Bedford... Read More
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NIAB broadens its commercial focus
The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) is to use a £5 million award from the NIAB Trust to lay the foundations for a profit-hungry... Read More
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Nano Centre thinking big as it looks to the commercial world
The University of Cambridge’s Nanoscience Centre is set to embark on a major commercial drive – including spinning out new ventures – as it seeks to... Read More
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Bourn to run in worldwide expansion
One of Cambridge’s inaugural biotech firms is preparing to take its clinical expertise into India and the emerging European countries to develop a... Read More
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Silverjet starts to take bookings
The M1 corridor’s new transatlantic business class airline, Silverjet, has begun to take US bookings for its service between New York and Luton after... Read More
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Care UK posts increase in revenues
Colchester’s Care UK posted an 18 per cent increase in revenues in a year which saw a breakthrough NHS contract, growth across the entire group and... Read More
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York Pharma predicts year of success
Hitchin-based, York Pharma, announced increased pre-tax losses of almost £6m which were in-line with management predictions, but expects a year of... Read More