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Easyart.com is the UK's largest online retailer of reproduction prints and limited edition art. It offers over 40, 000 fine art and photographic prints, with more being added every day, plus made-to-order picture framing. With a reputation for excellent customer service, Easyart sells to both consumer and business buyers. Since its launch in March 2000, there have been over 2 million visits to the Easyart website. Sales to the business market have been particularly encouraging. The company recently signed a contract to supply BUPA with framed prints for all their refurbished hospitals. There has also been a steady increase in sales into the healthcare sector, commercial and residential property sectors, the leisure industry plus commissions from interior designers. |
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MetaPack's mission is to make traditional supply chains more responsive to individual customer needs. We provide zero defect fulfilment that attracts, converts and retains valued customers at the lowest cost to serve. We are helping retailers to: extend range availability in smaller stores reduce the cost and improve the service of online fulfilment implement web-based ordering throughout retail offer the widest range of delivery options revolutionise services in shopping centres MetaPack works for companies such as Boots, British Land, GUS (Reality), M&S, Sky and WHSmith. www.metapack.com |
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TraderServe is an application service provider targeted at professional traders, offering them a flexible, highly sophisticated, yet easy-to-use, modelling system for financial and futures markets. The service will support and facilitate real-time strategic trading at a level that has only been achieved, to date, by the largest hedge fund managers. www.traderserve.com |
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Fortune Cookie designs and builds findable, accessible, beautiful websites for some of Britain's best known brands including Amnesty International, Small Luxury Hotels and National Express. T he company has established long-term strategic relationships with Legal & General, FT Business and Kuoni. In a 2006 survey of over 395 UK digital agencies the readers of Revolution, Marketing and Marketing Direct ranked Fortune Cookie number 5 for delivery of ROI , no 4 for creativity and no 3 for use of technology. In March 2007 Media Momentum ranked Fortune Cookie one of the UK's 50 fastest growing digital media companies. |
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Advanced Computer Systems (ACS) is a software house founded in 1979 by a group of experts with tried and tested experience in the sectors of design and production of ground stations for the acquisition of data from remote sensing satellites; analysis and processing of digital images; geographic information systems; virtual reality; management of large amounts of information. With this background, ACS has achieved and held a leading position on the international scene since the 80s, consolidating its status through taking part and winning some of the most prestigious international contracts in the sector of processing terrain-sensing images. In 1994, ACS broadened its offer to a division which deals in multimedia applications. It is currently preparing the complete digitalisation system of the radio archives and production for RAI (Italian State Broadcaster). www.acsys.it |
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Geosim Systems has developed proprietary technology for automation of the production process of 3D models as a product derived from satellite and aerial images. This technology will be applied in standard products for the creation of very high resolution 3D models of towns and other locations, and will be accessible via broadband Internet. Geosim’s technological partner is Argotek, owned by the FORMULA Group (NASDAQ-FORTY), one of the major Israeli software companies. Geosim Systems was founded in Israel five years ago as a satellite company of Tiltan System Engineering Ltd (TSE) by a group of technical experts who had been members of the Israeli Air Force. www.geosimcities.com |
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Brainspark has incorporated in April 2007 China IPO Group Limited ("China IPO Group"), awholly-owned company, under the 1991 Jersey Company Act. The business model of the China IPO Group, is to make investments in China, bothon 6-12 months returns, in pre-IPO situations, and in 3-5 year return with highgrowth small- to medium- sized technology companies. In order to secure the dealflow the company is entering into first refusal relationships with some of themost important Chinese Science Parks and Incubators. As the name of China IPO Group indicates, the preferred exit from investmentswill be through IPOs with London Stock Market as the favourite choice.. ChinaIPO Group has received an initial start up capital injection of approx £100,000 from Brainpark. IPO on the London market will be viewed as the preferred choiceby China IPO Group to raise additional funds, following an initial round offinancing which will begin in June 2007. |