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General Business News
ABP Beefs-up Accounts Payable and Cash
Collection Processes with Version One
Anglo Beef Processors (ABP), the largest processor of Beef in the UK,
is streamlining its accounts payable processes, significantly improving
cash collection and freeing-up a significant amount of credit
controllers’ time, by implementing document management and imaging
software. This software from Version One (www.versionone.co.uk), which
will be tightly integrated into ABP’s Movex ERP system, enables the
electronic creation, delivery, authorisation and storage of incoming and
outgoing documents including invoices, proof of delivery documents (PODs)
and statements. ABP is also implementing Version One’s intelligent
document processing system for the automated capture of data from
purchase invoices, farmer records and timesheets.
ABP, which supplies beef to leading European retailers including
Sainsbury’s and Asda, is rolling-out Version One’s full portfolio of
solutions across ten sites...more
Armstrong Consultants Wins Top Award From
FrontRange Solutions
Being named as a "Top 10 Worldwide Best Performing Partner"
Hertfordshire based Armstrong Consultants are delighted to have won a
highly prestigious award from FrontRange Solutions, being named as “Top
10 Worldwide Best Performing Partner” for its GoldMine CRM solution.
This award is in recognition of Armstrong coming in sixth place
worldwide in terms of GoldMine revenue for 2006........more
NEW REPORT CALLS FOR A SMARTER WORKING SOUTH EAST
A new report has called upon organisations throughout the region to
adopt smarter working practices. Entitled “Creating a smarter working
south east region”, the report was commissioned by the South East of
England Regional Development Agency (SEEDA), the South East England
Regional Assembly, NHS South East Coast, NHS South Central, BT and Work
Wise UK. It identifies that “the sustainability of the South East region
is at risk from pressures on travel, congestion, skills availability and
stress related health problems....more
eg solutions Announces Winners of Annual Awards -
The winners of the 2007 eg Operational Excellence Awards have been
announced following a gala dinner held on November 9th 2007.
The annual eg Operational Excellence Awards are presented each year
by eg solutions to recognise the outstanding contributions made by
individuals towards best practice in the use of the eg operational
intelligence suite and the principles of operational management. The
awards recognise the achievements both companies and individuals have
made in the pursuit of world class operations management.....more
Peter House Is The Coolest Place To Be In
Manchester! · The IoD Hub conference centre at
Stonemartin’s Manchester building, Peter House, has been voted the 5th
COOLest venue for small meetings in the UK
The IoD Hub at Manchester’s Peter House, has been voted the 5th
COOLest venue for small meetings in the UK by an independent panel at
Prestige Events’ COOL Venue Awards. The results were announced on the
12th November, with Peter House sitting on an impressive list that
includes iconic venues such as: the Natural History Museum, Royal Albert
Hall, Somerset House, The Dorchester, Warwick Castle, Wembley, and many
more.
Peter House was chosen for its stunning design and immaculate
attention to detail, which offers the business traveler the perfect
venue to touchdown for a few hours, or to hold more formal meetings. The
building offers an impressive entrance atrium, built-in white marble
juxtaposed with rich dark red furnishings. Peter House is modern, fresh,
yet simple – striking an impressive balance between comfort and style –
which is why it has finished top out of all of the Manchester venues
listed....more
Avoid the Home Information Pack Scheme before it's
extended to the whole housing market by listing your property with
Savvyhomesell.com
Website launched to help sellers avoid HIP costs by listing their
properties for sale now
www.Savvyhomesell.com has officially launched, offering home owners a
unique way to avoid the Government's Home Information Pack (Hip) scheme
before it is extended to include the whole housing market.
At present only homeowners selling properties with three bedrooms or
more have to pay for a Hip, however it is expected that the scheme will
apply to the entire housing market by the end of the year....more
Version One Named Paperless Office Champion in
Software Satisfaction Awards
Document management and imaging software author, Version One (www.versionone.co.uk),
has won the 'paperless office' category of the Business Software
Satisfaction Awards 2007. Voted the winner by actual software users,
Version One authors electronic document design, delivery, storage and
processing software and has over 2000 customers worldwide.
Run by Sift Media, nearly 2,000 software users voted in the Business
Software Satisfaction Awards 2007 and the awards ceremony took place at
The Brewery in London on 9th October 2007.
Version One's solutions ranked highest in all four areas......more
HYBRIS SETS ITS SIGHTS ON SME MARKET
...hybris and Tier2 Consulting to provide SMEs in the UK with
cost-effective e-commerce solutions to address their strategic needs...
hybris, www.hybris.com, a leading product information management
(PIM) and e-commerce vendor, and its premium partner Tier2 Consulting,
www.tier2consulting.com, has announced its commitment to bringing SMEs
in the UK online within 12 weeks, providing new small business users
with a best of breed strategic solution that will help them to compete
in the growing world of on-line business. The 'e-swift' solution will
make it easy for retail outlets and manufacturers to quickly and
cost-effectively implement online e-commerce to complement existing
sales channels and will be configured and installed at a fixed price....more
NLP Is Given A New Voice
· Daryll Scott launches challenging new business title - ‘Can We
Start Again?: The Patterns of NLP Applied to Business Interactions’ – a
definitive work in the world of personal training endorsed by the
co-creator of NLP, Dr John Grinder
Daryll Scott, joint Managing Director of personal development
consultancy, Noggin, recently launched his new business manual, Can We
Start Again? – which is available now online.
To celebrate the release, Daryll held a prestigious launch event at
the impressive conferencing centre at Davidson House, Reading, where
Noggin is based....more
eTickets.to wins 'Innovative Business of the Year'
at the Business Startup Awards
eTickets.to are proud to announce that they are winners of the
'Innovative Business of the Year' category at the Startups Awards 2007.
Presented with the accolade by Sky News presenter Adrienne Lawler at
a prestigious awards ceremony at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington,
eTickets.to beat off stiff competition from Intelligent Retail, One Post
and Smart Rewards....more
Arco listed in Sunday Times Top Track 250
The UK’s leading safety equipment supplier Arco is one of Britain’s
top performing, mid-market, private companies according to the Sunday
Times Top Track 250, published 14 October. The league table ranks
family-owned business Arco as the 148th on the list of 250 companies,
based on its 2005-2006 sales figures.
Hull-based Arco joins household names such as Weetabix, Selfridges,
McLaren and Arsenal Holdings in the Top Track 250 and is one of the 59%
of companies listed whose head office is in the North of England...more
Northgate wins major public housing contract
Northgate Information Solutions plc ("Northgate") has announced that
it extended its eight year relationship with the Government of New South
Wales ("NSW") Australia by signing a new five year contract to provide a
broad range of information management and customer-focused services for
public housing.
The contract with the NSW Department of Housing is worth in excess of
£8 million (AU$20 million). It will provide Northgate's world class
housing solution to manage the State's entire housing stock comprising
140,000 properties and worth AU$28 billion.....more
MARKET DEEPING ENTREPRENEURS CROWNED RUNNERS-UP IN
NATIONAL START-UP BUSINESS AWARDS AND WALK AWAY WITH £7,000!
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Runner-Up –
Blue i UK
Emma Crosby (Sky News), Darren Judd, Neil Walker and Huw
Morgan (Head of Business Banking HSBC)
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“Neil Walker and Darren Judd’s success at these national awards shows
just what can be achieved by applying creative flair, determination and
sound planning to a unique business opportunity. HSBC helps the
entrepreneurs behind more than 96,675 new firms open their doors for
business every year – that’s one every six minutes - so we understand
first-hand what it takes to set up your own venture. We hope that by
highlighting Blue i’s success we can inspire other budding entrepreneurs
in London to take the plunge and go it alone.”
Huw Morgan, head of business banking, HSBC Bank
Two entrepreneurs from Market Deeping, who set up their own company
designing, developing and manufacturing portable floodlighting products,
have been named runners-up in the 2007 HSBC Start-Up Stars Awards......more
ASTON BUSINESS SCHOOL TOPS EUROPE FOR MARKETING
Aston Business School is the best in Europe for Postgraduate
Marketing courses, according to the latest league table.
It was also ranked first in England for its Corporate Strategy (4th
in Europe) and for International Business (6th in Europe) courses, in a
poll of students across the continent........more
WHY THE TRAIN HAS BECOME THE NEW PLANE FOR MANY
SME'S AND BUSINESS TRAVELLERS
With air travel today becoming more problematic and ever less
popular, many SME's are discovering the real advantages that today's
high-speed European rail network has to offer the business traveller.
Up until recently the majority of business travellers with meetings
to attend in more than one European location would have chosen to fly
from one city to the next. This is now beginning to change however, and
specialist operator European Rail (www.europeanrail.com) has seen a huge
increase in the number of SME's and business people discovering for the
first time the many benefits of letting the train take the strain......more
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