No Cold Feet for Intelesens

Enterprise Equity backed company Intelesens, following US FDA approval of its technology last year, will shortly be launching its new device, ‘zensor’.
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Intelesens present defibrillator to Belfast sports club.

Intelesens, the Enterprise Equity backed developer and manufacturer of wearable health monitors, has supplied a state-of-the-art, portable Heartsine Samaritan defibrillator to Bredagh Gaelic Athletic Club. Intelesens manufactures the defibrillation electrodes for Heartsine’s range of defibrillators.
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Heartsine - A business with heart

Enterprise Equity backed company, HeartSine is saving lives from football fields to jet liners with its innovative technology.
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Success for Sepha at the 2013 Belfast Telegraph Business Awards

At a glittering ceremony at the exclusive Culloden Resort & Spa, in Holywood, Co. Down, Sepha, an Enterprise Equity backed company, picked up top place in the “Excellence in Exporting” category.
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Sepha Wins £400,000 Deal in US Food Industry

Enterprise Equity backed engineering company Sepha has won a new contract in the US worth around £400,000 for its market leading technology used in the inspection of blister packs and the recovery of product from faulty packs.
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Sepha’s Visionscan Product Scores 100%!

A leading packaging expert, Dr. Dorian Dixon, University of Ulster, has shown that VisionScan, a non-destructive seal and leak detection device for pharmaceutical blister packs, developed by Sepha Ltd, an Enterprise Equity investee company, can identify 100% of defective pockets.
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Fabrice Muamba Promotes HeartSine AED Technology

Fabrice Muamba a young professional football player was saved using a HeartSine samaritan® AED during a live televised football match in March 2012 and is now a major promoter of AED technology.
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Energy Costs Slashed as Luxury Hotel Heads for a ‘brites’ Future!

The Great Northern Hotel, has saved an impressive €120,000 in the three years since the installation of its state of the art wood pellet boiler heating system fuelled by Balcas Brites, an Enterprise Equity backed company,
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Sepha Reports a Record Year for Sales

Enterprise Equity backed, specialist machinery manufacturer, Sepha Ltd, which makes non-destructive leak detection and de-blistering machines for the global pharmaceutical industry has reported record sales for a second year running.
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HeartSine Supplies AEDs to American Airlines

HeartSine, an Enterprise Equity investee company, have signed an agreement with American Airlines to supply samaritan® PAD 300P Automated External Defibrillators.
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Intelesens demos zensor to UK Consul-General

Intelesens played a starring role at the massive international medical device trade show, Medica 2012, held in Düsseldorf last week, at which almost 5000 medical technology companies exhibited and which attracted almost 140,000 visitors.
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Revolutionary Food Safety Solution Receives €1m Injection

Kelsius secures €1 million in funding with the Quinn (formerly Superquinn) Family investing alongside existing investors. The investment round will enable the Company to build on the significant market traction generated by its evolutionary new Food Safety solution, FoodCheck™
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HeartSine Technologies Appoints Declan O'Mahoney New Chief Executive Officer

HeartSine® Technologies, Inc., a world leader in personal and public access defibrillators, today announced that Declan O'Mahoney has been named the company’s chief executive officer, effective immediately. O'Mahoney has been a non-executive director of HeartSine since 2011.
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Sepha in Full Swing at PACK EXPO

Sepha is currently exhibiting alongside its US partner, Service Industries (@ServiceInd), Booth #S2642 at Pack Expo (#PACKEXPO), Chicago
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Intelesens appoints new CTO

Intelesens founder and Executive Director, Professor Jim McLaughlin has been appointed Chief Technology Officer for the company.
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Guardian24 Launch Android Solution

Guardian24 Launch Lone Worker Safety Application for Android Devices
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Professor John Anderson

The death has been announced of Professor John Anderson, a distinguished biomedical engineer who was co-founder, director and CTO of Enterprise Equity investee companies, Intelesens Limited and Heartsine Technologies Inc.
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Blistering First Half For Sepha...

...and a six-figure deal with Global Pharmaceutical giant Novartis.
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Kelsius Announces Two Senior Board Appointments

Kelsius is delighted to announce that Eamonn Quinn has joined the Company’s Board as Non-Executive Chairman.
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Kelsius to launch FoodCheck at Hotelympia

Kelsius has developed a wireless food safety system that revolutionises control and monitoring of food safety standards for food service organisations.
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Sepha VisionScan selected in EPM "Editor's Pick" Edition

Sepha's new product, VisionScan, receives endorsement from one of the most respected journals in European pharma manufacturing.
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Intelesens Founder and CSO Awarded OBE

Intelesens founder and Chief Science Officer, Professor Jim McLaughlin has been honoured in the Queen’s New Year Honours List for 2012, receiving an OBE.
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Record Sales and Increased Employment at Sepha

Export & Innovation Strategy delivers 30% increase in sales & new employment at Sepha Limited
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Making Space enters agreement with Lone Worker from Orange powered by Guardian24

Making Space, a large charity that provides services for people with a mental health condition, learning disabilities and dementia has entered into an agreement with Orange Lone Worker by Guardian24 for the provision of remote ‘lone worker’ support.
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Guardian24 awarded R&D Project of the Year

Guardian24 is awarded the UTV Business Eye Award for Research & Development Project of the Year
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Orange Launches ‘Lone Worker from Orange powered by Guardian24’

Orange has selected Guardian24, the UK’s largest provider of lone worker safety solutions, as its partner for their Lone Worker from Orange safety solution in the public sector.
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NI Minister visits Intelesens

Arlene Foster, the NI Minister of Enterprise Trade and Investment visited the company today to celebrate its recent success in achieving FDA regulatory approval and in winning the prestigious ITLG Silicon Valley award in April.
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Kelsius hosts E-Stars Consortium

Kelsius will host the prestigious Pan-European Technology Consortium for its presentation to the EU Commission.
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HeartSine nominated for Orange Innovation Award

HeartSine, an Enterprise Equity investee company, has been named as one of the most innovative businesses in the country and has been shortlisted for the coveted Orange Innovation Award, in the 10th annual National Business Awards.
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BittWare Releases Next Gen Toolkit

BittWorks II: The Next Generation Toolkit for BittWare's Altera Stratix IV and Stratix V Based Product Families
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Kelsius joins forces with Butler Transtest in providing Wireless Temperature Monitoring Solutions

Butler Transtest has announced that it will be exclusively selling Kelsius Wireless Temperature Monitoring solutions to the Irish Market.
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HeartSine Increases AED System Warranty to Longest in the Industry

Now Backed for 10 Years
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Aingeal Gets FDA Approval

Intelesens’ wearable wireless hospital monitor, 'Aingeal', receives class 2 FDA clearance.
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World First for Sepha

New VisionScan meets demand for low-cost leak detection in pharmaceutical blister-packs.
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Guardian24 highly commended at Belfast Business Awards

Guardian24 scooped the highly commended award in the Best Innovative Use of IT category at the hotly contested Belfast Business Awards held on 14th April 2011.
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HeartSine wins ‘Excellence in Technology’ Award

HeartSine wins Excellence in Technology at the Belfast Telegraph Northern Ireland Business Awards 2011.
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US Technology Award

Belfast-based wireless health monitoring company, Intelesens, scooped the prestigious Most Promising Technology Award at the 4th Annual Silicon Valley Technology Leaders Awards.
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Guardian24 shortlisted for Business Awards

Guardian24 has been shortlisted for the Belfast Business Awards 2011
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What Time is it?

Aidan Langan from Enterprise Equity suggests that SMEs in Northern Ireland may be asking what time it is...
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Balcas 'brites' welcome Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme

EENI portfolio company Balcas welcomed with great pleasure the Government’s announcement on 10 March 2011 outlining the details of the Renewable Heat Incentive, the world’s first financial support scheme for renewable heat.
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Intelesens in Silicon Valley

Intelesens has been selected as one of only seven Technology companies from the island of Ireland to present at the Irish Technology Leadership Group - ITLG - 4th Annual Silicon Valley Awards to be held at Stanford University in San Jose California, on April 5th.
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Guardian24 partners with SafeLinQ UK

Enterprise Equity investee company, Guardian 24, announces a working partnership with SafeLinQ UK Ltd.
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Chambers teams up with IKEA

Chambers has teamed up with IKEA to offer tailored tours and shopping days at IKEA
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Sepha Seals Deal to Supply LIfe-saving Water Test Packs

Packaging manufacturer in six figure deal to supply life-saving water testing project led by the University of Bristol and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.


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Balcas Setting The Standard: 1st in The UK & Ireland

As the largest producer and driving force in the UK and Irish markets since pioneering wood pellets here many years ago, Balcas has further widened the gap between brites and other wood fuel supplier’s products.
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Sepha host major Indian pharma clients

EE backed company, Sepha, was delighted to welcome its Indian agents, Parle, to Northern Ireland with some of its major pharmaceutical clients to view the Sepha range of equipment.
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Guardian24 & DevelopIQ’s digital pen for lone worker safety

Enterprise Equity backed company Guardian24, has developed a new Lone Worker Support application to integrate with Anoto digital pen technology from DevelopIQ.
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HeartSine Technologies invest £2million in life saving research

Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has announced a £2million investment in research and development by HeartSine Technologies, which will help save lives.
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Guardian24 delivers Lone Worker Support for the BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone

An Enterprise Equity investee company, Guardian24 (the trading name for Bluechip Technologies) already delivers the most widely adopted and recommended Lone Worker solution available on BlackBerry.
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Get help in a heartbeat

Intelesens device features in the Irish Times - Friday, October 29, 2010
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Intelesens unveils new wearable wireless Holter feature at Medica 2010 in Dusseldorf

Intelesens, who has already developed wearable wireless vital signs monitoring devices for both home use, the V-Patch Cardiac Event Monitor and Aingeal, its in-hospital multi-parameter wi-fi monitor, will unveil its Inteleholter device designed to provide not only exceptional event detection and ale
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Sepha Thinks Smart about Overseas Sales

Agents and distributors visit Sepha from 13th-15th October for its inaugural global agent conference.
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Bluechip builds with CEO appointment

Enterprise Equity investee company Bluechip Technologies Limited, a leader in lone-worker personal security with its Guardian24 solution, has recently appointed a new CEO.
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HeartSine Technologies Honoured at Top 50 Event

The Award goes to the company for pioneering business in developing areas of Belfast.
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Guardian24 partners with CSC on ‘Patient in Your Pocket’

Guardian24 are delighted to announce a new working partnership with CSC on their highly innovative ‘Patient in Your Pocket’ project for mobile health professionals
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Intelesens Live on BBC

On Thursday September 23 Intelesens CEO Michael Caulfield and CTO and Founder Professor John Anderson were featured live on BBC discussing Intelesens's remote wireless vital signs technology.
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Guardian24 for Hyde's Lone Workers

Hyde Group has given Blackberry devices running Guardian24’s lone-worker security system to 1,000 staff covering its housing, repairs, sales and arrears operations.
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Professor John Anderson honoured at NISP CONNECT £25k Awards

Leading medical engineering entrepreneur, Professor John Anderson, was honoured at this year’s Northern Ireland Science Park (NISP) CONNECT £25K Awards for his contribution and dedication to the promotion of entrepreneurship and innovation in Northern Ireland.
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Two Decades of Signal Processing Leadership

Bitware announces new product roadmap - newest board family gives military and comms applications instant access to the power of next-generation silicon on proven, validated COTS hardware.
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Intelesens announces World-First Trial

Enterprise Equity investee company, Intelesen, today announced the commencement of a world-first clinical trial to evaluate one of their devices at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, USA.
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Sepha joins Enterprise Minister on US mission

Eneterprise Equity investee company, Sepha, joined Invest Northern Ireland on a trade and investment mission to the US led by Enterprise Minister, Arelene Foster.
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Private Equity Outperforms

The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association has published its Performance Measurement Survey, assessing the performance of 470 UK-managed independent private equity and venture capital funds in 2009.
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Sepha launches new, mobile blister packing machine

Packaging machinery manufacturer, Sepha Ltd has launched a new, mobile blister packing machine to meet market demand for flexible short-run blister-packing solution at minimal cost.
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Arabian Dreams for Kelsius

Arabian Dreams for Kelsius as it deploys wireless to web temperature monitoring system in the Madinat Zayed Hospital
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UK's Largest Wood Pellet Plant Fully Operational

Invergordon in the highlands of Scotland is the site of EE investee company Balcas’ new £24m biomass plant. The now fully operational plant will produce 100,000 tonnes of brites, enough to heat 20,000 homes every year.
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EU Seal of Approval for Intelesens

Vitalsens patient database software package receives EU regulatory seal of approval.
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Association of First Aiders in partnership with HeartSine Technologies

The Association of First Aiders (AoFA) is pleased to be associated with HeartSine in promoting their range of Automatic External Defibrillators.
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HeartSine Wins New Orders in Asia and US

HeartSine Technologies has won new business for its cardiac defibrillators worth around £150,000 in India, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia from its participation on the Invest Northern Ireland stand at the recent Arab Health exhibition in Dubai.
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Kelsius launch innovative Cold Chain Portal

Enterprise Equity investee company, Kelsius, a market leader in the provision of wireless temperature monitoring solutions for the pharma, healthcare and food sectors, announces the launch of its innovative Cold Chain Portal.
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FAA selects HeartSine Partnership

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced its selection of Emergency University and HeartSine Technologies to provide nationwide Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) and program management for ERT members.
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Kelsius wins a hat-trick of consecutive NHS European tenders

Kelsius, an Enterprise Equity backed company, and leading provider of web based monitoring and alarming solutions for the Food, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare sectors, has been chosen by three major NHS Foundation Trust Hospitals to implement their market leading solution.
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Sepha, Thrives despite downturn

Enterprise Equity backed manufacturing firm, SEPHA, has bucked the economic downturn with a 33% increase in sales for 2009...
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Vitalsens receives regulatory seal of approval

Enterprise Equity backed Intelesens today received CE class 2a regulatory approval for its Vitalsens multi-parameter, body-worn, wireless monitoring device from SGS - Yarsley.
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Sepha returns to land of opportunity

One year on from being caught in terrorist attacks in the city of Mumbai and Chief Executive of the Enterprise Equity backed manufacturer Sepha remains undeterred to develop the company's presence in the high-growth Indian pharmaceutical market.
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Vitalsens wireless monitor soars to new heights in London

Intelesens’s newly launched Vitalsens multi-parameter, body-worn, wireless monitoring device featured at the recent launch of the University of Aberdeen’s Rural Digital Economy Hub which took place at the top of the BT tower in London.
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'brites' to bring warmth to the Stormont Estate

Balcas, an Enterprise Equity investee company, has won an important new contract to provide eco-friendly brites to five Government buildings across Northern Ireland.
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HEARTSINE® SAMARITAN® PAD helps save a Life in Sweden

On October 13, staff from the Umeå, Sweden fire department were able to save the life of a person who had suffered from a cardiac arrest, using a recently-purchased automatic external defibrillator.
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Asia Sales Success for Sepha

The Enterprise Equity-backed company, Sepha Ltd, has installed its innovative laser technology at the fastest pharmaceutical packaging line in Asia Pacific.
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New brites Contracts in Scotland

More and more commercial and public sector organisations in Scotland and North East England are 'switching on' to using brites and this has been highlighted recently by the announcement of two important new public sector contracts.
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Private Equity Matters - really?

As the global economic mood lightens, Brian Cummings of Private Equity firm, Enterprise Equity looks at the role of Private Equity in moving from recession to recovery...
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Sepha keeps pharmacies ahead of pack

Innovative machines from the Enterprise Equity backed manufacturing company, Sepha, are being used to revolutionise the way drugs are dispensed throughout the UK.
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Balcas and Action Renewables to host conference on the commercial benefits of wood pellet fuel

Enterprise Equity portfolio company, Balcas, the manufacturer of brites wood pellets, has joined forces with Action Renewables, to deliver a specialist one-day conference entitled ‘The Complete Wood pellet Experience’.
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ST+D changes name to Intelesens Ltd

Belfast, Northern Ireland July 28, 2009 – Sensor Technology and Devices Ltd, (ST+D) a medical device company focused on wireless vital signs measurement, announced today that it has changed the name of the company to Intelesens Ltd.
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Bluechip £250,000 Personal Security deal

Bluechip has bucked the current economic down turn by clinching a £250,000 deal aimed at improving Lone Worker security.
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Kelsius success continues with South Eastern HSC Trust

Belfast, 15th June 2009 - Innovative solutions provider Kelsius has been chosen by the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust to implement its market leading wireless temperature monitoring solution.
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What is Private Equity and how does it work?

In the current credit environment, companies are looking at private equity as a way to fund growth. ‘Private Equity’ is generic term that relates to the equity financing of unquoted companies at various stages of development.
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Kelsius Appoints Brian Baird as New Chairman

Kelsius, a leading provider of web based automated HACCP and task management systems for the Food and Healthcare sectors, announced today that the board of directors has appointed Brian Baird as chairman.


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Crisis = Opportunity?

Brian Cummings from Belfast based Private Equity Firm, Enterprise Equity, suggests that the current economic environment provides transformational opportunities for entrepreneurial businesses - and Private Equity has the funds to make it happen.
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Private Equity Performance Survey

The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association has published its Performance Measurement Survey, assessing the performance of 458 UK-managed independent private equity and venture capital funds in 2008.
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Sepha boosts its European network ahead of major phara congress in Germany

The Dundonald based manufacturer Sepha Ltd. is boosting its European distribution network with two strategic alliances ahead of its attendance at a major pharmaceutical congress in Germany.
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McLernon Computers partners with Kelsius

McLernon Computers, Ireland’s leading pharmacy systems provider partner with Kelsius.

Northern Irish firms McLernon Computers and Kelsius have embarked on a partnership to offer pharmacists north and south of the border an innovative way of monitoring their fridge temperatures.


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Sepha debuts new-look machine to US pharma-companies

NORTHERN IRISH MACHINE GETS US DISTRIBUTOR DEBUT IN NEW YORK ON ST PATRICK’S DAY
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Battered Balance Sheet?

As businesses take a bruising from the economic slowdown, Brian Cummings of Private Equity firm, Enterprise Equity looks at how private equity can play a role in moving from recession to recovery...
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Gala Retail Group Enters Strategic Partnership with Kelsius

Gala Retail Group Enters Strategic Partnership with Food Safety Specialist Kelsius
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Christmas arrives early at SEPHA

Dundonald-based export company, Sepha Ltd. announces 70% increase in orders
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Craig Holmes welcomes Aubrey Sayers as New Chief Executive Officer at Sepha Ltd

The county Down based manufacturing company, Sepha Ltd has appointed Aubrey Sayers as Chief Executive Officer.
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Bus company gears up for growth with £5m investment

Northern Ireland’s largest private bus company, Chambers, is gearing up for an increase in demand for its luxury transport services with a £5 million investment in state-of-the-art new coaches and a modern operating centre situated on the outskirts of Moneymore in Co. Londonderry.
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Patients to benefit from new locally developed monitoring system

Sensor Technologies and Devices (ST+D) is investing over £400,000 in developing an innovative wireless health monitoring system that will significantly improve patient care during hospital stays.
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EENI Leads Funding Workshop...

Brian Cummings briefed the local Digital Content sector on funding high growth businesses at crea8ivity.com’s ‘New Ways to Create Revenue Online’ event held at the Innovation Centre, Northern Ireland Science Park, Belfast.
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Building a better future...

New Horizons for Northern Ireland 2008

After the announcement last October of a 10 year Investment Strategy worth an estimated £18 billion, Northern Ireland is poised for unprecedented growth....
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Success for entrepreneurs at Seedcorn Competition

Aidan Langan, Enterprise Equity Chief Executive, was part of the judging panel for the fifth All-Island Seedcorn Competition, organised by InterTradeIreland’s Equity Network.
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Enterprise Equity recognises Technology Personality of the Year

At the inaugural UTV Business Eye Awards ceremony held at the Culloden Hotel, Aidan Langan was delighted to present Dr. Steve Brankin, Asidua Ltd CEO, with the Enterprise Equity sponsored Technology Personality of the Year' award.


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....a smart solution to Sucession Planning

Aidan Langan, Chief Executive of Belfast private equity house, Enterprise Equity, considers how ‘keeping it in the family’ is not always the ideal solution to the issue of succession planning for family businesses.
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Enterprise Equity sponsors ‘Technology Personality of the Year’ Award

Enterprise Equity is delighted to be associated with Northern Ireland’s new business awards The UTV Business Eye Awards - through its sponsorship of the 'Technology Personality of the Year’ category.
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German discounter and HeartSine in drive against heart deaths

Top German discount retailer PLUS has teamed up with HeartSine Technologies in Belfast to offer automatic defibrillators in the first-ever Europe wide promotion designed to help reduce sudden death from heart attacks.
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Sepha Wins at BT Business Awards 2007

INNOVATION FOR BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT

Winner: Sepha
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TM Forum Shortlists Mobile Cohesion...

Mobile Cohesion announced today that it has been named a finalist in the TeleManagement Forum Excellence Awards 'Most Innovative Supplier' Category.
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Awards for Northern Ireland's best operators - Chambers

The highlight of the annual gala dinner held by the Confederation of Passenger Transport in Northern Ireland was the presentation of awards to the top operators amongst its members.

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Belfast equity group buys coach company

Chambers Coach Hire, the North's largest independent bus and coach company, has been taken over by Enterprise Equity, a Belfast-based private equity group.
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Jan 07, New Optimism in Northern Ireland

Corporate UK spoke to a number of leading business advisers about the challenges still faced by the province and the outlook for business in 2007.
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Nov 06, ST&D - named as Rising Star in Deloitte Fast 50 Awards

University of Ulster spinout company ST&D has been named as a 'Rising Star’ in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards.
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Oct 06, $4.8 VC deal for Murphy's MoCo

Denis Murphy’s latest venture, Mobile Cohesion (MoCo), has secured $4.8 million worth of VC funding in a deal led by locally based Enterprise Equity.


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Sept 06, Venture Capital and Private Equity: when and how

Craig Holmes, of Belfast-based private equity house Enterprise Equity, explains the meaning of venture capital and private equity and how businesses can go about attracting this kind of corporate funding…
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Aug 06, VC and Private Equity: A convincing case

Craig Holmes, reviews the recent trends and activities in the Northern Irish Venture Capital and Private Equity markets...
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May 06, MBO: Boxing clever post-MBO

In this final article on Management Buyouts, Brian Cummings looks at life after the deal and what it takes to secure a successful exit transaction for the management team and investment partners…

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March 06, MBO: a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

In the second of three articles on Management Buyouts, Brian Cummings takes a management team’s aspirations for ownership to proposal stage and reveals that financing the deal need not be as daunting as it seems...

Ulster Business
March 2006, Issue

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March 06, Timber group plans big bio-energy plan

A Northern Ireland timber company is to create the UK's largest bio-renewable energy plant, with a £20m investment in the north of Scotland.


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Feb 06, MBO: So what's stopping you?

In the first of a series of three articles, Brian Cummings of venture capital house, Enterprise Equity, unravels the mysteries of an MBO and what businesses need to know to ‘do the deal’…

Ulster Business Magazine
February 2006, Issue
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Feb 06, Play up, and play the game

Aidan Langan studies the latest economic impact report on private equity activity in the UK and its implications for NI business


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Jan 06, New investment in life-saving equipment to be announced

The Belfast firm which has already pioneered the world’s first portable cardiac defibrillator is set to press ahead with plans for further life-saving medical devices following a cash injection from a venture capital company.
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Dec 05, Sepha Limited, MBO secures package deal

A Newtownards company which makes packaging equipment for the global pharmaceuticals industry has been bought over by its management.
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Dec 05, Bittwares First Advanced Mezzanine Card Shipment

BittWare Announces Industry’s First Customer Shipment of Signal Processing Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC™)
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July 05, ST&D Secures €2.4m funding

Sensor Technology & Devices (ST&D), plans to significantly increase its operations following the completion of a €2.4m funding round.
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July 05, Future looks brite for Balcas

Balcas recently started production of new environmentally friendly fuel at its factory
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Ulster Medical Firms Unveil New Products

Two Belfast-based medical technology companies have unveiled major product developments
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Private sector needs to wake up to Venture Capital

“The national resurgence in venture capital activity across the UK is not being reflected in Northern Ireland. This has implications for the local private sector economy and needs to be addressed if the government’s economic development policy is to succeed.
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Enterprise Equity celebrates Ben Sherman sale

Bob McGowan-Smyth, former Enterprise Equity CEO, and Gillian Russell, Deloitte & Touche Partner, celebrate the £80m sale of Ben Sherman to Oxford Industries.
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Enterprise Equity nets €17.4m in Ben Sherman sale

The following article appeared in The Sunday Business Post newspaper, June 27th 2004
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Making money from mobile technology…

The following article appeared in The Irish News newspaper, June 17th 2004
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TriVirix gets $25M equity injection from top US & Northern Ireland Venture Capital Funds

Enterprise Equity backed TriVirix International, the contract manufacturer of electronic medical equipment with its major manufacturing site at Springvale in Belfast has received $25m or £15.5m in private equity funding from a range of top venture capital funds, it was revealed today.
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Venture capital 'can fast track your firm to increased wealth'

Bob McGowan-Smyth, the Belfast-based chief executive of Enterprise Equity Venture Capital Group, a leading venture capital provider, reflects on the first all-island private equity conference, which was staged in Belfast last week.

By Bob McGowan-Smyth
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