Locke's Distillery Kilbeggan

Locke's Distillery Kilbeggan, originally uploaded by Inside Whisky.

Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey first appeared as a John Locke's brand over 100 years ago and was sold successfully until Locke's distillery ceased production in the 1950's. Locke's distillery is the oldest continuously licensed whiskey distillery in the world dating back to 1757.

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TERMINALFOUR wins EUR1.3m University Website Contracts

TERMINALFOUR, the enterprise content management company, secured nine major contracts to power university websites with its Site Manager content management system. Among these are high profile third level bodies such as the University of Glasgow, University of St. Andrews, University of Virginia (US) and University College Dublin. The contracts have a combined value of EUR1.3M.

It brings to twenty-nine the number of university and major third level institute customers won by TERMINALFOUR in recent times. Competition has driven the investment in content management systems by these organisations as open days and traditional recruitment techniques are no longer the primary tools used by students researching third level courses. As prospective students are approached by increasing numbers of institutions seeking to recruit them, the website has become the strongest tool in marketing to them.

Stephen Evens, web manager, University of St. Andrews said, "TERMINALFOUR Site Manager will make it very easy to create and customise user-specific areas of our new website. It will help us to engage and attract prospective students by making the site easier to use, accessible and dynamic."

Another significant driver of this strong demand from the third level sector is the need for increased productivity and efficiency and TERMINALFOUR's software helps in many ways. It enables students and staff to interact in a very user-friendly manner via self-service on-line forms. It allows faculty members to create departmental content, publish in multiple languages to cater for international students. It also facilitates potential students to build their own prospectus i.e. a tailored package of content personalised to their needs.

Piero Tintori, managing director of TERMINALFOUR said, "The days of a colourful and information laden brochure for attracting students are over. University websites are now the first port of call for any prospective student seeking information and students are increasingly demanding interactive, engaging and up-to-date websites."

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ASBIS Consolidates Benelux Operations

ASBISc Enterprises Plc (ASBIS), a supplier of computer components to the EMEA emerging markets, consolidated its operations in Western Europe under the company ASBIS NL BV.

The subsidiary will act as the main distribution outlet for customers based in the Benelux and across Western Europe, selling a broad range of IT components, as well as ASBIS’ own Canyon and Prestigio branded products.

ASBIS NL BV is the successor to Canyon Technology BV, the European sales branch of ASBIS’ subsidiary Canyon Technology Ltd. , an international vendor of consumer electronics products. ASBIS NL BV will operate in conjunction with ASBIS Europe BV which manages the regional distribution hub at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

ASBIS NL BV will offer its customers the immediate benefit of direct round-the-clock access to its online B2B Marketplace at www.asbisnl.com with a comprehensive product catalogue and the ability to reserve products, place orders and track product delivery. Furthermore, the company has introduced the possibility for E-tailers to make a live link to its warehouse database thus allowing them to make drop shipments directly to their customers.

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Cubic Telecom raises 5 million Euro

Cork-based Cubic Telecom, the international telecommunications operator, announced plans to become the world’s first truly global mobile service provider.

Cubic Telecom’s service aims to eliminate the high cost of international roaming charges by focusing on introducing simple, high-quality telecommunications services. Their breakthrough technology intelligently uses existing mobile phone network resources to drive down costs. Its core target market is aggrieved customers across the globe who don’t understand why they can’t get value for money when making international calls and roaming. Cubic is working towards free speech.

The company was founded in 2005 by telecommunications blogger Pat Phelan, and is headquartered in Cork with offices in Vancouver, Canada and offers service in 160 countries. To date, he has backed his vision of “working towards free speech” by raising a EUR3.5M investment from private backers in order to develop a suite of innovative global mobile and home phone products under the Cubic Telecom brand, together with its own international virtual carrier network. A further EUR1.5M has been raised to fund a series of international launches of products and services in the coming six months.

Cubic has just completed its first round of telecommunications partnerships, which will see its services becoming available in 160 countries. It is now commencing its marketing partnership round, which sees it seeking wholesale and resale partners. Its initial focus will be on Europe, North America and Australia.

Cubic Telecom’s chief executive officer, Pat Phelan, commented, “We want a world in which you can pick up your mobile phone anywhere and call anyone for as long as you like and not worry about the price. When most people think about driving down the cost of telephone calls, they think of calling from computer-to-computer. We don’t. We deliver simple, high quality, high value telephone services direct to the devices that people like to use - their mobile phones.

There’s no software to download, nothing to configure, nothing new to learn. Our service is straightforward and our network caters to all.

www.cubictelecom.com