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WWW.THINKLONDON.COM
ConneCt to London 28-29 June 2010
This document accompanies Think London’s exclusive ‘Connect to London’
business programme and offers delegates a range of London business
information, plus details about the programme itself.
Page
2 Welcome Message from the Chief Executive of Think London
3 The ‘Connect to London’ Business Programme
5 Our Sponsors
6 Our Speakers
8 Detailed Programme
10 List of Delegates and Company Profiles
28 What Think London Can Do for You
29 Why London Is Still #1 for Business
30 Success Stories
32 Contact Details at Think London - London Office
Contents
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the next Step on an exciting Journey“I am absolutely delighted you have
accepted our invitation and are visiting
London as part of our Connect to
London Business Programme. I believe
you will find the visit thoroughly
worthwhile and will return home full
of ideas and inspiration, ready to plan
for the globalisation of your business
through London.
As London business leaders swing back
to growth with confidence, now is an
excellent time to set up or expand
operations in London, Europe’s largest
city economy and anchor destination
for companies going global. London is
a city that is full of real opportunity for
your company and is a wonderful place
to live, work, and do business.
Use London’s vibrant global market
place to ride on top of the world’s
economic recovery. This is less of a bold
step than you may think. Whether you
accomplish this by setting up a business
in London or by strengthening your
business through mergers & acquisitions
or joint ventures, London is the place
to do it. It is the place to make deals,
to find top creative talent and cultivate
ideas. You will find further information
about business in London later in this
brochure.
I sincerely look forward to meeting you
and hope that your experience here will
confirm for you that London is a place
where your business can thrive.”
MICHAEL CHARLTON,
CHIEF EXECUTIVE, THINK LONDON
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the ‘Connect to London’ Business Programme
Connect to London is an exclusive and
bespoke business programme for senior
executives of international businesses,
centred around a two-day business
summit. Ahead of the London 2012
Games, this summit has been designed
for Think London clients wishing to
capitalise on the 2012 Games and
broader opportunities in London to
grow their business. The programme
will provide you with key insights into
the 2012 Games and future projects,
deliver unrivalled access to networking
opportunities and facilitate introductions
to key contacts across London’s business
community.
Monday
You will start the summit with a
welcome briefing and official opening
of the programme by Think London’s
Chief Executive Michael Charlton. This
will be followed by a presentation on
London 2012’s progress to date by Sir
Keith Mills, Deputy Chair of LOCOG
(the London Organising Comimttee of
the Olympic Games and Paralympic
Games), after which you will receive
presentations on the 2012 business
opportunities and a business perspective
by Lloyds TSB, Official Partner of the
London 2012 Games.
major projects.
After having digested this wealth of
information, the first day of the summit
will finish with a networking reception,
sponsored by Visa Europe, giving you
the opportunity for further discussions
with speakers and delegates, as well as
a select group of UK companies and
contractors.
This will then be followed by a
highly-anticipated panel discussion,
moderated by CNBC, with senior
representatiaves from Westfield, Visit
London, Deloitte, and Coca Cola,
discussing the broader framework
around the Olympic Games, the impact
on London as a city and the multitude
of business opportunities this will
represent.
The final part of the afternoon will
provide you with insights into other
future opportunities, with a presentation
on the 2018 World Cup Bid, and other
tuesday
You will start the second day of the
summit with a presentation on the
future of the Olympic Park by the
Olympic Park Legacy Company, followed
by insight into the BBC’s digital strategy.
After this there will be a moderated
panel session focused on tips for
tendering & partnering. This will provide
you with the information you need
to make the most of CompeteFor, the
intelligence on how to best position
your business to be successful in
tendering for major projects in the UK,
and practical information on how to
identify partners and make the most of
your collaboration.
After this you will have the
opportunity to participate in the two
workshops of your choice:
• The Digital Games Workshop will not
only provide you with the knowledge
of what “digital” really means for
London 2012, but also the chance to
opportunity to observe first-hand the
scale and breadth of transformation
taking place in East London.
Having whetted your appetite on the
Park, you will then travel by boat onto
Greenwich, one of the Olympic host
boroughs, for a business dinner hosted
by Greenwich Council at the exquisite
Painted Hall. With the backdrop of the
river Thames on one side and Greenwich
Park – an Olympic venue, on the
other side, and the company of senior
representatives from London’s business
community, including a host of 2012
sponsors, this will provide an insightful
and enjoyable close to the summit.
look at broader opportunities with
organisations such as the BBC, BT
and Crystal CG.
• The Sustainable Games Workshop
will discuss all aspects of the Green
Games and how this impacts on
procurement across the supply chain,
whilst putting this into a broader
perspective of London positioning
itself as a Green Capital.
• The Legacy Workshop will put
the future plans for the Olympic
Park, presented in the morning
session, into the context of wider
regeneration across the Thames
Gateway, in particular the five
host boroughs, focusing on key
development and infrastructure
projects and business opportunities
flowing out of these.
After lunch you will travel
to Stratford for a guided tour of
the Olympic Park, giving you the
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our SponsorsLloyds tSB
Visa europe
Lloyds TSB is the Official Banking and
Insurance Partner of the London 2012
Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Our vision for our partnership with
London 2012 is to inspire and support
In Europe, there are over 399 million
Visa debit, credit and commercial
cards. In the 12 months ending March
2010 those cards were used to make
purchases and cash withdrawals to the
value of €1.4 trillion. 11.2% of consumer
spending at point of sale in Europe is
with a Visa card, and more than 70% of
that is on Visa debit cards.
Visa Europe is owned and operated by
more than 4,000 European member
Visa enjoys unsurpassed acceptance
around the world. In addition, Visa/PLUS
is one of the world’s largest global ATM
networks, offering cash access in local
currency in over 200 countries.
For more information, visit
www.visaeurope.com
young people, communities and
businesses all over Britain on their
journey to the London 2012 Olympic
and Paralympic Games and beyond.
www.lloydstsb.com
banks and was incorporated in July
2004. In October 2007, Visa Europe
became independent of the new global
Visa Inc., with an exclusive, irrevocable
and perpetual licence in Europe. As a
dedicated European payment system
it is able to respond quickly to the
specific market needs of European banks
and their customers - cardholders and
retailers - and to meet the European
Commission’s objective to create a true
internal market for payments.
Greenwich
As a host borough, almost a third of the
events at the London 2012 Olympic
and Paralympic Games will be held
in Greenwich, attracting hundreds of
thousands of visitors, an international
audience and unlimited business
opportunities. Located 11 minutes from
Canary Wharf and London City Airport,
around 20 minutes from central London
and with the planned Crossrail link,
the innovative offices at Mitre Passage,
where Greenwich Council will help
stimulate this investment as part of the
Destination Greenwich campaign.
For more information, visit
www.destinationgreenwich.com
Greenwich benefits from an excellent
transport network and easy access to
national and international destinations.
Major development on Greenwich
Peninsula, an exciting new business
district for digital media, design and
technology sectors, is poised to capture
international investment. A diverse
range of premises is available including
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Speakers
Michael Charlton, Chief Executive, Think London
Sir Keith Mills, Deputy Chair, LOCOG
Chris Daniels, Head of London 2012 Activation, Lloyds TSB
Mark Zimmer, Head of Olympic Brand Alliance, Westfield
Daryl Jelinek, General Manager of Olympic and Paralympic Games, Coca Cola GB Ltd
Ross Westgate, Anchor, CNBC (Moderator)
Ken Kelling, Communications Director, Visit London
Sally Atkins, Programme Director - London 2012, Deloitte
Andy Anson, CEO, England 2018
Mark Dickinson, Project Director for the Athlete's Village, Lend Lease
Ralph Luck, Director of Property, Olympic Delivery Authority
Colin Bailey, Senior Vice President, CH2M Hill United Kingdom
Duncan Innes, Executive Director of Real Estate, Olympic Park Legacy Company
Niall McNevin, Director of Planning, Olympic Park Legacy Company
Roger Mosey, Director of London 2012, BBC
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Louise Poole, Deputy Group Director 2012 Programme, EDF
Dan Epstein, Head of Sustainability, Olympic Delivery Authority
Nick Cliffe, Marketing Manager, Closed Loop Recycling
Padmesh Shukla, Head of Finance, Mayor of London’s Climate Change Programme
John Williams, Chief Executive Officer, Gateway to London
Clive Dutton, Executive Director for Regeneration, Planning and Property, London Borough of Newham
Trevor Dorling, Assistant Director, Employment and Skills, Greenwich Council
Mike Mulvey, Chief Executive, London Business Network
James Yearsley, Partner European Sourcing & Procurement, Deloitte
Jason Choy, Owner & Director, Welcome Gate
Alex Balfour, Head of New Media, LOCOG
Jon Lane, Business Development and Partnership Director, BT London 2012
Gilles Albaredes, Managing Director, Crystal CG International
Tim Plyming, Project Executive, BBC Digital Olympics
detailed Programme
Monday, 28 June Speakers
13:00-13:45 Welcome & Official Opening
13:00-13:30 Registration & Networking
13:30-13:45 Welcome & Setting the Scene Michael Charlton, Chief Executive, Think London
13:45-15:30 Part One: The London 2012 Games – Business Opportunities
13:45-14:00 The London 2012 Games – The Story to Date
Sir Keith Mills, Deputy Chair, LOCOG
14:00-14:30 London 2012 – Business Opportunities Mike Mulvey, Chief Executive, London Business Network
14:30-14:45 London 2012 – A Sponsor Perspective Chris Daniels, Head of London 2012 Activation, Wholesale Division, Lloyds TSB
14:45-15:00 Q&A
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:45 Part Two: Moderated Panel
Topics: The Broader Framework for Delivering the Games in 2012 and the Impact on London.
•MarkZimmer,HeadofOlympicBrandAlliance,Westfield•KenKelling,CommunicationsDirector,VisitLondon•SallyAtkins,ProgrammeDirector-London2012,Deloitte•DarylJelinek,GeneralManagerofOlympicandParalympic
Games, Coca Cola GB Ltd. •Moderator:RossWestgate,Anchor,CNBC
16:45-18:00 Part Three: Beyond the Games – Future Opportunities
16:45-17:15 Overview of Athletes Village and Other Projects across London
Mark Dickinson, Project Director for the Athletes Village, Lend Lease and Ralph Luck, Director of Property, Olympic Delivery Authority
17:15-17:30 London – A Place of Opportunity Colin Bailey, Senior Vice President, CH2M Hill United Kingdom
17:30-17:45 The World Cup Bid – 2018 Andy Anson, CEO, England 2018
17:45-18:00 Q&A
18:00-20:30 Networking Reception
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Tuesday, 29 June Speakers
08:30-09:00 Registration & Networking
09:00-10:00 Part Four: Beyond the Games – Future Opportunities
09:00-09:30 The Future of London’s Olympic Park Duncan Innes, Executive Director of Real Estate, Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC)
09:30-09:45 Q&A
09:45-10:00 BBC - Digital Planning for London 2012 Roger Mosey, BBC Director, London 2012
10:00-10:15 Q&A
10:15-11:15 Part Five: Moderated Panel
10:15-11:15 Tips for Tendering & Partnering •MikeMulvey,ChiefExecutive,LondonBusinessNetwork•JasonChoy,Owner&Director,WelcomeGate•ColinBailey,SeniorVicePresident,CH2MHillUnited
Kingdom•JamesYearsley,PartnerEuropeanSourcing&Procurement,
Deloitte•Moderator:MarkDavies,MarketingDirector,ThinkLondon
11:15-14:30 Part Six: Workshops
11:15-12:30 First Slot Digital Games or Legacy
12:30-13:30 Second Slot Digital Games or Sustainable Games
Topics: The Digital Games •AlexBalfour,HeadofNewMedia,LOCOG•TimPlyming,ProjectExecutive–BBCDigitalOlympics•JonLane,BusinessDevelopmentandPartnershipDirector,BT
London 2012•GillesAlbaredes,ManagingDirector,CrystalCGInternational•Moderator:JanetCoyle,Headof2012,ThinkLondon
The Sustainable Games •DanEpstein,HeadofSustainability,OlympicDeliveryAuthority•LouisePoole,DeputyGroupDirector2012Programme,EDF•PadmeshShukla,theMayorofLondon’sFinanceLeadonthe
Climate Change Programme•NickCliffe,MarketingManager,ClosedLoopRecycling•Moderator:PruAshby,ThinkLondon
The Legacy •DuncanInnes,ExecutiveDirectorofRealEstate,OPLC•JohnWilliams,CEO,GatewaytoLondon•TrevorDorling,AssistantDirector,EmploymentandSkills,
Greenwich Council•CliveDutton,ExecutiveDirectorforRegeneration,Planning&
Property, London Borough of Newham •Moderator:AndrewCooke,COO,ThinkLondon
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-17:30 Part Seven: Tour of the Olympic Park
14:30-15:30 Travel
15:30-16:30 Tour of the Olympic Park Guide: ODA Representative
16:30-17:00 Travel
17: 00-18:00 Travel by Boat to Greenwich
18:00-21:00 Business Dinner Painted Hall, Greenwich
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List of delegates and Company ProfilesCompany Name Delegate Name Delegate Title
Adstream James Carpenter COO
Adstream Howard Pearce Licensee Director
Arcalife Paul Taylor CEO
Brand Live Group Mo Ling Chui Creative Director
Buongiorno - B! Digital Stefano Diemmi Managing Director UK B! Digital
Calpine Technologies Jijo George John CEO and Chairman
Campus Advantage Michael Peter President and Chief Executive Officer
Cardia Bioplastics Dave Green Business Development Manager UK
Cox Richardson Architects Satvir Mand Associate
Create Advertising Suneil Beri Managing Director
Cynergy Systems Kesavan Sampanthar Director of Media Strategy
DEC Design Mechanical Consultants Erik Lindquist Senior Project Engineer
Disney Interactive Studios Ed Bainbridge Vice President, European Production
dZine Adam Wilson UK Sales Manager
FEPA/Thwapr Paul Holmes Business Relationship Consultant
Focus on Emotions Ignacio Lamarca Director
Getty Images Marc Webbon Director Sports Sales
Getty Images Nick Evens Lombe COO
Global Mechanic Matthew Charde Executive Producer of Development and Marketing
Guangzhou ACT Corporation Aixin Lei Chairman of Board
Guangzhou ACT Corporation Ya Song Imports and Exports Manager
Hash.me Bala Menon Director
HSIL Robert Perry Director UK
Incontrol Simulation Solutions Jan C.D. Thiermann General Manager
Incontrol Simulation Solutions Louis T.Schijve CEO
KeepCup Stuart Forsyth UK Sales manager
Kinglong Lighting Bingxin Chen Managing Director
Magenta Research Diego Barrow Magenta Research Business Manager
Majencia Jeremy Thorpe General Manager UK
Microvision Ian Brown VP Marketing and Sales
MIR3 Steve Skinner Senior Account Manager
Multiplied Media Stephen Lougheed Chairman
Multiplied Media Philip Gontier VP Business Development Europe
Nerve Centrex Software Sujay K.R. Rao Managing Director
Offsetters James Tansey President
OpenTV John Gee Vice President Sales, Advertising/Americas
Opus International Consultants Patrick Phillips London Office Director
Opus International Consultants Mike Grant South East Regional Director
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Company Name Delegate Name Delegate Title
Panda Fireworks Group Weiping (Jackson) Zhao President
Panda Fireworks Group Yuhong (Rebecca) Song Overseas Sales and Marketing Director
PelicanCorp Duane Rodgers CEO
Prestige Kiosks Alvaro Donadelli Managing Director
RedTxt Sydney Low CEO
RedTxt Nick Orloff COO
Regens Web Solutions Reka Moksony Director
Saskiasoft Technologies Kaushik Sarkar Manager- Global Business & Alliances
SATIR Trade Jingjing Wang Manager
Shenling Environmentally Friendly Packing Materials
Zihua Cui Management Representative
Shenling Environmentally Friendly Packing Materials
Richard Weston Business Consultant
Sichuan Sunfor Light Ming Zhang CEO
Sichuan Sunfor Light Xiaoqin Yang Administrative Officer
South Beauty Food and Beverage Sandy Hsieng-Lin Liu Group Director of Marketing
ST Engineering Augustine Syn Senior Vice-President, ST Engg Europe
Taishan Sports Industry Group Harry H. Shi Director of International Business
Vital Balance Group Jan de Jong CEO
Xomo Digital Richard Caelius General Manager, Europe
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Adstream
Adstream’s global media exchange
services streamline the advertising and
media pipeline. They integrate workflow,
management and distribution services
for use across all media from print
and publishing to TV, radio and online.
Adstream has around 1,000 clients in the
UK alone, and the largest digital footprint
in Europe of any service.
delivery
• Broadcast:DigitaldeliveryofyourTV
and Radio material worldwide.
• Print:Arangeoftoolsprovidingafull
Interesting Facts
• Adstreamdeliversover600,000
commercials to individual TV
destinations per year.
• Over25,000publisherspecifications
are constantly monitored and added to.
• Adstreamhasover2000activeclients
in any given month.
www.adstream.com
service of validation, delivery and
storage – connected to the world’s
largest publisher database
dAMS
• AdBank:Manage&archiveallyourTV,
Radio, Print and New Media assets
• WorkPath:Across-mediabrowser
based, hosted solution, which does
not require installation of hardware.
It offers seamless workflow from
brief, through concept and approval,
to dispatch, archive and repurposing.
Arcalife
Arcalife.com is an easy-to-use online
community where you can preserve
your family history, scrapbook today’s
memories, and securely record your life
story with photos, videos and written
memoirs. Arcalife.com took part in the
cultural olympiad for Vancouver 2010
offering its members and partners the
opportunity to leave a richer digital
legacy from the Games. Through its
unique multimedia showcases and
memory capture applications, arcalife
will support the 2012 Games and help
bring the digital games to life.
www.arcalife.com
Brand Live Group
Our story begins with our name. It’s
the perfect encapsulation of who we are
because it contains within it the two
different, equally important divisions of
brand & LIVE.
brand.LIVE’s expertise is creating
unforgettable live experiences. We
connect people with brands.
brand.LIVE is a highly-experienced
production, event management and
brand activation company with the
credentials and operational systems
in place to create unforgettable live
experiences. At brand.LIVE we bring
creative innovation together with solid
business strategies and unparalleled
production expertise to the design and
execution of concerts, festivals, sporting
events and activations.
We are committed to ensuring all
of our projects utilise sustainable and
responsible practices, and are proud
to have been recognised as the first
production company in Canada to
actively engage and promote the world
wide EcoNeutral programme.
www.brandlivegroup.com
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Buongiorno - B! digital
B!Digital (previously Buongiorno
Marketing Services) is the full service
digital marketing and advertising agency
joint venture between the Buongiorno
Group; the global leader in mobile
content and digital entertainment, and
Mitsui; a leading Japanese trading house
with global investments. Revenues from
B!Digital (part of the listed Buongiorno
Group) amounted to EUR16.0 million in
2008. The growth in revenues was due to
a number of important sales successes
with prestigious customers, including
Orange Wednesday in the UK, Citibank
and Coca-Cola in Spain, and Mondadori,
Gruppo Espresso, L’Oreal and Renault in
Italy. B!Digital is the largest mobile-centric
digital agency worldwide with extensive
global coverage and local offices in 8
countries - UK, France, Spain, Germany,
Italy, Russia, Netherlands and the USA.
Through acquisitions such as Flytxt, Mobi-
Village and HotSMS, B!Digital has built its
expertise and technological capabilities
across mobile marketing, mobile internet
development and mobile advertising.
The vision of B!Digital is to work with
blue-chip brands across geographies as
a strategic mobile partner and delivery
engine for end-to-end digital solutions.
www.buongiorno.com
Campus Advantage
Campus Advantage is North America’s
largest provider of management,
development and consulting services
related to higher education. The
company currently operates over
30,000 beds at 37 universities. With
over 900 employees, CA is committed
to providing innovative solutions
for both educational and housing
communities. www.campusadvantage.com
Cardia Bioplastics
Cardia Bioplastics is a global developer,
manufacturer and marketer of
sustainable resins derived from
renewable resources. Its Biohybrid and
compostable resins deliver packaging
and plastic products with a lower carbon
footprint.
Cardia Bioplastics gives you the
choice of using sustainable Cardia
Biohybrid resins or Compostable resins
for your packaging or plastic product
solution. Its materials are suitable for
injection moulding, blow moulding,
extrusion, film and coating applications.
www.cardiabioplastics.com
Calpine technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Calpine Technologies is a CMMi Level
3 certified private limited company
located in Kochi, India and also has
offices in the USA and Australia. With a
team of more than 200+ professionals
which is fast growing Calpine is fully
equipped to address the customer
requirements.
A summary of services offered by
Calpine is given below:
• Softwareproducts
• Webbasedapplications
• E-Commercewebsites
• WebsiteDesigning
• SoftwareConsultation
• SystemAdminSupport
www.calpinetech.com
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deC design Mechanical Consultants Limited
DEC is an innovative, Canadian
engineering corporation working at
the forefront of sustainable systems
design and construction. Embracing the
concept of energy conservation and
sustainability, DEC fields a uniquely
gifted team of bright, experienced
engineers, technologists, and designers
dedicated to the optimal use of
recoverable and renewable energy for
the heating and cooling of buildings,
from single structures to entire
communities.
DEC has developed a patent-pending
system called District Energy Sharing,
a low-temperature, shared-resource
system that distributes heating, cooling,
and in some cases reclaimed water
to interconnected buildings within
a community to reduce community
energy & water consumption by more
than 50%.
For 30 years, DEC has provided
planners, developers and builders with
multi-disciplinary engineering leadership
and excellence; District Energy Sharing
is but the latest result of the dedication,
commitment and resourcefulness of this
pioneering firm. DEC innovative work
has been recognized by the Association
of Consulting Engineering Companies of
Canada with its Award of Excellence, and
by the Community Energy Association
with its Energy Action Award.
www.decdesign.ca
Cynergy Systems
Cynergy Systems Inc., founded in
January 1996 by Carson Hager, has been
delivering rich business applications
to a customer base of over 1,500
companies worldwide for over a decade.
With offices across North America
and Asia-Pacific, the company has
developed a well-deserved reputation
as experts in the development of rich
internet applications using a variety
of toolsets and technologies, including
Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows
Presentation Foundation (WPF), Adobe
Flex, Adobe AIR, and the Apple iPhone.
Cynergy is a member of the
Microsoft Global Agency Initiative, a
group of the top 12 firms in the world
hand-picked by Microsoft as being the
thought leaders in the Silverlight and
WPF space. It maintains extensive
relationships across the Microsoft
organisation including executive
management, engineering, product
management, support and sales.
Cynergy holds the unique qualification
of expertise in all facets of RIA
development, including unmatched
Silverlight expertise, over a decade of
building robust and scalable distributed
database applications and world-class
creative interactive design professionals
passionately dedicated to the user
experience.
www.cynergysystems.com
Cox Richardson Architects
COX Architects & Planners was first
established in Sydney as Philip Cox
& Partners in 1964. Since then the
company has grown to a national
practice with offices in Sydney, Perth,
Brisbane, Melbourne and Canberra.
Internationally the company has
representative offices in Dubai, Abu
Dhabi, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
COX is a progressive and diversified
architectural company covering the
fields of public buildings, convention
and exhibition, commercial and retail
developments, tourism, sport (including
the Sydney and Beijing Olympics)
and recreation, transport and bridges,
education and housing, health and
conservation. The company has
developed a reputation for innovative
and exciting design, with projects, both
current and completed, throughout
Australia, the United Arab Emirates, New
Zealand, South Africa, Italy and Asia. The
practice produces buildings of excellence
within economic, environmental,
social and functional constraints. COX
believe that architectural excellence is
only achieved through teamwork and
problem solving which fully satisfies the
requirements of the client and end user.
www.cox.com.au
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disney Interactive Studios
Disney Interactive Studios is a business
division of The Walt Disney Company
and maintains both publishing and
licensing activities in the interactive
videogame domain on all major console,
handheld, PC and mobile platforms.
dZine
dZine are the European market leaders
in digital signage technology. dZine was
founded in 1992 and has over 90,000
media players live in the world to date.
Digital signage is a form of electronic
display that shows information,
advertising and other messages rather
than fixed, static, printed media. Digital
content can be animated, interactive
and therefore is more attractive to the
viewer, giving it a wider audience base.
Latest IT technology allows dZine to
change the content and messaging
instantly at the push of a button to
displays anywhere in the world. The
company can also schedule content
and message changes to ensure that
information is always relevant to the
time/place and audience as well as
ensuring the information is constantly
up-to-date. Its latest technology is low
power, low network usage and therefore
has extremely high environmental
savings and carbon foot print reduction,
in terms of costs and the decline in
printing and transportation impact.
dZine works closely with its customers
to ensure requirements are met,
solutions are delivered and ROIs
achieved.
www.dzine.be
FePA/thwapr, Inc.
FEPA Group/Featured Entertainment
& Production Arts Ltd. is a global
and diversified network and alliance
of producers and developers in the
following portfolios (but not limited to):
Motion Pictures, Television, Music, Live
Events, Conferences and Special Events,
Digital Media and Mobile Entertainment
and Content, Broadcasting, Fashion
Lifestyle Branding and Marketing,
Destination Hotels and Casino Resorts
and Financing. The FEPA Group is made
up of over 105 companies in its network
worldwide.
www.fepagroup.com
Thwapr is the first true mobile video
sharing communications platform.
Thwapr’s mission is to provide a social
mobile video sharing experience
regardless of carrier or device worldwide.
Developed by founding members
of Apple’s QuickTime team and
technologists from AVID/Digidesign
and MTV, Thwapr’s patent-pending
technology allows mobile users to send
video “Thwaps” captured with their
device to any other mobile users, easily
and instantly. The company is privately
held.
www.thwapr.com
www.disney.com
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Global Mechanic is an award-winning
integrated studio dedicated to creating
content in any medium. Founded in
2000 by animation veteran Bruce Alcock,
GM has produced films, commercials,
games, installations, TV shows,
interactive experiences, and original
photography. The company is a master
at solving visual problems- have been
for years- and boast a huge portfolio
of work to prove it. Its premier facility
is world class and staffed with the
best creative staff and all the coolest
gear imaginable. Global Mechanic is
positioned to make intriguing and
delightful visuals that entertain people
on the web, on TV, in a playhouse or
a cinema. Its work is often hard to
label, but suffice it to say, wherever the
projects go, they work.
www.globalmechanic.com
Global Mechanic
Focus on emotions
Focus On Emotions is an operator of
proximity marketing and interactive
services at point of sale/or point
of service, creating, designing and
maintaining new channels of
communication and interaction with
end customers and citizens.
Focus On Emotions has created a
unique set of solutions that enable city
councils and venues to communicate,
interact and offer best services to their
citizens and customers.
Focus on Emotions works in creating
the technical solutions, designing the
applications, planning and preparing
content and services, and maintaining
the network with a unique set of
tools and a unique set of skills and
experiences.
Focus On Emotions has been
recognised with the most important
international awards of the industry as
the leading company in self service and
proximity marketing projects for large
venues and public offices.
www.focusonemotions.com
Getty Images
Getty Images is a leading creator and
distributor of still imagery, footage
and multimedia products, as well as
a recognised provider of other forms
of premium digital content, including
music. Getty Images serves business
customers in more than 100 countries
and is the first place creative media
professionals turn to discover, purchase
and manage images and other digital
content. Its award winning photographers
and imagery help customers produce
inspiring work which appears every day in
the world’s most influential newspapers,
magazines, advertising campaigns,
films, television programmes, books
and websites. Visit Getty Images to
learn more about how the company is
advancing the unique role of
digital media in communications and
business and enabling creative ideas to
come to life.
www.gettyimages.co.uk
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HSIL Ltd.
HSIL is a member of the Somany Group
of India and HSIL alone has a turnover
of approximately US$100 million per
annum. The company is one of the
largest sanitaryware manufacturers in
the world and may well be the largest
independent sanitaryware manufacturer
in the world.
HSIL has more than 250,000 pieces
per year free capacity and is currently
setting up a company in the UK in order
to give a better service to its customers.
Its products range from the simplest
small wash basin to high end designer
bathroom ware and LANTAC approved
toilet packs for disabled toilet facilities.
HSIL has been trading with the UK for
10 years.
www.hindwarehomes.com
Guangzhou ACt Corporation
Founded in 2001 in Guangzhou, ACT
Corporation is a professional sports
facility service company, mainly
engaged in research and development,
manufacturing, sales, installation
and service of sports facilities. With
continuous development, Guangzhou
ACT Corporation has become one of the
leading sports facility manufacturers in
China. It provides you with a variety
of products, including stadium seats,
synthetic turf, sports flooring, and
sports equipment. The company’s
manufacturing zone in Guangzhou,
China has 400 staff and is over 100,000
sqm in size, with an investment of
more than U$S20,000,000. As a leading
global sports facility manufacturer,
ACT focuses heavily on quality control
and environmental protection, and is
ISO9001 and ISO14001 certified. Most
of its production equipment, testing
equipment, and raw materials are
imported from Europe and America.
ACT’s products have been exported to
more than fifty countries and have been
used in Paralympic Games, Asian games,
National Games, etc.
www.actcorp.cn
Hash.me Limited
Hash.me has a patent pending
communications platform that allows
communication across mediums
including text messaging, email,
Facebook, mobile web and Twitter using
a unique identity that works worldwide.
What modern means of
communication lack is the guaranteed
ability to get a message through to a
person instantly. And that is where the
company’s opportunity lies: in bringing
together various communication
platforms to simplify and solve the
basic task of every communication
platform - making contact.
The platform can easily be licensed
by mobile operators, enterprises and
phone manufacturers.
The Founder and CEO, Bala
Menon has experience developing
communication technologies in the
mobile space. While at Newcastle
University, he developed a powerful
communications platform that helped
students and professors interact easily
through mobile phones and computers
alike.
http://hash.me
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KeepCup Ltd.
KeepCup is the world’s first barista
standard reusable coffee cup. Unlike all
other travel flasks, KeepCup is designed
specifically for ‘espresso coffee’, and
unlike all other travel mugs, KeepCup
integrates seamlessly into any café outlet.
KeepCups are meticulously considered:
from their efficient and cool looking
design to their impressive environmental
credentials, they have become the coffee
connoisseurs’ choice reusable cup.
Why London 2012? Figures estimate
more than 9 million spectators will
come to London to view the Games.
This will result in more than 100 million
paper cups in landfill at the closing
of the Games. This is an unnecessary,
potentially overlooked, and easily
preventable explosion of London’s
environmental footprint. At the end
of the Games the commemorative
‘2012 KeepCups’ can be reclaimed,
disassembled and recycled, or preferably
the Olympic KeepCups can be taken by
the spectator- not only as a wonderful
souvenir, and a reminder of their time at
the London Olympics, but as an actual
unique and practical working coffee cup!
A potent, subtle and long lasting echo of
the eco-efficiency of the London 2012
Games.
www.keepcup.com
Kinglong Lighting Factory Co Ltd.
Kinglong Lighting is a major
manufacturer of decorative lighting with
over 16 years experience supplying to
major distributors/importers and chain
stores in the UK & European markets.
Its products range covers residential
contemporary lighting fixtures, high-end
glass & crystal chandeliers, spots, and
downlights with LED lighting sources.
The company uses original designs from
its European designers and has three
brands: Kinglong, Illuminati and Moollona. www.kinglong-lighting.net
www.illuminati-lighting.com
www.moollona.com
Incontrol Simulation Solutions
INCONTROL Simulation Solutions
is a software solution provider and
consultancy company in logistic
simulation and quantitive analysis. With
over 20 years experience, INCONTROL
is a frequently asked organisation to
provide insight and solve complex
problems. INCONTROL is headquartered
in Utrecht, The Netherlands and has
offices in Wiesbaden, Germany and
Beijing, China. Via its worldwide partner
network INCONTROL’s simulation
solutions are available in more than
16 countries. Each partner has a local
Enterprise Dynamics expertise centre
to support customers in the use of
Enterprise Dynamics or consulting
projects.
The company’s simulation solution
Enterprise Dynamics is used in the
following fields and markets:
• Manufacturing&materialhandling
• Logistics&distribution
• Airport&carriers
• Railways&operators
• Harbours&terminals
• Healthcare
• Defence
• Research&development
The popularity of Enterprise Dynamics
can be explained by the vast amount
of simulation objects, the use of
Enterprise Dynamics at universities in
the curriculum and the support of many
industry standards in communication,
reporting and graphics.
www.incontrolsim.com
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Microvision
Microvision has developed a high-
resolution miniature display and imaging
engine based upon its proprietary
PicoP® display engine platform. The
technology platform utilises expertise
in two dimensional Micro-Electrical
Mechanical Systems (MEMS), lasers,
optics and electronics to create a high
quality video or still image from a
small form factor device with lower
power needs than conventional display
technologies.
Microvision’s strategy is to develop
and supply a proprietary display
engine called PicoP to potential OEM
customers who will embed the end into
a variety of customer and automotive
products. The primary objective for
customer applications is to provide users
of mobile devices with a large screen
viewing experience produced by a small
embedded projector. Mobile devices
may include cell phones, PDAs, gaming
consoles and other consumer electronics
products. These potential products would
allow users to watch movies, play videos,
and display images and other data onto a
variety of flat or curved surfaces.
www.microvision.com
Majencia Ltd.
As a leading French company specialising
in office furniture and workplace design,
Majencia’s vocation is to contribute to
quality of life, well-being and efficiency
in office spaces, as achieved at Majencia’s
headquarters (NEOFFICE).
Majencia benefits from an integrated
model controlling all the skills in order to
offer its customers an all-in-one project
from design, production, and delivery up to
installation.
Its specific positioning and competitive
advantage lie in Majencia’s capacity to
handle global solutions incorporating
complete or partial services based
around 3 principles: consultancy, project
management and furniture installation.
Whatever the office layout project is, from
small businesses to major groups, Majencia
coordinates all steps from start to finish.
The company, owned entirely by
Majencia’s Executive Board, had a turnover
of €94,4M in 2009.
Committed as a responsible company,
Majencia is dedicated to sustainable
development based on three fundamental
principles: social progression, economic
efficiency and respect for the environment,
with specific commitments for 2012.
Key figures: People: 742, French
manufacturing centres: 3, Integrated sales
network: 13 branches.
www.majencia.com
www.mir3.com
Mir3
The Mir3 notification platform enables a
single user to contact and communicate
with thousands of people around the
globe almost instantly. Mir3 is a two-
way communication protocol which
gets messages delivered and receives
recipients’ responses to then provide
real-time updates to and from mobile
phones, landlines, PDAs and other
modalities.
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nerve Centrex Software India Pvt. Ltd.
Nerve Centrex is a technology services
company established in the year 2005 in
Bangalore, India. The company provides
technology-driven solutions in the field
of healthcare, digital media, eGovernance
and network video surveillance.
Nerve Centrex defines designs and
develops technology-enabled solutions
for businesses and governments that
help them to integrate IT systems into
their core work, seamlessly enhancing
their productivity. Innovative approach
is what Nerve Centrex has sustained in
all its endeavours. Its innovation is driven
by strong R&D talent who deliver key
products and solutions. www.nervecentrex.com
offsetters
Offsetters is the top ranked carbon
management company in Canada and a
global market leader in greenhouse gas
auditing, lifecycle carbon assessment,
carbon advisory services and high-
quality carbon offset origination and
retail. Offsetters was selected as the top
ranked provider by the British Columbia
government, which created the first high-
quality regulated offset market in North
America and Offsetters were selected as
the official carbon offset supplier to the
2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic
Games in Vancouver. The company’s
clients include the Government of
Canada, Harbour Air and Groupe
Aeroplan, the world’s largest loyalty
programme.
www.offsetters.com
Multiplied Media
Multiplied Media is the developer of
Poynt, an award-winning, all-in-one, free
local search application that connects
users to businesses, movie theatres,
restaurants, people and retailers,
whenever and wherever users need
them. From inspiration to action, Poynt
helps transform the mobile device
from a communication tool to an
entertainment and utility tool. Poynt’s
unique approach on local search doesn’t
stop with discovery of local businesses.
Poynt goes a step further to allow users
to do more with that business or service
whether that is viewing showtimes and
movie trailers at a local cinema, buying
cinema tickets or even reserving a table
at a local restaurant.
www.multiplied.com
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opentV
OpenTV’s mission is to provide
customers with the highest quality
technology, services and end-to-
end solutions enabling intuitive and
personalised viewing experiences
for consumers of television content
worldwide.
These viewing experiences can
include a wide array of advanced
services for television, including
enhanced programme guides, high-
definition services, video-on-demand,
personal video recording, home
networking, interactive and addressable
advertising, and a variety of enhanced
television applications.
OpenTV is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Kudelski Group and
is headquartered in San Francisco,
California, with offices worldwide.
www.opentv.com
opus International Consultants (UK) Ltd.
With origins in a former New Zealand
government entity (the Ministry of
Works and Development - established
in 1885), Opus brings together the
experience of more than a century of
infrastructure development, covering
planning, design, project management,
construction supervision, maintenance
and rehabilitation. Today, Opus has
around 2,000 staff in offices and
laboratories throughout the United
Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the USA
and New Zealand. The company has
12 offices located throughout the
United Kingdom in the Midlands, Wales,
London, the South East, the South West,
Yorkshire and the North West.
From London Opus provides
specialist advice and project
management across a wide range
of service sectors. Its main areas
of work include architecture, traffic
and transportation planning, noise
assessments as well as flood risk
assessments, infrastructure design,
and civil and structural engineering.
Opus also provides land surveying,
geotechnical and environmental
engineering, highway design,
development and maintenance, asset
management, and water management.
Opus is a company committed to
providing sustainable design solutions
for future generations.
www.opusinternational.co.uk
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PelicanCorp Pty Ltd.
PelicanCorp provides software and
services to utilities, asset owners and
to the Before you Dig industry for
the protection of the underground
assets and communities. PelicanCorp’s
solutions range from the operation
of the BeforeUDig contact centre, to
assisting asset owners to automate
plan response processes. If you need
to protect above or below ground
infrastructure, then PelicanCorp
provides turn-key solutions. The core
services support the beforeUdig
business, asset owners and contractors.
The services include software
consultancy, web services, database
development, web development,
technical support, data maintenance
and data editing.
www.pelicancorp.com
Prestige Kiosks Ltd.
Prestige Kiosks Limited is the exclusive
agent in the UK and the Republic of
Ireland for Asteco Industria, Italy’s
leading company in the design,
manufacturing and installation of
bespoke steel kiosks and modular
functional buildings for use as
newspaper stands, refreshment kiosks,
information booths, flower stalls, fruit
and vegetable shops, public restrooms,
market stalls, restaurants and many
other applications.
www.prestigekiosks.com
Panda Fireworks Group
Panda Fireworks Group Limited is listed
on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (Stock
code: SH600599) with a stock value of
over RMB 2bn. As the earliest private
fireworks company in China, Panda
Fireworks was established in 1989 by Mr
Jackson Zhao. Since its inception, it has
always been at the top of its industry. In
the past 10 years, it has acquired many
companies in the UK, Denmark, Sweden
and China, with a total purchase value
exceeding RMB500m.
Panda has a 200-people strong
professional pyrotechnics team, a
unique fireworks creative studio and a
pyrotechnic research institute, which
make it the leader of the industry. With
advanced technologies and products like
air launch, chip-controlled and pollution-
free fireworks, the company has always
been devoted to integrating modern
technologies into the millenium-old
pyrotechnics industry.
Panda covered nearly all fireworks
shows for the most important events
in China, most notably the Beijing
Olympics, China’s 60th National Day,
and Shanghai Expo.
With over 20 years of hard work
and experience, Panda Fireworks has
been upholding the values of being
professional, high-tech, reliable, and
environmental to bring the world more
and more brilliant nights.
www.pandafireworks.com
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Regens Web Solutions Limited
Regens’ business office was established
in London in 2009. The Hungarian
parent company has been operating for
over 16 years and provides innovative
IT solutions for companies, as web
applications (CRM), portal solutions,
business integration platforms and IT
outsourcing services. Regens’ main area
is future internet technologies. The
company’s novel Enterprise 2.0 platform,
SMARTNET, has been developed for
organisations offering a wide variety of
web 2.0 features, implemented in a safe
enterprise environment, extended to the
mobile world. It has several modules for
fulfilling the expectations companies
have with regard to new and advanced
types of collaborative workplaces that
use social media tools in enterprise
environments. Regens is interested in
offering social media, web 2.0, mobile
application development and integration
services. The company also has in-depth
experience in database administration
and development (ORACLE).
www.regens.co.uk
www.smartnet-erm.com
Redtxt
RedTxt is a privately held Australian
company that has developed a
proprietary mobile advertising platform
that allows communities to send
SMS messages funded by advertisers.
The SponsorTxt service is a patented
system that is spam-law compliant and
combines a publisher and an advertiser’s
message automatically creating a new
mobile advertising channel.
The team behind RedTxt has
extensive internet and marketing
experience. During 1999-2001, they
built the fastest growing internet service
provider in Australia and globalised the
underlying technology with Concert
plc, a $10B joint venture between
AT&T and British Telecom through an
investment of over $40M. From 2003
they developed one of the leading
independent premium email services.
They are now focused on making SMS a
mainstream communication channel.
www.redtxt.com.au
Saskiasoft technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Saskiasoft Technologies is a business
application and turn-key technology
solutions provider, enabling to achieve
measurable business results through
the use of IT, with an approach to
onsite/offshore software development
that can deliver the right result and
quality solutions. A unique blend of
corporate values, enthusiastic, skilled
and experienced staff, quality processes,
and state of the art technology is the
enabling factor in providing best-of-
breed solutions, services and products
to customers across the globe. The
company was founded by a team with
global expertise in terms of clients
and project execution. Currently the
team services projects for its UK,
European, US, and Australian clients
in mission critical areas. Saskiasoft
offers technology and application
development services and solutions
on Microsoft, Uniface, Java/J2EE, Lotus
Notes and PHP platforms. The company
has built a team of professionals, who
are highly skilled and experienced and
have implemented numerous complex
solutions for clients over the years.
Saskiasoft’s team is highly competent
and has extensive international
experience, taking an idea from concept
to reality.
www.saskiasoft.com
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Shenling environmentally Friendly Packing Materials Co., Ltd.
Shenling Environmentally Friendly
Packing Materials Co., Ltd. is a leading
Chinese manufacturer and exporter
of biodegradable tableware. The range
of its product lines, good quality, and
competitive pricing have made it one
of the fastest growing companies of its
kind in China. Shenling produces a wide
variety of paper pulp disposables made
from sugarcane bagasse (agricultural
waste). Bagasse is the by-product
during the sugar refining process –
100% natural fibre. It is microwavable,
freezer-safe, and non-toxic. Both white
bleached and unbleached natural
fibres are available. As a professional
manufacturer focused on quality and
food safety management, the company
has been certified by SGS, ISO9001
Quality Management System, ISO22000
Food Safety Management System
(HACCP, GMP included), BRC/IoP Global
Food Packaging Standard, Silliker Factory
Audit (with Excellent Audit Rating), and
Biodegradable Test of ASTM D6868 &
EN13432.
Shenling endeavours to work together
with you to protect the environment and
create a more eco-friendly life.
www.biodegradableware.com.cn
Sichuan Sunfor Light Co., Ltd.
Sunfor is a market leading innovator
and manufacturer of LED lighting
and photoluminescent material that
enchances the quality and safety of
living. LED lighting provides a profesional
solution in commercial lighting and
specialised lighting such as metro
lighting, and photoluminescent material
provides a solution in emergency escape
systems.
Sunfor is located in Chengdu, Sichuan
province. The company has more than
400 employees in China and has more
than 100 item patents. In 2009, the
company’s sales amounted to 250
million yuan and Sunfor aims to exceed
sales of 300 million yuan in 2010.
www.sunfor.com.cn
SAtIR trade Co. Ltd
Guangzhou SAT Infrared Technology Co.
Ltd (SATIR) is a civilian thermal imaging
system company with headquarters in
Guangzhou, China, and R&D, production
and sales departments in France, Ireland
and the UK. SATIR is the leading
enterprise in China’s civilian use thermal
imaging industry. SATIR was also
responsible for drafting the GB/T 1987-
2005 National Standards of Industrial
Inspecting Thermal Imaging Cameras.
Through 20 years of hard work, SATIR
has become a famous Chinese brand all
over the world.
SATIR has eight main product
categories: R&D, predictive maintenance,
instruments, explosives, fire fighting,
security, surveillance, and night vision.
Each category has an annual capacity
of 10,000 units. SATIRS’s products are
sold to over 30 countries and regions
in the world and are widely used in
the electrical, fire fighting, petroleum
processing, metallurgy, coal mining,
building, medical, electronic, security, and
surveillance industries.
www.sat.com.cn
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taishan Sports Industry Group
As the largest sports equipment
supplier in Olympic history Taishan
Sports Industry Group supplied
equipment to the 2008 Beijing Olympic
Games for the following sports:
gymnastics, judo, taekwondo, wrestling,
boxing, track & field, wushu and free
combat (non-competitive), delivering
more than 200 types of products and
20,000 sets of equipment.
www.taishansports.com
St engineering (europe)
Singapore Technologies Engineering
Ltd (ST Engineering) is an integrated
engineering group specialising in
innovative solutions and services in the
aerospace, electronics, land systems and
marine sectors.
Incorporated in 1997 and headquartered
in Singapore, we rank among the largest
companies listed on the Singapore
Exchange, and one of Asia’s largest
defence and engineering groups. A
leader in each of our core businesses,
ST Engineering leverages its multi-
sector capabilities to develop advanced
solutions for customers across industries.
We serve both commercial and defence
customers in over 80 countries, through
a global network of over 100 subsidiaries
and associated companies in 24
countries and 42 cities spanning the US,
Europe, Asia and Australasia. We have a
global workforce of more than 21,000.
www.stengg.com
South Beauty Food and Beverage Co, Ltd.
Founded in 2000, South Beauty Group is
headquartered in Beijing and is currently
made up of three high-end brands:
South Beauty Restaurants, LAN Club
and STEAM. Together they represent
a dominant restaurant management
group.
Since its establishment, South
Beauty Group has always been
dedicated to the corporate core values
of innovation, development, style and
health. From the first South Beauty
restaurant at the China World Trade
Centre in Beijing to more than 40
restaurants in locations across the
country including Beijing, Shanghai,
Tianjin, Chengdu, Taiyuan, Nanjing
and Qingdao, South Beauty Group
continues its pursuit of brand innovation
and breakthrough. From world-class
South Beauty restaurants to LAN
Club, a luxurious club with the most
artistic flavours in China, customers
that frequent South Beauty’s facilities
range from business elite and prominent
poliltical figures to visitors at the 2008
Beijing Olympics. After almost 10
years of solid expansion, South Beauty
Group continues to hold some of the
greatest development potential among
international catering service and
management groups in China.
www.southbeautygroup.com
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Xomo digital
Xomo makes world class mobile apps
for festivals and events. The company’s
award-winning products are offered
turn-key on iPhone, BlackBerry and
other popular devices and have been
downloaded more than 1,000,000
times. Clients include the 2010 Winter
Olympic Games, the London Jazz
Festival, the Vancouver International Jazz
Festival and the Vancouver International
Film Festival.
Vital Balance Group
V-Check is a concept of Vital Balance
Group, the Netherlands.
Vital Balance Group’s mission is
to deliver a structural contribution
to quality of life and healthcare
management, by developing and
delivering a wide range of medically
and scientifically proven products
and services that measure, optimise
and monitor a person’s vitality. The
V-Check scans the body, registering
its current health and vitality status,
and gives a detailed overview of stress
muscles, disturbed organ systems,
dietary deficiencies, energy levels and
current physical condition. And this in
just eight minutes, in a relaxed sitting
position, with only socks and shoes to
be removed.
www.vitalbalancegroup.com
dynamic advertising experience, be it
for broadcast, outdoor, or event specific
use.
www.createadvertising.co.uk
Create Advertising
Create Advertising is the first
Hollywood movie trailer company to
open an office in London. As a leader
in entertainment advertising, the
company has produced trailers and
campaigns on films such as CASINO
ROYALE, ALICE IN WONDERLAND,
and SPIDERMAN-3 to name a few.
Building on our reputation, we have
successfully expanded into industries
beyond movies, servicing a wide range
of clients.
Our London office brings this
expertise to UK based clients, and with
our mix of UK and international trained
staff, we pride ourselves in providing
a unique global advertising approach.
Our strength lies in being able to edit
and package footage in a very high
production-value manner. With a top-
tier editorial and motion graphics set
up, we are focused on creating a truly
www.xomodigital.com
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Magenta Research
Serving the pro-AV and digital signage
markets, Magenta Research is the
industry recognised leader in the
transmission, switching and flexible
distribution of multi-format video, audio
and auxiliary signals over fibre and
Cat-X cabling. Its product range includes
AV extenders, distribution amplifiers
and matrix switchers for DVI, HDMI,
DisplayPort, SDI, VGA, and component,
composite, S-Video, audio, USB, RS-
232 and IR signals. Magenta’s world
renowned solutions are a benchmark
in field reliability for 24/7 and mission
critical environments. Hundreds of
thousands of displays worldwide
have been trusted with Magenta in
virtually all environments including
commercial, industrial, government,
military, residential, transport, education,
healthcare, retail, hospitality, sports and
entertainment.
For well over a decade Magenta has
been developing and manufacturing the
world’s best performing and highest
quality signal management equipment
for the Pro AV and digital signage
marketplace. Today digital connectivity
standards are playing a major role in
Magenta’s clients’ system strategy
for audiovisual content delivery and
presentation. By listening to clients and
by working with them to understand
and address their challenges, Magenta
is continually refining its product vision
and direction to meet and exceed
stringent requirements and standards.
www.magenta-research.com
• We help our clients identify R&D
partners at London’s universities
to facilitate collaboration.
• We provide intelligence on the
opportunities at the 2012 Games,
the bid process and connections to
the 2012 community.
• We signpost companies to the
organisations that can help them
get involved with community
projects such as volunteering or
youth training.
What think London Can do for You
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Think London connects international
businesses to London. We can offer
you the local expertise and advice
you need to set up, succeed and grow
your business in London. Our service is
comprehensive, confidential and funded.
Our experts work with government and
local businesses to help you find the
best people, places and opportunities in
the city.
Think London can help you set up and
expand in London quickly and efficiently,
making your international expansion
cost-effective, productive and profitable.
Whatever size your business, we can
save you valuable management time
and money, and help you take full
advantage of all that London has to
offer.
our Services• We help you make the business
case for locating or staying in
London, and help you set up as
quickly and smoothly as possible.
• We help you make the right
connections by offering access to
relevant business and government
networks, associations and
professional services experts.
• We help you find the right people
from the huge pool of talent and
skills available in London. And we
help you upskill your workforce
through access to training schemes.
• We help you find the right
property, making sure you set up
close to the right markets, with
the appropriate infrastructure and
business support services.
• We help you settle into London
life, with information about housing,
schools and local amenities, helping
you sort out the important aspects
of living in London for your staff and
their families.
• We act as a conduit for companies’
views on London’s infrastructure and
business regime to government.
London’s historic position as Europe’s
prime hub for business has made it
the European anchor destination for
companies going global. Despite the
global economic downturn, London has
maintained its pre-eminent role as the
best city in which to set up a business.
• # 1 European city for business
in 2009 for the 20th year running
(Cushman and Wakefield, European
Cities Monitor 2009)
• # 1 European destination for
Foreign Direct Investment for the
12th year running (Ernst & Young,
European Attractiveness Survey
2009)
• ‘European City of the Future’
for the third time (fDi Magazine,
‘European Cities & Regions of the
Future’ awards 2010)
In any economic landscape, London
offers overseas-owned businesses some
of the best opportunities available
anywhere in the world. As London
businesses prepare for the recovery,
there are many reasons why now is the
perfect time to establish a presence
here.
Firstly, London is the host city for the
2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic
Games, and with just over two years
to go until the Opening Ceremony, a
multitude of opportunities still remain
across a range of different categories.
Through the CompeteFor platform
procurement for the Games is both
transparent and open to all businesses,
ensuring a diverse pool of suppliers are
appointed, delivering the highest quality
and best value goods and services.
And the London 2012 Games are
at the heart of Europe’s largest
regeneration project, the Thames
Gateway – an 800 square mile area
connecting London with the coast along
the route of the Thames. It will provide
a hub for growth, creating a thriving
economy based on strong inward
investment and improved business
opportunities; an eco-region planned
on sound environmental principles of
sustainability.
Secondly, London helps companies
create operational efficiencies. In the
post-recession era, overseas investors
will start to reconfigure their global
footprints in order to create operational
efficiencies. London’s access to a
concentration of specialist business
clusters, a skilled workforce and new
technology helps companies reduce
the costs of doing business abroad in
multiple countries.
Thirdly, London’s deep and diverse
pool of talent enables your business
to ride on top of worldwide recovery.
Well over half of London’s working
population is highly qualified – on a
professional, technical or management
level. In the current economic
environment, businesses will find it
even easier to tap into this highly skilled
talent pool.
London remains the perfect gateway for
overseas companies wanting to tap into
the 500-million strong consumer market
in Europe. London also continues to be
open for businesses from around the
world, offering competitive tax regimes
and flexible labour laws.
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Success stories
Aspire
Founded in Seattle in 1996, Aspire
is a leading outsourced product
development firm with 500 plus staff
in India, the United States and now
London. Its services range from product
development and advancement to
product migration, re-engineering
and support. Having built successful
businesses in the US and Asia, Aspire
the UK.
Think London put us in touch
with the right people…helped with
the registration process…provided
intelligence on the market…They made
it so easy.”
Prem Sundaravadanam,
Aspire Systems Regional Director
(UK)
sought to become a global company by
breaking into the European market. It set
its sights on London, home to more than
20% of Europe’s independent software
vendor market.
“Europe was the next obvious place
to go. We needed a presence in this
space, particularly as 30 to 40% of the
global software market is in London and
Alibaba.com
Alibaba.com is the world’s largest
online marketplace connecting small
and medium size buyers and suppliers
worldwide. Founded in 1999 and
headquartered in China, it has more
than 40 million registered users in some
240 countries and regions. It employs
10,000 staff. Alibaba.com sought to
increase brand awareness, expand its
customer base and get closer to its
clients across the UK and Europe. It had
They’ve been incredibly helpful, from
locating the right office and looking for
local staff to expanding our network and
introducing us to the right people such
as MWB Business Exchange and HSBC,
both of whom we are now using.
Without Think London we wouldn’t
be able to set up business in London so
quickly and efficiently.”
Maggie Choo,
General Manager, EMEA
a legacy European HQ in Geneva, but
considered moving the office to another
city in 2009.
“We opened our office in Soho,
central London in 2009. It’s an excellent
location — right at the heart of
London’s digital media sector — and we
plan to employ 15 people by 2012.
Think London has been instrumental
in helping Alibaba.com set up our office
here in London from the very beginning.
Closed Loop
Closed Loop Environmental Solutions
(trading as Visy Closed Loop) was
founded in Australia in 2001 and is
now a world leader in environmental
packaging and recycling solutions.
The closed loop system manages the
entire lifecycle of food and cosmetics
packaging — from manufacture and
collection after use through to recycling
wanted to be here. Waste and Resources
Action Programme has been a strong
supporter of our programme, as have
the LDA. We can relate that crucial
support directly to the work of Think
London”.
Chris Dow,
Managing Director,
Closed Loop London
and creation of new products. The
company’s clients include Qantas,
Melbourne and Olympic Parks Trust
(MOPT) and the Australian Grand Prix.
“Think London really made our lives
a lot easier as far as trying to establish
a business in this part of the world and
when we stacked it up against some of
the competitors in the UK we ideally
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Crystal CG
Founded in 1995, Crystal CG is one
of the largest computer graphics
firms in China, producing 3D imagery
and animations for documentaries,
advertisements, architects and the
Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The company’s main aim was to move
towards potential growth into European
markets, using London as a base.
“We were already thinking about
news with regular email newsletters. But
most importantly for us as newcomers
to London, both UK Trade & Investment
and Think London invited us to regular
networking events, helping us to meet
other companies in the creative services
industry.”
Jason Leigh,
Business Development Manager,
Crystal CG International
moving to London, but Think London
really persuaded us. They were helpful,
ever present, and consistently made a
good case for making the move. In fact
you could say that they made it crystal
clear!
Think London told us how great the
city is and helped us set up, register the
company and find offices. They also
kept us on top of the latest industry
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LinkedIn is the online knowledge
network for professionals. It helps
members share knowledge and seize
opportunities as well as develop their
careers and their business. LinkedIn
operate in 120 countries via the web,
but until recently only had offices in the
US.
“We considered the UK capital and
immediately called Think London. Our
global HQ is in San Francisco, where
Think London has an office, so it was
is the perfect fit: its Europe’s advertising
and commerce hub and so many
leading brands and senior people are
headquartered here.
I would highly recommend Think
London: they give you access to the
professionals you need to make your
operation run smoothly so you can
focus on the business.”
Kevin Eyres,
Managing Director Europe
easy to discuss the idea. I then got
talking to the London team on the
ground.
We established our European HQ in
London in December 2007 and we’re
growing fast: our network has topped
23 million people and there’s a new
member every two seconds.
London is a natural hub for us and a
great launch pad for global expansion.
Recruitment and advertising are
important revenue streams and the city
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