Well, anyone who knows us will know that we like open source software, but now we have a very big job ahead, made even bigger by the fact that they need to use MS Sharepoint 2010 for the web design and the application development behind it. Made even bigger by the fact that the software hasn’t all been released yet!
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The Stock Sea Breeze. Just one of the great cocktail recipes on the Stock Spirits site, designed by Wild West
The sun’s coming out again after what seems like an interminable winter. So maybe this weekend might be the ideal time to dust off a cocktail recipe or two?
This ‘Sea Breeze’ could be perfect, and you can find the recipe on the website of the Stock Spirits group at www.stockspirits.com
Stock Spirits are the leading manufacturers of branded spirits in central and eastern Europe, though with their headquarters in the UK.
The group’s excellent products sell throughout central and eastern Europe and are becoming prominent in the US too. (Wild West built all their corporate sites – including dual- and tri-language sites for some countries).
The only problem is that the Group’s products are hard to find in the UK. So a proper cocktail like this one – with Stock’s premium Czysta de Luxe vodka as its base – could be a difficult proposition.
Best to make a note, and the next time you are travelling in Poland or Slovenia, pick up a bottle of this crystal-pure spirit. And then all of your sea breezes will be as crisp and refreshing as they can be.
More cocktail recipes on the Stock Spirits site at www.stockspirits.com
The new Resolute Asset Management site, which went live on 11 March 2010
Resolute Asset Management are the latest company to implement a new website through Wild West Design.
Resolute are a new company, whose successful establishment is owing to founding partners Bill Hancock and Robert Kingsmill.
Resolute’s business is ‘highly active asset management of complex and often problematic real estate assets’, a very specialised business in an area of investment management which can be particularly responsive to the added value that Resolute are able to offer in this field.
WildWest are pleased to have helped the company to establish its credentials in the marketplace, not just through the website, but also through the company’s new and distinctive identity, which underlies the initiative and drive that the company offers.
More on Resolute at www.resoluteassetmanagement.com
Our finance and investment clients have been busy this month. Indicus Advisors have just implemented their ‘refreshed’ new logo and should be going live with their new website design very shortly. Meanwhile, Resolute Asset Management and Peace Dividend (a company investing in Yemen) are the latest companies in this sector to add to the WildWest client list.
Indicus, whose business is in the white hot territory of the finance markets, think they may just be over the leap they have had to make from the old assumptions to the new. So maybe the recovery actually is on the way.
More on all of these developments very soon.
The Barclays Around the World Competition site
Just tell Barclays, and you could win a really great day in the UK!
With the Barclays Premier League being watched in more places every day, Barclays wanted to promote their involvement with the beautiful game by giving fans from around the world the chance to show us all where and how they watch the action from the Barclays Premier League.
In return, there’s a really great prize of a trip to the UK, with (of course) tickets to a match at the winner’s favourite ground.
What do you have to do to win? Simple, just use the site to explain where, when and how you watch your favourite team. You can upload video, audio, photography or just write a paragraph about it. The winner will be the most unusual and interesting story that’s posted to the site before the end of the promotion.
The Barclays ‘Around the World in Ninety Minutes’ website shows how companies can interact through the web – this is quite a lighthearted application, but it doesn’t take too much thought to show how this interactivity could have more serious uses. You could collect views and opinions of customers for example, or find out what employees around the world think about your company. Views can be made public or kept private and available only to certain individuals.
You can see the Barclays’ Around the World competition site at www.barclaysfootball.com
The new website for ClearlyBusiness will be a focus for future expansion
ClearlyBusiness is a company that was inspired by a number of good ideas. Getting important and market-leading products and services into the hands of small and medium enterprises, through trusted intermediaries was just one of them.
Now, the company’s ground-breaking (and multi award-winning!) ideas are helping to establish it abroad as well as in the UK. More suppliers are interested in having their products distributed, and potential routes to market are opening up as others see the value of this distinct delivery channel.
ClearlyBusiness already works with a number of very recognisable companies including ABN-Amro, Absa, Barclays, Intuit, Sage, Experian, Iron Mountain and Dunn and Bradstreet. The company expects that list to grow over the coming months, especially as their new web site (designed by Wild West) is now on line. (Go to www.clearlybusiness.com)
You’ll see there some of the important business accolades the company has already received – among them National Business and Financial Innovation awards. Clearly Business is also one of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500.
Now the company’s new website is showcasing its services in a manner that reflects the quality and imagination powering its growth in Britain and beyond.
Carrington Group consists of Carrington Accountancy and Carrington Investments, both important advisory companies with an approachable style and award-winning performance, which we hope is reflected in the web sites which we built (and still maintain for them) at www.carringtonaccountancy.com and at www.carringtoninvestments.com. Their smart, colourful logos are also our work.
Carrington offer some special services for contractors, people employed to provide specific services on a temporary basis. Once, it was fairly common for IT specialists to work this way, but now its common for all kinds of people, from health service workers to engineers.
Carrington Accountancy’s umbrella products keep the financial rain off the heads of contractors, helping them to predict payments and where possible, avoid unnecessary tax payments. Carrington are fully HMRC compliant and offer a great level of service.
We’re very pleased to be working with Carrington.
Satya are an investment company, targeting opportunities in Africa
Satya Capital, the private equity group which focuses exclusively on Africa, has chosen Hygeia for its first significant investment in healthcare in the continent.
Satya, whose Wild West designed website went live in 2009, is one of a new breed of specialist investors, determined to use their capital to develop the potential of this vast continent.
Satya, founded through the efforts of African entrepreneur Mo Ibrahim, is making an equity investment of $18 million, alongside a total of $8 million in new debt facilities from other sources, to allow Hygeia to expand both its hospital group (Lagoon Hospitals), and its health maintenance organisation (Hygeia HMO). These investments join the existing debt and equity provided by IFC and the Investment Fund for Health in Africa (IFHA) respectively.
Read the full story at www.satyacapital.com
We all know how it goes sometimes; your website just doesn’t get the love and attention that it should. And meanwhile of course, life can be passing it by.
Which would all be okay, if it weren’t so serious.
We have a lot of clients in investment and private equity for example, and their investors need to know what is happening to their money. The web and a properly designed website, can be a focus of this kind of activity – keeping investors informed about more than just the big picture, but maintaining information streams that are relevant (often personalised to) individual investors.
Quite simply, if you haven’t got these facilities, then some very important people might well go elsewhere.
The rusty cars that we at Wild West design are featuring in our new promotional campaigns should help bring more of this functionality to more new Wild West clients in the near future, while clients like Alcentra, Inflexion, Indicus Advisors, Duke Street and others are already taking advantage.