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An employee-benefit scheme that’s proved a hit with global giants like McDonalds, American Express and Diageo is being launched in Australia at the British Consulates in Sydney and Melbourne. Asperity Employee Benefits’ award-winning platform, Reward Gateway, gives employees discounts at over 300 top retailers, money which is then reimbursed directly to the employees themselves. Click here for more |
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UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) lead a trade mission to Australia this week to attend Australia’s peak environment and sustainability conference, Enviro 2010. As an emerging international hub for low carbon expertise and innovation, UK businesses are demonstrating that you can both lower your carbon output and increase your profitability, in all areas of business. Nine British companies make up the trade delegation which visited Sydney and is now in Melbourne to participate in the ENVIRO 2010 conference, attended by key Australian environment leaders including the Minister for Environment Protection, Peter Garrett. The companies are showcasing low carbon expertise and solutions from a range of environmental sectors including water, waste sustainability, and energy. Click here for more |
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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the UK from Australia has increased, bucking the global trend, which saw FDI figures drop around the world. Australia was again among the top 10 direct investors into the UK, ranking 7th, the same as last year. The UK's inward investment performance over the past financial year was unveiled at a UK Trade & Investment Business Summit hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron with leading investors from around the world. Investment figures showed companies from a record 54 countries invested in the UK in 2009/10. Click here for more |
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Novel methods for making low-power, lighter, smarter and more economical computers and mobile phones for the future are to be the main benefits of emerging silicon-based nanotechnologies. A leading area of discovery in this field is the Nanofabrication Centre at Southampton University in the UK that opened in 2009 and is one of Europe's premier scientific clean rooms. It holds a unique range of equipment for the fabrication and characterisation of nano and micro devices. Click here for more |
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Many millions of pounds have been spent during the past 20 years to try to manufacture an accurate substitute for human blood. Among those around the world seeking a viable blood alternative are UK-based scientists who recently submitted a global patent for their engineered haemoglobin, said to be the most important component of our life force. Click here for more |
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Described by industry observers as "the car-makers' steel of the future", it combines the benefits of a number of different grades of steel and is expected to be introduced soon into several car models. The new steel - called dual phase 800HyPerform - has been developed by Corus, Europe's second largest steel producer, in collaboration with a number of motor industry original equipment manufacturers. The material is claimed to be the first to allow car-makers to use a single product to make lightweight structural and reinforcement components that need to be highly crash-resistant. Click here for more |
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The UK Professionals in Australia networking group will be holding its official launch on Thursday 8th July at the Consul General’s residence in Vaucluse, Sydney. The group was founded a few months ago by British-born, locally based, businessmen Steve Hobbs and Tim Lea who recognised that the thousands of British businesspeople who arrive in Australia each year needed a way to meet people quickly in an informal atmosphere. The group has been growing quickly since inauguration and is now over 180 people. Click here for more |
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Dytecna, a British company specialising in civil and defence sector equipment, celebrated its official Asia-Pacific opening on March 4th in Melbourne. The opening was attended by 130 people, including a number of dignitaries from the defence industry and politics, as well as the British High Commissioner to Australia, The Rt Hon Baroness Valerie Amos. Dytecna has been operating for over sixty years, providing innovative engineering solutions, as well as a range of products including training simulators and special purpose vehicles. Click here for more |
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Australia's sustainability sector will take centre stage during a global environmental convention in London next week. The Australian businesses delegation was organised by UK Trade & Investment in Australia and includes environmental consultancy firms Connection Research and GHD, as well as Queensland's Soil Carbon. During their visit to the UK, delegates will have the opportunity to view innovative green technology from the UK as well as other participating countries like Brazil, China, India and the US. Click here for more |
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With a cheaper, easier, lighter, faster, re-usable alternative to sandbags now available in Australia - could this be the beginning of the end of sandbagging? Australia's Flooding Solutions Advisory Group has been appointed national distributor of 'Floodstop' the innovative British-designed flood prevention and mitigation system which is now widely used across the UK. The Floodstop system was last year named 'Most Innovative Product of the Year' by Britain's Emergency Planning Society and Floodstop systems have been purchased by councils, emergency action groups and The Environment Agency. Click here for more |
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The British Consul-General to NSW and Director-General of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) Australasia, Richard Morris, delivered a stirring evening address last week at CeBIT 2010, Australia's pre-eminent ICT event. In his speech at the gala dinner, Mr Morris started by paying tribute to the timing of young Aussie sporting hero Jessica Watson, whose record-breaking feats somehow managed to swamp media coverage of Australia's defeat to England in the cricket Twenty20 World Championship. He then went on to outline the strength of the British and Australian IT industries, the growth of the business links between the two countries, and the tremendous opportunities that IT and innovation bring, not just in business, but in life as well. Click here for more |
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UK company Atlantic Healthcare is aiming to ease the suffering of Australians with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) by licensing a breakthrough new drug in Australia and New Zealand. Click here for more |
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Award-winning UK company Energy Saving International (ESI) is set to save Australians money and power every year with its Savasocket and Savasocket Mobile products. |
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About four billion people worldwide have mobile phones - and twice as many as have credit cards. This has led to a challenge to the design and technology communities to improve mobile phone security, both now and in the near future when credit on our phones will replace the cash in our wallets. In the United Kingdom it is estimated that about 80 per cent of mobile phone users carry information on their handsets that could be used by criminals to commit fraud. Nearly 20 per cent admit keeping bank details on their phones. Image by Newscast Click here for more |
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Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham and ambassador for UK Trade & Investment attended Australasian Oil and Gas Exhibition in March in Perth this year, alongside more than 50 British companies. He met with Daniel Hawthorn (pictured, right), General Manager of UK oil and gas company, TRAC, to discuss plans for future growth in Australia. Click here for more
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Predict the future of business and you could win an all-expenses-paid trip to the UK for two! From the invention of the electric light, the first jet engine, the discovery of penicillin to the World Wide Web and the iPod, the UK has a strong track record of innovation, which has changed the world and the way it does business. Now, the UK’s international business development organisation is asking the world to predict the next big breakthroughs for business. From 10 May until 30 July, three people with the most compelling predictions will each win two business class tickets to London plus a week’s accommodation. There, they will meet industry leaders and discover how the UK can be their springboard for global growth. Click here for more |
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Could your ICT business make it big in Europe? Find out at CeBIT 2010, where UK ICT specialist Dave Gorshkov and his team of inward investment experts will be on hand with expert advice and information. For many companies, especially SMEs, expanding overseas is quite a daunting process. That’s why UK Trade & Investment, the UK’s trade development arm, helps Australian companies through the whole process with an abundance of advice and assistance. |
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 In the radio frequency and electronics business? Listen up:
British radio frequency and electronics training consultancy, Gaddon Ltd, is coming to Australia to offer companies its short, on-site, technical courses. If you’re in avionics, aerospace, defence, mining or electronics, Gaddon’s training could be exactly what you need. Customised courses like Gaddon’s might have previously been too expensive, but Gaddon is committed to offering first-rate Radio Frequency training services at a market-leading price. Click here for more
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Thinking Digital Conference: May 2010, UK
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Automated software can create "avatars with attitude" The creators of computer games and other animation media are being offered a new automated way to customise their characters in an extremely realistic manner. The software makers describe it as creating "avatars with attitude". Click here for more |
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One of the most difficult problems facing the world today is generating power without increasing climate change or harming food production. Those helping to find answers to this are UK scientists who are investigating biofuels generated from waste products and crops, such as corn and rapeseed. Many experts say these are "the green alternative to fossil fuels". Click here for more |
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British Airways celebrated 75 years of flying to Australia this week, at the home of British Consul-General to NSW, Richard Morris. The event attracted more than 150 industry members, media and friends of British Airways, and featured a dazzling display of past and present crew uniforms, specially shipped to Australia from the British Airways Museum at Heathrow. The first flight from Britain to Australia took off on 13 April 1935, and lasted 12 days after stop-offs in Baghdad, Delhi, Bangkok and Singapore. Now 75 years on, the airline has carried more than 1.2 billion customers on its extensive global network, including some 36 million customers per year to more than 150 destinations. Click here for more |
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Award-Winning Employee Benefit Scheme Launches in Australia
UK Trade Delegation Highlights Transition to Low Carbon as an Economic Revolution
Australian investment in the UK increases despite tough global investment climate
Developing future technologies for our future world
Scientists get closer to creating artificial blood for humans
Future cars to be built with 'super-steel' made in the UK - The challenge to produce a new, high-strength "super-steel" for the motor industry has been won by the world-renowned company Corus, based in the United Kingdom.
UK Professionals in Australia Networking Group Launches via LinkedIn
Dytecna Asia Pacific Celebrates Official Opening
Futuresource 2010: Pioneering Australian businesses line up at global sustainability exhibition
Exit Sandman
British Consul-General electrifies crowd at IT celebration dinner
UK expertise eases Australians' suffering from Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Savasocket – standby for savings
Meeting the challenge of mobile phone security
Lord Jones commends internationalising British companies
What should the world grow - food or fuel?
British Airways kangaroo route – 75 years on and going strong
