Aycliffe Monthly #3 | Page 12

12 | WWW.AYCLIFFETODAY.CO.UK AYCLIFFETODAY BUSINESS NEWS BUSINESS BRIEFS AYCLIFFE MEDIA FIRMS MERGE Two Newton Aycliiffe media firms have merged to form one digital powerhouse. Branding and design specialists Echo Graphics has joined forces with Au Fait Business and Marketing Services to form thrive, a talented nine-man team at The HUB Workspace. Echo and Au Fait, based within Enterprise House at The HUB, have been working closely together over recent years and, gradually, their projects increasingly involved the same clients. They’ve now secured nine jobs with the merger and are looking to recruit web developers. More on this is at: www.aycliffetoday.co.uk LOST & FOUND WEBSITE SCOOPS £100K PRIZE North-East entrepreneurs who started a unique lost and found website have scooped a competition worth £100,000 organised by an Aycliffe Business Park partnership. Lostbox, set up in February 2013 by Clare Owen, from Durham, has won ‘Achieve Your Dream’, a business competition with £100,000-worth of support from businesses based at The HUB Workspace on Aycliffe Business Park. More at www.aycliffetoday.co.uk £160K MACHINE PROVES ITS WORTH Award-winning business ALM Engineering Solutions is reaping the benefits of investing £160,000 in a new machine already, with new work in oil and gas sectors pouring through its doors. The company, based on Aycliffe Business Park, has just comp