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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