ITM is a magazine and newspaper production company providing outsourced services for a number of publications, both with controlled and non-controlled circulation, and operates and provides a range of services for the publishing sector. ITM has a strong and well-established client base and its clients include CMPi, The Royal College of Nursing and Future Publishing.

ITM's historical business has been to exploit a strong record in traditional pre-press work for magazines and periodicals. Its principal activities are pre-press and management services. Pre-press includes, among other things, data entry, typesetting, scanning, proof reading, page layout, proofing and the creation and storage of data files as well as final print placement and press passing. ITM has an established industry reputation for the delivery of quality work on time and on budget.

ITM has an experienced management team as well as a skilled workforce qualified in the use of modern high technology digital equipment and computer software. The company currently employs over 50 full-time staff at its London head office.

The directors believe that many opportunities exist for the scaling of ITM's activities in terms of the management of content, web design and the provision of integrated web content management services, which will assist greatly in the delivery of the essential elements of the Group's strategy.

The ITM website - www.itmps.co.uk

cScape provides the skills and services necessary for its clients to best use the Internet to achieve their business aims. cScape brings together strategic, creative and technical skills within a rapidly changing business environment: cScape is as flexible as the market itself.

The Internet holds tremendous possibilities for every sector, transforming processes and services, simultaneously fortifying and streamlining businesses. The importance of a Web presence today is universally acknowledged, but the best means of using that Web presence to advantage are rarely clear, and the requisite skills to use that Web presence effectively are rarely to hand. This is where cScape comes in, with clear solutions and five years experience as a leading Web consultancy.

cScape works closely with its clients on their Web strategy, and can attend to any part of that strategy: cScape build, design and promote Web sites and offer advice and consultancy on all aspects of Web sites. cScape comes in at any stage of a business's development, and offers everything from highly particularised work to a full, integrated end-to-end solution.

The cScape website - www.cscape.com

Blue Sky is arguably the UK's most innovative IBM business partner working with Lotus groupware technologies (including Notes and Domino). Formed in 1995 at the beginning of the commercial internet era it has focused on e-business services to customers built in smart, highly productive ways on IBM technology.

Blue Sky nurtures and exploits its relationship with the IBM community to generate business opportunities and reputation-building activities. It is now at the point where it has leadership positions in creative design implementation on Lotus Domino, in the deployment of Lotus Domino based content management, in the hosting and management of Rentable Applications build on Lotus Notes applications, in the deployment of Lotus stand-alone ASP applications for collaboration and in the fully managed hosting of Lotus Domino servers based on Linux.

Currently half of Blue Sky's new business is generated via referrals from the IBM community, be it IBM technical personnel, account managers or business partners, and the other half is created by Blue Sky's generalised proposition that amounts to it being a full-services e-business/web services agency.

The Blue Sky website - www.bluesky.co.uk

Fernhart New Media Ltd is a Croydon based consultancy that designs, builds and maintains web sites and interactive television (“DiTV”) services for businesses. The company was established in 1997 and specialises in a number of sectors including broadcast media, financial services, gaming, insurance, property, public service and institutions. Its experienced DiTV business has delivered full transactional systems, complete user interfaces and consultancy services for a number of high profile clients.

Fernhart also holds licences for a range of betting games that it is developing for the burgeoning gambling sector and plans to develop these games for both Web and Interactive TV. The company is in advanced negotiations with a number of major betting brands.

The Fernhart website - www.fernhart.com