Media Buzz: Vital; TribePad; Diva; Brand8

TECHNOLOGY group Vital has announced a trio of new client wins to help boost the first quarter of its financial year.

Executive recruitment company Newman Stewart, based near Wetherby, has employed Vital Network Solutions to manage its IT infrastructure and Tadcaster and Wetherby law firm Bromets Jackson Heath has also brought in Vital Network Solutions to handle its managed services.

The other part of the business, Vital Online Studio, has completed the website for York-based Sumec, which is the service and after-sales arm for powered garden equipment from Homebase and Aldi.

Lee Evans, managing director of Vital Technology, said: “This is a really encouraging start to the year and it helps to lay the foundations for us to grow on the previous 12 months when we reported a turnover of £1m for the first time in our history.”

A GROWTH in demand for business teleconferencing has enabled Leeds company Diva Telecom to open up its audio conferencing facilities.

The white-labelled facility made available to resellers this month follows a similar, brandable service launched last year for business SMS.

Founder and managing director, Erica Lewis, said: “Audio conferencing is growing in popularity as a major time and travel-saving solution, so we have seized the opportunity to help other telecoms companies offer it to their customers.”

Diva Telecom was set up in 2006 to provide business telecoms including inbound call handling.

RECRUITMENT software specialist, TribePad, is celebrating a period of strong business growth that has seen it win a number of new contracts.

The Sheffield-based has secured deals with Skipton Building Society and Trinity Mirror and has  now reached one million applicant CVs on its system.

Co-founder, Dean Sadler, said: “More and more companies are waking up to the many benefits of a direct hiring model, as well as the uniqueness of TribePad, and we see enormous potential for future growth.”


YORKSHIRE business Brand8 PR has been appointed to handle an international public relations campaign for TOMRA Sorting Food, a global food sorting system business with its main facilities in Belgium, the United States, Ireland, China and Japan.

The company designs and manufactures high-performance optical sorters, graders, peeling and process analytics systems for meat, nuts and seeds, dried fruit, seafood, potato products, fruit and vegetables.

More than 6,500 TOMRA Sorting Food systems are installed at food growers, packers and processers worldwide.

Brand8 PR managing director, Rob Smith, said: “We are very pleased to be working with TOMRA Sorting Food and look forward to continuing to raise awareness of these truly remarkable systems and the commercial and environmental benefits that they deliver.”

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