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Half-yearly Financial Report for the six months ended 31 August 2008
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Descriptions of Top Ten Investments by Value
A summary of all investments is provided on page 4.
Datapath Holdings Limited
is a UK manufacturer of PC-based multi-screen computer graphics and video capture hardware, specialising in video wall and data
wall technology. Established in 1982, it has provided solutions for wide-ranging and varied applications including control rooms,
financial dealing rooms, CCTV, distance learning, digital signage and business presentations.79)
VectorCommand Limited
is a leading provider of training and exercising software for emergency services. The majority of fire brigades in the UK and Australasia
use the Vector training software and the company has recently released its new Command Support System, a leading system for
operational control of live incidents, with applications across the emergency services.
The Bunker Secure Hosting Limited
provides ultra secure, high availability IT data centre and managed services to companies and public bodies from owned and leased
facilities totalling 41,500 square feet in ex-military bunkers at Ash, Kent, Greenham Common and Bawdsey, Lincolnshire. With particular
expertise in Open Source and Microsoft software and systems, web and digital security, BH builds, hosts and manages ultra secure,
high availability IT infrastructure platforms for its customers and provides secure co-location services to host customers’ servers or
back-up servers. The Bunker is highly regarded for its technical skills, its customers including top financial, telecoms and web-based
businesses which are concerned with data security and looking to outsource their mission critical IT systems. The Bunker continues to
make good progress in increasing revenues from existing customers and winning new customers under term contracts which generate
high visibility of future revenues. An application has recently been made to the local planning authority for permission to build a new
data centre above ground at Ash.
Closed Loop London Limited
is the first plant in the UK to recycle waste PET and HDPE plastic bottles into food grade packaging material. Following in excess of £15 million
private and public sector funding issue led by Foresight Group, the 35,000 tonne capacity plant in Dagenham is now in the commissioning
phase with output volumes ramping up during the remainder of 2008 to near full capacity. The company is enjoying very strong market demand
and has now announced its second UK plant in North Wales, for which it is currently fund-raising.
ZOO Digital Group plc (AIM listed)
supplies authoring software and services to film studios and post-production films and to publishers and developers of interactive games on
DVD. Authoring is the process of transferring video and audio content to DVD and adding menus and links to allow consumers to navigate
the content. In August 2007, ZOO acquired the authoring business of Scope Seven, providing the group with a base near its key customers
in California and a broader service offering.