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