News

14/10/09 Welsh dragon takes Denbighshire businesses under his wing

A WELSH business "dragon" is heading a ground-breaking project to boost small rural businesses which has been launched for the first time in the county.

Entrepreneur Norman Jones used to head Wrexham-based Withersdale Plastics but now he's lending his skills to help small companies develop their own big ideas as part of the £238,000 project.

14/10/09 Rare window of opportunity for Finance Wales

Finance Wales has already invested £10m of its new £150m fund - of which half has been sourced from the European Investment Bank.

29/09/09 Collective Companies: ActiveQuote make new AXA-PPP rates available for comparison

AXA-PPP Healthcare recently reviewed the premiums charged for their 'Health Cover' range of health insurance products.  The new prices are available for quotation and instant purchase from ActiveQuote.com as of the 1st October. ActiveQuote maintain an active relationship with all of their health insurance providers to ensure acurate, up to date prices for all of the products available to compare and buy on their completely online health insurance comparison website.

24/09/09 Collective Companies: Christies' Appraisals Management System goes live

Chaddleworth Software Ltd (CSL) has recently completed the installation of the Christie's Appraisals Management System (CAMS) in New York, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Milan. CAMS is a development of CSL's highly successful collection management program for artworks. The expansion of this software to Christie's as well as to private individuals has created the ability for Christie's and their clients to work closely and effectively in the management of the clients' art collection.

17/09/09 Collective Companies: Marsh sign with CSL to take MasterClient

CSL are delighted to announce the signing of a contract to supply Marsh the $11bn turnover Global Risk Manager and Insurance Broker with our MasterClient software solution for their Private Client division. A further Press Release will follow shortly.

15/09/09 Collective Companies: New Comparison Site Will Transform Health Insurance Market

ActiveQuote, the UK's first true price comparison website for private health insurance, has officially launched today. The site is expected to transform the way health cover is bought in the UK by making it much easier for consumers to shop around and for people who have never considered health insurance before to buy it for the first time.

07/09/09 Collective Companies: ActiveQuote joins the Collective

We are delighted to welcome ActiveQuote to the Collective.  ActiveQuote Health Ltd is a health insurance (aka private medical insurance) broker, fully authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) number 501109 as a health insurance intermediary. We are a British company with head office in Cardiff, whose directors have more than 40 years of experience in the health insurance business in the UK. We deal directly with the insurers whose products we sell and don't go via any third parties.

19/05/09 Budget Alternative

Dear Mr. Darling,

Please find below my suggestion for fixing Britain's economy. Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:

18/05/09 Is this what our education has come to?

Circle the correct word:  I went for a BLANK - options Swim Swimming Swam Swum

No, this isn't my four year old's homework, it's a typical NVQ literacy question. Collective Thought wonders... if you answer it correctly, are you deserving of a qualification, and if you get it wrong, how employable are you?

24/04/09 New £150M fund to create up to 15,000 jobs in Wales

A new £150m fund which will support the expansion of more than 800 businesses and create up to 15,000 jobs across Wales will be launched today (Friday, 24 April 2009) using £75m funding from the European Investment Bank under the EU’s JEREMIE (Joint European Resources for Micro to Medium Enterprises) initiative and a further £60m from the Welsh Assembly Government, via the European Regional Development Fund resources.