6th Mar 2006 09:00
AVEVA Group PLC06 March 2006 6 March 2006 AVEVA Group plc wins prestigious Business Weekly Award AVEVA Group plc, one of the world's leading providers of engineering data anddesign IT systems, headquartered in Cambridge, announces that it has beenawarded the Growth and Expansion Award for the East of England at the BusinessWeekly 2005 Business Awards, hosted 1 March 2006. The annual awards which were founded in 1990, celebrate the continuinginternationalisation and strength of the East of England business scene,recognising the achievements of the region's most successful businesses, fromsmall dynamic start-ups and spinouts to large private and quoted corporations.The awards were broken down into five categories, which included Innovation,Growth and Expansion, Private Company of the Year, Quoted Company of the Yearand International Trade. The Growth and Expansion Award, which acknowledges companies that havedemonstrated strong growth over the last year, whether in terms of turnover,staff numbers, physical presence, new products or markets, was contested bytwenty one companies. Following a rigorous evaluation process by a panel ofjudges which included Hermann Hauser of Amadeus Capital Partners, LaurenceGarrett of 3i, John Lee of Odyssey Ventures, Charles Cotton of Level 5 Networksand Library House as well as representatives from UK Trade & Investment,Eversheds, Deloitte, Lloyds Corporate, BAA Stansted and OpportunityPeterborough, AVEVA was judged the overall winner in this category. Other winners on the night included Abcam plc, Cambridge Antibody Technology,CSR plc, Owlstone Nanotech and Sepura Ltd. Commenting on the award, Richard Longdon, Chief Executive of AVEVA Group plc,said: "I am delighted that AVEVA has won this award. The business was spun outof Cambridge University in 1967 and has gone from strength to strength,achieving excellent growth in a number of sectors across the world. We are nowconsidered to be the world's pre-eminent business in engineering data and designIT systems, and this is a testimony to the hard work and commitment demonstratedby my colleagues at AVEVA not only in Cambridge, but at offices all over theworld. We are proud to be a member of a thriving business community in the East ofEngland and believe we are well placed to build on our success this year andbeyond." Enquiries: Hudson Sandler Tel: 020 7796 4133Sandrine GallienJames Hill This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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