A significant change to the old order was revealed in official figures released this month giving details of mortgage volumes in Guernsey for 2010. These show for the first time that local bank Skipton International has surged to the number one spot, claiming nearly 30% of all mortgage bonds issued during 2010. Of the 712 bonds completed, 207 related to Skipton International, with the second largest lender trailing 70 bonds behind with just 137 to its name during the year. In addition to maintaining an attractive range of fixed and variable rate mortgages Skipton International ...

Panopreter.com, the innovative software provider has released Panopreter Plus 3.3.3, the powerful text-to-speech software for Windows users. Now users can have their laptops or desktops speak to them in natural sounding voices. The software changes the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. It is popular with business people, educators, students, writers, language learners and those with visual or vocal impairment, or learning disabilities. People are able to sit back and enjoy the convenience of listening to files, books, magazines ...

Karen Albright, president of BodyLase Skin Spa (http://www.getbodylase.com), has announced that the spa will host an "Evening of Beauty" on Thursday, Jan. 27, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The event will take place at the spa's Raleigh location at 6531 Creedmoor Road. Guests will be able to enjoy wine and cheese during a presentation by Dr. Karl Schwarz, medical director at BodyLase, which introduces the SmartlipoTM system and benefits to clients. QUOTES: "Smartlipo is a popular new procedure at BodyLase," said Albright. "We want our clients to have firsthand knowledge about ...

Morodo will be pitching in a Dragons' Den style session at the Entrepreneur Country Forum on Tuesday 1st February, which will be hosted by Julie Meyer (BBC Online Dragons' Den and CEO of Ariadne Capital). The Entrepreneur Country Forum aims to help entrepreneurs discover ways to get ahead of the competition. Morodo feels it's already ahead of the competition as the company successfully operates in over 120 countries by providing low-cost Telephony and Unified Communication services within the mobile and online applications market via its MO-Call product. Hundred of thousands ...

Synygy Inc., the largest and most experienced provider of sales performance management (SPM) solutions, today announced contracts with two more FORTUNE 500 companies for its SPM software, one with a specialty retailer and the other with a technology manufacturer. Both deals closed in December and involve multi-year subscriptions that will result in the management of sales compensation and other sales performance processes for 15,000 salespeople. "The last decade for Synygy started and ended with economic turbulence," said Mark A. Stiffler, Synygy's president and CEO, ...

San Diego Self Storage sponsored its annual holiday toy drive benefiting Toys for Tots by collecting toys at each of their 19 locations throughout the greater San Diego region. The successful campaign collected a record 8,570 toys. The US Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program provides underprivileged children with new toys at Christmas, with the purpose of delivering a message of hope and motivate them to grow into responsible, productive citizens and community leaders (www.toysfortots.org). Over 60,000 children benefitted from the toy distribution. According to ...

Global Web development and brand management firm Vertiglo has teamed up with world-renowned couture artist Logan Real on select 2011 projects. Vertiglo's most prominent project includes the Miami, Fla.-based artist's plans to reintroduce his Seven Town Tour de France shoe collection. The collection is inspired by seven towns along the Tour de France route, including Annecy, Barcelone, Limoges, Monaco, Paris, Verbiel and Vittel. The designs are created by Real, and are hand-painted on selected Lacoste shoes. "We targeted the main towns and specifically custom-themed ...

SBS Worldwide's project to have customers 'ship fewer containers' may not sound like good business strategy, but it is a winning formula for customers and SBS alike. The privately-owned company was named winner of the Ocean Freight Award at the annual BIFA Freight Service Awards, announced in London yesterday. This is the second time in three months that SBS Worldwide has won a prestigious logistics industry award, as it was named Freight Forwarder of the Year at the IFW Awards last October. "We actively help our customers to reduce the number of containers they ...

X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ:XRIT) has nearly doubled the locations this spring where it will be offering its Fundamentals of Color and Appearance (FOCA) one-day seminar that instructs quality control and assurance professionals, lab technicians, parts suppliers, pre-media and digital pressroom personnel and manufacturing specifiers on how to evaluate and approve colors in their workflows. Color experts at X-Rite Color Services will host the FOCA seminar series starting in March in Charlotte, N.C.; New York City; Las Vegas; San Francisco; Portland, Ore.; Baltimore; ...

At this year's Education Show, LDA will be launching a number of exclusive own-developed products: 1. 'How to... Understand andSupport children with Visual Needs' Author: Olga Miller and Karl Wall Price: GBP9.99 The newest addition to the popular LDA"How to..." series. A practical book illustrated with case studies to help you identify children with visual needs and support them intheir learning. Ideal for teachers, SENCOs and parents needing ideas and practical support. The main purposes of the book are to emphasize the need for educators and carers to consider ...

This week at ICE in London, GTECH G2 is previewing a comprehensive update to its market-leading casino software featuring its new slots-based adaptation of PopCap Games' blockbuster game Plants vs. Zombies . Plant-eating zombies have been sighted at Earls Court and are expected at the company's VIP gala at Fire & ICE tonight. Plants vs. Zombies Slots is GTECH G2's first new game to result from a recently signed licensing deal for various PopCap games. In the new slot game developed by GTECH G2, familiar plant characters like 'Peashooter' and 'Chomper' turn symbols on ...

Solicitorsblog.com continues to reach new heights by announcing today that it has accepted its 100th contributor to the website in less than 16 weeks since launch. The law blogging website which was only recently launched by Lord Digby Jones of Birmingham in London continues to grow at a staggering rate to now display one of the largest collections of law related blog posts and news articles on the World Wide Web. "We are delighted with the response the legal community has given Solicitorsblog.com" said Frances Anderson, Managing Director of Netlaw Media and creator ...

ISO 17025-accredited radiocarbon dating lab Beta Analytic has opened a sample forwarding facility in North Sydney, Australia, for its clients in the Asia Pacific. This is the company's fifth sample forwarding facility outside Miami, Florida, where its headquarters is located. The company has recently opened facilities in other regions as part of an initiative to better serve its clients wherever in the world they may be. "Starting February 1, all our archaeology and geology clients in Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia can now enjoy a more convenient way to submit ...

Fairway Market—"Like no other market"—raises the bar again. With one eye on 'fine' and the other on 'smart,' New York's purveyor of the finest in consumables provides greener pastures among shelves of spirits. Why? Wine, like all organic products, has a life cycle. Wine's enemies include traditional fluorescent lighting. In their four-generation tradition of providing unique products at their peak of perfection, Fairway Markets sourced the best LED bulbs for their innovative project: enter, Green Lantern Industries. The adjoining Wine and Spirits shop of the Pelham ...

The business to business portal, Global Automotive Industry is now promoting O rings and Oil seals manufactured by Bentex Industries. The O rings and Oil seals are manufactured with high standards of quality. They are available in different sizes and designs made from various materials like nitrile, silicon and viton, which is a flouro elastomer. They are specially designed for applications in hydraulics as well as others. With features like high oil and temperature resistance and a low compression set, they have excellent physicals properties as well as acid resistance. ...

Vast STM-0103 Precision Metal stand is a 360 X rotative, rigid and economical boom stand with fine-tune designed for use with Vast handheld Microscope series. The adjustable component is assembled with the arm of the metal stand and makes it easy to slightly adjust the height. The STM-0103 comes with a socket and a rotative holder which is compatible for our microscope series. The unique design provides various degrees to inspect the objects. The precision components provide smooth adjustment and positioning in a well balanced design. All parts of the precision stand ...

Pharma IQ, a division of IQPC, a leading organiser of conferences worldwide, announced today that the Drug Safety Executive Council (DSEC) will lead an expert panel, "Reducing Risks Associated with New Predictive Toxicology Technology, "during Pharma IQ's Predictive Toxicology conference, on February 22 - 24, 2011 at the America Square Conference Centre, London, UK. The conference is focused on striving to reduce late-stage drug attrition through predictive toxicology approaches in drug safety, thereby helping to maximise drug candidate success and profitability. On ...

In 2010, the Great Plains Renaissance Festival introduced a new portion of thier event, the Kansas Authors' Pavilion. This created a unique location for local authors in the Kansas area to connect with fans and thousands of potential new fans, along with gaining further exposure from the festival website. Attendance for local authors is free and only requires a signup at the festival website. "We're very proud and honored to have Midnight Ryder Technologies as a sponsor for the Spring 2011 Kansas Authors' Pavilion," says Richard Cathey, Director of the Great Plains Renaissance ...

XBOSoft, a fast growing software quality assurance company, announced today that AKVA group Software has chosen XBOSoft for comprehensive QA and Testing of its "Fishtalk" product family. AKVA group is the world's most recognized brand of aquaculture technology. With over 25 years of experience, AKVA group provides their customers with the tools needed to farm their fish in a cost effective and sustainable manner worldwide. AKVA group Software, with its specialized Fishtalk product family needed an experienced QA partner to ensure that despite increased demand, application ...

Orlando Web Design Company - Designzillas, (http://www.designzillas.com) is thrilled about the recent roll-outs of their new website. The latest design is a far better representation of the creativity and innovation that the Orlando based design agency has been known for. Their new website does not just deliver valuable open source tutorial resources for entrepreneurs and small business owners to boost their own web presence, but offers total mobile web accessibility across literally hundreds of smart phone platforms. Johnny Hughes, the company' s principle and founder ...

Sorting out the family home and sprucing up a kitchen for the forthcoming year can be done on a budget this year thanks to the latest deals redeemable at Homebase from leading online codes specialist DiscountVouchers.co.uk. Getting top name DIY kit can be done this month thanks to the new DiscountVouchers.co.uk deals offering people the chance to save through new Homebase discount codes. The website is presently carrying offers for people to save through offers like 15% off furniture, fitted bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens valued over GBP150. DiscountVouchers.co.uk ...

Fans of contemporary folk music have a good reason to visit Gloucester during a Cotswold hotel stay later this year. Seth Lakeman, currently one of the UK's most acclaimed artists in the genre, is set to perform at the Gloucester Guildhall on Monday March 14th 2011. The concert has been billed as an appearance by the Seth Lakeman Trio, with the singer-songwriter set to be joined on stage by Benji Kirkpatrick and Cormac Byrne. Members of the audience can look forward to hearing songs from the Devon-born musician's four studio albums, including his 2004 Mercury Prize-nominated ...

Pembrokeshire holidaymakers with an interest in British art may like to attend a forthcoming event at the Oriel Y Parc Landscape Gallery in St David's. On Thursday February 17th, the venue is due to remember the life and work of Graham Sutherland with a special day of events dedicated to the late English painter, who was a member of the neo-Romantic movement in the 1940s. Held on the anniversary of his death in 1980, the gallery's Graham Sutherland Day will feature a series of talks from local experts on aspects of Pembrokeshire that inspired the artist. Although ...

If you have been dating for some time now, then you probably already know how difficult it is to think up of a Valentine's Day gift which your male partner will appreciate and have use for. But worry not as unusual gifts for men are really not that hard to find. With some wit and imagination, that perfect gift is yours to give. The best gift is one that matches his specific interests If you want to think of truly unique gifts for men then consider the special activities or hobbies he engages in. Is he an ardent outdoorsman? A complete set of portable solar chargers ...

In an interview with Retail Digital, Eric Morris, CEO of the PAS Group discusses brand identity, expansion through organic growth and creating a lasting footprint in the online retail market. The PAS Group is comprised of eight brands, including Yarra Trail, Breakaway, Designworks, The Hopkins Group, Capelle, Fiorelli, Review and Metalicus, that represents a diversity of demographics and sectors. "Whichever way you look at it, we're a very diversified organization and that has been our bottom line," he says in the interview. Though the brands are operated under the ...