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Cardpoint is the UK’s first stock market quoted independent Cash Machine deployer. Since floating, Cardpoint has become an Electronic Transactions provider for retail environment with a product portfolio which includes: Cash Machines, Electronic Mobile Phone Top-Up Terminals, Credit and Debit card terminals and other services such as a Mobile Cash Machine for events such as pop concerts.
Cardpoint supplies Cash Machines and Mobile Phone Top-Up terminals to multiple retailers including Welcome Break, Moto, Hospital Trusts and Travelodge Hotels, to buying groups such as Londis and Costcutter and to many independent businesses and organisations including Spar and Marriott.
The explosion in the convenience sector means that the public expects Cash Machines at commercial and retail locations and are prepared to pay a fee to obtain their cash.
Coal Restaurants offer a vibrant, casual dining experience, with most of the outlets branded ‘Coal Grill & Bar’. The restaurants serve a range of grills, tapas, salads and pasta with ingredients sourced locally where possible. Food is prepared using fresh ingredients before being cooked to order.
Donatantonio is one of the UK’s market-leading importers and distributors of premium quality, authentic Mediterranean foods. Established in 1902 by Luigi Donatantonio with a retail outlet in central London catering for Britain’s growing Italian population, Donatantonio moved from retail to distribution during the 1950s and 1960s.
The business principally supplies the food manufacturing sector with products including pasta, tomatoes and olive oil, in addition to the specialty branded products including Lupa and Casalinga.
For more than 30 years Horncastle Industries have been manufacturing and assembling modular buildings, light engineered steel fabrications and portable accommodation units from our 45 acre site in East Yorkshire. Here we have substantially invested in new buildings, plant and technologies to enable us to meet our clients' absolute requirements. We are innovators and value engineers.
Loch Fyne, the branded seafood restaurant chain has 24 restaurants which range from the shores of Loch Fyne in Scotland throughout the rest of the UK.
Loch Fyne's determination is to serve the freshest natural seafood in a simple manner, brasserie style, all through the day. No fussy elaboration is the watch word, the raw materials must be allowed to show all their freshness largely unadorned.
Oysters and mussels from Loch Fyne's own fishery are key to the menu. They feed naturally and there are no artificial inputs at all. Loch Fyne's king and queen scallops are mostly dived for or grown in lantern nets. Langoustines are caught in baited creels which allow the juveniles to escape. Wild salmon is now so endangered that it should no longer be exploited commercially. As an alternative Loch Fyne strives to source as near to pure organic salmon as is possible to find.
The core menu at Loch Fyne is the same in all of its outsets and thanks to prompt overnight deliveries, quality and freshness are uniform. Variety is achieved by a number of special dishes which bring interest and change on a daily basis.
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Ma Potter’s is an expanding and nationally-spread restaurant group which offers a varied menu.
Ma Potter’s was established in 1995 and currently operates a total of 11 outlets in; Brighton, Leeds, London, Castleford, Newcaslte, Solihull and Reading. The Company trades under two banners, Ma Potter’s Chargrill Restaurants, a traditional family-friendly concept, and M.A Potter’s Bar and Restaurant, a trendier spin on the original formula.
These restaurants are operated in high footfall locations such as The Trafford Centre, Meadowhall and The Oracle in Reading. The group's performance has significantly outperformed the sector, particularly over the past year with further strong like for like sales growth being achieved.
Optic Vision is a leading specialist in the design and manufacture of highly sophisticated security systems. In addition to providing electronic and physical security systems that protect organizations from external intruders, Optic Vision also provides software services that monitor and alert organizations to possible security issues from within - widely believed to be the largest single cause of organizational security breaches. The company's software allows virtually any form of computer IT activity to be tracked and halted if necessary. With capabilities spanning all forms of electronic security, combined with experience in highly specialized physical security measures and in-depth knowledge of emerging technologies such as digital networking, Optic Vision is able to provide complete solutions to a wide range of requirements.
Path Group, founded in 1984, specializes in designing, manufacturing and marketing premium electronic entertainment accessories, including those for use with MP3 players, high definition and flat screen TVs, game consoles and audio equipment. The company also owns the IXOS brand and distributes Case Logic in the UK, as well as providing OEM design and supply services for PC and AV accessories.
SPC International repairs retail point of sale ( EPOS ) systems, hospitality terminals and peripherals. SPC International offers repairs, spares and refurbishment services on most IBM, NCR, Siemens Nixdorf, ICL, Fujitsu and Epson retail systems and peripherals. In addition to this it supports a massive range of bar code scanner equipment including CCD, laser guns, presentation and flat bed scanners bar-code printers and data collection terminals.
SPC International has in place test systems and diagnostic tools to fully test all the system units and peripherals found in a retail or hospitality environment. These include EPOS base units, keyboards, magnetic card readers, receipt printers, cash drawers, displays including monitors, flat screen displays and touch screens with LCD TFT CSTN technology. In addition to the lane equipment SPC International has the capability to deal with the back office computers and servers, networking equipment from LAN to WAN bridges, routers, hubs, switches, data communications, ISDN devices, modems and uninterruptible power supplies or UPS.
The Vending Corporation, is the UK’s leading independent distributor of chilled beverage and snack vending machines. The Vending Corporation represents a number of vending machine manufacturers in the UK and most of continental Europe. Its customer base includes many major retail brands and European vending operating companies.