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Going for gold

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The UK computer service sector is buoyant. The sector's annual growth rate is 21-22%, computer service company shares are performing outstandingly on the stock market, and employment in the sector has increased by 300,000 in the five years since 1993. Significant factors in the growth have been demand for help to tackle the Year 2000 date change problem and the introduction of the euro. However, industry experts maintain that a more long-lasting influence is the process of computer services becoming central, rather than peripheral, to a wide range of business functions.

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Triumph of the technies

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Software Knowledge has expanded much more rapidly than expected over the last two years, according to founders Michael Ames and Andrew Hardisty. It has seen considerable success with supplying large companies with contract IT staff, and now claims to be the largest independently owned company of its kind in the Midlands. It is now planning to open a new office every two years, but its firmly committed to expanding in a controlled manner.

Ames, Michael, Hardisty, Andrew, Software Knowledge

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Making it big by keeping it small

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International Data Group currently touches 90 million people per week with information, according to owner Pat McGovern. The company claims to be the largest computer research, publishing and conference management concern in the world. It is rapidly expanding its sphere of activities, and aims to establish 400 training centres around the world over the next four years. It already has 92 business units and 10,000 employees.

Business services, not elsewhere classified, Convention and Trade Show Organizers, Trade Show Management, Trade show management services, International Data Group Inc., McGovern, Patrick J., Trade show management firms

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