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Fish.Net's Ian Gibbons ties the knot

Glory, Glory...

On a beautiful snowy February morning Ian (Fish.Net's Internet servers, security and coding expert) married the lovely Venessa.

How we managed to sing Glory, Glory, Halleluia and not the Man Utd version I'll never know. Wonder who chose that hymn?

Note: Ian is the one in the top left of the front group of 4 in the picture :-)

New Website

Our new and improved website goes live

The new look site makes navigation simple and effective, with separate 'sitelets' for each of our key services, allowing us to showcase in more detail the wide range of services we offer and some of our projects and customers. The new site will continue to evolve and develop over time.

Macmillan Cancer Support

Fish.Net hosted a very successful coffee morning

Fish.Net would like to say a BIG Thank You to everyone who contributed in many different ways to our Macmillan Coffee morning.

A fantastic £860 was raised for Macmillan Cancer Support.

We'd like to thank everyone who has helped make our coffee mornings so successful; not only a great excuse to get together, but over the last four years our coffee mornings have raised nearly £2500 to help support those people living with cancer.

We've also been touched by those of you who've shared your personal experiences of cancer with us, or who've donated in memory of friends and family.

Fish.Net makes a big splash

We have been nominated at the Big Chip Awards 2006

We have been nominated for a top award at the Big Chip Awards 2006

The Big Chip Awards are the largest digital media awards outside of London and showcase work from the North West's digital industry. This year's shortlist includes projects for American Airlines, Toyota, HMV, Sainsbury's and the BBC, sponsorship is provided by Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco and many more.

Fish.Net, also celebrating our 10th Anniversary, have been nominated in the category of ‘Best E-Commerce Project'. This award recognises the success of an e-commerce project in generating business or in improving the business process.

The nominated project is the Penauille Servisair - Executive Lounges website www.executivelounges.com

Operations director, Michele Hayes, commented: “We are delighted that the industry has recognised the value of our work by this nomination. It demonstrates that over 250 years later Saddleworth is still at the forefront of the latest industrial revolution”.

10th Anniversary

Fish.Net is celebrating its tenth birthday

Fish.Net Limited was formed in 1995 by four Saddleworth residents, who had seen the business applications and opportunities offered by the Internet long before it had achieved its current popularity in the UK.

In 1996 Fish.Net was awarded Oldham Chamber's most Enterprising Business Award, demonstrating that the potential of the company was recognised very early on.

Now in its second decade, Fish.Net has enjoyed sustained growth and has worked with several hundred companies, ranging from small private companies through to government funded organisations and large corporates.

Operations director, Michele Hayes, commented: “We are all thrilled to be able to celebrate our tenth birthday. Fish.Net was founded to provide a broad range of services together with high-quality customer support - all at a reasonable price. And it is because of this value that we have an excellent customer retention ratio. I'd like to thank everyone for their hard work and support over the last 10 years and hope they'll join us in looking forward to the next 10!”

The company has always been based in Saddleworth and as part of it's commitment towards the local area has undertaken work on many community websites and directories as totally non-profit making enterprises - most notably the saddleworth.org website. This contains a directory of all local businesses in Saddleworth and is used, along with support from Fish.Net staff to produce the printed Saddleworth Directory.

For more information please visit
www.saddleworth.org (opens in new window)

Westend win league

Fish.Nets Darren helps football team to victory

Darren Hauck, part of our technical support team at Fish.Net and an avid footballer has helped his club win promotion into division III of the Huddersfield & District Assoc Football League.

In addition to winning promotion, Westend have also clinched the District League's Groom Cup – equivalent to the League Cup.

Darren, who is also a dedicated Chelsea supporter, has played in defence for Westend since 2004, and for a short time this year took over as manager of the second team while continuing to play for the first team.

The opinion shared by Darren and the rest of Westend team; is that the season's achievements were “a great squad effort and everyone should be very proud to have been part of such a triumphant season”. Special thanks also went to ‘the gaffer' Ricky Thwaites who founded the club in 1991 with only four players and has seen it grow to over 400.

The photo shows Westend collecting the Division Champions cup - Darren is the fifth from the right, or as he put it “easily the best looking one on the team!”

For more information on Westend football club visit www.westendjuniors.com (opens in new window)

Cullen Financial Planning

Cullen now have a new website www.cullenfp.co.uk

Cullen Financial Planning are now one of the top ten regional firms of Independent Financial Advisors in the North and wanted to update their image to reflect this. Fish.Net were chosen to work with Cullen to create a set of designs that incorporated their requested style of ‘clean and contemporary'. From these designs two were chosen to be the templates for the new web site, which would include information on the services Cullen offer, case studies, contact details and press releases.

Fish.Net worked closely with Cullen throughout the development process to ensure the delivery of a complete and comprehensive design solution that was delivered on time and on budget.

“My thanks again to Fish.Net for an excellent job”.

Andrew Tyler
Director – Cullen Financial Planning

Visit www.cullenfp.co.uk (opens in new window)

easyJet Lounges

easyJet launch new lounges web site

easyJet, Europe's leading low cost airline, has teamed up with Servisair/GlobeGround, one of the world's leading providers of aviation services and Europe's leading independent operator of airport Lounges to launch easyJetLounges.

Fish.Net developed the easyJetLounges website to work in five different languages, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch. The website also accepts multiple currencies and caters for customers wishing to see prices in UK Sterling, Euros, Danish Krone and Swiss Francs.
To view the easyJet Lounges web site click here (opens in new window)

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