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Cisco adds partner rebates to extended EasyLease scheme
Cisco's financing arm, Cisco Capital, is to extend its EasyLease low rate financing programme through to the end of July and added five year deals and up-front rebates to the scheme. The offer, which is open to the full gamut of Cisco partners, from ... News | 02 Jun 2011
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Ingram Micro to offer £100K SMB credit limits
Broadline distributor Ingram Micro has announced a major expansion of its CreditBuilder+ programme within the UK and will now offer credit facilities of up to £100,000 to SMB resellers over a 12 month period. The programme was originally launch... News | 02 Jun 2011
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Finance not seen as problem for optimistic mid-market
Smaller firms might still be struggling to get credit and blame the banks for keeping too tight a grip on the purse strings but in the mid-market there appears to be more optimism around the chances of getting finance. CEOs and CFOs of mid-market fi... News | 31 May 2011
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IT failure rates stable as health of SME sector improves
The number of IT firms hitting the wall has stabilised with the number of insolvencies last month dropping slightly year-on-year. The latest figures from Experian indicate that 51 IT firms hit the wall in April, down 8.93% on last year, and the leve... News | 26 May 2011
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RM unveils former Dell executive as chairman
Education specialist RM has announced a shuffling of its senior management just days before its current chairman retires. With current chairman John Leighfield retiring next Wednesday after 17 years of service the vendor has announced the former cha... News | 24 May 2011
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Banks failing to lend small firms the funds they promised
The banks are continuing to fail to provide credit for small businesses and are set to miss the targets they agreed with the government to start providing money to cash strapped firms. But figures from the Bank of England for the first quarter show t... News | 24 May 2011
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Growth fund unlikely to deliver for majority of channel
The impact of the government's business growth fund is expected to be minimal on smaller resellers as most would prefer to stick with traditional methods of getting access to finance. Measures outlined in the Budget to spark off more investment in t... News | 19 May 2011
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Softcat bucks public sector cuts with recruitment plan
Softcat has announced plans to take on over 60 public sector specialists across its three UK locations by the end of 2012 to support ambitions to grow infrastructure and software sales into the public sector. The firm has so far focused largely on su... News | 18 May 2011
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Crawling social networks not the way for resellers to find staff
Resellers have been warned to avoid relying on social networks to find their next star sales person because of the effort involved in trawling through the thousands of potential candidates. At a recent roundtable hosted by hosted specialist UKFast r... News | 18 May 2011
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M&A tech activity stabilises following strong Q1
The health in the tech mergers and acquisitions market across Europe continues to perform well up but has started to show signs of stabilisation after a very strong first quarter of recovery. The latest figures from Regent Partners showed that the m... News | 13 May 2011