<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml-stylesheet title="XSL_formatting" type="text/xsl" href="rss.xsl"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Alert Data News | Business | Companies | UK | Medical equipment &amp; supplies</title><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk</link><description>Latest Medical equipment &amp; supplies Business News powered by Alert Data</description><language>en-gb</language><copyright>&amp;copy; Alert Research Ltd 2005-2012</copyright><webMaster>rss@alertdata.co.uk</webMaster><ttl>30</ttl><docs>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/rss.php</docs><generator>PHP/5.2.13</generator><image><title>Alert Data</title><url>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/images/alertdata.gif</url><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk</link><width>216</width><height>51</height><description>Latest Medical equipment &amp; supplies Business News powered by Alert Data</description></image><item><title>TOBY CHURCHILL LIMITED</title><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/174124.htm</link><description>&lt;strong&gt;Company Growth - Expansion into US&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;Cambridgeshire text-to-speech device company Toby Churchill is to open a US office in Denver, Colorado, in July.  The US sales division will be a branch of the UK company and will include sales and marketing, customer and technical support, servicing and repairs.  Toby Churchill is the company founder.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:02:16 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alertdata.co.uk/174124.htm</guid></item><item><title>Smith &amp; Nephew PLC</title><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/1553.htm</link><description>&lt;strong&gt;Revenue up 3% - Profit down 1% - Workforce reduced by 7%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hull based Smith &amp; Nephew, Europes biggest artificial knee and hip maker, has recorded a 1% fall in profits for the last three months in 2011 to £176m.  Group revenue rose 3% for the same period to £698m.  The company is to cut costs by £95m and will be reducing its workforce by 7%.  Olivier Bohuon is Chief Executive of Smith &amp; Nephew Plc.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:10:12 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alertdata.co.uk/1553.htm</guid></item><item><title>TOBY CHURCHILL LIMITED</title><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/174124.htm</link><description>&lt;strong&gt;Opening office in US - sales expansion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;Cambridge-based Toby Churchill Ltd is opening a branch in Colorado, US, in July 2012, to support sales of its Lightwriter products.  The US office will provide marketing, customer and technical support, servicing, repairs and funding for US customers.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:34:53 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alertdata.co.uk/174124.htm</guid></item><item><title>Smith &amp; Nephew PLC</title><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/1553.htm</link><description>&lt;strong&gt;£95m costs to be cut - 770 worldwide Jobs Lost - Profits down to £537m&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;Smith &amp; Nephew, which employs 11,000 people worldwide including 1,200 in the UK, is to save £95m in costs over the next two years by cutting around 770 administrative jobs.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:37:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alertdata.co.uk/1553.htm</guid></item><item><title>Xceleron Limited (In Administration)</title><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/30362.htm</link><description>&lt;strong&gt;Xceleron Lands $2.4M From Albion Ventures and Solon Ventures&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;Xceleron, a leader in accelerating drug development using ultra-sensitive bioanalytical analyses, today announced that existing investors Albion Ventures and Solon Ventures have invested $2.4MM to locate all of the company's business in its custom-built facility in Germantown, MD which is expected to be fully operational by 31st March 2012.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:47:50 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alertdata.co.uk/30362.htm</guid></item><item><title>Xceleron Limited (In Administration)</title><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/30362.htm</link><description>&lt;strong&gt;Xceleron Announces New Investment&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;Xceleron Announces New Investment and Move to Purpose-Built Laboratories in U.S.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:47:50 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alertdata.co.uk/30362.htm</guid></item><item><title>Mediwatch plc</title><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/31589.htm</link><description>&lt;strong&gt;Profits increased to £322,000 - improved product lines&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;Mediwatch Plc recorded significantly improved pre-tax profits of £322,000 for the year to October 2011 compared with £233,000 in 2010. The company expects to complete a number of projects in 2012 which will strengthen and update its product lines.  An improved performance for 2012 and beyond is expected.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:05 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alertdata.co.uk/31589.htm</guid></item><item><title>Synergy Health PLC</title><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/4841.htm</link><description>&lt;strong&gt;Revenue up 10% - Underlying Revenue up 11% - 4300 Employees&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;Swindon-based Synergy Health, which provides outsourced support services to health related markets, has recorded like-for-like sales for its third quarter up 10.8 per cent to £232.5m. Underlying revenues, excluding currency effects and prior year non-core business, were £229.5m, up 11.5 per cent for the three months ending 2 January.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:17:11 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alertdata.co.uk/4841.htm</guid></item><item><title>Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Manufacturing Ltd</title><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/249922.htm</link><description>&lt;strong&gt;Profit falls 17% - restructuring - Job lossses in health care division&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;Siemens manufactures medical scanners as well as gas turbines and streetcars. The company has recorded a 17% fall in quarterly profits and booked 72 million euro in costs linked to the restructuring of its health-care division which includes job cuts in the diagnostics unit.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:44:59 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alertdata.co.uk/249922.htm</guid></item><item><title>Surgical Innovations Group Plc</title><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/7864.htm</link><description>&lt;strong&gt;Surgical Innovations Group Plc - Trading Statement&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;SUN - SI&quot; or &quot;the Group&quot;) Trading update   Surgical Innovations Group plc (AIM: SUN), the designer and manufacturer of creative solutions for minimally invasive surgery, is pleased to provide the following trading update.    During the year to 31 December 2011 the Group has traded in line with m...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alertdata.co.uk/7864.htm</guid></item></channel></rss>
