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    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>UK marketplace and sales consultant changes name</title>
      <description>UK marketplace and sales consulting organisation, FI Information, will change its name to Qimtek as part of its growth strategy.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>UK manufacturing marketplace acquired</title>
      <description>Manufacturing Industry Research has announced the acquisition of Basingstoke-based FI Information, the marketplace for UK manufacturing.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Qimtek</category>
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      <title>Sourcing service for engineering buyers</title>
      <description>FI Sourcing is designed to streamline the sourcing process for Buyers, Manufacturing Managers, Designers and Engineers.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Qimtek</category>
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      <title>Sales leads service helps source components</title>
      <description>Prior to using the membership service, a machined forgings company has been successfully using a sales lead service to source quality, cost effective engineering components.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Qimtek</category>
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      <title>Sales service doubles fabricator's turnover</title>
      <description>A sheet metal fabrication company, facing a need to cut costs, transferred sales and accounts functions to one executive, but found it needed sales support, which it outsourced.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Qimtek</category>
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      <title>Outsourcing sales functions helps press shop</title>
      <description>A dilemma facing subcontract sheet metal press shops is that of searching for new customers while caring for existing ones - but outsourcing of some sales functions solved the problem.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Qimtek</category>
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      <title>Press shop outsources sales searching</title>
      <description>A sheet metal press shop is using an alternative to employing sales representatives to source new customers - it has outsourced the function of finding and responding quickly to new enquiries.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Qimtek</category>
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      <title>Sales outsourcing boosts medical engineering</title>
      <description>An engineering sales outsourcing package benefitted a medical engineering company by providing an efficient way to target customers having difficulty in locating specialist, intricate products.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Qimtek</category>
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      <title>Machine tool sales lead service offered</title>
      <description>FI Machine Tools is a new sales lead and sourcing market place to assist suppliers of new and used machine tools to increase market knowledge, identify potential customers.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Qimtek</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/fir/fir110.html</link>
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      <title>Asset finance solutions provided for manufacturing</title>
      <description>First Index has announced that it has partnered with Whatrate to provide asset finance solutions for its manufacturing users.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2002 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Qimtek</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/fir/fir105.html</link>
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      <title>New suite of buyer tools</title>
      <description>First Index will launch new suite of buyer tools at Manufacturing Week 2001.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Qimtek</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/fir/fir104.html</link>
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      <title>Procurement of non-standard items simplified</title>
      <description>Buying and selling non-standard manufactured parts and assemblies now even easier to achieve over the internet.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Qimtek</category>
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      <title>First Index e-procurement expands its horizons</title>
      <description>UK-based First Index invests part of recent $11m funding from venture capital consortium in new offices in the USA and Germany.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Qimtek</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/fir/fir102.html</link>
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      <title>Internet-based procurement service gets US$10m</title>
      <description>First Index, which offers manufacturers an internet-based procurement service, has received US$10.8 million in new in new investment from a consortium of leading UK and US venture capital funds.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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