New research reveals UK’s top 100 retailers’ concerns over spiralling data centre energy costs

Average retailer wastes over £1million per annum on excess energy usage in data centres

16 June, 08 - On average, top UK retailers are overspending by £1.25 million a year on the power needed to run their data centres which can equate to 50 per cent of total data centre costs and 10 per cent of their total energy bills. These shock findings are revealed in new research commissioned by data centre infrastructure specialist RichardsoNEyres which also shows that 83 per cent of the UK’s top retailers are making rising energy prices and wasted costs a top priority for 2008/9. Read more: New research - UK’s top 100 retailers’ concerns over data centre energy costs

Vertex has signed a new 10 year customer management contract with the National Trust. The strategic partnership will continue to manage and deliver end-to-end customer services for the Trust’s large and growing membership of over 3.5 million people.

The National Trust is an independent registered charity, dedicated to looking after special places, for ever for everyone. It relies on income from membership subscriptions, donations, legacies and revenue raised from its commercial operations as well as on practical support from its 50,000 volunteers. Today, it protects and opens over 300 historic houses and gardens and 49 industrial monuments and mills to the public across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, plus over 700 miles of coastline and 250,000 ha of countryside. Read more: National Trust Renews Its Trust In Vertex

Publishes Manifesto Capturing The Spirit of Individual Capitalism That Will Shape the 21st Century

LONDON – 16 June 2008 - Ariadne Capital (Ariadne), www.ariadnecapital.com, the investment and advisory firm founded by Julie Meyer and 46 entrepreneurs backing the next-generation of entrepreneurs, is launching “Entrepreneur Country” on Tuesday the 17th of June in central London.

Entrepreneur Country is an event and platform for a manifesto that will bring together 400 venture capital and private investors, as well media, analysts and other leading entrepreneurs. An online forum will follow later this summer. Read more: Ariadne Capital Launches Entrepreneur Country

June 13th

Alix Resources Corp. and Geo Minerals Ltd. Acquire Potash Rights Including Land Bordering Potash North Resource Corp.

ALIX RESOURCES CORP. (\"Alix\" or the \"Company\") (TSX VENTURE: AIX)(FRANKFURT: 37N) and GEO MINERALS LTD. (\"Geo\") (TSX VENTURE: GM) have signed an agreement with General Resources Inc., a private Saskatchewan company, to obtain the exclusive potash rights to a total of 84 assorted locations of freehold minerals in highly prospective potash areas of Saskatchewan. These properties total approximately 14,000 acres.

Included in this package are approximately 4,200 acres of land located 20 kilometers west of the town of Esterhazy, and approximately 25 kilometers west of the operating Esterhazy K1 and K2 underground potash mines owned by Mosaic Potash Esterhazy. Read more: Alix Resources Corp ( AIX )