One Central Park New Entrants Help Exceed Occupancy Targets

Thursday 25th May, 2006

The Technology Centre at One Central Park, a collaboration between UMIC and Manchester Science Park, is set to exceed its initial growth targets. In the last two months it has welcomed in four new companies, all who are contributing to the growth of business in the New East Manchester area:

Inventya – a leading provider of innovative solutions to support companies and inventors in the complicated process of developing new ideas from concepts to successful products in the marketplace.They are developinga range of evaluation software for early stage business ideas, including an interactive guide to entrepreneurship.

Nornir – a social enterprise technology based company who provide ICT solutions to organisations who have social, educational, community or cultural aims.

Freedom Property – an ethically minded company transforming and renewing a range of properties in the New East Manchester area. Freedom work in partnership with the local council and community.

Winning Pitch – led by business development expert John Leach, the company providea range of services aimed at businessdevelopment improvement and maximising a companies sales performance. These range from interactive training, master classes, 1;1 advice and a developingrange of online training solutions.

Tony Walker of UMIC said ‘all the companies saw the benefit of developing in our unique environment at One Central Park. What was singularly picked out was the dynamic feeling they all had about the building. All saw it as a great place to develop and grow. The common denominator for us is, of course, they are all involved in technology or fulfil a regeneration role. SO we can really maximise the synergy of the businesses that we are attracting to benefit the area. We are now well ahead of target and so too are our partners in the Technology Centre -MSP’

John Leach of Winning Pitch said ‘My business focus is on creating inspirational and motivated individuals to achieve growth. The atmosphere and connections in OCP have so far been entirely fitting with my company. I’m helping with the OCP launch event in July and presenting to 40 people from across the incubator community in Manchester.’

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