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The Designer Forum has been set up within EMTEX to provide a variety of business & design support. |
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Design Network ERDF Objective 2 - The Design Network project was an initiative developed through the Designer Forum, as part of EMTEX Ltd, aimed at supporting small to medium sized businesses and individual designers within the East Midlands Objective 2 area to access and adopt new design and technology working practices for the period October 2002 to June 2008.
Final statistics of required outputs are shown on the table below:
| Number of SMEs assisted |
115 |
115 |
| Number of New Start Businesses Assisted |
52 |
55 |
| Jobs Created |
120 |
120 |
| Jobs Safeguarded |
57 |
68 |
| Number of female owned SMEs assisted |
37 |
62 |
| Number of Businesses supported to increse their use of ICT |
116 |
116 |
| Number of Businesses trading online |
50 |
33 |
The 115 businesses supported, were assisted with access to the latest password protected/subscription based online future trend & market information,worth many thousands each year. The latest CAD technology, as well as through the portal site (design-online.net) where companies could download useful design-specific information, be featured in profiles for freelancers, and also take part in an online fashion & technology magazine.
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