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Dylan Thwaites, 41, the award-winning chief executive of Warrington-based Latitude, said there is a high level of interest from private equity in the business, which was founded in 2001 and will turn over more than £40m this year. “We get calls nearly every week, and we need to decide whether we fund the acquisitions we [...]

• August 8, 2007
• by Latitude

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You may remember my blog on Latitude and Dylan Thwaites, our CEO, being in the running for two national NBA awards after winning the regional prizes.  We’ve just been told that Dylan has now also been nominated for the Instutute of Directors regional award for Director of the Year.  The nomination is based on Dylan’s [...]

• July 16, 2007
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No we didn’t beat the Chicago Bulls, the Minnesota Timberwolves or even Utah Jazz. Would have been nice but I’m not talking about the Basketball NBA.  Last week saw Latitude win two (North West)National Business Awards (the NBAs or the “Oscars of the Business world” according to our PM Brown no less) at the Regional [...]

• July 12, 2007
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At first you may ask what am I on about with the tile of this blog, but Universal Pictures and Google announced a new online game, The Ultimate Search for Bourne with Google. It is to promote the new ‘Bourne Ultimatum’ film and is designed for the player to use a suite of Google products [...]

Gordon Brown called the National Business Awards “the Oscars of the business world”. And just like the real Oscars, with only a few days to go until this year’s NBA winners are announced, the tension is starting to mount.