We are delighted to report that Mint has appointed Josh Rayman in August 2014 as a software developer. He joins following successfully completing his degree at the UEA and has specific interests in web design, software development and graphic design.
We welcome Josh to the team for the next 12 weeks.
September 2013 see’s Mint Consult’s sister company officially launching. The sister company first went live a year ago and has been working to support Mint Consult’s activities, undertaking several projects and Sage installations. We are now pleased to say that the official launch of Mint MIS is just around the corner. It’s an exciting time for everyone at Mint on both sides of the business and we look forward to updating you on our hopeful success and planned growth in the near future.
Mint MIS are certified Sage business partners that specialise in the sale and support of Sage 50 Accounts, Payroll and ACT! They also sell the complete line of Sage 50 products from Forecasting to Instant Accounts. Mint MIS are also in the process of developing bespoke online dashboards (in support of Excel based dashboards) to help businesses understand and implement their KPI’s. They are also utilising Roambi, a mobile app business intelligence solution that transforms data from major BI systems into highly immersive dashboard style mobile analytics.
Mint’s blog shall be restarting soon following the release of our fourth birthday newsletter. We are looking forward to reintroducing our technical content feature ‘Specialist Edge’. The latest series of articles will be on the ever more important ‘Auto Enrolment’ legislation. Over the coming months, we shall welcome David Perry (Head of Employee Benefits) from the Alan Boswell Group to contribute to this series of articles introducing the new legislation changes which are designed to encourage employees to save for their retirement.
The series shall be released over the next few months in our newsletters. Please subscribe to our newsletters here
Funding Success 
We are delighted to announce that our Director Mark Donaldson has had great success with client Atlantic Healthcare in attaining a £1.89million grant from the Technology Strategy Board. Mark played a large role in the success of the application, from initial drafting, review and submission, through to writing the final presentation in support of the application.
The success is added to the already successful fundraising activities that have undertaken at Atlantic Healthcare. The £1.89million will part fund the preparation and execution of a single pivotal phase III trial for Atlantic’s first product; Alicaforsen, a unique drug for the treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
If you would like more information on Atlantic Healthcare or to understand more on how Mint Consult can help your business, please contact Mark Donaldson on 01603 516350 or 07940 306900.
Mint Consult has recently moved, the relocation to a new office in the centre of Norwich, having outgrown the previous space, sufficiently supports our growth plans for the future, as we look to develop and replicate the success of the last few years. The new office allows us to provide better meeting spaces and allows us to work more closely with our clients. With the Train Station just a 2 minute walk away and the city centre just a 5 minute walk we are ideally located to reach clients in and around the centre and look forward to have the opportunity to show people our new working environment.
We are delighted to report that Mint MIS (Mint Consults sister company) has recently appointed Will Burden as a trainee MI consultant. Will joined Mint in Sept 2012 through a direct approach to the Company. He joins during his gap year ahead of going to university in Sept 2013. Will studied Economics, History and Business studies at Reepham College.
Will enjoys meeting new people in business and understanding the complexities and day to day challenges of early stage business. Will is primarily focusing on Mint Consult’s sister company, Mint Management Information Systems which will launch in early 2013. As authorised Sage agents, the Mint Group is meeting demand for new products and services which Will is managing. Will is involved in all aspects of the business including the following:
– Marketing Mint MIS and Sage product portfolio
– Supporting the development of MI systems
– Social media
– Brand development
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Atlantic Healthcare specialises in the acquisition and commercialisation of drugs meeting unmet medical needs of patients managed in the hospital and specialist care environments in Europe and United States, that fall below a commercial threshold of ‘big pharma’. This sector of the healthcare market continues to grow and is one in which the Management Team of Atlantic has deep industry experience having successfully launched and acquired more than 40 drugs.
Atlantic has previously raised £4.3m of investment from angel investors and family offices to progress and prepare its first product; alicaforsen, a unique drug for the treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), for full commercialisation.
Mark Donaldson, appointed as the company’s Chief Financial Officer, headed the process announced in November, to raise £500k of expansion capital to take the product into profitability in the second half of 2012. Some three months later the funding round was oversubscribed and the company had received applications to subscribe for approximately twice the original raise. The additional investment will be used to further accelerate growth internationally.
Atlantic Healthcare appointed Richard Wood as Chairman in 2011, having retired from Genus plc after taking them as CEO from a £30m UK turnover company to a £300m FTSE 250 listed company operating in 30 countries.
If you would like more information on Atlantic Healthcare or to understand more on how Mint Consult can help your business, please contact Mark Donaldson on 0845 8057390 or 07940 306900.
For this edition of the Specialist Edge, we welcome Edward O’Rourke from Ashton KCJ to talk about correctly valuing your business:
“Over the years I have witnessed many business owners fail to sell their businesses because they have latched on to the valuation given to them by their advisers as though it was a statement of fact and not opinion.
Valuing a business is an art and not a science but there are some things a business owner can do to ensure their valuation is fit for its purpose. These are:
-Determine the purpose for which you require the valuation – There are many reasons why the value of a business may need to be known; a sale; a purchase; a merger; an investment; borrowings/overdraft; understanding tax consequences of certain decisions; the estate planning of the owners. The valuation in each of these instances will have subtle differences;
-Choose the right professional advisers – The choice of professional may vary depending upon the purpose for which the valuation is required;
-Understand the valuation method used and the reason that method has been chosen – There are numerous ways in which to value businesses and different valuation methods are going to be appropriate for different business types. Knowing the basis used in your business will help you counter arguments that a different valuation method should have been used;
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