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Shooting for the Right Goals - Whitehouse Scientific Sponsors Street Kids for World Cup
an active supporter of children’s charities, from Children in Need in the UK to children’s work in Mongolia. In particular, over the last five years, the company has had a special relationship with the Mango Tree children’s home in Manila, which does a phenomenal job in rescuing disadvantaged children who find themselves in need or on the street.
Whitehouse Scientific is sponsoring the Philippine’s national team at the first ever Deloitte Street Child World Cup. Street children representing nine countries will gather in Durban, South Africa from 14-23 March 2010, to play football and raise awareness towards gaining rights for street children all over the world. Donations for this cause can be made via the Amos Trust website at:
www.streetchildworldcup.org
For many years Whitehouse Scientific has been
“The first stage is to gain their confidence” said Managing Director Dr Graham Rideal, who uses the universal language of music (his tenor sax) to get their attention. “Although they love Rock and Roll music, I was amazed that they know all the words to love song classics such as ‘I will always love you’” said Graham following a recent visit. Once a dialogue is established with local social workers, there is a good chance that a street child will be accepted into Mango Tree House.
“Once in a stable and safe environment, there
are so many opportunities for the children to blossom. In this Football World Cup year, boys and girls, both in homes and still on the streets of Manila, compete for places in the parallel world cup for street children. There can be no higher honour than representing your country at sport and so every place is fiercely contested.”
It has been tremendously fulfilling to think that I have played a small part in changing the lives of some of these children”, said Graham, who is now actively engaged in raising money to send the team across to Durban in South Africa.
This Deloitte Street Child World Cup marks the launch of a new Amos Trust initiative aimed at both celebrating the potential of street children, and providing a platform from which they can be heard. Those interested can also tune in to Blue Peter on BBC One to follow the action as presenter Andy Akinwolere mentors the British team.
TO FIND OUT MORE CIRCLE NO. Renowned Radiologist Joins Danaher Board
Danaher Corporation, parent company of Leica Microsystems recently appointed Elias A. Zerhouni, MD. to its Board of Directors for an initial one year term. Dr Zerhouni, a physician, scientist, and world-renowned leader in radiology research, served as director of the National Institutes of Health from 2002 to 2008 and currently serves as Senior Advisor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and as Senior Fellow for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program.
Dr Zerhouni earned his medical degree in 1975 from the University of Algiers and after completing his residency in diagnostic radiology at Johns Hopkins, in 1978, rose to the rank of full professor of radiology in 1992 and biomedical engineering in 1995. In 1996, he was named director of the Department of
Radiology and later held vice dean responsibilities for both clinical affairs and research before assuming the position of executive vice dean for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Under his leadership, the NIH embarked on a number of initiatives, chief among them the Roadmap for Medical Research, designed to enhance synergy and collaborative work among all 27 NIH institutes and centers and leading to the passing by the US Congress of the NIH Reform Act of 2006. Steven M. Rales, Chairman of the Board of Danaher Corporation, said: “We are delighted Dr Zerhouni is joining our board. We expect he will be an insightful and valuable contributor, especially given our growing presence in medical technologies.”
7500th Global Sale Celebrated 400 Circulator, success
Seward Ltd has celebrated its 7500th global sale of its Stomacher®
that has been attributed to its growing US sales and technical support office which opened in Long Island, New York, September 2008. With manufacturing based at the company’ headquarters in the UK, it is estimated that there are over 8 million food samples a day homogenised using Stomacher®
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Syrris Establishes a Brazilian Subsidiary in São Paulo
Flow chemistry and microreactor systems specialist Syrris established a Brazilian subsidiary in São Paulo at the beginning of January, extending its product offerings and support to a global network of 30 distributors and subsidiary offices in the US, Japan, India, Brazil and the UK where it has headquarters.
‘With a significant increase in customer sales in 2009, this is an extremely exciting way for us to begin the New Year’, commented Mike Hawes, Chief Executive Officer. “Establishing a subsidiary office in Brazil not only reflects the increasing interest in our product range worldwide, but more specifically the increased requirement for our complete product range within the Brazilian and Latin American research and development chemistry industry,” he said.
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Syrris’s new Regional Manager for Brazil, Leandro Nogueira, is a polymer chemistry engineer with ten years’ experience of supplying high technology systems to the pharmaceutical, chemical, food and ceramics industries, as well as universities and research centres.
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paddle blender units and bags worldwide.
“We are extremely proud of the long history and excellent reputation of our Stomacher trademarked products, some of which are still in reliable routine use after 25 years,” said Technical Director Stuart Ray.
“In terms of how we are expanding, both the US and UK offices have invested in more staff
in the last year, with additions to both the sales and technical support departments. Despite the turbulent economic difficulties in 2009, Seward Ltd saw a 10% increase in European sales with consistent growth in Stomacher 400 Circulator machines and Stomacher bag sales. This provides Seward a perfect platform for ongoing growth in 2010 as confidence in the economy grows,” he added.
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