Specialist data Collection Company Systematics International Limited is celebrating after being shortlisted in two categories at this year’s Basildon Business Awards.

The firm, which is based in Battlesbridge, Essex, has been named as a finalist in the Business 2 Business category, while Chief Executive Christine Bhatt has been shortlisted for the Businesswoman of the Year category.

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Systematics International Ltd has joined the Essex Wildlife Trust, the largest conservation charity in the county of Essex and one of the biggest in the British Isles.
The Trust has been protecting Essex for wildlife and people since 1959 and is working hard to restore, recreate and rebuild Living Landscapes, which will enable species and people to move through a wildlife-rich countryside.

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Essex-based chartered accountancy firm Rickard Keen has been advising Systematics International Ltd since the successful buyout by its current management team in 2007. Here, Rickard Keen partner Kate Bell talks about the successful relationship she has built up with Systematics in that time.

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From July 1st, Croatia is set to become the 28th member state of the European Union with a priority to meet the demands of EU membership.

The government also needs to raise Croatia’s competitiveness to compete in the large EU market and maximize the opportunities membership will bring, especially the absorption of a large amount of EU Structural Funds.

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July 1, 1997 – Hong Kong was handed back to the Chinese after more than 150 years of British control. Britain had controlled the island since 1842, apart from a brief period during World War II when it was taken over by Japan.

July 4, 1954 – Food rationing in Britain finally came to an end after 14 years (and nine years after the end of World War II). To mark the occasion, members of the London Housewives’ Association held a special ceremony in Trafalgar Square.

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