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The Duke of York thanked TG Eakin for our support in bringing Northern Ireland to the fore as a global knowledge economy.

The Duke of York, Patron, the Northern Ireland Science Park Trust attended a lunch at the Northern Ireland Science Park in support of the Trust. His Royal Highness welcomed the first significant private sector donation from TG Eakin, confident that it will make a major contribution to the development of young entrepreneurs and the economy of Northern Ireland.

As part of the NISP plan to develop that contribution Paul Bradstock, Chairman of the NISP Trust and founding CEO of the Oxford Trust explained that this donation is just the start of the local and international business community contributing to a charitable vehicle for philanthropy on the basis of “enlightened self-interest”.

“This contribution by TG Eakin is significant but more importantly it is a call to action to all of our business community to become part of this success and we are giving them a tangible vehicle in which to invest and see measurable results.”

Tom Eakin, founder of TG Eakin and a previous recipient of the NISP CONNECT Innovation Founder award said, “As a company we made the decision to donate to the NISP Trust because we believe that the programmes it will support through NISP CONNECT will actually deliver on the vision of bringing Northern Ireland to the fore as a global knowledge economy.

“We are a global business based in Northern Ireland, we have a vested interest in supporting other companies to create a vibrant collaborative business culture that can compete worldwide. I would actively encourage other businesses to look at this model and join us in giving it their full support.”

Eakin staff enjoyed another successful conference at ECET in Paris last month. The focus of our stand was on our core product – eakin Cohesive^®.

We would like to draw your attention to 3 new case studies, which have been sent to us by ET nurses from Australia and Denmark. Throughout the examples, the authors make use of a wide range of eakin products, including Cohesive^® Seals, Cohesive^® Paste, Wound Pouches™ and Release™ Adhesive Remover to treat their patients.

‘The mysterious case of Bullous Pemphigoid’ by Ian Whiteley demonstrates the healing potential of Eakin Cohesive® in caring for skin lesions associated with this autoimmune disorder. The capacity of our new Maxi Wound Pouch™ was put to the test in Nicole Wienhold’s case study. Finally, Emma Vernon shows us how she cared for a large wound with multiple fistulae by combining Cohesive^® with NPWT and Wound Pouches™.

Our sincere thanks to all 3 authors for taking the time to document their valuable experiences and share them with us. We hope they will be useful to many ETs around the world.

In January and May of this year, representatives from TG Eakin Ltd were invited to attend Young Enterprise NI events, having assisted with this event for the past few years now.

YENI is an education charity who help thousands of young people every year to learn about business and the world of work under the guidance of volunteers from local companies. This ensures that young people acquire the skills they will need to become enterprising, creative and commercially aware.

The Mock Interview event that we attended in January was designed to train young people for pending interview situations, where Jeremy Eakin and Elaine Toner acted as the interview panel.

In May, we attended the Trade Fair where the young people formed teams to manufacture and sell products ‘Apprentice’ style, where they had to deal with finance, marketing, sales techniques, etc. Elaine and Jenny McIlroy attended the event and judged each team across various categories.

Once again the event was a huge success and YENI thanked TG Eakin Ltd for our continued support with local schools.

In September, TG Eakin Ltd made their first visit to the ESPEN (European Society For Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism) Conference in Gothenburg as exhibitors.

Now an annual event, ESPEN covers a broad range of scientific areas relating to nutritional science and was very well attended by Doctors, Clinicians and Dieticians from around the world.

The Eakin product focus for this event was the Surround Skin Protector which has a variety of uses in the nutritional care field. The demographic of this conference was very different than any event that Eakin have attended before and the product received a great response from the attendees.

Due to this success, Eakin hope to attend the conference again next year which will be held in Barcelona in September 2012.