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August 2008: Cidermill offers 'Enterprise', the latest new business simulation from Celemi
Immediately after Celemi announced Enterprise™, Cidermill became accredited to offer this exciting new learning tool. Enterprise is designed to help more experienced managers develop their strategic planning and execution skills. Cidermill also now offers the latest release of Celemi's Apples & Oranges® for the RETAIL industry.

June 2008: Cidermill continues series of business finance training events at Computacenter
Cidermill delivered yet another one-day 'Finance for non-Financial Managers' workshop to a group of sales people at Computacenter. This event featured a new version of the Apples & Oranges® business simulation and a session to help the sales teams prepare convincing investment proposals.

November 2007: Cidermill teams up with Red-Edge to deliver sales training workshops to BT
Working with partner training company Red Edge, Cidermill helped write and deliver a series of sales role-play scenarios to improve the skills of British Telecom's sales teams, as they deliver BT Financial Services to small-to-medium businesses.

September 2007: Cidermill delivers another business finance training workshop to Computacenter
Cidermill prepared and delivered a one-day 'Finance for non-Financial Managers' workshop, based upon Apples & Oranges® business simulation. Participants from all levels of the company had one common aim: to better understand business finance.

June 2007: Cidermill helps train HP sales teams in Berlin
Working with partner training company Red Edge, Cidermill helped write and deliver, in Berlin, two sales role-play workshops for 180 people from Hewlett Packard's European 'Image and Print Group' sales and sales support specialists.

April 2007: Cidermill adds Celemi's The Medici Game to its training portfolio.
Cidermill already uses two Celemi learning products (“Apples & Oranges®” and “Decision Base®”). Now “The Medici Game” is available, designed to encourage innovative thinking in a 3-hour exercise.

September 2006: Cidermill runs trial business skills workshop at Computacenter
Cidermill was asked to prepare a one-day workshop which will be used to develop the business skills of Computacenter sales teams. The first workshop was delivered as a trial run on the Computacenter sales management team in Hatfield.

July 2006: Cidermill helps train HP sales teams in Lisbon, Portugal
In collaboration with Red Edge Cidermill ran role-play training workshops for HP Image and Print Group sales and pre-sales specialists from Europe and the Middle East.

April 2006:Cidermill is accredited for a 2nd Celemi learning product
Late in 2005 Cidermill was accredited as a Celemi Solutions Provider to deliver Celemi’s “Apples & Oranges®” to customers in the UK and Ireland. Now in April 2006 Cidermill has been further accredited to deliver Celemi’s “Decision Base®” products in the UK and Ireland.

March 2006:Cidermill brings basic financial training to Oracle sales teams in Italy
Nearly 70 sales and pre-sales specialists from Oracle´s Italian Applications Sales organisation learned basic finance from Cidermill in Milan.

February 2006:Cidermill helps deliver sales training to 300 HP sales people in Budapest
In collaboration with Red Edge Cidermill managed role-play workshops at a major training event for HP sales and pre-sales specialists from across Europe and the Middle East.

November 2005:Cidermill delivers highly successful "Apples & Oranges®" training seminar
The sales specialists reacted very positively to the course. They found it a time-efficient way to learn how their customers run their businesses. What they learned will help them spot new sales opportunities.

October 2005: Cidermill delivers "Finance in the Public Sector" training
Cidermill selected to teach sales teams how public sector organisations are financially managed and how to make a case for investment.

September 2005: Cidermill wins "Financial Basics" training contract
Cidermill teaches commercial sales people how to analyse sales prospects using the prospect's Annual Report and how to prepare a financial case for a sales proposal using discounted cash flow techniques.

May 2005: Cidermill announces new Investment Analysis sales training
This new Cidermill training module helps sales professionals prepare and present persuasive financial cases for capital project investments. Available now.

March 2005: Cidermill delivers financial awareness training to Oracle
Cidermill trained a group of new Oracle sales people on how to read and interpret company annual reports. Students attended from Europe, Middle-East and Africa.

January 2005: Cidermill contributes to Oracle sales training
Cidermill provided expert industry presence to the Oracle course for new sales people. Students attended from Europe, Middle-East and Africa for the 10-day course in Dublin.

December 2004: Cidermill delivers market study to SAP
Cidermill created an in-depth study of the Process Manufacturing Industry in the UK and Ireland for SAP (UK). The report enabled SAP to quantify market opportunities for SAP partners in this important industry.

November 2004: Cidermill announces Business Development Service
Cidermill now offers a Business Development Consulting Service for software application vendors who wish to find and exploit new markets for their products.

October 2004: Cidermill announces 2-stage training courses
Cidermill now offers industry sales development at two levels:
  - ´Quick Start´ (for salespeople new to the manufacturing industry)
  - ´Intermediate´ (for more experience industry sales teams)

September 2004: Cidermill at BEC (Systems Integration)
We delivered our Manufacturing Industry QuickStart training module for the BEC(SI) sales team in Blackburn, Lancashire. The course achieved high ratings and discussions are now underway for follow-up courses.