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ANS Group, headed by CEO Scott Fletcher, has been named as one of five businesses shortlisted for the North West England and North Wales regional final in the Bank of Scotland Corporate £35million Entrepreneur Challenge 2008, giving businesses the chance to win up to £5 million interest free funding.

The award demonstrates the bank’s commitment to UK SMEs by setting aside up to £35 million of funding, shared equally between the six regional finalists, which is made available interest free for three years.

The North West regional judging panel featured senior figures from Deloitte, Bank of Scotland Corporate and the Sunday Times, plus entrepreneurs Matthew Riley, CEO of Daisy Communications and Derek Mapp, Chairman of Serial Entrepreneur.

Whilst ANS were pipped to the post as overall winners of the award, Fletcher was proud to be named amongst the region’s most successful entrepreneurial businesses:

"2008 has been a fantastic year for ANS, achieving VMware Gold and Cisco Gold as well as being named one of the Fast Track Tech 100 companies.  To achieve such an accolade as reaching this shortlist is testament to our achievements and a sign of further success to come.”

Since its foundation in 1996, ANS Group has gone from strength to strength. The company was listed on the plus markets in 2000 and now has an annual turnover of £10m with £1.4m net profit. Operating within both public and private sectors, the company offers Unified Communications & Wireless, Storage & Virtualisation and Security & Identity Management solutions. The company works closely with key partners, Cisco, Microsoft, VMware and Smart Identity to deliver enterprise class projects to its customers.