The prestigious EMAP Angling awards ceremony held at the Bosworth Hall Hotel in Coventry, resulted in Airflo walking away with no fewer than 5 awards including:

There to receive the awards was Robert Williams (Product Sourcing Director). He said:

"We are always delighted to receive external recognition for the quality of our product range, and to win 5 awards at such a prestigious ceremony is very pleasing. The awards are held in very high esteem within the industry, as it is the readers of the angling magazines that vote. We have a number of major product launches planned for next season and hope to repeat our success in next years EMAP Awards."

BVG Airflo Group Ltd secures two major new contracts handling the book and video business for the Telegraph and Channel 4. Alex Stitt, Enterprise Director, Telegraph Group Limited said:

With a £3 million turnover last year, Telegraph Books Direct sells around 20,000 featured, reviewed and Telegraph-branded books a month to its loyal, book-hungry readers. Susannah Charlton of Telegraph Books Direct added: "We are looking forward to working closely with publishers and our new partners to increase book sales this autumn."

BVG also recently signed a lucrative contract with Channel 4 to host, service and maintain the Channel 4 web shop. The shop sells a variety of related books, CDs, Videos and DVDs from many of Channel 4's popular programmes such as Ali G, Countdown and Southpark to name a few. Simon Locke, BVGs e-commerce Director said:

The company has invested heavily in state of the art order processing systems and is set to process over 850,000 orders in the next 12 months. To put this into context, someone will be placing an order with BVG Airflo every 9 seconds of every working day of the year.

Iain Burgess - Group Managing Director said:

' To win these contracts against stiff competition from London based competitors is true recognition that businesses based in rural Wales can compete and beat the best London has to offer.'

BVG, already established as the UK's leading supplier of software training products launches its new corporate training range this June. Over 200 courses are promoted through BVG's 48 page catalogue. Revised on a quarterly basis with an annual print run of 800,000 copies the new corporate range will further strengthen BVG's market share in this rapidly expanding market place.

Building on the success of The Times Software Direct, BVG's media partner division announces the launch in June of The Times Home Direct. This 16 page brochure will offer over 150 of the latest in home and personal technology items to Times readers.

Daniel Price - Group Sales Director:

'Distributing a total of 15m catalogues per annum on behalf of our media partners, this exciting addition to our product portfolio will further enhance the services we are able to offer to our media partners and their readers.'

BVG-Airflo Group Ltd announces a major new expansion to its Brecon facility. Work will start immediately on the construction of a further 14,000 sq foot extension to the groups production, warehouse and fulfilment operation on the Ffrwdgrech Industrial Estate, Brecon.

Andrew Crees Finance Director. 'The expansion to our existing operation will bring our total facility to a little over 50,000 sq feet, helping us to meet both existing and future levels of business, safeguarding the employment of our existing workforce and creating a further 25 jobs over the next two years'.

Mike Morgan General Manager 'A large modern canteen, a relaxation room and entertainment area for our staff were an integral part of the design of the new facility' …..

'As one of the largest independent employers in the area we aim to not only offer the best remuneration and prospects but also the very best in working conditions'.

Brecon based, BVG Airflo Group Ltd was included in this years Fast Track 50 list as Wales 45th fastest growing company.

For further information contact Iain Burgess on 01874 612820

Email iain@bvg-airflo.co.uk

TV newsreader Huw Edwards presented Simon Locke, BVG's e-commerce director with a highly commended award at the 2001 business awards for Wales. Tightlines.co.uk beat over 100 entries for the award and will now represent Wales in future promotions as a flagship for ecommerce . The annual awards, which are sponsored by the Royal Bank of Scotland, BT and Cicso Systems recognise and reward excellence in the use of electronic business.

BVG-Airflo announced plans to expand its warehouse and fulfilment centre by a further 15,000 sq feet, increasing the Brecon HQ to 53,000 sq feet. Construction is scheduled to commence in June for completion late 2001. The expansion will enable BVG Airflo to service an ever increasing customer base across a more diverse product range, helping to improve the service we are able to offer to our clients, drive sales and create yet further employment.

' With up to 4,000 calls a day our old facility would sometimes struggle to offer the very high level of service to our customer we strive to achieve. Our new facility not only provides us with a capacity of up to 7,000 calls a day it enables us to maintain our high level of service throughout the entire day, including peak call processing periods.'