Extract from Crain's Manchester Business:

Wigan-based e-commerce business Valueworks Ltd is getting a £500,000 grant from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA). The company will use the move to expand into larger premises and double staff numbers to 123, it said. Valueworks, headed by co-founder and chief executive Jeff Dandridge, supplies web based software designed to save clients money on procurement and supply chain functions. Its customers are mainly in the construction, social housing and social care sectors but the company says it wants to increase turnover by expanding into other parts of the public sector, including healthcare.

“In assisting Valueworks, we are also enabling a number of public sector organisations to cut costs and remain efficient during these economically challenging times,” he said. “Valueworks has already become an enterprising regional business within the ICT sector and has the innovation to continue to create local employment opportunities and stimulate economic activity.”