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sparesFinder Friends
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In their quarterly review, The Sunday Times  and Bathwick Group have ranked=
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sparesFinder at number 47 of Europe's top 100  e-businesses, dubbed the=20
"e-League". We are delighted to be named and to debut  more than half way u=
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the list. (For those of you receiving this message in  plain text, you can=
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find the e-League commentary page at=20
http://www.bathwick.com/ir/eleague/commentary.shtml)
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Please note the mention we get in paragraph  two, as "a young company with =
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great concept," in the update commentary below.  For the full review, just=
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click on the Top 100 and see sparesFinder at 47.  You'll also see us in The=
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Sunday Times itself when the e-League is printed in  the new year.
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Coming on the heels of recent reviews from  Schroder Salomon Smith Barney a=
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Goldman Sachs, this is further good news and  endorsement for the=20
sparesFinder initiative. Thank you for your support  and?role in helping ma=
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this happen.=20
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=09Brief commentary - October update
=09This update sees one notable exit =01) that of  Boxman.com from no.20 la=
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(August). Boxman had a good  management team, business model, cost control,=
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and customer base,  but was a victim of over-ambition and negative investor=
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sentiment in  the light of long or lengthening periods of losses. Others=20
will  probably follow over the coming months.
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entries  include a number of strong b2b companies, including =20
Sparesfinder.com, a young company with a great concept for cutting  costs f=
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heavy industries.
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=09On a general note, The standard  of companies in the e-league (against w=
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all are judged)  continues to improve, and scores have been adjusted to=20
reflect the  improving average.
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=09There are still some notable exceptions  that warrant a place in the lea=
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but from which we have been so  far unable to obtain sufficient data for th=
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Chateauonline, and  Mercateo and other UK companies like Medexonline.=20
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