23 June 2009 - For immediate release

Digital world map pioneer, Europa Technologies, was today shortlisted by Dell and the British Chambers of Commerce as a UK finalist in the 2009 Small Business Excellence Awards. With 10 finalists from a wide variety of industries, the award recognises companies using technology to better serve customers and grow. Just as Michael Dell did 25 years ago in starting his own small business, award honourees understand that listening and delivering on behalf of customers is instrumental to business success. Today, the award has expanded to 13 countries worldwide, honoured more than 370 companies, and is an important source of inspiration given today's global economic crisis.

UK finalists receive a Dell business-class laptop, one-year membership to an Accredited Chamber of Commerce, and go on to compete for the national award. Announced in September, the national winner will receive consulting time with Michael Dell, £15,000 in Dell technology, and a ten-year membership to an Accredited Chamber of Commerce.

Once named, 13 national winners selected from each participating country including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States will be considered for the 2009 global Dell Small Business Excellence Award worth £25,000 in Dell technology and services and benefits from global partners International Council for Small Business and Endeavor. The global winner will be announced in autumn 2009.

Warren Vick, Executive Director of Europa Technologies commented, "My team and I are extremely proud to be recognised for this prestigious award from the British Chambers of Commerce and Dell - a key technology supplier to our business". He added, "As a growing small business with global reach, making the UK top ten for this global award scheme is a very special honour".

About Europa Technologies

Europa Technologies is a specialist manufacturer of digital world map data for a wide variety of market sectors and applications. Our products allow organisations with international interests to better understand their customers, assets and markets, in a geographic context, to gain a competitive or strategic advantage. Topographic and satellite imagery products from Europa Technologies are used by many Fortune Global 500 companies and several missions of the United Nations. Europa Technologies is also the official supplier of mobile network coverage maps to the GSM Association, the global trade organisation for the leading mobile telecommunications standard. The company has global licence agreements with a number of leading Internet-based service providers including Google Earth/Maps (USA), Multimap (UK), ViaMichelin (France) and Maps24 (Germany). Through deployment via Google alone, our world data products are used by over 400 million people, over 1 in 4 of Internet users world-wide and our mobile coverage maps are accessed by over 20 million unique users, each year.

For further information, please visit www.europa.uk.com

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