The past year certainly has been 'interesting'. Whilst many of our larger competitors have suffered ... E-creation has grown both in terms of staff and turnover. Being a smaller, specialised agency, our growth is intrinsically easier, but have no doubt, we are achieving something special at E-creation. This was recognised earlier this year when E-creation won the Thames Valley Business of the Year award. By beating over 3,500 other companies in the Thames Valley, E-creation has shown itself to be a leader in business performance and going directly against the trend of other companies within the Internet services industry. Outside of the Thames Valley, E-creation's performance was reflected in Design Week's Top 100 Digital Design Agencies chart, where E-creation entered into the UK's top 100. The marketing budget for 2001/2002 has been increased substantially, with budget allocated for a new brochure, Card-ROM presentation (10,000 units), four seminars and one exhibition. This is due to an increasingly hostile economic climate and that we should be leveraging the demise of many of our larger competitors. Our design/marketing companies partnership program has been formalized with the development of www.yourdigitalpartners.com. The site has received good press coverage and E-creation will be implementing a direct mail campaign in the second quarter of this year to further improve market awareness. Word of mouth is still expected to play an important role in the growth of E-creation's reputation and presence in the industry. One of the ways this will be achieved is through a growing attendence of team members at events, seminars and exhibitions. E-creation’s client base continued to expand in the 2000/2001 period with several project wins for large corporate clients including: 3Com, IBM and Cisco, and we will be continuing to focus on corporate organisations as the ideal target client. E-creation will be looking for the ‘your digital partners’ program to deliver significant benefits in terms of the client base over the next 12-18 months.