Sky High, a data collection and analysis group, has been awarded a three year framework agreement by Transport Scotland. The agreement, for an undisclosed sum, is for the collection and collation of a range of transport and land use data. Sky High has partnered IBI Group for the contract, although Sky High is the lead partner and it is expected that 80% of services will be delivered by Sky High-Count On Us, the traffic survey division of the firm.
Investment company Brainspark has paid €0.69m for a 10% stake in Sixlove Group, an Italian hotel management firm. Brainspark has also announced that one of its investments, Bibop, has launched a new product called 'virtual relationship', a video interaction software solution which will be used to provide business to business video communiation services to the retail market. In addition, ORH, a 51%-owned Brainspark investment, has signed an agreement to gain the exclusive management of the brand and activities of Un Altro Sole, a Milan based travel operator. With this acquisition ORH expects to report total revenues in 2012 of over 60m euro.
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