Business in Brief. Design agency one of the best

Marlborough design agency Semaphore has been recognised as one of the UKs top performing design specialists.

The industry's bible, Marketing, has ranked semaphore 73rd in it's 2009 Design Agency League Table.

It is the first time semaphore has appeared in the table, which is regarded as the definitive guide to design agency performance.

The ranking comes hot on the heels of semaphore's recent recognition by the advertising industry's foremost professional body, the Institute of Practitioners In Advertising, for achieving Continuous Professional Development standard within its first year of accreditation.

Real Times to move on-line

Orange Business Services is taking Real Times, its quarterly publication aimed at CEOs and senior directors, on-line.

It has been masterminded by its agency, Semaphore, of Marlborough, which developed the original concept of the Real Times newspaper-style publication in 2004 and refreshed and doubled its content last year.

Real Times is the authoritative voice on major trends and issues and emerging markets in technology as well as providing news from Orange Business Services.

Until now a print only version of Real Times has been mailed out to about 15,000 leaders of top global companies.