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Peterborough-based medical devices company Coloplast (www.coloplast.com) has once again been named by the Sunday Times as one of the top 100 medium-sized companies to work for in the UK.

When an unexpected life event forced ex-pat Jon Parker and his wife Lisa to return to the UK they were looking for a franchise business with potential. They found it in the Oxford and Banbury franchise of Drain Doctor Plumbing and Drainage Ltd

Leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of custom flow meters Litre Meter (www.litremeter.com) is strengthening its team with a key sales appointment.

Housebuilder and developer Larkfleet Group (www.larkfleetgroup.co.uk) has named the first phase of its major urban expansion of Oakham, located on land between the Oakham bypass and Barleythorpe Road, ‘Leighfield Park’.

WindowMaster (www.windowmaster.com) is supplying its automated window control system to deliver a natural ventilation solution for the new Pope John Paul II library at the National University of Ireland at Maynooth (www.nuim.ie).

Drain Doctor Plumbing (www.draindoctor.co.uk), Britain’s largest emergency plumbing and drainage company, is advising its commercial customers that ‘prevention is better than cure’ when it comes to grease management and planned maintenance.

WindowMaster (www.windowmaster.co.uk), Europe’s largest provider of natural comfort and smoke ventilation solutions, is increasing its distribution capabilities by appointing more than 20 new distribution, installation and service partners.

An independent brewery in Russia has placed an order for new lightweight, recyclable beverage containers made by Petainer, the specialist plastics packaging technology business.

Larkfleet Homes, (www.larkfleethomes.co.uk), part of the Larkfleet Group (www.larkfleetgroup.co.uk), has named its new housing development in Bourne ‘Abbeyfields’ – with the help of pupils from Bourne Abbey Academy.

WindowMaster is for the first time supplying its automated window control system to schools in the Republic of Ireland. Two installations are being used as test projects for new systems on trial for Schools for the Future in Eire.