Since the launch of the Ford Focus in 1998, some 12 million of them have been sold worldwide. In Europe alone 6.9 million Focus units have been sold and around 1.5m of them are built every year.

THE winner of this year’s National Enterprise Awards, Co Wexford company Innovate Business Technologies, has been capitalising on opportunities thrown up by the recession.

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