Pictured above: (l-r) Paul Vernon of Oegen and John Long of Blueprint

As it prepares to celebrate its first year at No.1 Nottingham Science Park, creative design and technology company Oegen is taking on new staff and clients, and plans to continue expanding.

The company, which has an international client base, moved into a 1,000 sq ft suite of the award-winning building in December. 

It specialises in graphic design and web solutions, including content management and e-commerce systems, and since the move has signed a number of new contracts.

These include Syntec (bar code scanning solutions) and agricultural merchant Mole Valley Farmers, adding to a client list that includes Molson Coors brewers and bar chain Fat Cat Café Bars. 

Oegen has also been working with other tenants in the science park, including 4energy, 121 Systems and LEDinlight, and is now looking at creating an intranet for the building.

Paul Vernon, sales director of Oegen, said: "No.1 is perfect for us. The location is ideal, and we are really close to the university where we are running a graduate training programme.

"We came here with seven people and are now up to nine. We have an ongoing recruitment drive and expect to double our headcount by the end of 2011."

The creative design company has been working on a number of new projects, one of which involves building the first iPhone app for Fat Cat Café Bars, to be used for promotional material. 

John Long, development director at Blueprint, said: "It's great to see Oegen progressing as a business and benefiting from collaborative opportunities with the other tenants and also Nottingham University.

"Oegen has been another great addition to our No.1 Nottingham Science Park community and is exactly the type of company we were looking to have here - progressive in outlook, innovative and going places." 

No.1 Nottingham Science Park was built by sustainable developer Blueprint to create a community of innovative businesses combining self contained Grade A space with the opportunity of "clustering" with other progressive businesses in the same building, close to the University of Nottingham.

Partners in Blueprint's Nottingham Science Park extension included emda, Nottingham City Council and Greater Nottingham Partnership, and the project was part financed by the European Regional Development Fund. The boardwalk was part financed by emda as public realm.