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'Cowboys' Using Action 2000 Database To Con Firms
News Several" listed companies are "not entirely above board" according to Gwynneth Flower, managing director of Action 2000. Flower identified small businesses as being "at significant risk" from "cowboys out to make a quick buck" as the race to...
[January 18, 1999, 12:45]
Exclusive: Government To 'name And Shame' Non-Y2k Compliant Companies
News Gwynneth Flower, MD of Action 2000 told ZDNet news this morning that the organisation set up by Tony Blair in January, is "moving close to the point where we will go into name and shame activity". Dialogue between Action 2000 and companies (both...
[October 23, 1998, 15:11]
Pledge 2000 Seeks Co-operation, Not Litigation
News Headed by Action 2000 managing director Gwynneth Flower and supported by two minor celebrities from the food industry, Pledge 2000 is a public scheme "intended to help all organisations to work in partnership with their customers and suppliers to...
[July 29, 1998, 16:31]
One Million Jobs At Risk Warns Action 2000
News Gywnneth Flower, managing director of Action 2000 blamed complacency, a refusal to see the wider implications of the problem and a belief that a "quick fix" was just around the corner as the reasons for the shocking figures.
[August 3, 1999, 13:56]
Action 2000 Talks Tough
News In her State of the Nation update, Gwynneth Flower, managing director of Action 2000 pointed to current research which shows only two in five of UK businesses are on course for the Year 2000. Action 2000's attempts to get the Y2K ball rolling seem...
[March 5, 1999, 12:29]
A Year Ago: Pledge 2000 Seeks Co-operation, Not Litigation
News Headed by Action 2000 managing director Gwynneth Flower and supported by two minor celebrities from the food industry, Pledge 2000 is a public scheme "intended to help all organisations to work in partnership with their customers and suppliers to...
[July 29, 1999, 6:16]
A Year Ago: 'Cowboys' Using Action 2000 Database To Con Firms
News Several" listed companies are "not entirely above board" according to Gwynneth Flower, managing director of Action 2000. Flower identified small businesses as being "at significant risk" from "cowboys out to make a quick buck" as the race to...
[January 17, 2000, 6:00]
LookBack '98: A Year In The Life Of The Bug
News Gwynneth Flower, managing director of Action 2000 emerged as one of the bug's fiercest adversaries. By July Flower's worries seemed well-founded and Action 2000 launched a £10m marketing and advertising campaign to persuade small and medium sized...
[December 24, 1998, 6:11]
The Week In Review: The War Goes Online
News There's still the flat-panel version and the eMac, but neither is available in Flower Power or Bondi Blue. Original iMac goes the way of Flower Power These will no doubt have an impact on the way people take in information about the war, just as...
[March 21, 2003, 12:37]
Act Normally But Don't Call 999 -- Y2K Latest
News Take action yourself, make a note of your own doctor's number, phone local numbers if you are worried about electricity or gas," said Action 2000 managing director Gwynneth Flower in a call to "personalise" bug action.
[November 1, 1999, 11:31]
LookBack '98: Top Stories Of 1998 Part II
News As part of the ongoing millennium bug saga, Action 2000 managing director Gwynneth Flower exclusively revealed to ZD Net News in October that there could be public naming and shaming of companies failing to do enough to combat the bug.
[December 25, 1998, 6:54]
Flower Lines
Downloads Flower Lines is a Puzzle Game in best traditions of match three games. For instance, the number of balls in line is three instead of five, as it was in classic puzzle, besides, we have added some action and arcade components.
[August 2, 2006, 3:01]
News Burst: £10m Ad. Campaign To Purge 'The Bug'
News Gwynneth Flower, MD of Action 2000 is charged with the job of persuading those UK businesses without a Millennium bug plan to ring the new Action Line for advice. Flower has agreed to an exclusive interview with ZDNet News UK which will appear at...
[July 15, 1998, 13:41]
ZDNet UK's IT Personality Of The Year
News It's not an easy job, but someone's got to do it," Gwynneth Flower '98. She has not shirked from hard hitting criticism and has always been honest with her views, a trait which has had Action 2000's PR machine running into overdrive at times.
[December 25, 1998, 6:10]
Millennium Bug: Good News For Big Business
News Gwynneth Flower, managing director of Action 2000 hopes the good example set by such companies will have a knock-on effect. Flower reiterated the danger of complacency. 2,600 companies employing 500 people or more were grilled on how far on they...
[November 16, 1998, 14:55]
Welwyn: Home To The World's First Millennium Bug Park
News Managing director of Action 2000, Gwynneth Flower hopes this new scheme will turn 'the anonymous statistics into reality', as the progress of the 15 companies involved is monitored and publicised. The new Bug Park, which was organised by the...
[November 4, 1998, 15:29]
New Millennium Body For The Capital
News But his optimism contrasts starkly with the grim note sounded by Action 2000's managing director Gywnneth Flower. The Infrastructure committee set up by Action 2000 will issue a report on preparedness in five key areas -- transport, banking...
[December 7, 1998, 15:08]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Flower is head of the government's Action 2000 millennium bug task force. Any one sensible would plan for this' said Flower. In a front page lead, yesterday's Observer reported Gwynneth Flower's advice to families that they should put a little...
[December 14, 1998, 10:24]
Analysis: Y2K Action - Too Little, Too Late?
News Getting the regulators on board to "hold the feet of the companies over the fire" is crucial if the work is to be done on time, stressed Gwynneth Flower, the head of Action 2000. The independent, government-backed body, Action 2000, is attempting...
[October 26, 1998, 15:25]
Local Authorities Slam Action 2000's Naming 'n Shaming
News Gywnneth Flower, Action 2000's managing director, robustly defended the survey. While the government refuses to name and shame the 8 major financial institutions falling behind in bug-fix plans, Action 2000 is showing no mercy when it comes to...
[July 12, 1999, 15:40]
