Merseyside Innovation Awards - 2009

Liverpool-based wildlife charity Landlife Group, which has developed a soil inversion technique to increase biodiversity, has been crowned the winner of this year's Merseyside Innovation Awards, beating fellow finalists Isothermal Technology and Industrial Purification Systems.

The business scooped the award at a ceremony held today at Liverpool's Crowne Plaza Hotel in front of 150 people. Landlife will now receive a £10,000 cash prize plus £4,000 worth of legal, business, accounting or design consultancy; support from some of the region's leading business advisers; and publicity for the idea. Grant Luscombe, chief executive of Landlife, said: "In Liverpool's Year of the Environment, it is fantastic to get this recognition. With this money and advice we can look at the intellectual property rights around this, which we could not have done before."

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