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On the 18th & 19th June Pennant International Ltd were honoured to host five students from the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom on a two day Industry Placement as part of the Advanced Command & Staff Course (ACSC). The itinerary included interactive briefings on how an SME, such as Pennant, runs its business and demonstrations on our range of hardware, software and VR training products. The three UK services plus international militaries were represented. All the students proved to be very engaging and keen to have a go on our Marshalling Trainer (SEPT) and Virtual Loadmaster...

On Sunday 9 June, Pennant headed across to the RAF Cosford Airshow to join our partners Aviation Skills Partnership (ASP) in Hangar 15. The air show itself was exceptionally busy with both industry experts and families attending to tackle the STEM activities, watch the RAF Red Arrows, wonder around the stalls and for many to make the most of the sunny weather. Pennant demonstrated the newly launch GFIT hand skills trainer which provides students with the initial cognitive and manipulative skills required for accurate hardware assembly. Cliff said “The air show was exceptionally busy and...

Pennant are pleased to announce that Philip Cotton has been appointed as a new Non-Executive Director of the Company with effect from 14 June 2019. Click here to view

Pennant representatives from the UK and Canada offices attended CANSEC on the 29 & 30th May 2019 at the EY Centre in Ottawa, to demonstrate Pennant’s software and training capabilities. Pennant Canada focused on demonstrating recent OmegaPS and Analyzer software innovations. The product improvements caused plenty of interest and our experts answered any questions thrown at them. Jonathan Patterson (Chief Operating Officer) commented “CANSEC is Canada’s premiere security and defense trade show. It is of vital importance to Pennant Canada as it provides us the opportunity to engage...

Following the acquisition of the Aviation Skills Partnership by Pennant in February 2019, and further to the successful integration of the two businesses, the organisational structure of ASP has been refined to better focus on operational delivery and strategy. Simon Witts (the ASP founder) will focus on the vital work of launching and delivering the Aviation Skills Charter and Aviation Skills Plan and, to facilitate that, he will hand over ASP executive responsibility to Pennant Group CEO, Phil Walker, and ASP Chairman, John Ponsonby. Simon commented: “I’m excited to be able to focus my...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/S3kjHbMhWUo Pennant are excited to announce the second new addition to our hand skill trainer product range: the Generic Fastener Installation Trainer (GFIT). The GFIT was designed and created by the Pennant team in Australia and is a fantastic trainer aimed to provide students with the initial cognitive and manipulative skills required for accurate hardware assembly. The team have created an innovative product which has generated significant interest already, particularly amongst our partner schools and training academies. A prototype of the...

  Pennant is excited to announce two new additions to the Generic Trainers range this Summer, the first being the GenSkill MK2. The Generic Hand Skills Trainer (GenSkill) is a free standing physical pre-presentation of a typical Flying Control Run. The Mark 2 builds and enhances on the training capability of the standard GenSkill training device by introducing a functioning low voltage aircraft circuit as a fabrication and modification embodiment to extend training to avionic skills. You can find further details about the MK2 on our website, and keep an eye out on our News Feed and Twitter...

On the 14 & 15 May Tom Higgins represented Pennant at Warrior West in San Diego, to join our partners Capewell at The Defence Resource and Training Warrior West Expo, in the San Diego Convention Centre. The exhibition had over 250 exhibitors from numerous industries including; aerospace, kitting, MRO, weapons and optics and expeditionary, as well as industry experts, military and the government attendees.Tom Said “Warrior West was a huge event, with a great atmosphere and loads of fascinating technology and equipment on display. I got to drive some Unmanned Ground Robots and the Deep...

Pennant Australia are proud to join RDA Hunter’s STEM Workforce Initiative to help prepare and excite Hunter students for defence industry trade careers. RDA Hunter has purchased three of our Generic Hand-skills Trainers (GenSkills), which will be used in Aeroskills and Engineering Studies to allow students to apply their technical knowledge in a practical way. Stavros Tsolakides, Pennant's Support and Business Development Manager, said, “We are very pleased to be working with RDA Hunter to promote aeroskills trades in the Hunter region. Our GenSkills devices provide engaging,...

The OmegaPS User Group Meeting (UGM) was held last week in Ottawa and it was attended by over 60 government and industry Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) professionals. This also included Chris Mair and Dave Cleverly from the Fareham office, and David Stephan from the Melbourne office. The theme for this UGM was “innovation,” and to accentuate this point two guest speakers shared their perspectives on the subject.  The first guest speaker was Capt(N) Jacques Oliver from DND, who amongst his primary duties as the Director of Naval Platform Systems, and the Naval Materiel Authority,...

Pennant’s User Group Meeting for our OmegaPS and Analyzer UGM is taking place over the 8 & 9 May. We look forward to welcoming our users to the event for a full programme of keynote speakers and workshops. We are very excited to hear from Capt(N) Jacques P Olivier, Director Naval Platform Systems, Naval Materiel Regulatory Authority Department of National Defence who will be discussing the ‘Perspective on Innovation in the Royal Canadian Navy’ and Mr. Jamie Turcotte Vice President, Services, Thales Canada, Defence and Security presenting ‘Digital Transformation of In-Service...

Pennant will be attending the Warrior West expo on the 14 & 15 May at the San Diego Convention Centre alongside our partners Capewell. Pennant has a world-wide customer base providing training solutions around the world to train the next generation of engineers in defence and regulated civilian sectors. Products and services include electrical and mechanical trainers, E-learning, Virtual Reality, Emulation, interactive Technical Documentation and Media Services and many more related skills and products. Come and find us located on stand 902 alongside Capewell or if you would like to...

Pennant are attending two events over the 14 - 16th May. We hope to see you there! ITEC – 14 to 16 May Pennant are heading to ITEC on the 14 to 16 May in Stockholm, Sweden to hear all about the latest training and education technologies available, exchange ideas and discuss the evolving market place.  We look forward to celebrating ITEC’s 30th anniversary when we are there. If you would like to arrange a meeting with our team during the event please email: [email protected] and we will be in contact shortly. RailTex – 14 to 16 May Pennant will be attending RailTex at the NEC in...

On the 8th to 10th April, Tom Higgins attended the SAFE Europe Symposium and Exhibition on behalf of Pennant and Capewell, to deliver a presentation on ‘Increasing Real World Safety with Virtual Repetition’. Tom was greeted with a fantastic turnout of around 100 listeners who engaged with the Capewell and Pennant presentation. The presentation discussed the advancements in training for real world safety over the years, through the development of virtual reality (VR), while also highlighting the minimal historical training solutions that were previously implemented. With the recent...

Pennant are pleased to release the 2018 Annual Report & Accounts. It's been 'a year of delivery with significant progress' - click here to view.

BAE systems holds the 'Chairman’s Awards Ceremony' on an annual basis across its sites around the world to reward BAE’s partners and employees for outstanding technical, community and business achievements. This year, Pennant attended the Chairman's Awards in both Saudi Arabia and Australia, winning prestigious awards in the categories 'Innovating for Success' and 'The Future of Aviation Technical Training’. On the 28th January, Cliff Pennell attended the 2018 Chairman's Award ceremony at the Nayyara Venue in Riyadh, Saudi: Alan Hunter (Director of Capabilities and Training) and Chris...

Pennant International Group plc is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Aviation Skills Holdings Limited. You can read more about Aviation Skills Partnership on our web page.

Pennant International Group plc is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of Aviation Skills Partnership (ASP). 

Pennant is pleased to announce details of a potential acquisition and an unconditional fundraising issuing 1,647,160 new ordinary shares to raise in aggregate up to approximately £1.8 million before expenses, details of the exercise of share options and the sale of resultant shares, further guidance as to trading in 2019 and details of new banking facilities. See the full document.

Further to the accelerated bookbuilding process announced earlier today, Pennant International Group plc is pleased to announce the results of an oversubscribed placing with institutional investors of 2,281,110 Placing Shares, comprising 1,647,160 Fundraising Shares and 633,950 Available Option Shares. The full document can be viewed here.