ALL for one, and one for all!

Employees at a Winchester-based dental healthcare company have made three furry new friends in the hope that some of their well-known team-building skills will rub off on them.

A team member at Denplan, Victoria Road, won a competition to name the meerkats, sponsored from Marwell Zoo, Colden Common, with the first-place entry - The Three Meerkateers - Porthos, Athos and Aramis.

Denplan staff met with the adoption office at Marwell to meet and name the meerkats, and to hang a plaque to mark the sponsorship.

Denplan's commercial director, Nigel Jones, said: "The ability of meerkats to work together as an efficient and effective unit is exactly the kind of thing we always try to bear in mind when carrying out our own work, and by sponsoring these animals we are encouraging our employees to consider the benefits of effective team work on a daily basis."