Question: What did a company based in Poole, Dorset open in 2000?

Context articles: Britannia Parking
Brownsea Open Air Theatre
Life Care Funding
Tidal Wave (Thorpe Park)
Epeds
Clipper tea
Cobham plc
The Tussauds Group
Badger Vectis
Poole Pottery

Britannia Parking is a parking management company based in Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom.
 It is one of the largest car parking companies in England.
Brownsea Open Air Theatre (commonly abbreviated B.O.A.T) is an open-air Shakespearian theatre company based in Poole, Dorset that have performed large theatrical productions since 1964.
 Annually performing a play from the extensive works of William Shakespeare for three weeks in July and August, the production is set on the National Trust's Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour with boats transporting patrons to the island from Poole Quay.
Life Care Funding is an American life settlement company based in Portland, Maine.
 The company changes life insurance policies into Long Term Care Benefit Plans for customers who cannot afford long-term care.
 The company was co-founded by Chris Orestis and Don Poole in 2007.
 Life Care Funding has contributed to legislation reform to help middle-class people to obtain funding for long-term care.
Tidal Wave is a giant water ride located at Thorpe Park in Surrey, England, UK.
 It was opened in 2000 and was Tussauds' first major investment in the park.
Epeds UK Ltd are an electric scooter company based in Poole, Dorset.
 Its vehicles are constructed in Zhejiang, China for retail through local UK dealers.
Clipper is a British, fairtrade tea company based in Beaminster, Dorset founded in 1984.
 In 1994, they were one of the first companies in the UK to receive the Fairtrade Mark.
 Clipper was purchased in 2012, by Royal Wessanen, for around £50 million.
 It is the UK's sixth biggest tea brand and export sales represent 20% of group turnover with products currently sold in 45 countries.
Cobham plc is a British manufacturing company based in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.
 It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
 According to Defense News it is the 51st largest defence firm in the world, and the fifth largest in the UK, based on 2013 revenue.
The Tussauds Group is now part of Merlin Entertainments, the world's second largest leisure group, after Disney.
 It is based in Poole, Dorset from where it manages a portfolio of brands and over 50 attractions including the Madame Tussauds waxworks, Legoland Theme Parks, Legoland Discovery Centers, Sea Life Centres, Gardaland in Italy, The Dungeons, The London Eye,The Orlando Eye, Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, and Chessington World of Adventures.
Badger Vectis was an English bus company based in Poole.
 A post-deregulation joint venture between Weston-super-Mare based bus company Badgerline and Isle of Wight bus company Southern Vectis, it was set up in September 1987 to compete with incumbent operator Wilts & Dorset.
 The buses all used the Badgerline brand.
 After a noted bus war between the two large companies, Badger Vectis folded in March 1988.
Poole Pottery is a pottery brand and former manufacturer, based in Poole, Dorset, England.
 As a company, it was founded in 1873 on Poole quayside, where it continued to produce pottery by hand before moving its factory operations away from the quay in 1999.
 Production continued at a new site in Sopers Lane until its closure in 2006.
 Historical products from Poole Pottery are displayed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
 The pottery has recently restarted production at its new factory in Burslem, Staffordshire, and the Poole Quay pottery studio and shop has reopened.