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Wire Bending But Straight Success
Established in 1991, AWB initially supplied components to well-known companies of that era such as Kenwood, Morphy Richards , Labgear and Beldray. As one of five brothers, all businessmen, Silvio Perna has led the company through the decades, driving change in the industry to introduce machine technology to bend wire, ahead of his competitors.
No Quibbles for Quibble
Having worked in the digital marketing agency world for many years, Anna Morrish knew that she wanted to start her own company. When the opportunity arose, she gave in her notice with her employer and used weekends, evenings and even lunch breaks during her notice period to set up Quibble Digital in 2016.
Pockit’in a Grant
Pockit Diagnostics was founded in 2017 by a group of Cambridge students and young entrepreneurs focusing on innovation within the diagnostics field. They developed the first blood test to enable faster and more accurate stroke diagnosis to help improve treatment and potentially save lives.
What a Gouda Grant
Thirty-five years ago, a young man called Mark Hulme borrowed some money from his father for a van to collect and deliver cheese to people in his local area. Move forward through the years, this nascent family enterprise has grown into Rennet & Rind, an award-winning cheesemonger and affineur sourcing and maturing outstanding artisan British cheese.
Grants Light up NET LED Lighting
NET LED Lighting has a respected reputation as the supplier of commercial and industrial lighting across the UK which is well deserved. Founded in 2009 by Chris Dawes and Paul Bubb, the company has developed over the years but went through a significant pivot in their business strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Power of Partners
In 2000, Tony Conte founded Brave Agency from his home garage, with the company moving on to survive and thrive straight through the Dot.com bubble in that year, even experiencing economic recessions, whilst pivoting along the way and adopting a passion for all things digital. 23 years later, and whilst many agencies have come and gone, Brave now employs 25 staff with specialists in Marketing, Design and Web Development.
Out and About Across the Region
The Growth Works team have been busy attending and throwing events across the region!
Value Propositions – The Sales Perspective
A Value Proposition is a carefully crafted statement articulating how your products/services solves your prospects’ problems or improves their situation; what value your products offer in terms of specific benefits and quantified value, and why your prospects should buy from you, not your competitors.
Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling
Sally Baker, co-founder of Wondrous, the branding, creative and digital marketing agency, talks to Growth Works about the challenges she faced in taking her business through growth phases and gives her tips for how she overcame them to achieve their growth trajectory.
Top 5 IP Tips for SMEs, Entrepreneurs, Start-ups and Scale-ups
Dr Rachel Daniel is a is an IP Specialist at IP21, which takes a holistic consultative approach to IP advice to ensure that strategic planning, rights registration, portfolio management and enforcement are always aligned with ultimate commercial objectives, and it utilises its long heritage of successful practice in this field and its culture of continuous improvement to deliver best practice IP services.
Going Digital: What Does it Mean and How Can it Help Your Business Grow?
In this blog, we aim to demystify what ‘digital’ actually covers, and provide some easy ways for you to add digital skills and resources to your business. Many of the ways to do this are absolutely free, just requiring some of your time.