CASE STUDIES

Bistro La Place (Winchester Restaurants Ltd)

Setting up a new restaurant is considered by many to be risky at the best of times. So opening a new restaurant just before one of the worst recessions in recent years should have been a disaster. However, Bistro La Place, a French restaurant and bar which opened in February 2008 in the centre of...

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rippll

rippll is young company run by young entrepreneurs. Founded by Doug Chisholm in 2008, in response to the huge untapped potential of new handsets such as the iPhone, it is the leading UK publisher of location-based mobile applications. Its mission is to bring the content from the web to life on...

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St Cross Electronics

For the past 26 years St Cross Electronics has been manufacturing cable harness assemblies out of its facility in Southampton and during that time has become one of the most renowned suppliers across Europe. The market today is very different from that of 1983, when the company was founded....

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The Ship & The Bridge Inn

Having successfully managed a string of restaurants and pubs in London, Neill and Sev Kefford decided to return to the country after the birth of their first son to open their own gastropub in the Wiltshire countryside. They found the perfect property in The Ship Inn at Burcombe, a 17th century...

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United Business Machines

When Terry Woods set up United Business Machine (UBM) in 1988, he had a mission to provide the most efficient and reliable printing and copying equipment and customer service in the office market place. Twenty-one years ago this equipment consisted primarily of photocopiers and printers....

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Wagtech International

When the Baghdad Water Authority needed to train laboratory technicians in water quality testing procedures, they approached a Berkshire company that had already provided mobile testing laboratories and training for Iraqi civil engineers in highway construction. This was just another ‘normal’...

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