Independent car auctioneer SMA Vehicle Remarketing has credited ongoing investment in its auction centres and its foray into technology for driving turnover. To paraphrase its own strapline: the company is getting bigger and this has only been achieved by being better.
Daniel Katz began his career as an antiquities dealer and now he sees his eclectic way of “offering the greatest works of art available” as “where the market is moving”.
Otherwise known as Williams and Co, the company was founded in 1972 as a specialist plumbing and heating merchant. In 1985, it made its first big move, acquiring 6,000 sq ft of warehouse space – the company is now contemplating a similar move.
Equine and agricultural wholesale isn't always the first thought for a new business idea, but Trilanco managing director Martin Balmer suggested that the business merely identified an issue that needed addressing and found a solution to it.
McDermotts is a groundworks and civil engineering company based in Birmingham, West Midlands, supporting some of the country’s largest construction companies. A family founded SME, the company stressed that it has one all-encompassing virtue: integrity.
Mike Loggie established drilling tools supplier Saltire Energy in 1986 and has since grown it into a group of three subsidiaries. Over the past three years, the company’s turnover figures have increased by 68 per cent and it has grown its on-the-ground presence in Australia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Far East as a result of client demand.
According to Audio Network, 69 per cent of global internet traffic will be from videos by 2017. That's why for the past 12 years, Audio Network has strived to provide music services for content creators.
The Oliver family of companies has been providing flow control solutions to the offshore and onshore petrochemical, oil, gas and power industries since 1979 and enjoys success in over 50 countries worldwide. Darling Oliver Vales has constantly made an appearance in the Hot 100, but now it's Valvetek's turn to be the front-runner of the family.
The Fairburn family have been at Ivy House Farm for four generations and in the egg industry since 1951. However, despite its growth, the company is adamant that there is one thing that hasn’t changed: its commitment to family values, business integrity and loyalty.
Belfast-based IT company Kainos Software has more than doubled its profits after winning new contracts with councils and NHS trusts in England, and is looking to create jobs in the tech space. However, managing director Brendan Mooney is adamant that “the real impact" in terms of improving the number of graduates will be about GCSE students choosing maths and science when they’re 14.
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