Enterprise Hub Network - Case History
Companies of all shapes and sizes benefit from the advice and support of local Enterprise Hubs and the Enterprise Hub Network as a whole.
In our Case Studies section you can see exactly how such innovative companies, across a variety of sectors, are getting the most from their Hub.
CyberTherm
CyberTherm is a young and dynamic family firm which has developed a radiator that is only one millimetre thick. The heating panel can be stuck directly on to walls, is much cheaper to run and install than conventional radiators and is powered by as little as 300 watts of electricity.
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Enabling Technologies
They started out working from their homes but, seven years on, founders David Sibley and Stephen Ashworth have contracts with big names in the aerospace industry. The business was born when the former colleagues saw an opportunity to set up a smaller design house.
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Exacttrak
Exacttrak is a worldwide recovery company specialising in tracking people, vehicles, packages, and high-value items. It was launched in 2007 by serial entrepreneur Norman Shaw. His enterprises have always been based in the ICT industry – ranging from computer and laptop sales to ICT security and tracking systems.
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FISCAL Technologies Ltd
FISCAL Technologies provides duplicate payment detection software and services to corporations, government and financial institutions. This reduces costs, improves fraud detection and optimises working capital.
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Global Medical Systems (Europe)
Global Medical Systems (Europe) was formed two years ago on the back of a groundbreaking idea to combine renewable energy technologies with medical devices to provide medical and surgical facilities in remote and unusual locations.
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Go4Fresh
Shoreham-based Go4Fresh is a business that has been nine years in the making, but its proposition is entirely of the current moment.
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Hybrid-Marine
While building his own boat, Hybrid-Marine founder Graeme Hawksley had the idea of developing a complete hybrid system for powering small marine craft, which would provide electrical power and propulsion from diesel.
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Learning from your competition
Finding out how your competitors secure business can be a useful way to grow your company. Martin Brassell, hub director for the SEEDA Enterprise Hub Network, examines how to learn from the marketing techniques of your rivals.
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M&N Communications Ltd
M&N Communications is a fast-expanding PR company, founded 12 years ago, by partners Martin and Nicky Winch. It specialises in property, regeneration and the built environment, became incorporated in 2007 and has grown at an annual rate of 35 per cent for the past three years with a current fee turnover of £2 million.
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Magnet Schultz Ltd
Magnet Schultz Ltd is UK based and part of the Magnet-Schultz Group, a worldwide manufacturer of solenoids and related products. During the past 40 years it has represented the interests of the Magnet-Schultz Group, based in Germany, initially as an agent, and since 1991 as a wholly-owned subsidiary.
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Mobiya
Founded in January 2006 by Martin Davis and Sacha Vekeman, Mobiya has developed a system to give newspaper and magazine publishers, and classified advertising portals, a cost-effective way to exploit the burgeoning mobile advertising market without having to wrestle with the complexities of evolving technolog.
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More Food
After selling her coffee shop in Chichester, Caron Howe set up More Food Ltd in 2003 with her mother and a friend, handmaking premium quality cakes for the wholesale market.
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Oil Drum
Oil Drum Ltd is a privately-owned renewable energy company, developing products that will both reduce vehicle running costs and make a positive contribution to tackling climate change.
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Path Intelligence
The era of clip-board wielding researchers looking to survey passing shoppers could be a thing of the past as Path Intelligence brings market research into the 21st century with their unique tracking technology.
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People: The key to start up success
Entrepreneurs too often forget that having the right team around them is essential to achieving business success. Ed Cooper, hub director of the Thames Valley Hub, offers top tips on finding the people you need.
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Pricing your new product or service
Martin Brassell, hub director at the SEEDA Enterprise Hub Network, offers advice on how to go about setting prices for a new product or service.
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purelabs
Increasingly busy in a publishing career that spanned nearly 20 years, Jon Barrett began looking around for software that would help with planning and management of individual periodicals, and found that there was nothing available with the right features, and at the right price. Pen and paper, and spreadsheets, were still the tools of choice in most publishing businesses, both large and small.
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Real-Time Data Company (RTDC)
For those operating in a high-tec, niche marketplace finance, advice and other business support can be very difficult to access. The directors of RTDC decided that involvement with the Farnborough Aerospace Enterprise Hub, with its specialist industry focus, would open doors and help reduce the time to market for the new suite of products.
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Rishtec Ltd
Rishtec designs and tests hardware, software and networking systems for the automotive industry, including the communications network that controls and integrates entertainment/infotainment systems within vehicles.
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Solarstar Technology
Solarstar Technology was created in 2006 to commercialise a portfolio of renewable technologies developed by award-winning inventor Alexander Bushell. The portfolio includes solar-powered generators, wind and tidal turbines, water purification and filtration devices and innovative reactor technologies designed to generate power from nuclear waste materials.
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TommyCan
TommyCan Ltd founder and product development director Martin Slack came up with his business idea in 2004, after a number of years working as a sound engineer and composer in feature films and advertising. He set up the business in 2007.
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Toximet
The food industry will be able to detect toxins in their products with a quick and easy device thanks to Toximet. The testing system aims to be more affordable than other methods and can be done by non-scientists from producers through to retailers.
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TVCS
Tissue Viability Consultancy Services (TVCS) has been part of the UK landscape for more than nine years. During that time, it has established itself as a local and national leader and provider of wound healing consultancy services. Services involve setting up and running new Wound Healing Centres, supporting established tissue viability services and provision of education and advice for patients and clinicians.
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VirtualGym TV
VirtualGym TV is Europe’s first online gym – a TV station that delivers fitness programmes over the internet. The idea was born when former financial services consultant Richard Davis was talking to a fitness instructor friend who suggested “wouldn’t it be good if you could teach this online?”
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VoxIQ
It began as the germ of an idea 10 years ago and is now set to revolutionise the work of call centres. Young ICT company VoxIQ has the exclusive licence from BAE Systems Ltd to move forward with a speech recognition concept developed by former employee Archie Macaulay.
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