growth spotlight
Lee Biggins, founder and MD of Fleet-based CV-Library
Launched in October 2000 as one of the country’s first employment websites, last year CV-Library had a database of nearly 12 million CVs, was the third-largest UK job-board, and worth an estimated £100 million.
Turnover £30.5m; Previous year £24.7m; Growth 23.8%
“A huge driver of our growth over the past 12 months has been the expansion of our client-base to more corporate and SME businesses, which brings in greater revenue and contributes massively to our bottom line. Alongside this, we place high importance on client retention, which is
some challenges along the way, but establishing a strong senior management team, built-up with key directors from each area of the business, has helped significantly. Each head of department is there to help guide staff and drive the business forward; working closely with myself to ensure we are the best that we can be and that employee morale remains high.
driven by our outstanding customer service offering.
“Like any growing business, we’ve faced
“With an effective leadership team in place, we are in an extremely positive position when it comes to pushing our business to new heights. Through a combination of strong sales, marketing and e-commerce work, we have maintained an extremely impressive financial standing over the past three years – establishing ourselves as a leader in the industry.”
David McLeman, CEO of Bracknell-based Ancoris
Ancoris is cloud services provider with a successful digital transformation practice. Its certified specialists guide customers on their ‘cloud journeys’, away from legacy systems to affordable cloud and mobile services.
Turnover £7.5m; Previous year £5.04m; Growth 49%
“Back in 2008, we saw the advent of cloud computing combined with the arrival of smart mobile devices as the next fundamental computing evolution. The transition to an “as-a-service” subscription business model relies on developing services that meet our customers’ ongoing needs.
“Ancoris has grown by 49%, our highest growth yet, arguably due to our unrelenting
commitment to customer success. This is best demonstrated by our exceptional Net Promoter Score of +67% and recognition by our own industry. In September, Ancoris won the Computing Cloud Excellence Awards top prize as Most Innovative Cloud Vendor of the Year.
“We are one of a handful of UK Google Cloud Premier Partners, and focus on transforming our customers’ workplace. We enable modern and flexible working practices, allowing people to work from any device, anywhere, anytime with real- time collaboration tools and applications.
“Working with Google Cloud, we use our specialist development skills to create web and mobile SaaS applications that provide greater flexibility, performance, and resilience. This means we can enable a faster pace of technological change and help drive our clients’ evolving business models.
“We foster an agile and collaborative culture, delivering measurable benefits to customers by being bold and innovative in both our thinking and approach. We are determined to help customers transform their business in the way that works best for them, not us.”
Matt Franklin, MD of Newbury- based Roc Technologies
Roc is a privately-owned, award-winning transformation and IT services provider that is helping organisations in the UK and internationally to change successfully.
Turnover last year £25 million; Previous year £15.8m; Growth 58%
“Roc has a deep heritage in technology solutions and in 2014 developed a business process transformation capability. This combination of process and technology transformation is unique in the market.
“Business change and IT projects are notorious for running over time and budget, often with catastrophic effects. Roc’s growth has been due to our capability to guarantee successful outcomes to
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clients by applying our unique process, projects and technology services.
“We employ some of industry’s most experienced subject matter experts who
use our toolsets to deliver change up to 70% faster and significantly more cost effectively than our competitors, who often are not able to combine the business process with technology solutions.
“Establishing and sustaining a fast-growth business is not without its challenges. We have re-invested all of our profits into building efficient operations in many cases ‘drinking our own champagne’ by using the solutions we sell our customers.
“Our aspiration is to build a sustainable business that transforms the world – one organisation at a time.”
Supporting its growth plans Roc recently gained investment from BGF, which provides access to a £2.5 billion fund. Roc has used this initial investment to secure its first acquisition.
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