MEMBER NEWS Family reunion leads to win


A video produced by Derbyshire-based production company Business Video Experts has won a national award for the results generated for its client; the company’s second national award in three years. The case study followed the story of Jennifer and


her journey to find her long-lost twin brother, John, 40 years after they drifted apart. The team were commissioned for the job by a people-tracing company based in Leeds. The video won the Best Business Video category


in the National Entrepreneur Awards, held in Birmingham. Mathew Butler, Co-Founder of Business Video


Experts, said: “First of all, we must thank Jennifer and John so much for allowing us tell their story to the world.”


“For the video and its results to be recognised on a


national scale is a huge achievement and I believe it truly reflects the efforts that our team put in on a daily basis for all our production work. It goes to show just how effective video can be in the marketing mix.” Since the video went live, the client has received


an overall uplift of 29% in organic traffic to the website, while enquiries have reached an all-time high, with an average of 607 per week from 394 previously. There have been over 12,000 views of the video


on Facebook to date, meaning more people know about the client and its service.


The video can be viewed at bit.ly/videoaward18 IN BRIEF


Grant Thornton tops M&A Review league


Leading business and financial adviser Grant Thornton UK LLP, which has its East Midlands office in Leicester, has been ranked as the UK’s number one financial adviser by volume, in the latest Experian MarketIQ M&A Review. The accolade comes as the


firm celebrates another successful year of merger and acquisition (M&A) deal activity. Nationally, the firm’s


corporate finance team was involved in a total of 165 publicly disclosed deals, and 179 transactions overall, in the 2017 calendar year with a total transaction value of £5.5bn. Mustafa Abdulhusein, who


leads the East Midlands’ advisory team for Grant Thornton, said: “Our deal track record reflects the significant progress we are making in growing our market share and the quality of our mandates.”


Solutions takes home coveted Sage award


The Business Video Experts team with their award


Express fine dining launched


Anoki Fine Dining Indian restaurant has extended its brand offering with the launch of its own Express range of ready meals. The company, which has


restaurants in Derby, Nottingham and Burton, has launched the new range of pre-cooked meals following a successful pilot scheme at the end of last year. The ready meals, freshly cooked


every day by Anoki’s team of chefs, include some of the restaurant’s most popular dishes - with a selection of starters, seven main courses, plus rice and naan breads. The Express range delivers


restaurant quality food at a fraction of the price. It caters for all tastes and palates with mild, medium and hot main courses, plus a selection of vegetarian options. Naveed Khaliq, founder of Anoki,


said: “We’ve spent the past 12 months tweaking and perfecting the range in-house, ensuring that storage, cooking and reheating times are set to guarantee optimal


Naveed Khaliq


Anoki flavours. A pilot scheme earlier this year proved a huge success, with our restaurants selling out pretty much every day. Reviews of our pre-cooked meals have also


been extremely positive. Customers can now pick up their favourite Anoki meals from the fridge here, then heat at home and eat at their leisure.”


East Midlands-based business management software provider Solutions for Accounting and CRM has been confirmed as the winner of the Sage CEO Circle award for Subscription Sales Excellence. As this is a global award, Solutions is one of only three UK business partners with a Sage CEO Circle accolade. The reward for delivering


outstanding subscription revenue was an all-expenses paid trip to Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The purpose of the trip was to participate in discussions with Sage executives at board level. Will Ingleby, Sales Director, represented Solutions on this trip with wife Emma.


Focus earns place on national framework


Focus Consultants has been awarded a position on a major national framework to supply consultancy services for property and building advice and management services. The position on the ESPO


2664_18 framework will run until December 2020 with an option to extend for a further year until December 2021. It means that public sector


clients and social housing providers in the UK can procure services from Focus in the knowledge that the procurement process has already been carried out in a professional manner, avoiding the need for a full tender process when searching for suppliers - saving them time and money.


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