MEMBER NEWS An impressive first quarter for Shed
Award-winning Shed Grounds Maintenance Ltd, better known as Shed, has announced a healthy start to the new financial year, winning multiple new contracts totaling more than £180,000 in the first quarter. Following a competitive tender
process, Chesterfield-based Shed was awarded a three-year contract to provide grounds maintenance services to Lutterworth Town Council, working in partnership with the Council’s in-house service teams. The contract involves maintaining the verges and open spaces around the Leicestershire town. Since Shed mobilised the
contract, the council has received several compliments from residents via social media, commending the new contractor’s performance and praising Shed’s care and attention to detail. This project was one of three
local authority contracts awarded in Q1, including the parishes of North Ferriby, in Humberside, and Riccall, in Yorkshire. In the first quarter, Shed also
won several new contracts in the private commercial sector including multiple sites with local property developers Litton Property Group and the renowned Welbeck Estate.
Shed groundsmen Gary Bramwell and Mark Hanson with a team member from Lutterworth Town Council
‘The Telegraph article put us in front of a national audience that perhaps we wouldn’t have been able to reach by ourselves’
Growth has been further assisted
by existing key clients including CEVA Logistics and property management group Ryden, which has awarded Shed several new sites in the past three months. The British Standards Institution
(BSI) has also selected Shed as a role model for its marketing campaigns to smaller businesses.
The BSI sees shed as an exemplar SME working with the standards of ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management) and ISO 14001:2015 (Environmental Management). BSI recently featured an article in
the national newspaper The Telegraph writing on the challenges of growth for smaller businesses. It showcased Shed as a company
meeting these challenges and discussed how accreditations can help businesses to both manage and facilitate expansion. Shed founder and Managing
Director Peter Botham said: “The Telegraph article put us in front of a national audience that perhaps we wouldn’t have been able to reach by ourselves. We are delighted to have been chosen by BSI for its marketing campaigns to SMEs, which is a recognition itself as to our implementation and operation of the standards.”
Xuper secures growth funding package
An innovative East Midlands IT business has secured a seven- figure funding package from Allied Irish Bank (GB) to support its future growth. Xuper is an international managed IT services provider
which has developed its own unified communications and collaboration platform for a wide range of business applications, including a secure digital consultations platform for the healthcare market.
Headquartered at Wyvern
Business Park, Derby, Xuper currently employs around 80 people. Customers include the Met Office, Police Scotland, UK health and social care trusts and several multinational businesses
including a leading telecommunications provider responsible for 36% of all UK mobile data traffic. Following its merger with
Questmark last year, Xuper will use the new funding from Allied Irish Bank (GB) to continue its development of Visconn and Visconn Clinics, which combine cost-effective video conferencing, telephony, instant messaging and file sharing to improve productivity. Sales are projected to continue
to grow substantially, with plans to seek further complementary acquisitions, job creation and product launches. This includes a new solution, which enables patients to see and be seen by a medical professional in their own homes. Peter Grogan, Managing
Dale Cowdell and Peter Grogan with Xuper’s Adam Richardson and John Sykes of Skye Corporate Finance
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Director, said: “I am proud to lead a great team. We are taking on the blue chip organisations with local talent, local grit and enterprise. Allied Irish Bank (GB) is a great partner to help develop our current business.”
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