MEMBER NEWS Trent leads CCM Group to success
Young entrepreneur Trent Peek has experienced a “groundbreaking” financial year of growth in his company after making the decision to restructure, invest and launch a new business model. The 30-year-old group director at
Nottingham-based creative agency CCM Group made the bold decision in 2020 to launch a new business- to-consumer (B2C) arm, CCM Axis, and move into a new office.
‘What Trent and the team have achieved over the past year is nothing short of incredible’
Not only has CCM Group grown its headcount and services since 2019, the business has increased turnover from £2.6m to £9.5m during the financial year between March 2020 and February 2021. Such growth has seen Trent and
the directors invest heavily in the business, relocating the company from its Mansfield-based workplace
to a three-storey, 12,000 sq ft building including a 7,000 sq ft warehouse in Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire. Trent said: “After a recruitment
drive, our employee headcount has tripled from 16 to 46, with the majority of the onboarding taking place between the months of March and September 2020. “It was a whirlwind of a year,
with so many exciting changes taking place across the company.” Launched in 1997, the family
business has developed and changed significantly over the years, expanding its offering from print management through to marketing services, product fulfilment and a new consumer- facing brand launched in April 2020. At the start of the pandemic,
Trent decided to shift CCM’s strategy and focus, utilising its existing supply chain to provide organisations with the much-needed goods and services they couldn’t access elsewhere. This change in direction is what became the driving force behind the
CCM group director Trent Peek (centre) with two new additions to the director team; Tina Brown, managing director of CCM Creative (left), and Richard Ardis, managing director of CCM Axis (right)
creation of a consumer-facing brand – Trusted PPE, part of CCM Axis – which offers protective face masks, gloves and sanitisers to over 20,000 customers. Richard Ardis, managing director
at CCM Axis, said: “What Trent and the team have achieved over the
past year is nothing short of incredible, and what is even more astounding is that it’s all been achieved before Trent turned 30 in January this year. Trent has proven himself to be an inspiring young leader who isn’t afraid to take risks for the better.”
We Love Surveys to launch Drug Audit
Leicestershire company We Love Surveys has been awarded an Innovate UK grant to develop drugs audit software for the healthcare industry. The feedback solution provider is using its 15 years
of experience working with the NHS to launch Drugs Audit, a platform to digitise medication audits. The platform will transform the process of assessing
how controlled drugs are administered in hospitals and will contribute to the NHS paperless target by removing the need for paper audits. Initial prototypes have received positive feedback
We Love Surveys CEO Helen Dargie
from users in a number of NHS trusts. They identified key benefits including better efficiency for the pharmacy teams, increased data accuracy, reduction in manual workload and improvements in data reporting and analytics. The platform also offers solutions to new challenges
that have arisen during the coronavirus pandemic – the digitisation of audits removes the need to pass physical
paper, reducing contact between NHS staff as well as saving time. We Love Surveys has recruited three new employees
in software development and project management to support the platform, taking its headcount to nine. “I am so proud of the concept we have developed in
partnership with a selection of the best NHS trusts and pharmacists in the country,” said We Love Surveys CEO Helen Dargie. “The grant from Innovate UK means that we can
make significant steps forward in turning our prototype into a reality and start to solve everyday challenges that our NHS pharmacy colleagues are facing. “The growth of our team in the East Midlands is a
real bonus. “We have secured some outstanding colleagues that
will turn our vision into the future of our company. I continue to believe that the Midlands is the best place to do business in the country.”
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