BUSINESS GROWTH DEBATE IN ASSOCIATION WITH:
PRESENT: Richard Slater
Lancashire Business View (Chair)
Craig Fishwick Brysdales
Purves Ali Boost Business Lancashire
Raf Perussi Beurre Patisserie
Phil Barnard DA Techs
Elizabeth Porter Brysdales
Martin Blunt UCLan
Sher Shah
Accrington Surgical Instrument Suppliers
Sue Denver Boost Business Lancashire
Immy Valentino Euro Energy
PRESSING THE BOOST BUTTON
We brought our panel of business leaders and advisors to the headquarters of Brysdales in Chorley to examine the work of Boost Business Lancashire and the impact it has had on growth across the county
Sher Shah, managing director of Accrington Surgical Instrument Suppliers
We supply surgical instruments and procedure parts to the NHS and the private healthcare sector. We went to Boost to get ourselves out into the market more and to increase our sales.
This all came about in lockdown. When the pandemic hit, operations were cancelled and the focus was on Covid and ICU patients. However, we were approached by the Department of Health to see if we could deliver a particular prototype they needed for ICU patients.
That sparked my thinking about what else we could do in other markets. I got in touch with Boost and they gave us support in terms of how to approach those markets, such as the Ministry of Defence.
You think you can do it all by yourself but until you get the time and the resource to do it you won’t actually know what you’re doing.
If I hadn’t got in touch with Boost we’d be just dealing with the NHS and private hospital clients in the traditional market. We were very static, like that little fish in a little pond.
I’m currently in a peer-to-peer programme that is taking the business to the next level. We’re having a look what we could be doing
Sher Shah Purves Ali LANCASHIREBUSINES SV
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as a business, what areas we are in and what areas we need to improve as well as what our competitors are doing.
Purves Ali, Boost Business Lancashire advisor
We’re on the fault line, we hear what companies are struggling with. People and companies are resilient, they’re getting on with the job in hand, still looking to grow and expand.
The companies that I work for are looking to relocate, looking to expand, recruit, so for me
everybody’s
positive.The major concerns are funding and recruitment. Colleges in Lancashire have stepped up and that’s great for business. We’ve also got the universities and the AMRC. There are services around Lancashire to help companies add value to what they deliver.
When people ask what we do I reply that Boost is an honest business broker. We try and help companies build better relationships and we’re only a phone call away.
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