the BIG interview
T
VD Group is one of the leading UK providers in audio visual solutions,
which celebrated its 25-year anniversary in 2021 and achieved a record-breaking turnover of £18.7 million in 2021/22 having emerged from the pandemic in a position of strength. The company was founded in 1996 by Jim
Brown and his sons Mat and Dan. The family-run business operates across six divisions, including TVC, which provides and installs technology solutions in commercial environments including hospitality, betting & gaming, retail and healthcare; TVD B2B, a leading business- to-business supplier of electronic goods, and Mitchell & Brown, its own British TV brand. As part of the new structure, company co-
founder, Mat Brown has taken up the role of chief ex-ecutive and will continue to lead major corporate decisions and oversee the business. Lucia Maguire has been appointed managing
director, having worked for the business as head of strategy for almost three years. She was previously an executive director for a leading UK tour and hotel operator, and in her new role is working to oversee business performance, daily operations and help to formulate and facili-tate the achievement of TVD’s ambitious strategic aims. Ms Maguire said: “We are striving towards another record year of revenue, which is by no means an easy task in the current financial and geopolitical context, so a continued team effort and busi-ness resilience will be vital in creating TVD’s success.” When Ms Maguire joined the TVD Group, her job was to do an audit of the business, which in-cluded looking at each area and how it was performing, She then wrote a white paper on what she thought could to be done in the business and then was tasked with implementing some of that. “We were doing pretty well and then COVID
came,” she said. “It was about navigating the busi-ness through that period; we had certain elements of the business that really dropped off,
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TVD Group drives its business forward
Bolton-based TVD Group recently a new senior leadership structure as part of its ambitious growth plans. Simon King headed to the company’s HQ to meet Lucia Maguire, the newly appointed managing director of the business
like the pub installations and no hospitality was open.
“Our retail store – in Leigh – and TVD B2B did
very well during that period – not having all of our eggs in one basket paid dividends. We were able to maintain the workforce and able to push forward in other areas.” The business stuck to its strategy and has done
very well. “The management during that period has meant that, now that things are starting to scale up, we’re finding that business is coming back
and we’re geared up for it,” she said. “I’m definitely not work shy, I don’t mind rolling
up my sleeves and that’s what the team have always done here.” Ms Maguire said that the management team
of TVD Group is looking to engage all of its – the business employs 52 staff – to feel like they have a level of ownership of the business in terms of where it’s going, what it’s doing and what the business is trying to achieve. “We are a business with multiple brands under it; sometimes areas of the business don’t really
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