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Throughout over 25 years of consultancy, we have helped hundreds of businesses. We are confident that we have the necessary experience to help your business improve.
Services
- Short to Medium Term Planning and Support
- Sales and Marketing Strategy
- Mentoring and Coaching
- Recovery and Resilience
- Manufacturing and Service Improvement
- Compliance and Standards
- Lifecycle and Succession Planning
- Category Management
- Food
- CE Marking
- Registered Laboratories
- Health & Safety
- Resilience Continuity
- Energy
- Cyber Security
- Environmental
- Quality
Success Stories
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Attracting new investors to Peterborough
Opportunity Peterborough, the company responsible for delivering economic growth to the city of Peterborough, set out to improve the attractiveness and quality of the leisure offer in the recently refurbished Cathedral Square area. The project brief was to help them attract new retail investors, with the specific objective of creating a quality casual dining experience, Read More... -
Credit Crunch: Marketing for attraction
A significant landmark has unique characteristics as a conference and food facility, in central Norwich. The potential for business is extensive and the business, which is a charitable trust, wished to have assistance mentoring the Marketing Manager to define potential, establish scope, prioritise and implement new marketing initiatives. We focused on mentoring the Marketing Manager. Read More... -
Credit Crunch: Family Business Succession
A well established family business had gone through a succession change and suffered the resultant challenges. The Managing Director needed an independent source of advice and guidance to enable the company to avoid decisions being influenced by family or emotive issues. We mentored them through this transition. We provided pragmatic advice and solutions, such as Read More... -
Manufacturing Fit For The World Stage
Germain’s (part of Associated British Foods) is a worldwide seed enhancement company, coating and treating agricultural seeds for improved performance. With plants in the UK, Poland, Holland, Spain and North America, Germain’s faces global competition and needs to maintain and extend its position. Seed is an irreplaceable natural commodity, so the consequences of error or Read More... -
From small business to buyout
After 20 years in business as a cabinet maker, Simon Simpson found his business growing beyond what he believed were his management capabilities, so in the late 1990s he signed up for WLP’s Business Growth Club. As Simon puts it: “From being a cabinet maker who employed a few people, I began to think like Read More... -
Marketing and HR policies build a business
When Steve and Sandra Dawson bought Galaxy Travel, a network of travel agency branches, in the early 1990s, their objective was to build a company which would secure their future. Steve signed up for the WLP Business Growth Club to improve his skills and worked with WLP’s Don Pearson on business planning and strategy. The Read More... -
Efficiency Savings Boost Bottom Line
Structure-flex, Headquartered in Melton Constable, Norfolk, is one of the UK’s most successful providers of bulk packaging solutions and a leading supplier of vehicle tension curtains and lifting products. Needing to compete more effectively with global manufacturers, particularly from the Far East, Structure-flex asked WLP to devise and implement a manufacturing efficiency programme. Savings of Read More... -
Winter Flora returned to profitability and blossoms
Winter Flora had a history of losses and a lack of direction and had been provided with restructured financial support by their bank. What We Did Introduced financial controls and systems – agreed change to their management accountant. Created a profit focus Encouraged the renegotiation of prices and terms with suppliers and customers. Introduced strict Read More... -
Chase Plastics puts safety into action with proactive management system
Chase Plastics specialises in the recycling plastic waste to a high quality compound suitable for returning into the manufacturing chain. The business had grown and developed and found itself in need of an occupational health and safety review and the development of a health and safety management system. What we did: From an initial review Read More... -
Credit Crunch: MBO for Signs business
The signs business was part of a group that was experiencing financial difficulties due to problems elsewhere in the group. The team managing the business wanted to take up the opportunity to acquire the business. We explained the process to them, produced their plan, obtained finance from appropriate sources, negotiated with the insolvency practitioner, and Read More...