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Directors' Centre Clients - Who We Work With

Our client list falls into several broad categories:

• Smaller, growing businesses up to say, 10 employees - working with the entrepreneur
• Growing businesses, 10-200 employees - working with the entrepreneur
• Large businesses - working to instil an entrepreneurial spirit or assisting their small business clients

Who does The Directors' Centre work with? describe your typical clients

Our typical clients are ambitious owners, directors, and entrepreneurs of growing businesses. Typically they are 10-200 employees… growing... independently owned... face issues around growth… strategy, marketing and teams.

Because the majority of our clients are independent businesses, you will only have heard of of some of them (four of our clients are in the Times FastTrack 100 Independent Businesses List). However, to give you an idea of the types of contracts we run we have listed some recent assignments:

• Software Design studio, 15 emp, business growth and sales plan/implementation
• Magazine Publisher, 225 emp, re-design all internal processes and product offering
• Food Manufacturer to Waitrose, 95 emp, strategy planning process for fast growth
• Data Management Company, 65 emp, management development programme, strategic plans for high growth
• HSE consultancy, 45 emp, expansion plans incl new offices.
• Training Company, create sustainable business growth strategy after stagnation
• Business Link, 200 emp, senior strategy formulation
• Cost Reduction Company, 25 emp, high growth strategy including sales and HR development
• Research Agency, 85 emp, restructure board for growth.
  

The benefit of working with The Directors' Centre is that measurable targets are achieved; the management team is left more capable and more in control.

can you name some clients that i will have heard of?

We have also worked with some of the big names, bringing nimbleness and innovation to their teams and to their clients:

• Airbus
• Barclays
• Bighams
• Body Shop
• Comet
• Crown Prosecution Service
• Dept of Trade & Industry/Small Business Service/Business Link
• HSBC
• IBM
• Jamaica Customer Service Association
• Land Rover
• Marketing Council/Chartered Institute of Marketing
• Mortgage Express
• Nando's
• Peninsula
• Peugeot
• Pirelli Tyres
• PKF
• PC World
• Post Office Counters Ltd
• Royal Bank of Scotland
• Royal Mail
• Royal Shakespeare Theatre
• Saint-Gobain
• Shell
• Saint James Partnership
• Tenon Group
• UfI/LearnDirect
• Virgin
• Yorkshire Bank

so what?

If you want to work with an experienced team that know how to work with growing businesses and get them to achieve, then contact us for an informal discussion.