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A profit building solution for a people development business suffering a cash deficit because of sales shortfall: ‘This was one of those seminal moments; a turning point; a revelation; a huge help. We now know exactly what needs to be done, when and how.’ (RH, Chairman) ‘In order to triple our turnover this year we needed something incredible, it came in the form of Hard Hat’s Cash and Profit Builder reviews, they were amazingly revealing and absolutely crucial to developing a realistic plan achieve what we needed without resorting to further borrowing.’ (TH, MD)A turnaround within 120 days for a construction and repairs business that was losing £120k per month: ‘A great job. Your techniques helped us find the problem and create a plan for dealing with it. Your external perspective has been valuable and we now have sound strategy to grow the business and a team galvanised to achieve success.’ (JS, CEO)A manufacturing business flatlining with 80% market share and no room for further expansion: ‘Over 500 divergent marketing ideas were generated. These resulted in 10 solid opportunities; 3 of which we are going ahead with right away.’ (PW, Managing Director) A start-up predicated on introducing audio video products to the luxury yachts market:
‘Your marketing ideas brought some of the key players in the super yacht industry to our negotiating table, a fantastic achievement; I don’t know how else we would have done it.’ (LN, Owner).A recovery on a group of companies that lost £3m on £27m turnover facing insolvent liquidation: 'Without doubt, your actions have saved this business from certain failure in the most challenging circumstances.' (OF, Chairman).A cash crippled systems engineering firm with 96 debtor days: ‘Your techniques helped us to get debtor days down to 34, which is unheard of in this industry and relieved pressure on the overdraft by £3m!’ (EK, Financial Director)A turnaround of an engineering company that was heavily loss making: 'A first class job in restructuring the Engineering Division to be an effective support to sales in winning new business, as well as delivering timely installations to our customers.' (BS, Managing Director)A plan to grow the business five-fold in three years and introduce a management team to provide an exit route for the owners: 'You helped us focus on the issues we should have been dealing with. The new staff are settling in well, the business is now growing rapidly and we are thinking of expanding into Europe.' (RC, Owner/MD)Vision Builder for an IT business that had no sales growth and lost its direction: 'Our work with you has made us look at our business differently and this is having an effect on our monthly profitability... we have now entered a new phase in the life of this business, in the way we will market ourselves, the way we price work, who we deal with and what we offer them.' (AD, Managing Director)Sales Builder for a training firm with prospects but insufficient orders: ‘Just to let you know that I am proud to announce our turnover went over the £200,000 mark last week at a profit margin of around 48%, and we are still pushing for 50%. We are now 60% towards our stretch target of £340,000 this financial year with 6 months left to go. This is a great result which I would like to thank you for helping us with.’ (TH, Managing Director)Profit Builder for a building services company that had been losing money for 15 months previously: 'On the business front everything is looking good, profits are up £128k on budget and it looks as though we will get our ISO 9001 & 14001 two months earlier than planned.' (CD, Commercial Director) |
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