UK Business Club - Clients

Successful Clients

UK Business Club and EBS has many success stories and it gives EBS a vast pool of knowledge and experience. We have been helping small businesses to prosper for many years. Below you are able to read some of the success stories.

Purus

Purus manufactures a wide range of bathroom and sanitation products, and is particularly strong in the wet room sector, on which it has chosen to focus for its entry into the UK market.

The Managing Director of Purus in Sweden came to the UK on a Bridge to Growth delegation trip at the end of May 2007. By 3rd July their UK subsidiary was formed and a UK Director, Peter Bradbourne was appointed.

During the next 6 months Peter Bradbourne worked together with Martin Williams of EBS to develop the brand in the UK and to focus on the Interbuild exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham, where the products had an excellent reception.

Purus has now achieved distribution in Plumbing Trade Supplies, which has over 300 branches and Wolseley Plumb Centre which has over 500 branches. It is also listed in Pulsar, the internet based distributor for building supplies, which has over 9,000 plumbers on their books.

The company recently took on 2 new sales people, bringing the total number employed to 4 and the product is stocked at the Schenker warehouse in Nuneaton in the West Midlands.

Goran Lundin, Managing Director of Purus Group, said "we are very pleased with our development in the UK market and look forward to growing our business in the West Midlands Region. We are particularly grateful to Advantage West Midlands and their partners for the Bridge to Growth program and look forward to a long co-operation".

Be-Ge Seating

Be-Ge Industri AB has manufactured seats for commercial vehicles since 1949. The first driver seats from Be-Ge were used in trucks from Scania, and today's its seats can be found in use in all types of commercial vehicle and machinery across the world. Be-Ge is the world's oldest manufacturer of suspended driver seats and one of the leading manufacturers of seats for trucks, buses, large and small industrial forklifts, as well as construction and railway vehicles.

Be-Ge has always done well in the UK market and since opening the office last summer, Be-Ge Seating UK Limited has received an overwhelming positive response from both current and new customers in the bus and coach industry.

Significant new orders have been received from a number of bus and coach operators including Nottingham City Transport, London General and Wilts & Dorset Bus. In addition Be-Ge has been selected to supply the seating for a new fleet of Command and Control vehicles for the West Midlands Fire & Rescue Service.

"We are confident of good growth over the next 12 - 18 months and plan to target new markets in the UK such as construction, rail and fork lifters" said UK Sales Manager Chris Edwards.

Ronny Nilsson, Marketing Manager for Be-Ge Industri, said "Our new office at University of Warwick Science Park have provided an ideal and hassle free base for the new subsidiary with its central location and in-house support services. We could not have made such rapid progress without the assistance and support of the Bridge to Growth team, and we look forward to growing our UK team in the West Midlands region."

Be-Ge have also been able to secure funding from Business Link West Midlands allowing them to develop a new website and marketing material specifically for the UK.