Specialist parcel and mail delivery company, Business Post, had an industrial lease on a unit at the Business Centre in Bellshill. "One of our key priorities when we started looking for a larger unit for our business was the road links," said Neil Stewart of Business Post. "The Evans Business Centre at Bellshill absolutely met our needs, giving us access to all of the main road arteries around the central belt. It’s very convenient for every aspect of our business."
Via its website www.thePowerStore.co.uk e-commerce business CCL Components Ltd serves a world-wide client base from its premises at the Evans Business Centre in Hillington, near Glasgow. CCL sources, holds, manufactures and distributes a wide range of electronic components to companies across many of sectors, from small specialists to OEM manufacturers like Hewlett Packard.
Since moving into the centre when it opened five years ago, the company has expanded, expanding its office space, workshop and storage area, creating a reception area for visiting clients and employing five staff. Director Paul Brooks is clear about the benefits of locating his business with Evans Easyspace:
“”Easyspace is exceptionally easy to deal with,” says Paul. “Initially we needed mainly storage space, but as the business grew we moved into a larger area where we could receive clients. It was all really easy – and Easyspace doesn’t tie the company down. There are no long term liabilities and it’s very economical.”
Fast-growing local businesses The Gas Certification Company Ltd, run by husband and wife team George and Elaine Loudon, is located at Blantyre.
George is full of praise for Easyspace and the Blantyre Centre: "Easyspace really lives up to its name: the company makes it very easy to move in and do business," says George, "and we are finding the location is absolutely first class for our business, which brings people from all over to our offices for training. We have established an assessment room, a lecture room and a training and assessment area, equipped with a range of domestic and commercial gas appliances.
"We have found Evans Easyspace to be very flexible and accommodating when it comes to meeting our needs."
GT4 are a professional web development and graphic design agency with an integrated business driven approach, which separates us from typical web and graphic design companies. Top programmers and designers, big picture thinking, personal attention and real world results… our goal when searching for our first office was to have somewhere that our staff would love as much as our clients with the flexibility to allow us to make it our own. With the office space, building quality and quality of support service we were sure that we had found the perfect place to enable us to build a strong foundation on well into the future. We were proved right! so much so that we remained with Evans Easyspace for over 4 years, as the company grew we required more office space and thankfully the flexibility that Evans offered enabled us to move from our initial office to a bigger office suite within the same business centre.
All the staff were excellent in nurturing us from a small business start-up to become a formidable force in the web development / design world, we have now purchased our own newly built building and we attribute a considerable part of our success / ability to do this to Evans Easyspace.
Now that we have entered into a bigger fish tank we appreciate even more now how fantastic the Evans Easyspace business model is, with the costs of installing our own phone systems, lighting, heating, refuse disposal and the overall building management costs Evans Easyspace really do offer a great package. We would have no hesitation in recommending Evans Easyspace and would like to thank them once again for their help and support over the years.
The Institute of Applied Technology has its Engineering Apprentice Training Centre at the Kirkcaldy centre, effectively an extension to the campus.
Ian Davidson of the Institute is pleased with the facilities offered at the Easyspace centre, as well as its accessibility: "The centre is an ideal location for our students and also staff, who will be going out to businesses as part of their role in supporting the Apprentice Training Programme. The Programme is a new and exciting departure for the Institute and will I hope it will expand over the coming years."
When Nicky Morris’s Merry Maids franchise began to outgrow her home, she drew up her specification list for the perfect office and the Evans Business Centre at Sycamore Trading Estate, Blackpool won hands down.
"My teams cover a large area so the most important thing for me was good access around my patch. I didn’t want to take on a long industrial lease, and needless to say I needed space that wouldn’t burst the budget. It’s absolutely ideal.
"We also have a really pleasant working environment, which is great after the isolation of working from home. I’m absolutely delighted with the deal that Evans Easyspace offers. It’s helped me expand my business and I know it can help me into the future," says Nicky.
An officebroker.com client has claimed Evans Easyspace is "Showing the industry how to do things" following a visit to the Evans Business Centre, Chester.
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When Graham Hughes opted to locate his Rainbow International franchise at the Evans Business Centre in Queensferry, North Wales, he was selecting a property agreement and a location that absolutely suited his needs.
Graham needed a warehouse unit where he could store his own equipment as well as customers’ own furnishings and other items.
"I was attracted to the Evans Business Centre at Deeside because the industrial lease terms are so flexible, and the location is ideal for Chester and the surrounding area," says Graham. And now he is thinking about larger premises, he has started to talk to Evans Easyspace about the options open to him on the estate.
A move to Evans Easyspace in Deeside has been “superb” according to Matt Tunnicliffe, Director of RSG Ltd, a sign and shopfitting business he and his colleague established just three years ago. “We were previously in a local authority business centre, and it’s like night and day. Everything here is professional, the units are new and clean, and of course we have a manager on site, which makes life very easy.”
RSG has been in an industrial unit at the Deeside Centre since early in 2005, with a team of five people servicing clients in the North West. “We work with house developers, advertising agencies and a range of smaller businesses,” explains Matt, “providing site signs, exhibition stands and other shopfitting services. The location at Deeside is excellent for the road network, and we find the businesses here on the estate all feed off each other so we have been able to build our local client base too.
”Our business is growing and it’s directly linked to our move to Evans Easyspace.”
Among the businesses that have relocated to Marston since the centre opened in the summer 2001 is local specialist distributor Technotherm Ltd. Owner Michael Lumb supplies stationery and leather goods manufacturers with fittings and mechanisms for products such as personal organisers, wallets and other items. The business has been operating successfully throughout the UK for ten years.
"The location here is ideal for us," says Michael. "We need good road links for both incoming and outgoing goods, and we have that here."
The Evans Business Centre in Kirkcaldy is home to Scotland’s most entrepreneurial young company. Ten 47 Ltd scooped the national award in Scottish Enterprise’s award scheme in June 2004 after first winning the title in the Fife Business Awards earlier in the year.
Ten 47 Ltd has grown from strength to strength since it started life at the Centre three years ago. "We started off in a small office and have added over time so we now have 2,300 sq ft for our assembly and warehousing as well as office space," says director Keith Gordon. "We have been able to add to and adjust our space requirements as we have gone along, and that’s helped us achieve turnover of almost £1.5 million in our third year."
TTE Management and Technical Training, a national technical training organisation, operates from the Evans Business Centre in Grangemouth. With up to 40 people using its fully integrated telephone system, the company relies on Evans Easyspace's telecoms service to assist with the smooth running of their business.
"Easyspace has worked hard to get our system up and running and to keep it running," says Ken Philip. "It has to be linked to two sites, use broadband and two servers, so our needs are not straightforward. And Easyspace has always been proactive - always very quick to address any issue."
Wilkinson Helsby has switched from offices on the first floor of the Centre at Wakefield to new, refurbished office space that provides an open plan area together with management and secretarial offices with reception area. Paul Hullah of Wilkinson Helsby comments on their hassle free move from first to top floor, demonstrating the benefits that leasing business space from Evans Easyspace can bring:
"When we saw the opportunity to move to a more flexible space here at the same location, which suits us perfectly, we jumped at the chance and Easyspace even offered to design the offices to our own specifications," he says. "The flexible terms are not restrictive and the paperwork is simple. We are now in situ in our new offices and getting on with running our business – the whole process has been stress free."