Thread Creative Studios
Statistics show that the incubation process really does help new companies survive and grow. One new company that has achieved real success in a short period of time is Thread Creative.
Statistics show that the incubation process really does help new companies survive and grow. One new company that has achieved real success in a short period of time is Thread Creative.
Ben Turney, Managing Director of web developers Thread, recalls:
"Jim and I set up the company up in March 2003 to provide high quality sites, which would trade successfully on the web and drive new customers and business to our clients. We were friends from our undergraduate days at UMIST and were fortunate enough to be able to start out at the IT Venture Centre on the University campus. We benefited greatly from being there in terms of access to sales leads, business guidance and subsidised space. And the pre-incubation programme that we underwent was ideal for recent graduates just starting out in business. It gave us a real understanding of the vital business disciplines that we needed from the start.
Business has not always been easy and we made a lot of mistakes, but we've always endeavoured to learn from them. Having access to a business development manager and mentor to act as sounding boards really helped us through the hard times.
Rapid Transformation
We have undergone relatively rapid transformation and now employ a total of eleven people in our Manchester and Coventry offices. We are a very sales focussed company and believe passionately in the Internet as the major engine for economic growth in the coming decades."
High Class Solutions
Early on in the life of the company Thread spotted a gap in the market and developed an in-house Content Management System (CMS), enabling them to produce graphically superior, yet easy to use websites for small and large companies. Their front-end designers can now fully utilise the technology of modern design packages when developing cost effective and user friendly CMSs. As a result, Thread has been able to mould internal processes to suit both their design and development teams.
This means they are able to provide high class solutions for clients which maintain identity to the brand, usability standards and technical performance. Achieving ISO 9001 accreditation has underpinned the quality of delivery and clients regularly congratulate the company on their management of projects.
Thread specialise in the development of content managed, marketing-led websites and offer:
- Web development
- Online marketing
- Branding/Design work
To find out more about our company, please visit our website on
www.threadcreative.co.uk.
