Portfolio

Founded by florist industry veterans, Mansfield-based Flowers-by-Florists provides relay services for carefully selected ‘tier one’ independent professional florists. All bouquets are individually arranged by experts, many award winning, from the best fresh flowers of the day, and each order is personally delivered.
www.flowersbyflorists.co.uk

Nottingham-based CellAura produces fluorescent receptors for use in molecular pharmacology at a single cell level. Fluorescence as a technology is widely expected to replace radioactive technologies in drug discovery due to cost advantages and safety concerns. The company is a spin-out from the University of Nottingham.
www.cellaura.com

Rutland-based Babybond provides private ultrasound scans and related services to pregnant woman from its wholly-owned and franchised centres across the UK. Founded by ultrasound professionals Jan and Mike Steward, the company has quickly established itself as the UK’s leading national provider of such services and was the first ISO Quality Endorsed ultrasound provider in the UK.

Board Envelopes is the UK’s only provider of envelopes weighing more than 210 grams, and have created bespoke designs for the likes of the Microsoft Xbox, Barclaycard, the AA and Jaguar cars. Unlike other envelope companies, Newark-based Board Envelopes works directly with client creative teams to ensure that the envelope always gives the right ‘first’ impression.

www.boardenvelopes.com

Nottingham-based Karma Insurance is a unique Internet-only insurance product development company. Conceived by award winning broker Brian Wright, founder of Saxon Insurance (acquired by Bland Bankart). Karma’s AJAX-powered website offers instant quotes after as little as three questions, and can quickly create novel insurance products for underserved but profitable niche sectors.

www.karmainsurance.com

Nottingham-based FDAS offer a full range of food, drug and health-sector testing services within an accredited laboratory in a state of the art facility – helping clients achieve their quality control objectives quickly and efficiently.

www.fdas.org

Derbyshire-based FDTEK develops software and services to enable commercial vehicle operators, including leading truck manufacturers like DAF and Iveco, to track the servicing and other compliance requirement of their fleets.

www.fdtek.co.uk

Pegasus Equine Diagnostics develops products and services for horse owners and vets to prevent and diagnose horse diseases. The Nottingham-based company has made major advances on the road to discovering the causes and offering a treatment for laminitis and Cushing’s syndrome.
www.pegasusdiagnostics.com

Hinckley-based HR4UK.com is a specialist provider of comprehensive online human resources software and services. HR4UK.com is the only computerised personnel system on the internet that holds employee personnel records and can guarantee to meet all the current legislative requirements of UK employment law. 

www.hr4uk.com

Sigmala, based in Lincolnshire, combines traditional engineering techniques with emerging technologies to develop a range of integrated modules for the converting industry. Its modules utilise advanced materials technologies and high-performance embedded motion control devices to provide a compact, low-cost means to significantly increase the machines’ performance. 

www.Sigmala.com

Northampton-based Blackstar Amplification is a design and manufacturing company specialising in innovative guitar amplifiers and associated products. Its products have proven instant hits and are now used by many of the world’s most popular bands and musicians.

www.blackstaramplification.com

Elemental Power, based in Leicestershire, offers bespoke renewable energy installation services for homeowners, commercial customers and local authorities. The majority of such installations are expected to be solar thermal heating systems that will provide hot water throughout the majority of the year.

www.elemental-power.co.uk

Nottingham-based Critical Pharmaceuticals is a product development company that creates high value added therapeutics by applying its breakthrough, and proprietary, technology to transform the drug delivery of challenging molecules. The company’s focus is on approved recombinant protein therapeutics (biologics) where current technologies cannot create the highly active drug delivery systems that are needed.
www.criticalpharmaceuticals.com