Collingwood Management Limited specialises in helping growing and otherwise changed firms adapt organisationally and procedurally to their changed circumstances. Often clients are owner-managed companies whose very success in identifying the right product market has created a company they cannot manage. Collingwood Management Limited provides organisation, structure and management in those circumstances.

Sometimes the client has run into trouble with a lender or investor, sometimes the client just recognises that they need help; either way Collingwood Management Limited gains acceptance and adds value as per the following selected examples (arranged chronologically).

• Viglen:
  “Give us the standards, metrics and performance levels of a corporation”
  Performance improves and sold to Amstrad
• Checkout Computer Systems:
  “Give us production systems to ship in line with our sales orders”
  Output up 50% with no extra resource (people or plant)
• UK Lift:
  “Make us as profitable as our size would indicate”
  Profit up to close to 10% of revenue; Investor happy; Sale to KONE
• Oxtel:
  “We really don’t know where we are”
  KPIs throughout, regular reporting, and sale to Miranda Technologies
• Formscape:
  “A team to IPO have come in and cost us a bunch. We have no cash. Help”
  Profitability restored, finance raised and sale to Bottomline Technologies
• Specialist Technologies:
  “We need £1m finance and would like to sell at some stage”
  Raise £1m finance and pay back within a year so that no borrowing
• Fisco:
  “We are in huge financial difficulties, we don’t know why. Help”
  Making £600k pa on £6.5m t/o, no debt, £1m in the bank, sold to Latour for £6m
• RVL:
  “We are in huge financial difficulties: help”
  Profitability restored: £500k profit (2010) after £1.5m loss (2009)

Sectors: Manufacturing, technology, distributed sales and service. Size: £3m t/o to £100m t/o

Collingwood usually run two projects per person, and if possible work through the existing management team.

Contact Collingwood Management at a.condie@collingwoodmanagement.co.uk
or call 07710 376746