Alan W. An entrepreneurial investor buying a majority shareholding in a light engineering & fabrication business had seen the huge potential that the business had to offer.

However the business culture could best be described as a “blame culture”.

No one taking responsibility, the same mistakes being made time and time again, no HR systems, poor purchasing, no CRM or cohesive sales structure.
Yet still it was making (just) a profit on sales of £6.1M

Copernicus were engaged to introduce a value platform on which to build the business and engage the highly skilled staff that the company already had.

Taking the board and all employees through the Mission, Core Values, Vision, Strategic initiatives and personal objectives has achieved a motivated workforce – reducing staff churn, delighted customers (as evidenced by customer surveys), created effective internal processes and improved supplier relations, and of course increased shareholder value”.

Sales 2008 are budgeted for £8.9M with EBITDA of £742k

Copernicus continue to be retained as corporate strategists.