Their main three year objective is to increase turnover to £15 million and increase market share both in the UK and overseas. They plan to do this through the addition of new team members, new products, new customers and an increase in business across their existing customer base. 
 
Sales for the last few years are as follows 2022 £5.5M, 2023 £8M and we should finish over £9M this year. 
 
Overseas business has grown predominantly due to the products they stock and the service offered. Many of our global manufacturing partners have referred customers to us. They have gone from hardly exporting anything five years ago to currently exporting to over seventy countries. In this, the main challenges have been logistics, paperwork and documentation and conforming to all the different rules which differ from country to country. 
 
New products have been added to the portfolio such as Hygienic valves to allow us to expand our business in the food and beverage sector. They have employed a sales person in the UAE to develop business in the region. They also had a sales person in the Netherlands for a while but when he decided to leave struggled to replace him, but this is something that will be revisited. 
 
One of the main strategies to grow business through international trade is to partner with and support several smaller independent distributors in local territories where they want to increase business. They are also looking to open sales offices in several countries in the next three to five years. They are also working hard to become an approved vendor to several global organisations which will see export business grow