Archive for the 'Finance and investment' Category

Finance and Investment – Presentation Means Business

Published on July 2, 2010 in Design, Finance and investment and Marketing. 0 Comments Tags: Alcentra, BTG Group, Carrington Group, design wild west, Duke Street, finance, Hatton Grange, Indicus, Inflexion, investment, Resolute Asset Management, Satya, Silverfleet, wild west design.

Just in case you hadn’t noticed, Finance and Investment companies form a large part of our work. We design web sites, outbound emarketing and investor bulletins, reports, advertising, invitations, presentations and lots more besides.

Currently, we’re working for all of the following companies and organisations (together with one or two others that these individual clients would rather we didn’t mention).

We designed the Resolute logo, stationery, web site

Alcentra
BTG Group
Carrington Group
Duke Street
Hatton Grange
Indicus Advisors
Inflexion
Resolute Asset Management
Satya Capital
Silverfleet Capital

It is, as we hope you’ll agree, an impressive list, and if you are looking for a company to help develop your marketing resources, with specific expertise in the finance and investment markets, we hope you will get in touch.

Here, we’re showing some of our website work, but we also cover print, display, advertising and other projects (like investor communications and even complete presentations in Powerpoint).

Web work for Alcentra

Carrington Accountancy – Free Offer!

Published on June 30, 2010 in Finance and investment. 0 Comments Tags: Carrington Accountancy, contractor, contractor tax offer, free consultation, free tax advice offer, freelance tax offer, PGC accredited, self-employed.

For a limited time only, Wild West clients Carrington Accountancy are offering non-clients an opportunity to meet with a specialist PCG accredited accountant at their offices in London at no charge. This meeting would normally be charged at £100 + VAT.

To claim the offer, just go to the Carrington Accountancy web site, and click on the box in the centre panel. You’ll be told how to claim your free meeting.

You can use this free 30 minutes to discuss your business or contract, get advice on expenses, or an aspect of UK tax law. Alternatively you may be an employed higher rate taxpayer and require advice on your personal tax position, or Carrington can provide direction on how best to plan efficiently for the next tax year.

Get help on IR35, capital gains or loses, whatever your need is – you can claim 30 valuable minutes to help you understand your tax position better.

Carrington Group (the company offers investment advice and help through Carrington Investments) is a long-standing Wild West client. We designed their new identity, and websites for both of their operating companies.

‘From little acorns’ cover feature in Real Deals

Published on June 29, 2010 in Finance and investment. 0 Comments Tags: branding, Inflexion, investors, logo, private equity, Real Deals, Simon Turner, venture capital, web site.

Inflexion chief executive, Simon Turner

Inflexion Private Equity are longstanding clients of WildWest Design. They began life on a shoestring, but have transformed into one of the industry’s top mid-market players.

It’s largely because of Inflexion that WildWest was able to develop such a strong presence in financial markets.

Now, managing partner Simon Turner is featured in an interview with the private equity trade magazine, Real Deals, about the philosophy behind his firm’s stellar performance.

Hatton Grange – Identity, Personality, and Capability Too

Published on June 16, 2010 in Brand and identity, Finance and investment and Web. 0 Comments Tags: branding, Corporate, executive, Hatton Grange, Hector MacAndrew, identity, investment, key skills, media investment, non-executive, portfolio companies, private equity, recruitment, senior managers, Simon Mellor, technology investment, venture capital, web design, wild west design, WildWest design.

The home page from the new Hatton Grange website

If you are involved with or interested in the private equity or venture capital markets, (as an investor, manager or participant) then you’ll need to take a look at WildWest Design’s latest client, Hatton Grange.

Hatton Grange is the creation of Hector Macandrew and his partner Simon Mellor. The company – a very specialist provider of services to investors and entrepreneurs in the media and technology sectors – launched last week with its bright, confident new logo, and a new website too, which you can reach at www.hattongrange.co.uk. Both were designed by WildWest.

Hatton Grange partners with entrepreneurs and investors by building networks in their chosen sectors, advising on transactions, providing executive search and consultancy services to their portfolio companies, and originating deals.

The company also supports senior managers (executive and non-executive) in their search for venture capital and private equity backed opportunities.

In a market where specific expertise, experience or knowledge can sometimes be the key to unlocking multi-million pound opportunities, we’re sure that Hatton Grange has a big future in front of it, and we look forward to supporting the company’s aspirations and growth over the coming years.

Duke Street supports 2e2 acquisition

Published on May 19, 2010 in Finance and investment. 0 Comments Tags: Duke Street, private equity.

Long-standing WildWest client, Duke Street, is supporting its portfolio company 2e2 in its acquisition of Morse plc, the listed IT services company.

Inflexion – Buyout House of the Year

Published on May 7, 2010 in Finance and investment. 0 Comments Tags: buyout, buyout award, buyout house, BVCA, finance, financial, Inflexion, private equity, Real Deals, Viking Moorings, Web, web design, web site, website, www.inflexion.com.

Inflexion Private Equity (a Wild West client for many years, ever since we designed their new logo) have triumphed at The Private Equity Awards, hosted by the BVCA (the British Venture Capital Association) and Real Deals, being named Buyout House of the Year.

The judges praised Inflexion for its outstanding performance in what was a challenging year for the private equity industry.

Key achievements included the market beating returns on the exit of Viking Moorings, the ability to raise a co-investment fund and securing new investments in exciting growth businesses.

Winning against prestigious competition, including HgCapital, LDC and Charterhouse, the judges said their decision was unanimous.

More at www.inflexion.com, the web site also designed and programmed by Wild West.

Peace Dividend – investing in sub-Saharan Africa

Published on March 16, 2010 in Brand and identity and Finance and investment. 0 Comments Tags: Africa, commerce, finance, investment, logo, Melody Atil, Peace Dividend, sub-saharan Africa, www.peacediv.com.

Peace Dividend have to be our most remote client. A start-up overseas financial organisation, they came to us for a new identity after seeing our work for Satya Capital, who are also investors in African business.

Our bright new logo for Peace Dividend, a company investing in the potential of Africa

Dealing with a company based in Southern Sudan was always going to be interesting, but we got there in the end, thanks to co-founder Melody Atil, who is setting up the company.

The mark itself represents the green shoots that are to be seen in the country, but at the same time reflects the idea of horns of cattle. The strapline which sits neatly into the design, probably can’t be seen at this small size, but actually reads: ‘Promoting opportunity and growth in Southern Sudan,’ which has to be a worthy and important goal. After years of charity, maybe commercial initiatives like this point the way to the future.

Resolute Asset Management – now on line

Published on March 12, 2010 in Finance and investment and Web. 0 Comments Tags: asset management, Bill Hancock, distressed property assets, finance, Finance news, investment, logo, Property investment news, RAM, Resolute Asset Management, Roger Kingsmill, start-up, Web, website, www.resoluteassetmanagement.com.

The new Resolute Asset Management site, which went live on 11 March 2010

Resolute Asset Management are the latest company to implement a new website through Wild West Design.

Resolute are a new company, whose successful establishment is owing to founding partners Bill Hancock and Robert Kingsmill.

Resolute’s business is ‘highly active asset management of complex and often problematic real estate assets’, a very specialised business in an area of investment management which can be particularly responsive to the added value that Resolute are able to offer in this field.

WildWest are pleased to have helped the company to establish its credentials in the marketplace, not just through the website, but also through the company’s new and distinctive identity, which underlies the initiative and drive that the company offers.

More on Resolute at www.resoluteassetmanagement.com

All or nothing – start-up businesses

Published on January 22, 2010 in Finance and investment. 0 Comments Tags: branding, design resources, ecommerce, hi tech, identity, investment, logo, new look, real estate, Secerno, SME, start up companies, start-up, technology, Vintage Wine Gifts, web resources, website.

Our work for Secerno included their name, logo and animated web site

Because of our links with venture investors and others in the finance industry, we’re regularly asked to provide the design work that is essential to giving start-up companies the design impetus, and the web facilities, that they need.

Sometimes, they have to emerge like a swan, with a graceful new logo, a web site, product literature and many other kinds of design and web resources. When a company spinning itself out from Cambridge University, previously and awkwardly known as ‘Safetalk IT’, emerged into the commercial daylight as Secerno, Wild West was very proud to be the catalyst in that complete process, including the development of the new name.

When Vintage Wine Gifts emerged, from an entrepreneurial idea rather than some blistering new technology, we helped them too, with a smart and appropriate logo, stationery and packaging and of course, their new ecommerce website.

Our new identity for Vintage Wine Gifts

Putting these companies on the path to success is something we’re proud to do, but it’s difficult to manage in a commercial sense. Emerging companies just don’t have fortunes to lavish on marketing – if they do, they usually crash and burn before they get to us!

While we can’t play fairy godmother to companies like these, we can often find ways for them to reward us based on their own later success, a formula which everyone seems to appreciate.

Just this month, we have been appointed by a real estate investment company who need an identity and accompanying design and web work. Their establishment is still a little uncertain (and what’s not uncertain in these times), but when the recovery gains momentum, our new design work will be there, ready and waiting for these new entrepreneurs to catch the wave.

Short-term contract? Working in the UK? You need Carrington!

Published on January 21, 2010 in Finance and investment and Web. 0 Comments Tags: accountancy, business services, Carrington, contractors, health service contractors, identity, investment advice, IT contractors, logo, umbrella services, Web, www.carringtonaccountancy.com.

Carrington Group consists of Carrington Accountancy and Carrington Investments, both important advisory companies with an approachable style and award-winning performance, which we hope is reflected in the web sites which we built (and still maintain for them) at www.carringtonaccountancy.com and at www.carringtoninvestments.com. Their smart, colourful logos are also our work.

Carrington offer some special services for contractors, people employed to provide specific services on a temporary basis. Once, it was fairly common for IT specialists to work this way, but now its common for all kinds of people, from health service workers to engineers.

Carrington Accountancy’s umbrella products keep the financial rain off the heads of contractors, helping them to predict payments and where possible, avoid unnecessary tax payments. Carrington are fully HMRC compliant and offer a great level of service.

We’re very pleased to be working with Carrington.