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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

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.

Revamped web site for Carrington Accountancy

Published on April 20, 2010 in Web. 1 Comment Tags: accounting services, accounts, business services, Carrington, Carrington Accountancy, contractor, finance, investment, limited company, new company, paye, self-employed, tax, web design, web site, www.carringtonaccountancy.com.

We’re quite often called upon to revitalise web sites after a while. After all, things change, successful companies want to add new facilities, and adding social networking links is getting more and more common. It’s not so often though, that within a year, we’re asked for a completely revised site, with a whole new look.

Such has been the development of the Carrington Accountancy business, that we’ve had to do just that.
Carrington offer accounting services, with particular emphasis on working with new companies, with individual contractors and the self-employed.

So if you are in one of those groups, or you just need accounting (or investment) advice, start by going to www.carringtonaccountancy.com

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

Indicus Advisors – New Look, New Outlook

Published on March 11, 2010 in Brand and identity and Web. 0 Comments Tags: client, design, finance, Indicus, Indicus Advisors, investment, Peace Dividend, Resolute Asset Management, website.

Our finance and investment clients have been busy this month. Indicus Advisors have just implemented their ‘refreshed’ new logo and should be going live with their new website design very shortly. Meanwhile, Resolute Asset Management and Peace Dividend (a company investing in Yemen) are the latest companies in this sector to add to the WildWest client list.

Indicus, whose business is in the white hot territory of the finance markets, think they may just be over the leap they have had to make from the old assumptions to the new. So maybe the recovery actually is on the way.

More on all of these developments very soon.

Do-it-yourself identities? Oh no…

Published on February 24, 2010 in Design. 0 Comments Tags: Advertising, branding, business services, Corporate, design, direct mail, Display, identity, Indicus Advisors, investment, literature, logo, Marketing, PR, sales literature, Satya Capital, Secerno, Sonaptic, start-up, Tribold, Vintage Wine Gifts, Web, web site, website.

Our identity for Vintage Wine Gifts, at the time, a new business

DIY has a lot to answer for, notably the stunted growth or premature demise of many promising start-up companies.

Good design isn’t always expensive. (It does though get more expensive the less you are prepared to think through your brief, and more expensive still with your unwillingness to put your requirements in writing).

It is however, an investment, just like the computers and the desks you buy. And just as you wouldn’t think of building your own furniture or electronic equipment, please don’t think of designing your own logo, website, sales literature or advertising. These are quite simply, jobs for professionals.

Most professionals will treat early-stage companies with consideration. They will make it as easy as possible to buy their professional skills, and create the resources that all businesses need in order to grow. They may even postpone some or all of their charges until a company finds it can afford them.

Improvements to the Sonaptic logo included a strapline to show core skills

Because professionals like us like to think that we can build a basis of trust between us. That, as your needs grow, you’ll stay with us, and we’ll grow with you.

That’s good business for us. It gives us a real interest in your future and in the effectiveness of the work we can do for you.

We may not still work with all the companies we’ve helped from an early stage, but we’re certainly still doing business with Alcentra, Brands2Life, Indicus Advisors, Satya Capital and Vintage Wine Gifts among others. We’re proud of our contribution to the success of many more – including Secerno, Tribold and Sonaptic.

All these companies found success by using their own skills to best effect, and also by using ours.

Design isn’t a part-time job. When you need it, talk to professionals like us.

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.

Satya Capital invests in Nigeria

Published on January 20, 2010 in Finance and investment, International and Web. 0 Comments Tags: Africa, finance, Hygeia, investment, Mo Ibrahim, Nigeria, Satya Capital, web site, website, www.satyacapital.com.

Satya are an investment company, targeting opportunities in Africa

Satya Capital, the private equity group which focuses exclusively on Africa, has chosen Hygeia for its first significant investment in healthcare in the continent.

Satya, whose Wild West designed website went live in 2009, is one of a new breed of specialist investors, determined to use their capital to develop the potential of this vast continent.

Satya, founded through the efforts of African entrepreneur Mo Ibrahim, is making an equity investment of $18 million, alongside a total of $8 million in new debt facilities from other sources, to allow Hygeia to expand both its hospital group (Lagoon Hospitals), and its health maintenance organisation (Hygeia HMO). These investments join the existing debt and equity provided by IFC and the Investment Fund for Health in Africa (IFHA) respectively.

Read the full story at www.satyacapital.com

BNY Mellon and Alcentra site goes live

Published on January 19, 2010 in Finance and investment and Web. 0 Comments Tags: Alcentra, BNY Mellon, finance, Indicus Advisors, Inflexion, investment, investment bank, mezzanine finance, Satya Capital, senior debt, subordinated debt, website.

The investment portfolio from the Alcentra and BNY Mellon website

Alcentra are an investment company and, like some other leading investment and finance companies, one who have had a long-standing record of working with Wild West Design. Their new US operation is one which brings together the resources of BNY Mellon with Alcentra’s expertise to provide a new option in mezzanine finance. The new partnership will provide senior and subordinated debt and equity finance to mid-market companies in North America.

Read about the success of Alcentra over the years since its first investment (in 1999) at www.alcentra.com

Alternatively, and especially if you would like to find out more about Alcentra’s new collaborative investment venture with BNY Mellon, go to their brand new web site at the following address:

http://mezzanine.alcentra.com/

Alcentra was one of the first finance and investment companies to work with Wild West. Since then of course, they have been joined by many others, including Inflexion, Indicus Advisors, Satya Capital and Duke Street. They all appreciate our knowledge of this complex market and our ability to keep them in touch with the investors whose funds are so vital.