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Stock toasts earnings leap

Published on July 9, 2010 in International and Web. 0 Comments Tags: Corporate, Czysta, design, Europe, logo, Stock Spirits, web design, website, Zoladkowa Gorzka.

Long-standing Wild West client, Stock Spirits Group has released a sterling set of figures for calendar 2009, as group revenue rose 17% to €262 million ($323m) and EBITDA jumped 46% to €62.9 million ($78m).

Stock Group, national and international sales websites were designed and programmed by Wild West, sometimes requiring two or three languages.

The group’s performance was led by Polish vodka Czysta de Luxe (launched in 2007), which more than doubled to 5.4 million cases in 2009 in its domestic market.

Stock’s Zoladkowa Gorzka vodka is also prominent in Poland, where the company claims to have now attained the vodka market lead with a 30% share.

Stock says it also maintained a leading position in the Czech Republic’s spirits market with a 36% share, remained the leading spirits importer in Slovakia and opened sales and distribution operations in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Croatia during the year, where new websites were launched.

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.

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.

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

Becoming experts in MS Sharepoint!

Published on April 9, 2010 in Web. 0 Comments Tags: MS Sharepoint, open source, Web, web design, web developement, web site, website.

Well, anyone who knows us will know that we like open source software, but now we have a very big job ahead, made even bigger by the fact that they need to use MS Sharepoint 2010 for the web design and the application development behind it. Made even bigger by the fact that the software hasn’t all been released yet!

One thing leads to many more…

Published on February 16, 2010 in Marketing. 0 Comments Tags: Advertising, branding, business services, Corporate, direct mail, direct marketing, finance companies, financial, identity, Inflexion, private equity, Satya Capital, web banner, web design, website, www.alcentra.com.

From the new Alcentra/BNY Mellon site

We’re certain that we can’t claim the credit, but it does have to be said that our clients – and particularly those in finance and business services – have managed to retain the entrepreneurial spirit, even through the downturn which we have (and still are in our view) experiencing.

So, while new clients have been harder to get than ever before, it’s been good to have recommendations (either because our work has been visible or because one of our existing clients has been kind enough to refer us to colleagues and friends) which have been cemented on the basis of the work that we have done elsewhere.

Our new site for the American operation of Alcentra (a long-standing and valued client of Wild West Design here in London) adds resources from BNY Mellon, and is already looking very successful.

Further from home, our work for Satya Capital, which we referred to in an earlier post, was noted by a new company working to bring investment into southern Sudan, and it has been our great pleasure to help them (though too early to reveal our work!)

Recent projects for us have included press advertising, web banners, complete websites, identity projects, display systems, corporate and product literature of different kinds, direct marketing initiatives and more! It has been a busy year already, but we’re always pleased to welcome new clients and the challenges they bring.

If you would like to see more of our work of course, just visit the home page of our website and view or print our credentials document, or get in touch with us directly.

Get your hands on the Premier League Trophy!

Published on November 9, 2009 in Sport and Unusual. 0 Comments Tags: Barclays, Premier League, Premier League trophy, prize draw, promotion, soccer prize, web competition, web design, web site, win the trophy.

The Barclays Premier League Trophy could be yours – for just a day

No. You don’t have to spent half a billion buying a team. All you have to do is to go to www.barclayshomewin.com and enter the Barclays free prize draw.

20 winners from around the world will get the chance to have the Premier League Trophy for the day.

What could you do with it? Well, just think. You could lift it aloft with the team you play for. You could take it to your kids school. You could use it as part of a fund-raising opportunity for charity. Or you could just put it on your mantelpiece and dream.

But you’ll have to enter quickly! Our information is that a number of unnamed Premier League managers want to get their hands on this unique prize…

Web site and promotional advertising is by Wild West of course.

What more do you need from us?

Published on October 20, 2009 in Brand and identity, Corporate and Marketing. 0 Comments Tags: Activation, awards, Barclays, Barclays Premier League, branding, Corporate, credentials, design, electronic marketing, financial, identity, private equity, sponsorship, start-up, Stock Spirits, testimonial, Web, web design, web site.

We’ve implemented a new web site. At the moment, it’s a simple holding site – in line with our bold new look. You can reach it on our old address (www.wildwildwest.co.uk) or on our new one – www.designwildwest.com

The pictures which you view through the WW device are samples of our work – from the ribbons on the Barclays Premier League trophy, through to our web site for Stock Spirits.

It is just a holding page really, but you can check our address, view or download our (very smart!) new credentials document or (of course) link through from the site to this blog (and we’ll be updating our blog header very soon too).

If you would like to see more from us – either on the web site or on this blog – then please let us know. At the moment we’re debating what we feature on the web site – our past award-winning work, case studies on topics as widely different as corporate naming or annual reports, or simply the kind comments we’ve had from our clients over the years. Please do get in touch if you have suggestions or comments!

And if you’ve not dealt with us before, maybe now is the time to think about whether we can help you? As you’ll see – in corporate design, in web and electronic marketing, and in sport sponsorship activation – we have a pretty good track record. Why not go to our web site now and take a look at our brand spanking new credentials document? We hope it will convince you to get in touch.

Please bookmark our address now: www.designwildwest.com

Web Traffic – Slow Build Is Best

Published on September 30, 2009 in Web. 0 Comments Tags: Barclays, best practice, Blog, Indicus Advisors, Inflexion, Secerno, Stock Spirits, Web, web design, web site, web traffic.

Last weekend, we had our best day ever for web traffic by whatever measure we could find – hits, unique visits, downloads, sites. All were up, and if we’re pushed, we don’t really know why. What we do know is that on Monday morning, we had two very solid enquiries about future work.

The web is one of those places where hard and consistent work does bring rewards. It’s not so much a matter of shoving yourself forward all the time. It’s more a case of doing the right things consistently in order to get the results you are looking for.

This blog is one of those things. We hope that our new web site (coming soon!) will better reflect the quality of work which we do for clients like Secerno, Barclays Premier League, Barclays Spaces for Sport, Inflexion, IGP&I, Alcentra, Indicus Advisors, Stock Spirits and others.

Do return here whenever you would like to see more of our current work, or follow us on Twitter.com

The Cobbler’s Children – Time to Refresh our Identity

Published on September 22, 2009 in Brand and identity, Design and Web. 0 Comments Tags: branding, competitions, designwildwest, identity, microsite, PR campaigns, Web, web design, web site.

Things have changed since we founded Wild West Design in 1996. Back then, it was only just becoming important to have a web site, mobile phones were getting to be less like bricks, and web applications were just starting to be talked about seriously. The dotcom boom was still to come, global warming was just an idea and ecommerce was unknown.

In those days, the bulk of our business was display, corporate literature, advertising in print and direct marketing - with hardly an electronic communications tool anywhere.

Fast forward 13 years, and most of our business still comes from important business services companies, but electronic design and communication is something we do every day of the week.

We not only design and build web sites for companies, products, PR campaigns, offers, market research, competitions and sponsorship initiatives, but our clients often expect to use their web site and email to communicate to specific target audiences through data-rooms and private areas which we set up on their behalf.

It’s been a hectic time.

Now though, we’ve had the chance to catch up with our own web presence and identity, and you’ll see the new wild west rolling out over the next few weeks. We’ll tell you more as it happens.