Marketing Firm is Making Waves as Turnover
Tops the Magic £1m Mark

A Portsmouth marketing firm has seen a 600 per cent growth in turnover and a 40
per cent increase in staffing numbers in less than a year.

Market Makers, of the Portsmouth Technopole, has become so large that it has
been forced to move out of its top floor office to two vacant units in the building.
But it believes that if it wants to expand anymore it might have to start looking for
new premises. At the start of the year the company employed about 20 staff but
now this has reached 50. In turnover terms its first year - 2004 to 2005 - was
about £170,000, but this has grown to £1m plus for this financial year.

The firm only began life in February 2004, but now has between 70 to 80 clients;
including helping raise £1m for Childline before Christmas via a client. The money
was raised by promoting specialist calendars. Any individual schoolchild that
bought these could have photos of friends or family printed for each month of the
year.

The company says that one of its most prestigious clients is Barclays Bank
because they don't usually outsource to telemarketing firms. Managing Director
Paul Thomas, 23, said the firm was looking to have a turnover of £2m by the end
of next year, which would expand to £22m by 2011.

He said "The big thing for us is that we are trying to put a slick sales and
marketing team together. It's all about how we give the clientele the best service
and how we retain them. Next year the big thing is about retention. We've
employed people specifically to make sure our clients are happy."

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