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Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Kevin Hargaves: After running businesses for more than 35 years and having other business owners asking me how i was doing it. I eventually started implementing it as my full time business. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Kevin Hargaves: Yes we have various online products and services available. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Kevin Hargaves: 35 Years’ Experience and we guarantee that we will increase a business’s Net Profit by more than double our fees. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Kevin Hargaves: Probably having business owners realize that they absolutely need someone like us to achieve what they are after. However, more and more business owners are taking up our services. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Kevin Hargaves: Most important, is to have a goal& aspiration as to where they want to go and to configure a Plan as to how to get there, and then most of all take action.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Arun Patil: Being passionate about computers and technology I started up building foundation of my company after completing my graduation in Physics and Mathematics in the year 2000. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Arun Patil: We started our business with primary products like Desktop, Laptops and Servers we gradually developed or emerged with products like Biometrics, Wireless CCTV for radius up to 3 km also helping our client with his backup for Data Storage and ensuring securities like Firewalls. Companies interested to setup themselves in India could get support and technical help from us. We can set up their operational offices. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Arun Patil: We are a decade ahead in technology with all solutions. We have a team of senior engineers who have accompanied us since the establishment of ARP. We at ARP successfully helped MNCs and well known Indian Companies with setup of their server rooms and branch offices PAN India. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Arun Patil: We started ARP with zero capital, thus in earlier days it was challenging for us to operations of our company, but we altogether as a team stood strong in the growing market of technology. Being in IT market we faced many economical ups and downs but we tackled it with some of the best ideas for our clients. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Arun Patil: First and foremost we need a capable and experienced satisfied team. As when our team is satisfied and cheerful with the company's day to day upbringings then and then only our customer can be satisfied with our services. Upgrading our technical knowledge well in advance will always help company to grow in changing market conditions.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Karan Garg: IFW Techno Creations Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated on 25th February 2008 in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. We were a proprietary business before that by the name of IFW Creations. IFW Creations had officially started its work and operations from 10th November 2004 from the garage room of our founder Karan Garg on his home PC. We started with making small websites and slowly updated the team, our skill set and our client age to what it is today. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Karan Garg: Digital Marketing, Branding, Website Development, Content Marketing, Corporate Films, ERP Solutions for Schools, Colleges and Universities. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Karan Garg: We have a proven track record of 15 years of consistent market presence and growth. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Karan Garg: We are a fast growing company and our segment of IT and ITES there is a huge demand. We do face struggles and challenges in cash flow management sometimes. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a Successful business? Karan Garg: Efficient team, Speed, Scale and Quality of work / products / services are the 4 main things which are most important for a successful business.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Rubeena Ismath: The business was founded by Mr. Arun Karthik (and Architect himself) about 10 years back. He literally started the company as a one man show and today we're approx. 120 employees with 3 branches in different cities. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Rubeena Ismath: Architecture, Interior Design, Project Management, Landscape Design, Interior Fit-out contracting and execution, Civil Execution, and Graphic Design. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Rubeena Ismath: We offer something very unique in terms of design and the process we follow. There's a method to the madness and it’s brilliant. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Rubeena Ismath: Currently - a horrible market and Covid-19. Otherwise, things we're going pretty well. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Rubeena Ismath: A clear Vision and Mission. Company Ethics, Policies, and Culture.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Smit Patel: Through friend. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Smit Patel: Making of T-shirt and Track pants as per customer requirement. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Smit Patel: Quality and Commitment on our top priority. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Smit Patel: Lack of experience in garment field in way of style. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Smit Patel: Human Relationship which is very essential factor for successful business.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Bharathi Bhaskaran: The vision behind my start-up is  to rightly position the future generation in career-scape for what he/she is good at. I wish to evade the issue of strife and struggle in Gen Y kids so that they could create a harmonious world. Peace within is peace outside. Secondly, to channelize the energies of tweenagers (Pre Teens or Pre Adolescence) in the right direction so that they grow up to become humble, responsible, and creative loving human beings. We work in collaboration with Parents to create a conducive environment at home so that children can blossom to who they really are, to their highest potential!! My idea is only to focus on PreTeens but We have also started working with teenagers now upon parents and teenagers demand. Third reason for my start up was realising that our world is progressing vertically, where typewriter becomes a word processor, and a social gathering becomes a Facebook post. 40 years ago, we wouldn’t have thought that we can withdraw money without going to a bank. But now we have ATMs in every nook and corner. In fact, studies have suggested that 2 out of 3 kids in primary school today will grow up to do work that does not even exist today. Hence we decided to nurture child’s skills according to future requirements. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Bharathi Bhaskaran: Education Consultancy, Business Consultancy, Life  Coaching, Start -Up Mentoring & Career Counselling though these names are common what is uncommon is our approach to problems and the unique insight of providing solutions. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Bharathi Bhaskaran: In education consultancy, I have no competition as of now in the market. I am not catering to people’s need right now as I see a huge possibility of educational reforms in future.. hence foreseeing the future need we are building our space. We identify the child's potential through faculties of mind and its mechanics and nurture their skills, provide education accordingly so that they can achieve success in what they want to do or what they are good at. For example Autistic kid need not focus much on academics but they must be educated on his or her artistic skills. It’s been found that in typically developing young autistic people, the right brain hemispheres had densely packed connections. Symmetrical brain functioning in autism is still under research. About Business consultancy & Insights  we do proper diagnosis, prognosis, and then provide solutions. It's an in-depth work that we do to get proper insight to provide unbeatable solution to scale up. As our approach is quite new to parents & business people, what we notice is that they hesitate to approach us but we are not in a rush. We are here to add value to entrepreneurs, & children's lives. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Bharathi Bhaskaran: Integrity, Insight & Intuitiveness. These are very very important to run a business, take decisions and to gain trust of the stakeholders & beneficiaries. Also, we have a great vision beyond us or our time.. We have proper road-map laid out to achieve the same. We handle challenges  joyfully because the ultimate mission is important, adding value to children who are our future!! They would decide how tomorrow’s gonna be shaped. We need leaders in each and every sector. We need leaders without title in each and every sector. our work today will be reflected in future through our children and how we raise them nurture them guide them or educate them!! Website : https://www.bharathibhaskaran.com/ #bharathibhaskaran #EducationConsultancy #BusinessConsultancy #LifeCoaching #StartUpMentoring #CareerCounselling

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Warren Bailey: The business is growing very fast after 20 years in business. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Warren Bailey: Rat removal, bed bug removal, cockroach removal, termite inspections, termite removal, Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Warren Bailey: In general, media companies will contact us for press releases as they find us the most informative. Meaning, we are very knowledgeable. In many forms of pest control work Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Warren Bailey: Primarily, customers do not understand that pest control chemicals break down and should be on an annual program. Meaning, pest control should be done once every three to four months. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Warren Bailey: Don’t spread yourself too thin, good customer service.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Anjana Patodia: Koras aims to provide impetus to women entrepreneurs, hence the following common obstacles are tackled by the platform which helps a women entrepreneur to initiate her venture. We are a team of 5 co-founders belonging to various age groups from 24 years old - 55 years old. As women of different ages we started identifying the barriers women face to grow individually and to grow their business. We as a solution brought up koras keeping in mind young girls who would want to start their business, young mothers thriving to still work and micro entrepreneurs. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Anjana Patodia: 1. A platform whereby her various skills and work of art can be exhibited in the Koras exhibition gallery, without any fixed rental cost. A minimum percentage revenue is shared at the point of sale of products from the gallery. 2. Koras a child play area within the premises, where there are care takers are at a full time help. Hence, any person intending to work, present a seminar, attend a seminar or exhibit work can proceed with it irrespective of family commitments. 3. As a part of membership program various activities are carried out regularly at the Koras premises whereby keeping women health and fitness, hygiene and wellness in mind. Thereby involving in their day to day life improvement. 4. It is developing a community by the way of membership which provides a good database and network, who in turn can be the first clients of any venture operated from the Koras premises. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Anjana Patodia: 1. We are one of our kind organization where we are investing by partnering by facilitating the women powered business. 2. There is no percentage equity stake or any rights that are being asked for against the services provided by the Platform. 3. The place is specifically designed keeping in mind the concept of Women entrepreneurship in mind and hence supportive facilities like children play area are inbuilt. Which can help them keep their commitment both towards family and business balanced. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Anjana Patodia: We face few challenges and struggle we face is make women believe that they should growing individually is important. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Anjana Patodia: 1. We are providing a low cost platform to display the products and goods that they want to sell for business. 2. Providing a play area for kids makes it possible for a woman to strike a balance between opportunities and responsibilities. Also work and nature from the same platform whenever needed. 3. Along with a place, Koras provides a network and the first customers the business. Which makes them sustainable and persistent. 4. Koras is a place whereby a lot of seminars are organized for training and development of overall skills of women too.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Harmeet Kaur Mundae: I am Owner of ChocoIndulge, under the brand we are making chocolates, Tea time cakes, Cookies and spreading lots of love by conducting workshop for the same. I am delivering the goods through out India, with few orders overseas. Earlier I was only making chocolates at home, distributed it in our family and friends and i got very good feedback.This carried for 4 years without any official establishment, then my family helped me venture out in this completely. It was a struggle for me being a mother , doing job and starting this business at the same time. This business required good initial investment of 50,000/- INR for me to begin. I took the risk, I started this on 3rd February before valentines and i got huge order from one of my friend. i was very happy and thus began the chocoindulge journey. With time and efforts i learnt new things and introduced them under ChocoIndulge brand. Even today also I am learning new things, coming up with new ideas. Since 2 years I have been with BNI and doing good business there, from this platform i am getting good visibility. I also delivered the wedding order of chocolates to Singapore. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Harmeet Kaur Mundae: Customized chocolates, Tea time cakes, Cookies, Protein Bars, Energy Bars, Granola Bars, Cup cakes, Artisan chocolates, Belgium Chocolates, Nankhatai, Brownies, Healthy Bakes, workshops, we are delivering products PAN India, Conducting workshop also PAN India, Collaborated with Ranchi District Administration to train group of women under Central Govt Scheme Self Help Group (SHG), conduct various workshop, corporate workshop, doing wedding orders, party orders, corporate orders, all festive and occasion orders. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Harmeet Kaur Mundae: We are making the edibles or as we call it eddies which otherwise are not tried or available in market easily. we never say no to our client we think out of the box and find every possibility to fullfil the need of customer. We are making chocolates of green chilly, kari patta, karela etc. You just give us ingredients and we come up with solution to deliver the best possible taste. we always surprise our clients with some small efforts that we are taking and few extras like hamper box, gift pack etc that we are give with our bulk orders, this not only creates an unified identity for our brand, but also embarks the true nature as to why we are in this line of entrepreneurship i.e. To spread love through Chocolates, cakes and cookies. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Harmeet Kaur Mundae: Every new. Business comes with great difficulty, financial planning and risk factors. Initially everything was payed out of my pocket as customers weren't giving advance for orders for the new brand .There were many big players sitting in the market and also many renowned home bakers were also present. For  the visibility I had done tremendous marketing, exhibiting in cities for visibility so the consumer could taste my product. Almost after an year a friend proposed me for BNI which is online peer to peer marketing platform. It was another challenge and risk as one has to invest time and money in it and get the desired output. There also I took 6 months to establish myself and build the desired network for my business. Eventually people started to know me and about my best products. Now I am not seeing back as I only think what I have to do next always looking at the bigger picture to succeed, which perhaps is my biggest lesson in my upbringing from my late father. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Harmeet Kaur Mundae: For successful business, I will tell you what my father taught me. What I am today is because of their learning and belief only. Never forget your roots, whatever height you achieve.He always mentioned, Stay focused and rooted. Do what you believe in, no matter what the world says.The whole idea to achieve your goal is always to look forward no matter what is given to you, stay determined, follow the course and have faith in the universe as it always rewards. I am still working in my fathers company, which now my brothers run but today I have my own brand and my own name,well recognized by people in India and abroad.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Thanasis Papapostolou: AIP Consulting offers Customer Experience Management services and was founded in 2016. It cooperates with some of the biggest multinational organizations in the fields of Retail, Catering and Automotive etc. I proceeded with the idea after I identified a problem with the quality of service in the local industry and a lack of specialization around customer experience and service improvement. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Thanasis Papapostolou: Our services include digital contacts, focus groups, face-to-face surveys and feedback collection tools and data analysis. We design and implement various research methods and we provide technology tools for the analysis of different sets of data. Moreover, we develop close relations with our clients and consult them on customer service improvement in different touch points. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Thanasis Papapostolou: AIP Consulting offers quality of service that can't be compared and a full service around customer experience. Our expertise combined with our flexibility and low operational costs adds true value to our clients' end service. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Thanasis Papapostolou: The most important factor is understanding the correlation between providing an exceptional customer experience and future profits. A big part of the market needs to be more educated on CX and apply best practices in order to improve customer service and reduce retention. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Thanasis Papapostolou: Building a business in small steps and making sure it has strong foundations can really help at the beginning. The different views and areas of expertise that are brought by its people are very important on creating culture and ensuring the development of the competitive advantage.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? John Whitlock: DMP has recently been shortlisted as finalists for the prestigious Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce Business Awards 2020. We are proudly shortlisted in business category "Excellence in Customer Service. It was announced yesterday that Managing Partner John Whitlock is shortlisted for the UK Construction Week 2020 Role Model. Details are on UKCW website. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? John Whitlock: DMP offer a range of key professional services; provide our clients within building surveying, project management and architectural services. In addition, cost consultancy, planning and development, and contract administration. DMP proudly works across a range of industries, including; office and commercial, education, warehouse and industrial, retail, healthcare, conservation and residential. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? John Whitlock: Current client satisfaction results last 6 months; 100% of our clients would recommend DMP to others. Overall satisfaction achieved 9.5/10 50% of clients used DMP following a recommendation 100% of our clients confirm their project aims and objectives successfully met. DMP proudly became ISO9001 accredited. It is said that once you have obtained the accreditation the hard work begins. Our target for the next 24 months is to continue aligning our business with the ISO9001 standards while building on this success and develop a robust auditing process. Our objective and focus is to continue building on the quality management system we have in place and established. To continue to understand and advance the industry we operate in, drive client satisfaction further and maintain staff achievement. We will be measured on the following. · Understanding our organisation and the industry we operate in. · Leadership - commitment to our staff and clients / client focus / quality policy. · Planning – knowing our risks / setting quality objectives / planning for the future. · Support – supporting our staff, providing infrastructure and resources / monitoring and measuring staff / good communication / strong control of documented information / training our staff. · Operation – planning and control. · Performance Evaluation – staff and client satisfaction / management reviews / internal audits. · Improvement - understanding and manage non-conformities / continual improvement. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? John Whitlock: The recent COVID-19 has been one of our biggest threats. However, due to our careful management strategy, regular management meetings and clear operational direction, we are able to pivot our business. A good example of this is with the recent "shut down" and the office being closed, we were unable to carry out many Building Surveying activities. This resulted in an overnight loss of income revenue. However, we immediately focused our energy on the Architectural Consultancy side of the business, flexing the business capabilities and resources. Maximizing identified opportunities, targeting clients, redirecting advertising and newsfeed. This business pivoting meant that we could maintain workflow for our team and remain profitable. We are constantly reviewing the current situation and looking for new opportunities within a difficult and changing industry. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? John Whitlock: The following points and behaviours are important for a successful business; · Strategic thinking – planning for the future, making small actionable steps which the team can follow, ensuring DMP meets the bigger goal. · Self-Motivated – driving the LLP business forward, maintaining standards. · Courage – Trying new things and ways of working, having trust and confidence in his team, rising to challenges. · Integrity – Strong moral values which are now embedded into the DMP values, showing sincerity and honesty. · Ethical – This is another of the DMP values. This also helps to guide the teams decisions and behaviours and links beautifully into ISO9001 · Empathy and Compassion – thinking of others and their needs within the workplace. Able to make adjustments and listens to individuals. · Interested in feedback – reaching out for client and staff feedback through one to ones/appraisals, questionnaires. · Respect – building effective relationships which are based on mutual respect. · Fair – looking at each situation and judging it with fairness. · Leading by example – Great leaders always lead by example.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Kimberly Anne Bradshaw: I have been running HR consultancies for many years and worked in the City of London which meant commuting for over 5 hours each day so although I lived in St Leonards on Sea I was rarely here. Having moved here 5 years ago I decided that I really wanted to work nearby and be part of the local community. This was in part prompted by a major illness which helped me focus on my key priorities. As a result I decided to launch Spotlight HR and offer the kind of global blue chip experience I have to small and medium sized businesses who don't have or can't afford an HR expert or team. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Kimberly Anne Bradshaw: In short I offer a virtual HR team - either on a monthly retainer or on a project by project basis so that small and medium sized business leaders can focus on their business knowing that their HR and employment law compliance is up to date. Every client has their own particular issues and approaches so all work is tailored to suit them. HR is a very broad areas and covers a wide range of topics but is designed to help organisations be legally compliant as well as adding value to organisations through their people and to help put people problems in the past. Services cover:- · Technical HR (legal compliance, policies and processes, contracts, HR handbooks, background/pre-employment screening, job descriptions, preparation for recruitment, on-boarding new employees, outplacement support, employee engagement and wellbeing, employee relations, grievance investigation, disciplinaries, diversity and inclusion). · Strategic HR (organisational change, restructures, redundancies, workforce planning for growth, HR strategies to meet business objectives, talent management, performance management, organisational design and development, culture). · Learning and development (coaching leaders and managers, business skills training, team coaching). Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Kimberly Anne Bradshaw: I have won several awards over the years for my work for my clients (a national training award for one client, voted most influential woman in HR consulting and also best leadership development provider). I have over 20 years’ experience and have worked with every business sector - from charities and CICs, religious orders, to FCA regulated firms, manufacturing, retail professional practices and travel. My background is working for global and/or blue chip organisations that most people will have heard of so have strong credibility and experience to bring to bear for the SME market. I offer a totally bespoke solution to every client and clients stay with me for many years. My longest standing client has been with me for 16 years. Client relationships are key and most of my work has been achieved through referrals from other clients. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Kimberly Anne Bradshaw: Having only launched on 30th January 2020 I didn't have long to start winning local work before coronavirus lockdown hit us. I think this will have impacted on how quickly the business built. Fortunately I had past contacts who became clients early on (not former clients as I didn't want to impact the last HR consultancy I set up and built for 7 years for a top 20 management consultancy). Adapting to new ways of building relationships through the lockdown was also a struggle. However every challenge is an opportunity to either learn something or move forward and I have been using the time to build networks, 'meet' people and improve my use of technology in order to do this. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Kimberly Anne Bradshaw: Trust, strong working relationships, an open and honest approach, expertise and good planning.