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With over 20 years’ experience in the fresh food sector, Muddy Boots have developed a suite of software solutions that allows data to pass up and down supply chains from farm to retailer, providing insight that enables their customers to instantly view, manage and report on the quality, traceability, and compliance of their products and suppliers.

UK-based booking site LateRooms.com are continually looking at ways to innovate their mobile and web platforms which are used by their clients. Working in such an extremely competitive environment, they need to be flexible and responsive to the market trends.

LateRooms.com are moving leaps and bounds in the online travel industry to build the best place in the world for people to book hotels. Based in the heart of Manchester the leading online accommodation specialist is inspired to be the best, pushing the boundaries of innovation to offer an unrivaled customer experience.

Businesses, particularly fast growing online businesses like LateRooms.com, face numerous challenges in sourcing the best software development talent – statistics within the UK IT market suggest that there is a huge shortage of available software developers with the best being highly sought after.

Yoti is a London-based technology company, on a mission to become the world’s trusted identity platform.

Founded in 2014 by Robin Tombs, Duncan Francis and Noel Hayden, Yoti is home to a team of over 200 people with headquarters in central London, an office in India and a growing presence in the USA.

Over recent years changes in working practices have necessitated a more flexible way of providing access to critical IT resources. The ability to be able to use applications such as email, spreadsheets and word processing from any device anywhere is now the norm – and with this comes bigger strains and responsibilities on IT departments.

Cloud Technology Solutions are a leading provider of Google Apps for Work solutions which can transform organisations and give them the flexibility required. Although having a solution for many clients, Cloud Technology Solutions faced a different challenge – resourcing. Selecting Godel as their strategic partner gave them access to cost effective and flexible software development and quality assurance talent.

Technology must keep pace, and developing a cloud strategy allows organisations to meet business demands. Microservices are being used across all industries to form the basis of large cloud-native applications which can be scaled to millions of users, support multiple platforms, handle complex business rules, can be competitive in a fast moving market, react quickly and out-innovate the competition.

Ripe has been providing niche insurance services to businesses and consumers since 1998, when they launched their first insurance product for Golfers.

Ripe’s “technology first” ethos is all about making insurance straightforward and cost effective for over 200,000 policy holders.

Recently Ripe has seen a selection of industry recognition from winning the Fintech awards 2018 and the Insurance Choice Awards 2017, to placing on the Sunday Times ones to watch 2018.

Feefo stands out from the crowd as being an ‘organic-growth’ organisation with no investment from Private Equity or Venture Capital firms to accelerate its growth rate.

The company is able to boast several awards, most recently they were named on the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100.

Thousands of brands trust Feefo to independently collect reviews from their customers – and those customers know that Feefo reviews are the real deal.

In the 19th-century, Manchester earned the nickname of ‘Cottonopolis’ as it became the centre of the global cotton trade.

Digital innovation, social influencers and changes in consumer spending have significantly impacted the fashion industry. Manchester once again has established itself as a centre of textiles, as it has quickly become a hub of fast fashion businesses.

According to a recent report by the analysts Retail Economics for the law firm Womble Bond Dickinson, the internet is expected to account for 53% of all retail sales in the next 10 years, up from around a fifth currently.

There was an increase in financial sector regulation after the financial crisis in 2008, however, this time also led to the rise of FinTech brands creating technology-driven products that enhanced customer experiences and engagements with financial institutions.

Using customer data to build these new digital products welcomed a new area of technology – RegTech. An agile group of companies supporting the additional regulatory measures and laws on data privacy, usage and distribution.

Boden is a British clothing retailer selling primarily online and mail order through their catalogue.

With online retail sales continuing to grow the competition for customers is becoming increasingly high. Retailers face constant pressures to be able to deliver the right products to consumers whilst delivering outstanding shopping experiences.

These demands put great pressure on the technology division for these retailers to stay ahead of the game.

Appliance retailers have come under intensifying competition from other retailers such as supermarkets, department stores as eCommerce continues to drive the growth of the UK’s consumer appliances market, which is currently estimated to be worth around £10bn.

The proliferation of eCommerce has enabled shoppers to easily search for, compare and find the exact items they need and have them shipped to their door. Leading the way with delivering the highest standard of customer experiences in this space are online retailer AO.com.

Graham & Brown are the UK leaders in unique, exceptional quality wallpaper. With an immense range of wallpaper designs perfect for feature walls or the whole room, there is a fitting pattern for everybody.

Established in 1946 Graham and Brown’s wallpaper revolution began as people were desperate for things to brighten up their homes. Graham and Brown have gone from strength to strength with stores worldwide and plenty of recognition for their creativity.

Established in 1948 Clifford Thames (now OEConnection) sits at the heart of the global automotive aftermarket. Creating and managing the data needed to repair and maintain vehicles for many major vehicle manufacturers including Ford, General Motors, Jaguar Land Rover, Hyundai, Renault and the VW group.