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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.

Morson Group (Morson) wanted to create a new, cutting edge portal that would provide an effective communication channel with their contractors. Having looked for products in the marketplace it was clear that there wasn’t one which met all of their criteria so Morson looked to create a custom solution.

Each year Morson requests feedback from its users which allows them to better understand their users. From the feedback gathered Morson learned that they need an online presence, as this would give their users access anytime and from anywhere.

People are an organisation’s greatest asset and so Morson strive to be the best in their sector by sourcing the best opportunity for each candidate and by maintaining communication throughout their placement. Morson’s capabilities provide cross-sector opportunities for candidates having developed good working relationships with many UK and worldwide industry leaders.

Mitie teams are responsible for delivering the widest range of facilities management (FM) services including cleaning, landscaping, pest control, front of house, technical engineering maintenance and building services across the UK, Ireland and Europe. They provide clients with higher quality, innovative services that save them money.

It`s important that Mitie keeps pace with technology to match their innovative services to withstand the competition. Mitie required a new software solution that would consolidate four existing systems; two in-house and two Oracle-based solutions into one application for use across the £85 million turnover property management division of Mitie Group.

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.

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.