A GREAT FREE OFFER FOR MERSEYSIDE SME’S AND SMALL COMPANIES BASED IN THE ELLESMERE PORT & NESTON REGION   You may not know this, but if you are classed as a small-and-medium-sized enterprise (SME), you now have a unique opportunity to gain a real advantage over your competitors. We realise that due to the pressures of competition, a lot of SME’s don’t really do themselves justice in the marketplace. It’s not because of a lack of knowledge – far from it. The fact is, customers are now more inclined to expect customised products in smaller quantities, delivered more frequently. The chances are, this is already eating into your profits.   HOW CAN WE HELP?   What is needed is a two-pronged approach for growing your business – one approach that focuses on reducing your operating costs and another which focuses on growing your business by fine-tuning your marketing. Together, it is a winning combination. If you recognise these “needs” for your business The Agility Centre can help. We are sponsored by Objective One funding for Merseyside to assist small companies to grow and prosper. Over the next twelve months, we have a remit to assist 22 companies that can be classified as “manufacturing-based” (e.g. the company has some form of manufacturing, assembly, maintenance or refurbishment operations).   WHAT WILL YOU DO AND HOW WILL YOU GO ABOUT IT?   As a first step, we work with you to ensure that what you produce is done so cost effectively. To do this, we deploy a range of tools using an approach that is known as “Agile Manufacturing”. To put it simply, the objective of Agile Manufacturing is to ensure that you as a company can thrive and prosper in an environment of continual change. A company can be said to be “agile” when it can produce products on a small scale with no compromise to quality, and at no extra cost.   Once operations improvements are underway, we work with you to fine-tune your marketing activities. We can help you to analyse your strategic options, find opportunities in new markets, assess your competitors, re-evaluate your marketing pitch, and find new points of differentiation, as just a few examples. Our marketing tools provide an excellent compliment to the agile manufacturing tools developed in our Centre by recognised experts in the field.   HOW TO CONTACT US   We have to act on a first-come, first-served basis. Objective One and some Objective Two funding is available for the first 23 projects registered with the Centre. If you are interested in this offer, please contact our office in the first instance on 0151 795 3641. Alternatively, you can send us an e-mail, or send a message via our contact page.