5:10pm Wednesday 8th July 2009
By Chris Holland
In the week when a survey of Bradford business leaders raised hopes that the recession may be easing, a city-based design agency has landed its biggest contract for a year.
Inphi.net, which operates from Little Germany, has been appointed to work on a prestigious property development in London.
The company will create branding and a website for London’s most exclusive apartment development. Inphi.net has been commissioned to brand Montpelier Hall in Knightsbridge where apartments will be the capital’s most expensive at around £15 million a time.
The agency will also create a website to promote the benefits of the development of six apartments, including a penthouse. Work is underway and the website is due to go live in the next few months.
Managing director Darren Stega-Jones said: “We haven’t seen a contract of this size since last summer and things seem to be picking up.
“There has been a positive increase in enquiries and business over the last few weeks. Long may it continue.”
Imphi.net has also won new commissions to provide website development for a freight forwarding business, branding and website for a sales and marketing company and is also in talks with another client over a large website development.
Mr Stega-Jones said: “We were recommended to Montpelier Hall by an existing client who we have worked with for many years. For me, this says much about an agency that is constantly challenged to deliver the goods, time and time again.
Mr Stega-Jones is also a director of Bradford-based online sales company which has become the first in the UK to secure a trade distribution deal for three of the world’s biggest bed brands.
Wow! Lifestyle, also based in Little Germany, predicts the agreement to supply Silentnight, Sealy and Rest Assured products to hotels, guest houses and care homes could take its turnover to £500,000 in the first year. The company, which has created two new jobs, is quoting on nearly 400 beds for hotels in London .
Bradford Chamber of Commerce, which represents 1,100 businesses, published its latest quarterly economic survey which revealed that company bosses were seeing an end to the downturn with confidence rising.
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