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Incubator firms preparing for growth after EMCON

November 12th, 2018 Martin Walker Business 0 comments 0

Companies from across County Durham who exhibited at EMCON for the very first time are putting in place plans to grow.

Eighteen new or growing SMEs signed up to participate in this year’s Incubator Zone, which was a key element of EMCON 2018.

The programme, which is ERDF funded and delivered by Business Durham’s Durham Business Opportunities Programme (DBOP), was launched last year to encourage those businesses who wouldn’t or couldn’t exhibit at EMCON, either because of lack of experience, resources or budget, to get involved.

This year, the exhibitors included Aycliffe firms Accurate Systems Labelling (pictured above), Newton Aycliffe Workwear Supplies, Pixel Media and Greystone Legal.

And they’re all now actively following up on the leads they made at the event, with several confident of converting those leads into work.

Gemma James, from Newton Aycliffe Workwear Supplies, said: “We’ve really enjoyed the event and made far more promising connections than we expected to.

“In fact, my aim was three promising leads from the day and in the first couple of hours we’d made nine, with some people coming to our stand because we’d been recommended to them which is fantastic.”

Michael Harriott, business engagement officer with the DBOP team, said: “The feedback we got from exhibitors on the day was great and post event the feeling is one of optimism that work will be won as a result which is what the programme is all about.”

Following on from the success of the first Incubator Zone programme in 2017, participants Moralbox, Bespoke Electrical and M5Tec all returned as fully-fledged exhibitors this year.

Hundreds of people attended this year’s event, with over 100 companies exhibiting and several themed sessions held throughout the day. Stadler Rail UK was the event’s inaugural headline sponsor with Business Durham and RM Manufacturing the gold sponsors.

EMCON 2018 was also supported by Jackson Hogg as delivery partner.

 

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