Sands & Co supported us for with the start-up of a design and build distribution centre, through to being fully operational.
Over a 12 months period, Sands & Co provided strategic support to the senior team, overseeing resource planning, identifying recruitment requirements in line with phased volume increases, the recruitment and training of senior managers, identifying skills gaps, designing and implementing training/upskilling plans in line with phased volume increases, as well as the design and implementation of standard operating procedures and safe systems of work.
This project is the largest investment in our Logistics infrastructure and vitally important to supporting our future growth strategy. We are extremely grateful to have had the support of Bill and Sands & Co to help us deliver it, through what was an extremely challenging period at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Marc Deakin, Supply Chain Director
We write this to convey our immense thanks to Bill Neech at Sands & Co .
Bill came into Abbott & Abbott just over a year ago to help us co-ordinate the takeover of several new businesses. I doubt that we could have found anyone more skilled or personable than Bill.
We needed new structures in place to facilitate the smooth transition of the takeovers, and Bill was extremely competent and immediately saw the areas that needed to be actioned, and wasted no time in getting down to work and swiftly putting the necessary infrastructure in place. This really did improve the whole business transaction and ensure that we did not loose any of the existing or new customers during the takeover process.
Bill is very much a people person, he can work alongside any member of staff, Director or team and we have yet to meet a person who doesn’t like him! Furthermore, his front of house customer skills are second to none and we found that all our customers really liked him and he negotiated some excellent deals for our business, both attracting new customers and enlarging existing customer business.
We could go on and on detailing his positive input into our business, but obviously nobody wants to read that much information. We do not have a bad thing to say about him or the service he gave and continues to give. Everyone should have a Bill!
I am more than happy to discuss Sands & Co further with anyone who would like more detail .
Peter Stavri, Director
Read more testimonials from our clients below:
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Phil Burton
Fantastic support received from Bill Neech when setting up a new food distribution warehouse in Bedford. His I.T & WMS knowledge is second to none and during a very challenging time (post COVID) the advice, hard work and support that he offered the business and to me personally during this time was greatly appreciated. I highly recommend Sands & Co Business Consultancy Ltd.
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Justin Cyrus
Although my business is small by Bill’s standards the attention to detail he provides is incredible and for what I actually felt I needed to improve there was a lot more besides. His service pays for itself, so I’ll certainly be using him again in the future. Thanks Bill!
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Stephen Vandepeer
Absolutely fantastic guy.
Helped us organise and move our business on to the the next level.
Steve
Hastings Builders Company
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Stuart Leppard
Having made the decision to start scaling our business, we’d been suffering a few strategic challenges and so decided to contact Billy at Sands & Co.
We were immediately drawn to his experience and successful track record, but his level of skill in understanding and implementing processes that would help run the company and save me time and energy became clear very quickly.
He made a great deal of effort to listen and fully understand the problems we faced and was always clear in our options to help resolve them. It was a very collaborative process but at the same time, one we could’ve only embarked on in such a safe pair of hands. By the end, we were much clearer on how to move forward, with systems and structures in place that would make progress much smoother.
Billy always had our best interests at heart and always offered great wisdom. I’m looking forward to working with him again in the future when we inevitably start facing a new set of problems to overcome.
Stuart Leppard
The Garden Landscapers
