Case Study

In the five years since its launch, China Industries Ltd, or Wow! Stuff, has achieved some big milestones along the way – boasting a sales increase of 2,000% since 2005 and building a platform for planned sales of £165m by 2013.

Leeds based construction and specialist engineering company Renew Holdings has weathered challenging conditions in one of the UK’s hardest hit sectors over the last two years – not only maintaining profitability but boosting its order book by an impressive 31%.

Declining advertising revenues and the threat posed by digital publishing in the era of the iPad have been the biggest stories in two of Pearson’s core areas of business - yet this resilient and innovative global media company has maintained organic growth and achieved a sales increase of 9 per cent overall.