Momentum Support employs more than 2,500 people and provides cleaning and security services. During the first lockdown, sales fell by 25% and staff anxiety increased. But through shrewd cash management, the company is now back on target.
To help meet growing demand from supermarkets, Yeo Valley rationalised its range and changed its production lines.
For UDG Healthcare, the ‘new normal’ of today does not represent a destination, but it is the starting point for a journey to ‘new normal’. Covid-19 has changed how the company does business, but has not impacted the performance of the business itself.
Within the life sciences industry, preparation for clinical trials that used to take months can now be completed within weeks. That is good news for Teckro, which says its platform is even more relevant in a post Covid-19 world.
Genfitt, a Mayo-based wholesale distributor of farm machinery parts, was worried about its supply chain, the impact of government restrictions, and its capacity to collect debts. To respond, it formed a small Business Continuity Team.
The crisis has a short-term negative impact on Global Shares, an employee owned company that managing employee share plans and stock management plans. But after regrouping, the company has increased its pipeline of new business, with firms keen to incentivise employees with equity.
As soon as the crisis emerged ICON established a business continuity team. Soon after, the executive leadership agreed pay reductions, remote tech was utilised, and field-based staff adapted to the local restrictions. Now, it is expecting a surge in demand for its services.
Listed on AIM in London and led by Irishman Greg Lawless, Arena is a supplier of temporary seats and hospitality structures to some of the world’s most prestigious sporting events. One by one, each of its events have been cancelled, forcing the company to redefine success as survival.
In the first of a new series on how businesses across Ireland and the UK adapted during the first lockdown, we hear from Trinny Woodhall, the fashion and makeover expert behind the fast-expanding Trinny London makeup brand.
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