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Nectar Business Awards Case Study: Fayre Do’s Location Caterers

Annie Foley founded location catering company Fayre Do’s in 1994. Catering for film and television companies, Fayre Do’s clients include the BBC and ITV. The company has seven full time staff and Annie hires additional agency staff and freelance chefs when required.
 
Annie first heard about Nectar Business from a representative at Brakes which started her on the road to collecting Nectar points. Annie says; “We spend around thirty thousand pounds a month on food and as you can imagine we rack up quite a nice sum of points each year. Of course we are always looking for value so the Nectar Business programme is ideal”.
 
Annie continues; “For me Nectar Business is good because it provides me with an added incentive to continue purchasing from Brakes and Sainsbury’s and gives me that extra bit to spend on something I want”.
 
When it comes to spending her Nectar points Annie makes the most of the Nectar Business website. She says; “The website is great. There are several places where you can spend Nectar points and it’s a really easy, stress free way to shop”. Annie saves her points each year and at Christmas she spends her points at Argos on her grandchildren. “In the past I have bought quite a few presents. I bought a bike for one granddaughter, a DVD player for another. Recently I bought a Nintendo DS. I would definitely recommend Nectar Business to other small businesses. It’s something for nothing and why not take it?”
 
Nectar Business allows small businesses to collect points on their everyday business expenditure each time they purchase goods or services through a Nectar Business partner, such as Viking Direct, Dulux Decorator Centres, , BP, Premierline Direct and Brakes to name just a few. They can also collect points online with over 500 retailers at nectar-business.com.
 
There’s a wide choice of great brands for businesses to spend their points, whether it’s on rewards for their business or treats for themselves. From Viking Direct, Argos and Sainsbury’s to Expedia and Amazon.co.uk.  

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Nectar Business Awards Case Study: The Grapes Pub

Barbara Haigh is landlady of The Grapes pub in Narrow Street, Limehouse, East London. A traditional pub, it serves real ale and an extensive selection of wines and good food, specialising in fish.
 
Barbara comments; “When you are running your own business, as a lot of people know, it’s very hard work and sometimes you feel that you are not getting any rewards but Nectar Business is where you can get something back! The majority of my Nectar points are collected on food from Brakes, office supplies at Viking Direct and petrol from BP. Nectar Business allows me to collect points virtually on a daily basis.”
 
Her collected Nectar points are used mainly on travel. She visits Jersey regularly as she has friends there and says; “Buying a plane ticket from City Airport to Jersey is just wonderful because I can go through Expedia and it costs nothing. I can even book entire holidays through them and at the moment I am saving up to go to New York”.
 
She continues; “What I love about Nectar Business is that I don’t have to keep my eye on it all the time. I like to save up and then I get this lovely surprise when I receive an email saying how many Nectar points I have accumulated.  I would recommend Nectar Business to absolutely any small business because you can buy treats for your staff, or yourself and it doesn’t cost a bean”.
 
Nectar Business allows small businesses to collect points on their everyday business expenditure each time they purchase goods or services through a Nectar Business partner, such as Viking Direct, Dulux Decorator Centres, , BP, Premierline Direct and Brakes to name just a few. They can also collect points online with over 500 retailers at nectar-business.com.
 
There’s a wide choice of great brands for businesses to spend their points, whether it’s on rewards for their business or treats for themselves. From Viking Direct, Argos and Sainsbury’s to Expedia and Amazon.co.uk.  
 

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MG Drainage

 
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Nectar Business Awards Case Study: MG Drainage Ltd

Mick Grant and his wife Rebecca run drainage company MG Drainage Ltd which has been established for twenty years and employs six people. They work for commercial, domestic and industrial customers, regularly attending emergency situations where drains are flooded. Based in Hertfordshire, they cover work in central London as well as the South West and North West.
 
MG Drainage Ltd uses Nectar Business in everyday business expenditure. Mick says; “We collect our points at Viking when we order our stationery and we fill up our fleet of seven vans at Sainsbury’s and BP.  By collecting Nectar points we get something back for our usual spend”.
 
Mick continues; “Nectar Business is beneficial to us and easy to use, there are no problems in getting what you want and you are getting rewards at the end of it. When we have collected the points it’s not hard to find somewhere to spend them, there’s plenty of choice. The Nectar Business website is really simple to navigate - we got onto Amazon and bought some books for the kids and we also bought a kettle and a microwave for the work kitchen”.
 
Mick adds; “Running your own business is not easy. You have got to be committed and you have got to put the hours in but if you can work hard it’s worth it in the end. We would recommend Nectar Business, you are spending the money anyway, so why not accumulate Nectar points and put them towards something you need at the end of it?”
 
Nectar Business allows small businesses to collect points on their everyday business expenditure each time they purchase goods or services through a Nectar Business partner, such as Viking Direct, Dulux Decorator Centres, , BP, Premierline Direct and Brakes to name just a few. They can also collect points online with over 500 retailers at nectar-business.com.
 
There’s a wide choice of great brands for businesses to spend their points, whether it’s on rewards for their business or treats for themselves. From Viking Direct, Argos and Sainsbury’s to Expedia and Amazon.co.uk.  

Other Nectar Business Case Studies:

Fayre Do’s Location Caterers

The Grapes pub

For more information visit www.nectar-business.com

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The (Will) King's Speech: This is how you take on a giant!

Some of you may remember our recent piece on Will King and his King Of Shaves company embarking on it's David versus Goliath battle against Gilette as it launched it's new razor brand. 

Well, King is now harnessing viral marketing in this challenge and just before the Oscar award winners were announced he launched his own parody of the film A King's Speech.

King shot the clip on a budget and in just five hours, the entrepreneur speaks into the original microphone used in the hit movie starring Colin Firth and takes a humourous swipe at rival brand Gilette.

Business owners have lots to learn from Will King's social media activity. He uses it to show that he is the brand; he is King of Shaves.

King really is demonstrating that, with clever thinking, small businesses can use the latest social platforms to compete with the big boys.

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Take a more active approach to doing business abroad

Britain’s small and medium size enterprises may be missing out on valuable opportunities to do business abroad by having a reactive, rather than a proactive approach to exporting.

The new research explained here suggests that nearly forty per cent of those who export claim to have fallen into it, with only little over a quarter actively integrating it into their business strategy.

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