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AUTHENTIC TASTE
OF THE USA
DAISY
& BUMP
TURNOVER
JUMPS TO
£100K
N
estled in the corner of a Teesside
enterprise centre is a growing company
that’s in the business of generating smiles.
Daisy and Bump, run by husband and wife
Chris and Jessie Bowman, specialises in
children’s nursery illustrations and in the last
year their turnover has smashed through the
£100,000 mark.
The majority of the turnover is from online
sales and they export across the globe.
Their biggest customers outside the UK
are the USA and Australia.
Daisy and Bump launched in 2013 is one
of more than 250 businesses receiving free
help and support from the Enterprise Team,
part of Redcar and Cleveland Council.
Jessie said: “The business coaches have
been fantastic providing us with advice on
all kinds of things including marketing and
accounting.
“It’s also just reassuring to know there is
someone at the end of a phone should we
run into problems or need some guidance.
”
The business, which is based at Palace
Hub in Redcar, began thanks to Jessie’s
artistic talent.
Both she and Chris studied fashion design
at university in London but the 27-year-old
REDCAR FIRST TO
GET SUPERFAST
BROADBAND
Redcar is the first location in the Tees
Valley to get superfast fibre broadband
as part of the Government’s Broadband
Delivery UK (BDUK) programme.
Two fibre broadband cabinets, on
Hambleton Road, and Coatham Road,
are now ‘live’ with more than 370
homes and businesses in the area
able to order the new fibre broadband
technology.
Redcar & Cleveland Council have
allocated £260,000 to secure in excess
of £1m of funding as part of the first
phase of improvements across the
borough, which will see more than
3,000 homes and businesses get
access to fibre broadband.
struggled to find her niche in the industry and
spent several years working in retail.
In her spare time she started drawing
animal characters, using her sister’s rescue
rabbit Phantom as her inspiration.
The character of Daisy the Rabbit was born
and was soon accompanied by Bumperton
the Elephant, or Bump for short.
Jessie’s creations have proven incredibly
popular and online sales of her prints have
increased steadily over the last 12 months.
Customers are able to order prints on the
company’s website or through external sites
including Etsy and NotOnTheHighStreet.
The Enterprise Team offers Redcar and
Cleveland businesses at least 12 hours of
free tailored support.
Made up of skilled business coaches,
the team is focused on helping companies
across the borough to achieve their goals,
including moving premises, increasing their
turnover and improving profitability.
The team also holds a free business forum
each month, allowing companies to network,
hear from guest speakers, enjoy a bite to eat,
and chat to the business coaches.
Find out more about the Enterprise
Team at www.theenterpriseteam.co.uk
CINEMA GETS
FACELIFT
Redcar’s seafront Regent cinema has undergone a
major facelift.
Just under a year ago, a “Save The Regent
Cinema” campaign was launched amid rumours
of a multi-leisure development on the Coatham
Bowl site.
A Facebook site received more than 4,000
“likes” within 48 hours.
It has now been repainted, had its roof repaired
and there’s now an illuminated LCD sign to show
which blockbusters are currently playing.
The Regent Heritage Trust was established as a
community group to preserve public interest and
support for the building.
Members of the trust and the public then came
together last August to give the cinema interior a
deep clean in preparation for the renovation, with
Redcar and Cleveland Council budgeting £58,000
towards the scheme.
THE REDCAR
CHIPPY
CHALLENGE!
An award-winning Teesside fish ‘n’ chips
takeaway celebrated National Chip Week
by offering customers their weight in chips
– if they can guess in chips the height of
the neighbouring Redcar Beacon!
Oliver’s Fish ‘n’ Chips of Redcar
offere H [