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Serving the Teesside Business Community | 43 / HARTLEPOOL NEWS Funky Laser has designs on growth Left: Leah Moore (left) of Funky Laser in the company’s new Innovation Centre premises with Paula Addison of UK Steel Enterprise. A design and fabrication company that started out in a spare room is moving on to greater things. Funky Laser, founded by Leah Moore, has moved into a flagship business centre to meet growing demand from a client list that includes Disney, Scottish TV, Soap and Glory, BBC Good Food and Penguin. Its team of four is now based in UK Steel Enterprise’s Innovation Centre in Hartlepool, creating its ‘weird and wonderful’ range of bespoke and personalised items from necklaces, badges and wedding cake toppers to party and photo props incorporating anything from animals, flowers, figures, hats, lips and moustaches to names, jokes and quotes. Funky Laser has grown fast in just three years after Leah combined the skills acquired since taking her degree in industrial design ACCOUNTANTS LOOK TO T !