It has been another great year for XP Power and in our six monthly video, keeping investors and shareholders abreast of their developments, there was a lot to talk about.  Our business correspondent Nik Wood was joined by Chief Executive Duncan Penny and Financial Director Jonathan Rhodes and they reported that general trading figures were very strong again. “We seem to be firing on all cylinders” said Duncan “each geography was up year on year and each sector was up year on year.”

Despite the uncertainty of Brexit and currency fluctuations XP are not seeing customers going away. One of the biggest challenges now is managing the manufacturing capacity but with expansion plans for the factory in Vietnam and an increase in the number and line of products, as just part of a larger strategic plan, the company are managing their growth.

To find out more detail about the last years performance and future exciting plans across the company for the year ahead please  click here.

Our video interviews recorded in Delhi, India, for the organisation Health for Animals, have gone live on their You Tube channel.

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Working in partnership with Pegasus, the UK-based integrated communications company, we attended the 5th Global Animal Health Conference, held in Delhi, on behalf of Health for Animals – the conference organiser. We interviewed a series of key opinion leaders’  who were asked a number of questions including: “How can harmonised regulations improve global animal welfare?”; “Why must we stop counterfeit illegal animal medicines?”; “How can disease tracking and healthy animals prevent a pandemic?”. The video ‘thumbnails’ have now been finalised and published by Health for Animals.

Politicians, senior animal health experts, industry, academia, inter-governmental bodies and international organisations came together to exchange views on the importance of good regulatory governance of veterinary medicines. Attendees discussed how sound governance and alignment to international standards promotes improved animal health that in turn contributes to socio-economic development.

Speakers focused on India and South Asia and the need for appropriate regulatory systems to enable the registration, market access and market control of quality assured animal health products, and the contribution this makes to the ‘One Health’ vision.

Prior to the conference, select attendees also participated in a multi-day workshop on improving collaboration and regulatory harmonization.

It’s been a very Happy New Year for our business…2016 was our most successful financial year to date after ten years of trading and 2017 looks like being even better with a string of new contracts and more work with our valued, existing clients.

We’ve started the year with work for several new organisations.

Private Business Awards winner Acorn Stairlifts

We will soon be completing a colourful video highlighting a fantastic corporate social responsibility project in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales organised by Acorn Stairlifts. We came across the company while filming for the Made in the UK Awards, which celebrates the best of UK manufacturing. Since then they have won a series of other awards including the recent Yorkshire Post Business Award for Exports as they sell a huge amount of their goods to the USA.

New business with AC Goatham & Son

We’ve also really enjoyed getting involved with the wonderful people and their equally wonderful products at AC Goatham & Son, which is an amazing success story of producing apples and pears in Kent since 1947 and now selling to many of our leading supermarkets. We have been filming to help celebrate their 70th anniversary year so, again, watch out for some beautiful footage of British apples at their best.

We would like to thank The Brookwood Partnership, which has been offering ‘the highest standard of fresh quality food to pupils across all school ages and genders since 1996’. They were one of our very first clients when we started the business as Nik Wood Communications Ltd and they have remained with us ever since.

We supported their annual conference with a series of videos covering everything from their work with freshly prepared food for pupils to their support for charities in the UK and internationally. In 2016 the Partnership announced its merger with leading independent caterer and Royal Warrant holder, CH&Co Group, becoming the group’s specialist education arm. We are delighted to report that Kate Martin and Sue Parfett will continue in their roles as Managing Partners and we congratulate them on being part of an excellent merger agreement.

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We are also delighted to continue our close relationship with Ceva Santé Animale the global veterinary health company. This is a truly international partnership where we help them to cover events and company news in over 40 different countries throughout the year. We film for the innovative internal and external station Ceva TV and also appear live on stage at a wide range of events ranging from product launches to debates on the issue of antibiotic resistance around the World.

And this is just a small part of our global business – we will also be working alongside companies like XP Power, helping to publicise their financial results; Variety The Children’s Charity, supporting their events which raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for children in need and Insider Media Limited who stage glittering events for the property and business sectors.

So a big thanks to all our supporters – old and new.

When one of our key clients, Ceva Santé Animale, launched its newest vaccine at a major convention in Cancun, Mexico, Good Call Media was there to film the event and our interviews with major Mexican clients, shot in advance of the launch were also used during the conference.

Ceva Corporate Swine Range Manager, Philippe Mazerolles, addressing the Convention.

In the run up to the Convention, we worked closely with the Ceva Mexico team to line up three major producers who had already used the new swine product, Valora, on their animals and the detailed and positive feedback they were able to provide on camera were used on Ceva social media outlets including Facebook, Twitter and You Tube, click here to see the interviews.

Valora is a vaccine for pigs against boar taint which is an aroma that can affect male pigs that have not been castrated. The smell can impact on the pig meat when it is being eaten by consumers. Mexico is the first country to grant a license for the innovative new product.
Speaking at opening of the conference, Jean Charles Tissot, Ceva’s Regional Director for Latin America, Jean Charles Tissot, said: “By using vaccines like this we can reduce stress in pigs from surgical castration and improve animal welfare as well as improving yields for pig producers.”

More than 80 clients gathered at the Cancun hotel for the event, which also included presentations from leading academics who had been involved in laboratory and farm trials.

Gala dinner at the Cancun hotel.

Valora utilises an immune response to neutralise the endogenous LHRH (GnRH) in pigs and is an innovative alternative to surgical castration as well as bringing about better feed efficiency, therefore improving the performance for pig producers.

Other Latin American countries have already applied for licenses for Valora and Ceva will then start to roll out the vaccine to other parts of the world. The benefits for animal welfare involved with using the product underline the company”s pledge to work “Together

Good Call Media was selected as the preferred production company for producing the ‘kick-off’ video for the 2016 Insider Yorkshire Property Awards.

Click here to see the video that was played on the big night.

The Henry Boot team celebrates winning the Restoration and Regeneration Award for The Chocolate Works in York.

It’s the fifth year running that we have been awarded the commission to make a fast moving, engaging and colourful video for the awards. Our growing expertise in the property sector will also be recognised again shortly when we provide the video for the 2016 Yorkshire Residential Property Awards organised by Variety The Children’s Charity, which raises tens of thousands of pounds to help children in Yorkshire.

Westfield collected the coveted Development of the Year prize at the Insider Media event for The Broadway, Bradford. Held at the Royal Armouries Museum, New Dock Hall, Leeds, the event featured the presentation of 14 awards on a glittering night. Broadcaster Colin Murray was the compère, with almost 600 of the region’s top professionals gathered.

Compere, Colin Murray, launching the awards.

Insider’s Ian Leech praised all of the winners and shortlisted companies. “Having chaired the judging session I know that some of the categories were very close to call and I think that goes to show the quality we have here in the Yorkshire property sector,” he said.

Fiona Molloy, partner in Good Call Media, who produced the video, said:”It was fantastic to be selected yet again to make the video. Yorkshire is such a dynamic market for property, we had no problems in finding subjects to illustrate the growth and confidence in the sector.”