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You can be pretty sure that the task you've picked is right up Eckington-based CSE Global UK's street.
Back in the days when it was known as Servelec, the Rotherside Road business cut its teeth on developing control systems for giant steel plants.
It soon developed a reputation as a "systems integrator" – someone who could get different systems, speaking different electronic 'languages' to talk to each other and work together.
As time went on, and demand from the steel industry declined, the company expanded into new sectors, acquiring blue chip clients and new owners with the financial wherewithal to underwrite major contracts as they became too big for a firm of Servelec's size to insure.
Now owned by Singapore-based CSE Global, the company has grown from 120-370 employees, 240 in Eckington and the rest in operations in Scotland, Slovakia and Abu Dhabi and celebrated its fifth year of record growth, despite the global recession earlier this year.
Since CSE Global acquired the company at the turn of the century, turnover has quadrupled from under 8m to 31m plus, generated by three businesses: CSE Controls, CSE Servelec and the rising star, CSE Healthcare.
"We were in steel, now we are in oil and gas and water, broadcast, health and social care – as a dominant player," says managing director Alan Stubbs.
"The success of the business is down to diversification into markets where we can make use of our existing skill set seamlessly."
Finance director John Caldwell adds: "We are fundamentally a technology business with people who have fantastic skill sets. We have a very flexible, skilled workforce that is reliable and adaptable and we are using that workforce to allow us to move into different markets."
The loyalty of CSE Global UK's long-serving staff – including the graduates it regularly recruits, often from Sheffield Hallam university, is matched by the loyalty of its customers and the support the group gets from Singapore.
"We very rarely lose clients," says Alan Stubbs, "and the relationship with CSE works very well. They are very results- focused, which can be challenging, but they don't interfere and give us a great deal of autonomy.
"We have a goal of where we want to be, but we understand that you never get there in a straight line. You have got to be adaptable.
"We have CSE's financial muscle, but we are a small business with a small management team and we have got the authority to make the decisions we need to make to achieve our goal. There is a lot more motivation when your are in charge of your own destiny."
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