The Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Firm triples in size during lockdown

Jobs created as firm helps businesses develop their sales

- By Paul Grinnell paul.grinnell@jpimedia.co.uk Twitter: @PTPaulGrin­nell

A new company in Peterborou­gh has tripled in size during the Covid lockdown using its expertise to help firms grow their sales.

Meet Hugo, which is headquarte­red at the Brightfiel­d Business Hub, in Bakewell Road, Orton Southgate, and with a base in Florida, has taken on 18 mew members of staff since the start of the lockdown in March bringing its workforce to 27.

Over the same period, it has taken on new work valued at £62 million and is also expecting to recruit more staff in the near future.

The start-up was created as a sales platform focused on helping companies achieve more sales, grow their sales pipeline and forge new relationsh­ips with other businesses.

Ben Harper, who founded Meet Hugo two years ago, said: “For the most part, we’ve been really fortunate in that our platform is focused around lead generation, and is effectivel­y a work from home tool, which means we’ve seen a higher demand than normal, and we’ve been kept very busy since the start of the pandemic.

“We’re growing, and there is plenty of work out there for businesses - we’ve had over £62 million of projects on our platform in the last three weeks alone. Keeping up with the demand is the next challenge we face.

“As businesses have turned to digital methods of communicat­ing and generating leads during the pandemic, the demand for a service to streamline the sales process and provide more targeted prospects has increased. As such, we were presented with the opportunit­y to hire more talent to meet demand.”

 ??  ?? Some of the team at Meet Hugo.
Some of the team at Meet Hugo.

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