Best Small Business Serving Sport (less than 20 employees)
All Sport Insurance
All Sport Insurance was established in January 2016 to provide a one stop insurance solution, for sports professionals, clubs and player organisations.
Whether be it be Private Car, Household, Landlords, Travel, Commercial or Career Ending Insurance we can offer competitive premiums. At All Sport we operate a private client style service where individuals have a personal account manager to service their requirements. We recognise that sport is not a nine until five occupation and thus our clients can contact us during every day of the week and outside of traditional opening hours.
The business model is built around providing a high-quality service to each individual to support their unique demands and needs. We work closely with Clubs, Governing Bodies, Player Associations and Welfare Officers establishing close relationships and providing a service to their members. We are proud partners of The Professional Cricketers Association, Professional Jockeys Association, The Welsh Rugby Players Association and Rugby League Cares and continue to expand our services across a wide range of sports and sporting organisations.
Beyond 90
Beyond 90 is a sports agency, specialising in Fan Engagement. It’s core services include; events, fan zone design, digital marketing and staffing.
The aim for all of our projects is to either attract new fans, or strengthen the relationship between existing fans and their club by providing leading fan experiences.
We work with great clients, including Manchester City Football Club and Manchester City Council. We’re very grateful that the ambition of our clients matches our own. In the last year we have produced 2 world class events; the Olympic Homecoming Parade and Cityzens Weekend, where we unveiled Pep Guardiola as the club’s new manager. That ambition allows us to try new things and push boundaries.
We’re looking forward to a year of developing our core service offering and adding more talent to the team.
Designwerk
We are one of the world leaders in strategic brand communications, fan engagement and sponsorship activation for the global sports industry, working with some of the biggest names and brands in world sport.
We create a wide range of brand identities, marketing collateral, publications, exhibition spaces, brand asset management systems, digital tools and promotional films. Our clients include federations, football clubs, rights holders, marketing companies, sponsors, broadcasters, commercial partners and PR agencies.
Designwerk has developed long-term relationships with its clients, and we have worked with UEFA, TEAM Marketing, The Open golf, the Premier League, the new European Championships, City Football Group, MLS, America’s Cup, the ITF, Sportfive, Infront Sports, The RFU, Soccerex, and many more.
We are a small company with only 18 employees, but we have developed a solid reputation in the global sports market, and have won over 50 international creative and marketing awards for our clients over the last 3 years.
Here is what one of our long-term football clients think of us:
“I work with a number of agencies across Europe, and I can happily say that Designwerk are the best and longest standing partner UEFA has ever dealt with”
Head of Special Football Projects, UEFA
FKPro
The FKPro has bought valuable research to suspended bodyweight training. Showing the injury prevention abilities of this unique system, the International Olympic Committee has accepted its neck injury prevention training for it’s World Conference. Chosen by the English Institute of Sport as its official supplier, the FKPro is used by the athletes that they look after. It is also used by British, European, Commonwealth, World and Olympic Champions, as well as a host of international teams.
The FKPro and Peter Faulkner has helped me recover from a double glute rupture. I had to stop running completely and went from that to winning Welsh, British, European tiles, and bronze at the World Championships.
Pat Gallagher
70-year-old GB Athlete
Goodform
Established in 2002, Goodform is a leading CRM, Insight, and Sports Marketing agency with a reputation for delivering excellent service and a tailored approach for our clients, who currently include British Athletics, EFL, Silverstone and 6 Nations. We build long- term retained relationships with our clients, and our people bring a unique blend of sports industry knowledge and technical expertise.
Our overarching approach is to enhance our clients’ engagement with their customers, and maximise the commercial value available to them.
2016 has been a flagship year in Goodform’s history: we sent 100 million emails across over 2000 campaigns, collected 150,000 survey responses, conducted 30 focus groups and received 25,000 calls. This includes delivering creative campaigns to nearly 900,000 fans across 86 football clubs each week.
We delivered major projects for both the EFL and IAAF & IPC World Championships London 2017, renewed contracts with key clients including Watford F.C, WRU, Premiership Rugby, and British & Irish Lions, and added new clients including a long term partnership with British Cycling. We have maintained significant organic revenue growth (89% increase in turnover in the past two years), and in 2016 we also grew our team with five new employees.
HRP Equestrian
The BETA International Award Winning HRP WING saddle pads are an outstanding revolutionary contribution to the Equestrian world.
HRP WING saddle pads have taken the equestrian world by storm due to their scientific performance enhancing design, changing the way we look at equine pressure induced discomfort. Independent scientific testing proved conventional saddle pad designs cause pressure and restrict movement, HRP WING saddle pads are the Scientifically proven solution, they exert NO pressure behind the saddle over the lumbar spinous processes.
HRP WING saddlepads are the patent pending invention of HRP Equestrian Founder Helen Ross. www.hrpequestrian.com
Made in the UK there is a HRP WING saddle pad design for all equestrian disciplines.
Icons Shop Limited
We are Icons Shop Limited, the home of signed memorabilia from the world’s best footballers and sportspeople.
In 2016, Icons celebrated working with both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo for over a decade. Indisputably the world’s two biggest superstar footballers, we are proud to have a strong and unique relationship with the best of the best. But it’s not just those two. We frequently conduct private signing sessions with the likes of Neymar Jr, Gareth Bale, Luis Suarez, Pele, Diego Maradona, Eric Cantona and many more. No other company in our industry can claim to have such longstanding relationships with these world-renowned players.
When we announced a brand new licence with The Football Association to produce Official England Licensed Memorabilia in August 2016, it further expanded our range of official licences with the world’s biggest organisations and events, which already included the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA EURO 2016 and Official Messi Signed Merchandise.
Also, this past year, Icons Shop Limited doubled its turnover, experiencing record sales for the busy Christmas and New Year period. Our team has expanded, our signings have grown and our relationships with the world’s best footballers have strengthened.
ILG Business Ltd
ILG Business is a B2B technology supplier, specialising in business mobilisation and application development. Distributing high-level business solutions to the mobile networks, companies and professional individuals, ILG provide the support and guidance needed to bring them to market.
We develop and deploy the ILG Elite Sports App for high profile sports teams, for example: The England Cricket Board, GB Taekwondo, Kobe Steelers (so having to be multilingual) and many more with our extensive experience in the technology industry. The ILG Elite Sports App encompasses a range of key elements linked to coaching and training the entire tea’s day-to-day processes. The ILG app is easily accessible for coaches, managers and players via mobile devices making it easy to use.
The ILG App consolidates all the daily tasks of a professional sports organisation into one easy to-use app. Document sharing, video analysis, communication and squad status enable an entire coaching setup to be controlled on the go via mobile devices with ultimate goal of improving performance.
The ILG App is custom-built to meet the demands of all sporting teams. It enables players and coaches to access a range of training materials and more via a cloud-storage, with complete security of their data.
