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Wayside Group

The Wayside Group has over twenty-five years experience in the automotive sector, becoming one of the largest and fastest growing, independent automotive groups in the country. With Audi, BMW, MINI, Volkswagen, Toyota, Škoda, SEAT, and Hyundai dealerships located throughout Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire, they offer an extensive range of vehicles and services across the area.

Octopi have been involved with the development of Wayside's website (a bespoke and highly involved Content Managed system) from conception. We have an excellent relationship with Wayside who regard us as "an extension to [their] marketing department" and we work together very much as a team rather than agency and client.

www.waysidegroup.co.uk

Wayside Group

GUA Africa

GUA Africa was founded by Emmanuel Jal, an ex-child soldier turned rap artist. Emmanuel works tirelessly with the United Nations, Amnesty International and Oxfam to campaign against the employment of child soldiers and the illegal trade of arms.

GUA's mission is to work with individuals, families and communities to help them overcome the effects of war and poverty. In April 2008 they were granted full UK charity status.

Octopi works closely with the GUA Africa team, to maintain and develop the website, as well as providing hosting and support.

www.gua-africa.org

GUA Africa

Paul Norman Plastics

Paul Norman Plastics (PNP) was founded by Paul Norman in 1982 to provide plastic injection moulding solutions to industry. They manufacture plastic injection moulded components for a wide range of industries, including engineering, electronics, vending, aerospace, veterinary, construction, education and retail.

Octopi created a new logo for the Paul Norman Plastics group, along with a fresh new design for the website, which allows PNP to showcase new projects as well as information regarding the various services they offer.

Visit www.pnplastics.co.uk

Paul Norman Plastics

Thamesdown Recycling

Thamesdown Recycling helps reduce the impact of our society on the environment by secure product destruction and recycling for reuse and energy production.

Thamesdown Recycling required a replacement website, stationery, business cards and a brochure / folder along with several inserts.

Octopi have delivered all of this, utilising a modified version of our Content Management System, as well as ensuring the design flowed seamlessly throughout all elements of the project.

www.thamesdownrecycling.co.uk

Thamesdown Recycling

Defence Consultancy Systems

Defence Consultancy Systems (DCS) are a worldwide provider of independent cost-effective consultancy support to the defence industry. DCS offer a wealth of experience which allows clients to ask questions and make decisions based purely on independent advice from a company with no allegiance to any other consultancy or supplier.

Octopi were asked to create a new logo for the company, the results of which can be seen to the right.

www.defconsys.co.uk

Defence Consultancy Systems

RBCCG

Redditch and Bromsgrove Clinical Commissioning Group (RBCCG) is made up of all 23 GP practices covering the districts of Redditch and Bromsgrove, with a combined patient list size of approximately 171,000.

They wished to create a corporate identity to promote the newly formed consortium, as well as a new website with which they could communicate effectively with all the GPs in the practices, along with keeping the public informed about how they can contribute. It was important to them to portray a group of GPs who wish to act on behalf of their patients and provide the best possible healthcare solutions to them whilst understanding the need to work with other current providers of these services.

Octopi delivered a new logo and corporate identity, as well as a bespoke version of our in-house Content Management System. It's "received only positive feedback and it's proving invaluable in sharing information with all parties concerned".

www.rbccg.org.uk

RBCCG

Forest School Learning Initiative

Forest School uses the outdoor environment to help all children learn. Children are encouraged to develop independence skills, improve their decision-making, and raise their self-esteem through small achievable tasks. All learning is child led and children show a keenness to learn at Forest School.

Octopi were contacted by Christina Dee, one of the owners of Forest School, about creating a brand new website, based on an existing logo and corporate identity. The site needed to reflect both the existing colour scheme, as well as the environmental aspects of Forest School; and of course it needed to be attractive to visitors, simple to use, and easy to get relevant information.

www.forestschoollearning.co.uk

Forest School Learning Initiative

Game Guard

Game Guard boil and bite gumshields are manufactured in the UK by Paul Norman Plastics Ltd (PNP). Founded in 1982 Paul Norman Plastics Ltd is an established company with an unrivalled reputation for quality in the production of precision plastic injection mouldings.

We were approached by PNP's marketing department, as they wished to develop a site which specifically marketed their Gumshield range of products - Game Guard.

The website needed to include a content managed element so PNP could modify the site content themselves, as well as a highly bespoke ecommerce module, which needed to be flexible enough to deal with PNP's various clientbase.

PNP were absolutely delighted with the final product, and gave us a glowing testimonial.

www.game-guard.co.uk

Game Guard

Gatwitch Records

The music house was founded in 2007 in the UK by a former child soldier and now an internationally acclaimed hip hip artist and human rights activist, Emmanuel Jal.

With presence in London, Nairobi and Juba, and expansion strategy for East Africa and America, Gatwitch Records concentrates on world music and hip hop, and works to give local artists an international platform. Gatwitch Records is an independent, contemporary, versatile and most importantly unorthodox label.

Jal asked us to create a website which would allow Gatwitch Records to promote both existing and up-and-coming artists from around the world.

www.gatwitch.com

Gatwitch Records

Gatwitch Festival

Gatwitch Festival took place in Nairobi December 2-4, 2010, and spearheads the series of annual initiatives by Gatwitch, an international record label and production company ran by Emmanuel Jal.

The festival was the first of its kind in Africa, involving three days of music, speaking and exhibits of various art forms. Through live performances, speeches and short film screenings, the event celebrated art, technology, education and environment in Africa.

Yulia Holko, Gatwitch's Marketing Manager, wanted a site that would showcase the artists and speakers who would be performing at the festival, as well as allowing visitors to quickly find the information they needed.

www.gatwitchfestival.com

Gatwitch Festival

ICOF

The Intelligent Commissioning Federation (ICOF) is a not-for profit organisation set up by GP's based in the Ladywood, Aston and part of Sparkbrook areas of Birmingham. Their objective is to ensure that clinicians collaboratively seek to improve primary care and deliver exemplary patient-centred services in Ladywood, Aston and part of the Sparkbrook areas of Birmingham.

ICOF's requirements for their new site were that it needed to be an interactive and user friendly website that's easily accessible, informative, easy to navigate and intuitive.

Octopi delivered the new website, incorporating an existing logo and using our in-house Content Management System, and ICOF were "absolutely thrilled with the finished product".

www.icofgpc.org.uk

ICOF