Our clients

Hillier Nurseries

www.hillier.co.uk

Hillier Nurseries is Britain’s largest grower of shrubs and trees

The shrub division grows and imports shrubs, wholesaling and distributing to hundreds of retail garden centres across the country and overseas.  The tree division provides trees for commercial and private landscaping projects, for example the Olympic park in London. The garden centres division runs 15 garden centres across the south of England.

Thinkers have done several projects for Hillier.

Over the past four years we have completely transformed our core business systems, and can now enhance our position as a leading player in our industry.  Thinkers have been pivotal in making this change happen.  We certainly couldn’t have done it without them.

Robert Hillier MBE, Chairman

Projects

• Herculean task
  Having chosen a new EPOS till system, Hillier Garden Centres needed someone to run the project to roll it out across all 15 centres.
• All change
  Hillier Garden Centres ran a chain of 15 centres using old-fashioned cash registers. They wanted to choose a modern EPOS till system.
• Helping Hillier grow
  Hillier Nurseries grows thousands of trees and shrubs. They wanted a new system to run their entire business.

PRPi

www.prpiconsulting.com

PRPi Consulting specialise in remuneration research for financial organisations. They provide advice to over half of the top 50 asset management companies in the UK & US, through a combination of HR consultancy and a range of remuneration surveys which they collate and publish annually.

Thinkers have provided user interface and design consultancy to PRPi for a number of years.

Projects

• Complexity simplified
  PRPi’s online survey tool was powerful but complex. Thinkers simplified the user interface without dumbing down the application.

GW Martin

www.gwmartin.co.uk

GW Martin is a mid-sized precision manufacturer that makes components for the aerospace, automotive and defence industries.

Projects

• Modern machines
  GW Martin is a precision manufacturing company that uses modern machine tools. They wanted a modern manufacturing control system to suit.

Phoenix Industrial

www.phoenixindustrial.ca

Phoenix Industrial provides construction and maintenance services to the oil, paper, and forestry industries throughout Western Canada.

Projects

• Phoenix pipe-dream
  Phoenix construct large industrial plant. Their dream was to have a system that supported their unique approach.

Natural Travel Collection

www.thenaturaltravelcollection.com

The Natural Travel Collection comprises several well established specialist travel brands.

Thinkers excel at clearing a thought pathway through a complex problem.

Chris Breen, Managing Director

Projects

• Travel light
  The Natural Travel Collection was formed by a management buy-out of well established travel brands. They needed their new business to work at full-bore from day one.
• Dangerous waters
  Wildlife Worldwide & Dive Worldwide had chosen a new system for all of their customer bookings, but wanted help to run the project to make it work for them.

Vetstream

www.vetstream.co.uk

Vetstream provide the ultimate veterinary clinical information resource for small animal veterinary practices, specializing in cats, dogs, horses and rabbits.  Their website is the modern equivalent of a text book, and includes pictures, videos and sounds which text-books cannot.  Vetstream’s customers include universities and veterinarians all over the world.

Projects

• Rethinking veterinary reference
  Vetstream provides high-tech veterinary reference material online. They wanted to improve their trial-to-subscription conversion rates.