Solid move for management company
Business management company Solid Solutions has relocated its head office to Leamington Spa. The company has moved from its base at the University of Warwick Science Park, where it was stationed for more than a decade.
The business supplies the computer aided design (CAD) software SolidWorks, as well as training, support and development assistance, to more than 3,000 customers – including high-profile organisations such as BAE Systems, Bosch, RNLI, Stannah Stairlifts and Sealine.
The company, which has an annual turnover of more than £10m, has ended its 12-year lease at the centre “to cope with growing demand”.
The company’s managing director Alan Sampson said: “As a company we had been with the Science Park for 12 years but I had personally been there since 1987 having formerly worked at Matra and Automatix.
“We had previously expanded within the Park but now we have outgrown it. This office has 30 staff but we also do a lot of in-house training and have 15 to 20 customers coming in each day, so that uses a lot of space.
“We are taking on new staff all the time to help facilitate our rapid growth and we were finding that we had less and less space."
He added that the company aimed to double its £10m turnover in the next three to five years.
Solid Solutions has six other offices across the UK.
