Business Partner A2 3.1.1

[Music] postmark is a company based in London it sells quality cards and gifts a Cambridge Satchel company makes and sells bags these are their stories [Music] my name is Leona Jansen Smith and I am a director at postmark who started the business my husband Mark started the business in 2004. he wanted to sell really good quality cards at a great price after two years in 2006 the annual turnover was approximately a hundred and twenty thousand pounds last year it was approximately 1. 3 million pounds how many stores and how many employees do you have we now have four stores and employed 24 people postmark hired Morgan Dudley as head of operations in 2015.

Morgan has a lot of experience in sales Leona thinks this was an important decision for the business Morgan helped them to expand the business my name is Morgan today I studied fashion design in South Africa from 2003 to 2006. when did you arrive in the UK and what did you do I arrived in the UK in 2008 and I started as a sales assistant when did you join postmark I joined postmark in 2013 I started as a sales associate and then I managed a store and then I moved on to head of operations I love the small business environment Leona and Mark really look after their team and you're allowed a lot of flexibility my name is Julie Dean I created the Cambridge Central company I started the company in 2008 with 600 pounds four years later the company was valued at 40 million pounds when I started Cambridge Satchel there were Brown Bags dark brown bags and black bags but we then moved in to a range of different colors I decided to start a factory in 2011.