Company of the Year: Telecom Plus

Company of the Year: Telecom Plus

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By any measure, a FTSE 250 business that is doubling revenues annually is remarkable; to be doing so in the utility sector, by definition mature, is all the more astonishing, writes Ross Tieman .

Clearly, Telecom Plus, winner of the Company of the Year award, has found an original and effective business model.

The company, where Charles Wigoder, the chief executive, and his family and friends acquired control in 1998, six months after its foundation, is unique in the UK market in offering mobile and fixed telephony, broadband and gas and electricity services to its customers on a single bill.
It does not advertise. Rather, new households are recruited to its Utility Warehouse Discount Club by a network of more than 4,000 distributors who are existing users.

These word-of-mouth customer ambassadors receive a tiny percentage of the bills paid by every new customer they recruit, in perpetuity, so retain a strong interest in ensuring ongoing customer satisfaction.
Their task is facilitated by a string of plaudits from consumer watchdog magazine Which? which says Telecom Plus is the best household provider of broadband, fixed telephony and energy in the UK.

It buys bulk telecoms capacity at wholesale prices in an oversupplied market and gets its energy from producer Npower, under a deal that transfers the risk of price fluctuations to the provider. In addition, he company supplies businesses, mainly small companies, brought in by its distributors.
It benefits from a tougher economic climate in several ways, says Mr Wigoder. "Many casual jobs no longer exist, overtime opportunities are no longer there, work hours are reduced, so we are seeing record numbers of new distributors" looking to top up their income. Meantime, consumers are keener to grasp opportunities to shave household bills, and improve visibility over their outgoings.

In the year to March 2008, Telecom Plus, which is debt-free, achieved revenues of £186m and net profits of £11.9m. By September last year, it had 227,384 household customers, up 19,000 since end-March, and trends have since accelerated.

The latest spur comes from its CashBack MasterCard, a chargeable payment card which helps households economise. Using the card for purchases at retail chains such as J Sainsbury and Boots gives household a 5 per cent discount offset against their Telecom Plus bills.

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Taxation, VAT, Accountancy, Services

Former VAT auditor, with 25 years experience, offers VAT & accountancy services
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AN ADDED NOTE TO THIS: STARBUCKS HAD STORES ON SEVERAL MILITARY BASES IN THE UNITED STATES. THEY ARE NOW BEING REMOVED BECAUSE OF THIS.

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The only payment card that gives you an extra 5% savings on: food and fuel at Sainsbury's, as well as clothing, DIY, health and beauty products, household and electrical goods... at leading retailers throughout the UK!

Participating retailers include: Sainsbury's, Argos, Halfords, Homebase, JJB sports, Topman, Topshop, Waterstones....

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The Utility Warehouse offers one of the UK's best value broadband deals via their Broadcall service (combined broadband, line rental & calls), along with three competitive 'broadband only deals', which include free connection, no minimum contract, a free USB modem with the standard service (8Mbps broadband with a very adequate 40Gb cap) or a wireless router and USB adapter on the Max service (16Mbps unlimited broadband).

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More about Utility Warehouse broadcallBroadCall is available to all UK households with a BT phone line. To illustrate just what great value this represents, remember that BT charge most of their customers £12 per month just for line rental!There are 2 different prices for BroadCall depending on whether new equipment has been installed in your local BT exchange, a process known as Local Loop Unbundling or "LLU". If your local exchange has not yet been 'unbundled' and you connect to our BroadCall service, we'll check your local exchange every 6 months. If "LLU" has become available at that time, we will automatically reduce your monthly charges (as long as we have successfully transferred your line) to our lower "LLU" BroadCall prices.

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Location, Location, Location

Phil Spencer
I think that what is happening is that the press in general talks about 'the property market'. But there isn't just one property market - there are lots of property markets in different regions and in different towns. It's important to accept that there are different ones around the country, and that what is happening in yours may not be happening in someone else's in another part of the country. I've just read a feature in a newspaper that deals with new builds in the Midlands, and of course I feel sorry for people who have lost money in this particular story, but the sad fact is that they simply bought the wrong thing - there was a massive over-supply of the same types of property in that area.
The property columns seem to have become obituary columns but markets never stand still and there are opportunities in both upturns and downturns. Recent Halifax figures show house prices fell by an average of 2.5 per cent last month, the biggest fall in a single month since 1992. However, they went on to conclude that average prices were still 1.1 per cent higher than they were 12 months ago.
Many people are thinking about downsizing. Credit: Harry Penton
It is negative equity which forces home owners to sell and it is only when the numbers of forced sellers reach significant levels that a market actually crashes. Using data from 80 per cent of lenders, Experian estimate 8,000 people are already in difficulty and more than 23,000 would be in negative equity if prices fell by 10 per cent. A 20 per cent fall would mean 78,394. Given that there are around 14.5 million owner-occupiers in the UK - I do not believe these numbers would bring about the type of market collapse being hyped up in the press. Yes - there will be pain felt in certain sectors, but it is by a relatively small number of people.
Conditions have been shifting on a fortnightly basis and the market is incredibly polarised; different postcodes and price brackets behave quite independently from one another. It is therefore impossible for mainstream press articles to offer more than an idea of general trend. Without a clear understanding of how each of the various statistics are collated, the relevance to your circumstances, and from which stage in the transaction process they refer to, the information is of limited use.
It always surprises me and my colleagues at Garringtonwhen the market softens that so many people trading upwards fail to see a potential drop in price as a relative one, which can be more than recouped by purchasing under similar conditions. But that is precisely what 'sentiment' is all about and the reason why it affects activity to such a great extent.
There are risks for all sectors and just as everyone is repricing risk in the financial markets - so they will try to do so in the property markets. As we head into the summer, only time will tell whether the slowdown becomes more entrenched.

The Telecom plus business opportunity

Welcome to an overview of the Telecom plus business opportunity.

Telecom plus is a major British Plc valued at over £150 million and operating within a fast expanding consumer driven market worth in excess of £20 billion.

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Whether you're seeking flexible home-based work, an additional profit centre for your business, a pension top-up or a complete change of direction that will pay you what you're really worth, Telecom plus may offer the solution.

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STONE CLOSE TEA ROOM&GUEST HOUSE
Main Street
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Stone Close is a 17th Century listed building, which was once two separate cottages. It has flagstone floor, cast iron ranges (with fires lit in cold weather) exposed beams and original fittings.

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SAVE AT THE OFFICE

SAVE AT THE OFFICE

The Utility Warehouse Discount Club for Business is operated by Telecom plus PLC, recently highlighted as Europe's "Top performing" Company by the influential European Business Magazine.

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