Avalon Managing Director, Phil Boyce, was recently interviewed for a Sunday Times article on the effect the Olympics is having on local businesses.
From article:
Phil Boyce is one businessman already reaping the rewards of an Olympic contract. Turnover has quadrupled since his Essex firm, Avalon Abseiling, won a deal to help build the velodrome in 2008.
The 13-year-old company uses abseiling techniques to carry out construction and other services in difficult locations. When he heard that craftsmen were needed to install a complex lighting design in the velodrome ceiling, he was keen to get involved.
“We were put on a world stage. That sort of exposure is invaluable,” he said.
Boyce, 43, has doubled his staff since getting the Olympic contract and seen turnover shoot up. It jumped from £2.7m in 2010 to £4m last year and he predicts more than £8m in 2012.
British Gas signed up the company last November to install insulation in high-rise buildings across the country. The Olympics played a big part in that deal, Boyce believes. “Bigger businesses will put trust in you if you have a good track record.”
