Entrepreneurs
GLOUCESTERSHIRE'S
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Freemans Event Partners Stephen Freeman jr Gloucester
Judges described Mr Freeman as a serial entrepreneur. “He has helped take the firm on in leaps and bounds. He saw the need for a wholesaler and set it up,” said one judge. “The company is constantly evolving and investing in different things”. Freemans Event Partners has now been supporting
events in the UK for four decades. Its services centres around food and drink provision. But in a sign of how innovative it has become, it also offers a full range of technology and IT services for event goers and concessionaires, including mobileWi-Fi, EPOS and contactless payment methods. From a couple of outlets, it has grown to a business that reaches over 15 million people each year at over 400 events l
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Tom and Rob Lister Lister Unified Communications Stonehouse
Of the family whose name will forever be associated with the famous diesel engine, the brothers branched out in business themselves nearly two decades ago. Rob, who had trained as an accountant with Ernst & Young and worked as a salesman for Lombard Leasing, bought out the customer facing arm of a Gloucestershire telecommunications business. Equally entrepreneurial brother Tom - at the time a 50:50 partner in the Severn &Wye Smokery at Chaxhill – bought in too and
the pair became partners in what became Lister Unified Communications. Endlessly innovating in a market which never stands still and always looking at how it operates, with an incredible knowledge of their market, the pair have grown the business organically, through acquisition, great staff and sheer hard work l
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