00:00Hi, my name is Nadim Raza. I'm the CEO for Microlyse Group PLC. We're a £18 million
00:17business listed on the aid market in the London Stock Exchange and we provide solutions to large
00:25logistics companies to help them run their operations more effectively. So that's the
00:31likes of retailers like Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrison's, Asta, etc. As well as companies
00:37doing other forms of logistics like DHL, DPD and people in the pharmaceutical industry like Boots
00:47and AH and we help them deliver those goods in the most efficient way possible using
00:55all of their assets which could be tens of thousands of drivers, thousands of vehicles,
01:00thousands of traders and so on. As I mentioned earlier we've turned over about 80 million.
01:08We're growing at a rate of about 10 to 15 percent organically and we're really excited about what
01:16logistics sees in the future so that the industry is under enormous pressure to deliver more goods
01:26more quickly with less cost and less emissions and that's really about continuing to drive those
01:35efficiencies across the industry. And of course we're in a great place in the UK because we're a small
01:44island with a higher population and unfortunately poor roads so we have to be good at logistics
01:51but the international opportunities are really exciting and we're growing rapidly through our offices
02:00in Australia and France but we only see that as the tip of the iceberg. We're continuing to grow and
02:09expand our geographical footprint across Europe and of course in the near future into North America.
02:18So the other areas where we can use our technology is really to monitor remote assets.
02:25So wherever there is something that is remote or is mobile and you need to be able to get information
02:33from it to be able to look after that. So for example things like generators that are on remote sites,
02:43things like all sorts of different vehicles. We do a lot of things for the military for example in
02:49monitoring equipment that they have in different places, even things as simple as car park gates,
02:57monitoring how they're being used, whether they are continuing to work and whether they need any
03:02service or maintenance carrying out on those. So looking at all sorts of products whether it's
03:07turbines, generators or anything that's mobile that has an engine or some electronics on it that needs
03:16monitoring we can collect that data and turn that into information so that whoever is having to provide
03:24maintenance on that on that equipment can do that in a really effective way. So we're a high tech business
03:33we obviously write software and that's the major part of the business but we also design and produce
03:39hardware and of course we run our own data centers so we have the need for a wide variety of
03:46technical skills and it's skills that you don't just learn at university. So we bring in people, we
03:55train them, put them through boot camps and even if they've been here for 10 years we encourage
04:02lifelong learning to develop those skills because it's a major part of the requirements that we have
04:09as a business to continue to grow is really bringing on board all of those skills, keeping them up to date
04:16and obviously trying to encourage those people to stay with us for the long term.
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