About Exemplas
Exemplas is a highly regarded business, skills and economic development company with a proven track record of delivering innovative and sustainable results for its many clients, both nationally and internationally.
It is particularly successful in managing major UK government and public sector contracts but also has extensive international clients and operates in over 20 countries. For a number of years Exemplas has run the UK government’s SME support programme in two of the largest regions in the country under the Business Link brand, managing €140 million worth of contracts. Business Link centres serve as a ‘one-stop-shop’ of information and guidance provision on a vast array of business support area, targeting export and investment development, FDI attraction, SME financing, marketing and quality certification for SMEs. Today, Exemplas’ Business Links support some 165,000 SME clients per year, and created approximately 3300 businesses and 5000 jobs from start up business. As a result, Exemplas is recognised as the best performing member of the Business Link network, with 91.6% customer satisfaction.
With the University of Hertfordshire as majority shareholder, Exemplas has unrivalled access to some of the country’s leading business experts and academic thinkers.
This has enabled Exemplas to establish a reputation for providing creative solutions to challenging issues and, as a result, Exemplas has been recognised as one of the UK’s 100 most visionary organisations and one of Europe’s 500 fastest growing companies, winning a number of prestigious awards.
With headquarters in Hatfield and offices in central London, Exemplas is ideally situated to deliver consultancy services internationally across a range of business areas, including access to finance, business capacity development, quality management, standardisation, environmental, export and accreditation of training and consultancy services.
Exemplas has successfully delivered a wide range of European and UK funded programmes – as both partner and project implementer.
As well as structural funds (ERDF and ESF), this has included Community Initiatives, EuropeAid projects, Lifelong Learning Programmes and Interreg Programmes in areas such as Understanding Finance for Business, High Growth Business Support, Employability and Franchising Development
Over the past seven years, Exemplas has participated in a number of high-profile international donor-funded development projects and worked extensively in transition economies across the globe, at every level, from national policy development through to individual capacity building and the delivery of skills development training programmes.