Altamira

Over the years since Altamira (Yorkshire) Ltd was formed in 2009 the business has made a great many connections with a wide variety of businesses. Every once in a while a meeting with one business triggers a thought about another one you met, perhaps many years ago, and possible synergies between the two businesses. Once such example occurred in late March 2016. For the last three or four years we have been involved in the delivery of the onlincolnshire business support programme through our associate CDI Alliance Ltd. During the course of delivering the programme we met in Boston an IT Specialist - Joseph Daft - who went on to become Head of IT for UK and Ireland at Grimme in Swineshead. With over 150 types of machines, Grimme offer the most comprehensive and widest product range in the potato, beet and vegetable technology. In the vegetable technology Grimme and their subsidiary ASA-LIFT build a variety of innovative machinery around the harvest of onions, beetroot, carrots, leeks, chives, celery, fennel, peas, lettuce, etc. Going back over 10 years Altamira's MD Richard Lukey has worked with Epitomy Solutions and their MD Andrew Vernon in Sheffield. Epitomy was founded in 2000, bringing to market a solution based around the systematic databasing of complex mechanical parts combined with online ordering and parts identification. Over the years, they have expanded their initial automotive focus to encompass other industries where complex mechanical goods are provided to end users through a traditional tiered distribution network. Winning contracts with clients like E P Barrus, Hayter, Belle Engineering and others expanded their domain expertise into sectors from marine power and lawn and garden to light construction equipment, industrial engines, and more. Whilst involved with Epitomy working on a market research project it became increasingly apparent that there were remarkable similarities between the work Joe does at Grimme and the Andrew does at Epitomy. So at the end of March 2016 a meeting was arranged at Grimme's UK Head Office at Swineshead just off the A17 close to Boston in Lincolnshire. The meeting between Joe and Andrew has identified a number of mutually beneficial opportunities around information sharing and software development which could in time provide a useful collaborative platform for both businesses. At Altamira we are always looking for opportunities to connect successful businesses who we know can reliably deliver a quality service competitively priced. It's an added benefit of working with us on more traditional business support-type projects.