Case Study: Bott

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Bott introduction
Bott is a private limited company owned by a German company, the company specialises in making stationary and vehicle storage solutions at a reasonable price but with much better quality than other competitors. Bott have a strong reputation for making high quality products at a decent price, although you may pay more for the products from Bott they are specialised and much better quality than a product from one of their competitors such as listers.

What does Bott do?
Bott makes various products such as cabinets for the workplace and in built cabinets into working vehicles such as bomb disposal,BT open reach vans and for fire vehicles.
They mostly make storage trolleys but they do rack fittings and floors for vehicles.

Bott
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Vehicle Conversions
There are around 480 customers for this type of installation the vehicle conversion can range from a bomb disposal unit to a BT van.

Locations
Bott is located all over Europe and also expands out to Russia,There are three main locations in the uk
Workplace storages are located at:
Address:
Unit 1
Bude Stratton Business park
Bude
Cornwall
Ex28 8ly
United Kingdom

Van racking and specialist vehicles in England are located at:
Address:
9 tournament way
Ivanhoe industrial estate ashby de la zouch
Lecicestershire
Le65 2UU
United Kingdom

Van racking and specialist vehicles in scotland and northern ireland are located in:
Address:
14 tollpark place
Wardpark industrial estate cumbernauld north lanarkshire g68 0ln
United kingdom

Business Ownership
Bott is a private limited company which means the shares cannot be sold to the public.The advantages of it being a private limited company is that it has limited liability, this means if the company experiences financial downfall because of normal business activity, the personal assets of shareholders will not be at the risk of being seized by creditors.The minimum number of of shareholders to start the business is only
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Although bott's product is not as cheap as a product from IKEA or anywhere like that, the product from bott is much better engineered and is specially made for the kind of vehicle as oppose to just being a separate unit.
Bott also aim to get £35m turnover for 2014 in previous years they have made £28-£29m turnover they may accomplish this turnover because the uk is currently coming out of the recession, if bott do not accomplish their aim for the £35m turnover they will surely accomplish it in 2-3 years time due to the ever closer boom that will happen.

Objectives Definition

They want to supply and sell static and mobile workplaces for their customers in the most efficient way they can. Bott tries to ensure great ergonomic solutions whatever the workplace is whether it is a static workplace or a vehicle conversion, they aim their products to be safe and cause no harm at all.
They try to design products that are influenced by the economy and the social aspect of the workplace whether it is for a bt van or for a car

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