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Dec 2023

Last Updated: 13/12/2023

Business

Business Breakfast: Care equipment firm to move away from Harrogate

by John Grainger

| 13 Dec, 2023

The Vivid Care team: (l to r) Braden Frizelle, marketing manager; Tristan Hulbert, managing director; George Hulbert, sales director; and Graham Oliver, commercial director.

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The owners of a Harrogate-based care equipment specialist have announced plans to move its offices away from the town.

Vivid Care said its decision to move away from Linkside House on Forest Lane Head to new premises at Thorp Arch, near Wetherby, is part of a strategic change of direction for the family-run business.

Vivid Care supplies specialist seating, care beds, falls response devices and mobility equipment, and is part of the CoreCare Group. It will be moving its Harrogate showroom to an appointment-only showroom at Thorp Arch at the end of the year. Vivid Care's employees will join colleagues at the new site from CoreCare Group sister companies, including Innova Care Concepts, Dependall Logistics, and Aquadapt Home Installations.

The current retail showroom in Harrogate will close on December 21, and the new appointment-only showroom will open at Rofta House, Thorp Arch on January 2, with retail sales continuing online.

Formerly Yorkshire Care Equipment, Vivid Care has 50 years of experience in supporting the NHS and care organisations to provide independence and enhance the lives of those with care needs. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the team worked closely with colleagues at sister company Innova Care Concepts to help the NHS with the setup of the Nightingale Hospitals.

Managing director Tristan Hulbert said:

“It’s the right time to enact the next stage of our strategic plan to move our offices to be in our group headquarters in Wetherby.

“As part of this move, the head office building is undergoing new investments with a refurbished office, new video conferencing facilities, a redesigned canteen, and a new state-of-the-art showroom.

“It will allow us to continue our growth in supporting our NHS, reduce our carbon footprint, and promote further collaboration across the CoreCare Group as a whole.

“We’d like to thank all our loyal Harrogate customers for their custom over the past 27 years, and look forward to welcoming them by prebooked appointment to our new space in Wetherby in the new year.”

Phone-to-walkie-talkie firm announces deal

Mobile Tornado, the Harrogate business whose push-to-talk over cellular (PTToC) technology can turn mobile phones into walkie-talkies, has announced a reseller agreement with Hampshire-based Foresolutions.

Foresolutions provides integrated technologies for workforces in the aviation, construction and infrastructure sectors.

Nathan Williams, managing director of Foresolutions, said:

“We like Mobile Tornado’s technology because it is easy to use, has exceptionally low latency and is feature rich. It has superb options for lone workers and emergency situations. It fits perfectly with our ethos of offering our customers a ‘single plane of glass’ that has multiple applications.

“We are seeing more and more organisations adopt push-to-talk over cellular for critical communications as mobile networks become stronger and stronger. More than eight out of 10 premises in the UK are now able to access 5G. We are also seeing increasing take-up in aviation – the main ground-handling crew at one of Europe’s busiest airports has been using PTToC for the last year.”

Foresolutions was founded in 1979 and is a family-owned business with clients across the UK.

Andrew McNamara, channel sales manager at Mobile Tornado, said:

“We are excited to be joining forces with Foresolutions, a long-established provider with a blue-chip customer base. We are looking forward to working together to help more UK organisations increase safety, reduce costs, boost productivity and improve efficiency among their workforces.

“We totally support Foresolutions’ ‘single pane of glass’ ethos. Today’s users have expectations about what a single device should be able to do and don’t want to be saddled with lots of different devices for different applications in challenging operating environments.”

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