Online pet food retailer hopes to become top dog thanks to UWSP

PetShop.co.uk is an online pet food retailer which sells a wide variety of branded products for many different pets ranging from dogs and cats to birds and other small animals, and offers a monthly pet food delivery subscription service. The company was founded in 2010 by husband and wife Alexandra and Adam Taylor. Adam is […]

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Blog – CWLEP Chair Sarah Windrum on Science Park support

Coventry and Warwickshire is blessed by having two entrepreneurial universities – and I say that not only as chair of the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership (CWLEP), but also as a business owner. My firm The Emerald Group – an IT company based in Leamington Spa – has first-hand knowledge and experience of how […]

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Meet the Team – Andy

  Job title: Blythe Valley Innovation Centre Manager How long have you been at UWSP? I joined in August 2019 – so just coming up to two years with the University of Warwick Science Park. What did you do prior to joining UWSP? I’ve done lots of things previously. For the greater part of my […]

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Ready to Return?

Ian McFarlane-Toms, Programme Manager, Business Ready at the University of Warwick Science Park, looks at how companies reacted to the Covid pandemic – and the challenges they face as restrictions are lifted. We are now less than three weeks away from the next milestone in the relaxation of the measures against the pandemic and that […]

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How UWSP helped my mortuary business go global

  Former police officer Simon Rothwell recently sold his unique mortuary business, Flexmort, after 11 years of successfully growing the business. His firm has designed numerous mortuary products with a range of uses, from single body cooling systems to large scale mortuaries and counts various governments, emergency services and hospitals around the world as customers. […]

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Meet the UWSP Team – Alex

Job title: Head of Minerva, Business Angels. How long have you been at UWSP? I’ve been with Minerva for three years, and just before that, I’d worked on the Business Ready programme. What did you do prior to joining UWSP? It depends on how far back we want to go! I originally studied chemistry at […]

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Specialist Coventry company finds new home

  An independent Coventry company that specialises in road safety and traffic management has moved into new offices after adapting to new ways of working. For more than three decades TMS Consultancy has been working nationwide on a variety of schemes from small residential projects to major motorway schemes. Since it was first established, the […]

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Calling for Startups and SMEs – Accelerate your business with 5RRING

5PRING, UK’s first commercial 5G application accelerator has launched the Smart Cities Accelerator in May and the application is almost coming to a close (25th June). Startups and SMEs with 5G-enabled solutions that leverage capabilities such as augmented reality, virtual reality, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and edge computing are strongly encouraged to apply. “5G […]

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How Global Nano Network is helping to create greener batteries

Ravi Daswani, CEO of Global Nano Network and his team moved to offices at University of Warwick Science Park in January 2021 – much later than planned due to COVID – and is aiming to develop ‘green’ battery components using sustainable materials which are kinder to the environment. His firm moved to UWSP’s Venture Centre […]

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