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www.b4-business.com www.b4-business.com 101 100 B4 services Oxford Duplication Going Digital WRITTEN BY: ??????? ??????? PHOTOGRAPHY BY: STUDIO8 Cheryl Lee-Foulsham has worked hard to establish her digital duplication company as the leading business of its kind in Oxfordshire. She has now ‘gone digital’ in every aspect of her business and in this article she tells B4’s Richard Rosser how she has expanded her company’s range of digital services. “We are a more diverse digital media company now. The last couple of editorials we have run in B4 have been about disc & USB duplication and all format tape transfers, but we are now able to offer a complete digital media experience. “I have been working on this for the last six months and we are now able to offer four clear digital services: film, video, audio and scanning - so four areas which are directly targeted to capture our clients.” The industrious Cheryl, also an accomplished ballroom dancer in her spare time, started the business in Kidlington eight years ago on a part time basis to coincide with supporting her then 5 year old daughter, Leiah. She developed the business over three years and then moved to full time when she moved into her new premises in Kidlington. “Alison Martin started with us in our 4th year and Leigh Taylor joined us in our 6th year to take over my job so I could focus on sales and marketing and also market the filming and archiving side of the business.” Over the past eight years, Cheryl has seen her customer base change as she has developed the corporate side of the business, although she still receives an increasing number of walk-ins which she puts down to ‘marketing her company wherever possible! “We are now attracting more corporate customers including The Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers Museums. We also work with Oxford University colleges and various other institutions. “There is a growing interest in the Digital Media Conversion services and although the disc side isn’t lagging behind, we are finding more clients are utilising the encoding, authoring and post production side of the business. I decided to expand this area and state that we can now offer everything on the digital media side.” “We believe we are now market leaders and have invested heavily in the business by purchasing all our own equipment which keeps our prices competitive and also ensures Leigh and Alison get as varied a range of work as possible. This enables us to keep all the work in house.” “The audio and video post production side of the business is going very well, particularly the complicated jobs that we are very good at, and produce a good end product. Tusk Trust and Strategies for Hope are larger clients of ours and we have also done work for Cotswold Wildlife Park. There’s not much we can’t turn our hand to - even data recovery.” Film CINE 8mm, 9.5mm & 16mm formats, 35mm film, all format family tape conversions and professional formats. Video Duplication, video editing and post production, DVD authoring, restoration and transcription services. Audio CD duplication, restoration services, audio tape conversions, CD authoring, vinyls, reels and professional audio tape formats. Scan Slides and negatives, glass plate scanning, acetates, transparencies, aperture cards, microfiche, microfilm, photographs, documents and archive scanning solutions. “Some of the glass plate slides we are working with date back to 1907 and are our specialty and I particularly love this format.” “Tape transfer is a very busy part of the business and we are moving more into conversion to digital formats. We are guiding clients into having a digital format and having USB’s which can then be used on more current machine and televisions.” “The audio side has also increased greatly - all work is done in house. We prepare audio restoration, enhancement, transcription and conversion. Many corporate and archive companies are interested in this service including University clients. We have converters which can deal with this specialised service and Leigh excels in this format”. This is combined with our Disc duplication & printing services which Alison oversees – “We regularly prepare batches of CD, DVD and USB’s, including data loading for a number of companies. We do a lot of work for the music scene in Oxfordshire and the surrounding areas, and offer discounts to musicians and educational bodies. Much of our work involves data inputting for clients onto USB’s” The passion that Cheryl shows for her business is obvious and she admits that “It’s a fun business and we love every aspect of it. We are keen to move to the next step and have the team who are more than capable of taking us there. With the business growth and expertise of my staff, I am now able to do much more, especially visiting both potential and existing customers”. “We have regular staff meetings that enables us to discuss the future structure of the business, and this has developed a ‘team spirit’ which makes our company more efficient and capable of dealing with every clients needs - So please get in touch if you have any digital requirements – we are here to help.” [email protected] 01865 457 000 www.theduplicationcentre.co.uk CONTACT DETAILS “ We believe we are now market leaders and have invested heavily in the business by purchasing all our own equipment which keeps our prices competitive and also ensures Leigh and Alison get as varied a range of work as possible. This enables us to keep all the work in house ” Cheryl Lee-Foulsham, Oxford Duplication Centre
