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Close Voted Top Dog at Business Moneyfacts Awards 2006

Close Invoice Finance was crowned Best Factoring & Invoice Discounting Provider for the second time at the prestigious Business Moneyfacts Awards 2006. The Award was formally made on the 24th February at an official ceremony in London.

Commenting on this achievement, David Thomson, CEO, said, “I am delighted for the whole team. The company has been through significant change and development over the last couple of years and winning such an important award reflects the hard work of everyone involved. I’m sure that this will prove to be a strong foundation for the business to continue to go from strength to strength.”

David continued, “When you start to bring change management into any business as we did a couple of years ago, its always slow burn. What we have effectively done is shock treat the business, changing the Board structure, repositioning the senior management teams, knocking down the barriers and making everything inter-related right across the CIF brand. So winning this award now is a reflection of the success of our change programme. The award also supports some of our own independent research that placed us top for service as compared to our key competitors.”

Looking ahead, in order to ensure it continues to win high profile awards, the plan is for CIF to offer an innovative approach to products encompassing the life cycle of a client. The priority is to have a range of products that meet all of a clients development stages. Close also intends to continue to be more innovative and less risk averse.

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