Goldman Sachs launched the 10,000 Small Businesses UK programme to identify businesses and social enterprises with high growth potential and to equip them to grow and build a plan to create jobs in their communities.
The programme is designed by leading experts and run in partnership with the business schools of the universities of Oxford (Said Business School), Aston (Aston Centre for Growth), Leeds, Manchester Met and UCL. The programme regularly produces reports demonstrating its impact, and contributing to key debates such as Brexit by surveying the views of its alumni.
IE Brand is the design partner for these reports, creating open, clean documents with timeless typography and understated elegance. We use innovative data visualisation techniques and craft beautiful infographics to walk the fine line between an academic paper and an accessible, visually engaging report.
When the first Progress Report launched at the 10KSB UK Alumni Conference, attended by 500 programme participants, it appeared 24 hours later in the business pages of The Times newspaper.
The 10KSB Programme is a key project to the university partners responsible for its delivery, so it was essential we appointed an agency that really understood our ethos and core aims. IE Brand inspired confidence in all of the delivery partners and proved the perfect choice. Their innovative, consultative approach combined with creative excellence was really refreshing.Mark Hart
Programme Director and Academic Lead, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses