Enterprise Thinking London winner: ES-KO International
ES-KO Worldwide has been picked as a regional winner for London in the HSBC Organization Pondering initiative. 
Following its nomination as a London regional finalist and Believed Exchange check out to the UAE, ES-KO Worldwide has been declared a regional winner in the HSBC Organization Considering initiative.
Request Roger Smith how important exports are to ES-KO Worldwide and he’ll inform you that exports are the organization.
Indeed, ES-KO, which has been operating for much more than 50 many years, exports everything it does – but not to the normal business locations.
From Afghanistan to South Sudan, Angola, Haiti and East Timor, the firm’s exports of meals, clothes and modular constructions for housing go to some of the world’s most remote and demanding territories.
With 70 personnel in Surrey, Monaco and Genoa, and about two,000 in field operations, ES-KO supplies logistics assistance companies for organisations including the United Nations, for which it gives 4.5 million meals a month. It strategies to expand with the help of its award of lending of up to £6m and a financial reward of up to £120,000 right after turning into a London regional winner of HSBC’s Organization Thinking programme.
Mr Smith, financial director, says: “I am shocked truly. It feels great. I am quite proud for my organization and for our folks and the support they’ve given me. Frankly, I am just coming to terms with it.”
He says the cash would be spent purchasing a financial merchandise to cap curiosity on loans it plans to get out and on promotions and advertising.
“It’s a fragmented market that we’re serving and our notion is odd,” he says. “We have a business but we’re also making an attempt to be anything adjacent a kind of outsourcing in the humanitarian non-governmental organisation and aid sector but at a profit.
“Aid and profit really don’t go with each other nicely but we offer a professionalism and expense-competitiveness that permits us to make the requisite return but to give a item that lasts.”
ES-KO has a turnover of about £150m, operates in 22 countries and is prospecting for organization in Libya and Iraq.
“All our business is export to hostile and difficult places, and our buyers are the UN, NGOs and oil and gasoline businesses – any individual who functions in odd areas,” says Mr Smith.
“We operate exactly where there is basically no infrastructure or transport routes. Two thirds of the business is meals. We do not do medication but I consider that is the following stage: schools, dispensaries, aid centres and blood centres, I see the possibility.
“The large companies do it themselves but we feel that we can do it in a a lot more professional, much more value-efficient and a lot more lengthy-lasting way at a tiny profit.”