Paris Organization Considered Exchange: Mustang Marine
Mustang Marine Finance Director Lucas Boissevain valued the opportunity to meet top enterprise thinkers throughout his HSBC Believed Exchange to Paris. 
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Mustang Marine is a single of the regional finalists in the HSBC Business Considering initiative.
The firm is a ship repair and new create company, specialising in vessels ranging from 8m-40m.
It has a turnover of £6.5m and 84 employees primarily based at Pembroke Dock in Wales, exporting to markets such as Pakistan, Kenya and China.
Mustang Marine has built up its turnover from just £600,000 in 1998 and expects it to enhance to £8m this yr.
Lucas Boissevain writes:
What are my impressions of Paris and the company possibilities as a outcome of my time on this Thought Exchange?
Properly, Paris is always a great place to be. In terms of business opportunities France is a hard industry. We have enquiries operating in France but they are usually centred around the ports.
However from a procurement viewpoint we developed some interesting contacts inside the skilled providers world which will serve us nicely going forward.
I have come away with three specific learnings from the Exchange.
The initial is the significance of details and investigation and the big difference in between quantitative and qualitative analysis, although the 2nd considerations the capacity to use these techniques to boost strategic planning in corroborating managements qualitative predications.
Thirdly, I was impressed with the entry to important choice-makers afforded by investigation organisations
As for what can Britain learn from France, I’m afraid that I wasn’t in the country extended adequate to kind an view.
My only observation is that France’s 35-hour functioning week would appear to be a major constraint to business.
As for how this new organization contemplating will aid me run my company much better and build growth possibilities, the Paris Thought Exchange helped me stage out of the business into a rarefied globe of top business thinkers.
The keynote speakers supplied me with the stimulus as to how to move my enterprise forward specifically in establishing my relationships with banking specialists and company research companies.
Seeing how major firms produce their investigation programmes and the value this adds opened my eyes as to the likely to achieve the up coming stage change we need to consider our business forward.