It is amazing to think the business started in the era of IBM Golfball typewriters and carbon paper. A fax machine was a novelty (being a Yorkshireman I naturally refused to buy a telex). We had computers but no network or email and sent disks with RNS announcements to the Stock Exchange Couriers - hundreds of them sitting in rank leathers waiting for the magical envelopes; The Friday Night Drop. A very different world.

Now we've learnt to email, text, tweet and poke each other. The tools of communication have changed radically.

25 years seems an age and happily we look and feel younger than we are......I am immensely proud and feel very lucky to have worked with some fascinating clients, many of whom remain firm friends, and a great team which, by its nature, changes but which keeps several principles at its heart; Integrity, hard work, creativity and having fun, all key attributes of this business.

David Haggie