Employees surprise business founder with a special anniversary party

Thornton & Lowe is celebrating ten years of helping clients across the UK win more contracts through the provision of sector leading bid and tender support services.

To mark the milestone the team of employees secretly organised and surprised the founder of the business, Dave Thornton, with a special event held at their head office in Bolton.

Since the business was formed in 2009, it has enjoyed organic growth to a directly employed core team of twenty two professionals split across 3 key bid divisions; Bid Writing, Bid Resource and Bid Training.

Chris Turner, Bid Designer at Thornton & Lowe, who led the celebrations, said

“We all agreed we couldn’t let 10 years pass by without celebrating so we decided to jump on it quickly, before Dave had time to think about it. We wanted to say thank you to Dave and the senior team for their passion and employee-centric attitude that empowers us.”

Over the last 10 years Thornton & Lowe has assisted on some of the most high-profile public sector procurement deals that have secured billions of contracts for their clients. Starting in Bolton the team has now expanded nationally with offices across the UK.

Most recently, the business has launched its second innovative software solution, Tender Pipeline, to help organisations search for specific contracts and create relevant tender alerts. This follows the successful release of Tender Library, a bid management tool, which was initially developed 6 years ago for the Bid Team at Thornton & Lowe.

Founder and Director Dave Thornton, believes the firm’s success over the last ten years can largely be attributed to the hard work and passion of the team who continue to live and breathe the business's values.

He said

“We have always had a single focus with our vision and values firmly rooted in everything we do. It’s with the team’s hard work and commitment that we continue to strive towards our mission. Our business is also built on partnerships, trust and long term relationships, which has given us the opportunity to continue to maximise our clients’ success.

“We’re incredibly proud to be celebrating 10 years in business and I’d like to thank the team for their continued efforts, and their secret party planning! It’s been an exciting journey so far and looking ahead to the next decade we will simply continue to live our mission; to deliver a professional service, secure contracts for our clients and develop our staff ahead of our competition.”

Thornton & Lowe was founded in 2009 and over the past 10 years has developed a 360 bid management function to support clients large and small to ‘bid better’. With a success rate of over 70% the company strives to provide consistency, reliability and to build longstanding partnerships with clients.

For more information visit www.thorntonandlowe.com