Operational highlights
- Maintaining and growing business with existing clients – Shell and Unilever chose to set up global preferred supplier agreements with Tessella. This has enabled Tessella to work for these organisations across a wider range of their sites.
- New clients – A major systems integrator in the defence industry, IAEA, Wellcome Library among others selected to work with Tessella over the financial year.
- IP bank – Tessella increased its IP bank, resulting in the reduction of cost and risk for future projects, thereby increasing our competitiveness.
- New brand to reflect consulting capability – A strategic objective was to develop our consulting capability. During the period the board undertook to refresh the company’s brand to reflect the revised market positioning.
- Market leading offerings – Tessella now has dedicated, world-renowned experts leading the development of adaptive clinical trials and digital archiving preservation service offerings.
- Recruiting and retaining top scientific talent – The numbers of science graduates is predicted to reduce in coming years, increasing the scarcity value for onshore resources. Tessella has successfully retained and recruited top scientific talent as witnessed by our low staff attrition rate and high applicant to advert ratio. In our annual staff survey, 88% of staff said they would recommend a career at Tessella to their friends and 89% would choose Tessella again if they had a job choice to make.
- New headquarters to handle expansion – Tessella leased 10,000 sq ft at The Quadrant, Abingdon Science Park to respond to the continued growth of the business.
