IF Dragonfly Acoustics Ltd was now to measure the silence from the prophets of doom who once noisily warned the business about starting in the teeth of a recession, it would be off the scale.
The acoustics and environmental consultancy launched three years ago by its managing director Chris Chittock, 32, has now grown too big for its Cawood base and moved with five staff (and counting) into a new HQ at The Ironworks in Ousegate, Selby.
Armed with a contract involving the Aquatic Centre at the 2012 Olympic Village plus increasing business relating to the noise effects of proposed wind turbines as part of a growing portfolio of advising developers on noise and vibration when designing properties, Chris is pitching for the Small Business Of The Year category in The Press Business Awards 2011.
Chris, a finalist in the Young Entrepreneur Of The Year category in the 2008 awards, says he was able to silence the sneerers by maintaining a very high level of personal service and by extending his firm’s activities into other areas of specialist environmental and occupational testing, including dust and vibration monitoring.
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