Turnover: £27m (+64%)
Pre-tax profits: Approx. £900,000 (+350%)
Sector: Travel
Based: London
University friends Ross Marshall and Andrew Harding founded Your Golf Travel after graduating. The duo used their industry contacts to set up the golf packages business, financed by credit cards and their own ‘limited savings’. The company boasts a high recurring booking rate, with 51 per cent of people who booked with them in 2009 doing so again in 2010.
Data capture technology is now helping to target customers. With the launch of a couple of sister companies, SpaBreaks.com and RacingBreaks.com, the focus is on building those brands and marketing the group of companies. Marshall observes, ‘Now our technology is more sophisticated, the future of our business is going to be technologically driven.’
