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We are eight years old today - amazing to think back to those times when we first started and how far we’ve come. Even more exciting is the future.

For those of you who don’t know the story, we have had quite a ride when you look back:

• 1998 - Working under a staircase - Rob and Craig - running out to answer the phone because young children were in the house playing and being noisy (one of these children has just turned 11!). One computer, one car, one phone - "Rob, one day we’ll have our own network and you will have your own computer"
• 1999 - Our first employee Jon (who only recently left after relocation). By then we had moved from the staircase, into Craig’s mum’s spare bedroom, then into a lovely office above a Vets Surgery.
• 2000 - By now we had picked up a bit of speed doing work for Toshiba, Pavilion Housing and had invested our first big money into digital print.
• 2001 - After taking on more people we moved to our current location and into Unit K of Loddon Business Centre in Basingstoke. More work, more expenses, more fun!
• 2002 - More work and more people as we began to grow, also taking the first forays into web design. Definitely being taken more seriously and not as a couple of fly-by-nights.
• 2003 - Bursting out of Unit K, we have to move into Unit E, where we start to have some space to move again. This little start-up also begins to grow-up as Jacqui Sanwell joins (later to become Operations Director). She soon whips us into shape.
• 2004 - More work, winning new business, especially in the housing and local government sector working for some big, big authorities, including a big win of the Haringey People Magazine for Haringey Borough Council.
• 2005 - Time for a little more growth as we buy local design agency True Colours and go about integrating the two businesses together. Again, we had to look at more space which created the Unit D sandwich as we took on Unit C with ECS in between.
• 2006 - We turn eight! We have our best ever year as the integration (and costs involved) begin to settle. With a great all round team, we have become a lean, mean, design and marketing machine.
• 2007 and beyond - Watch this space!

Happy Birthday to The Escape and a big thank you to everyone has helped get us this far - Escapees, Customers and Suppliers, even the bank!

Thank you!!