Anatune started trading on February 1st 1996.
The company has come a long way since then and has changed and developed very significantly.
These developments have been both planned and forced, often in ways that could not even have been imagined in 1996 - the explosive growth of the internet with the resultant changes to distribution and marketing being the most obvious.
The original vision was to create a company which would be more than a supplier of Chromotography equipment.
Real customer value was seen to come from combining both industry, scientific and application knowledge. The outcome of this combination was an emphasis upon solving problems and creating efficiency and effectiveness.
In the words of Ray Perkins MD and founder:
‘Our customers don't buy our products; instead they buy what our products can do. As a result, we focus on providing solutions rather than selling instruments’.
Today, this vision is still at the centre of the business never more so than in the work undertaken in the ‘in-house’ laboratory, soon to be doubled in capacity.
This laboratory is not seen then as a luxury. It is, in many ways, at the centre of the way the company ‘does business’.
Within any sector our customers tend to face similar challenges. It makes sense then for us to develop analytical technologies which solve more generic problem.
As a supplier of equipment from the world’s best and most trusted chromatography manufacturers, Anatune is uniquely placed to combine the best technologies available to solve problems. The company stresses the need to focus on data quality, robustness, reliability, simplicity, speed and cost per sample. In addition, where a solution is industry wide, Anatune, in partnership with its customers, strives to develop complete analytical methodologies. This way the costs are shared to the economic benefit of all.
The future is, of course, notoriously difficult to predict but for Anatune, the future will mean:
1. Continuing to combine science and technology to solve problems and produce tangible customer benefits.
2. Further investment in the ‘in-house’ laboratory facilities.
3. Continued free publication of the well respected laboratory application notes.
4. Continued research and development in Automation techniques for chromatography laboratories.
Anatune timeline:
1996 – Company starts trading from St John’s Innovation Centre Cambridge.
1998 – Company moves to present address in Hardwick.
1998 – CompanyOpens first Application Development Laboratory
1998 – Company appointed as Agilent Value Added Reseller
2001 – Company becomes fully independent following MBO.
2002 – Turnover more than doubles from previous year.
2003 – Company signs distribution agreement with GERSTEL.
2004 - Turnover nearly doubles from previous year.
2006 – Company strategy changes to embrace new web technologies.
2007 – Company launches anatune.org as chromatography resource site.
2008 – Company launches into HPLC market and doubles application laboratory resource.
Your contacts:
Ray Perkins - MD
ray.perkins@anatune.co.uk
Contact Ray to:
Bob Green - Technical Director and Regional Sales – North West England, Scotland and Northern Ireland
bob.green@anatune.co.uk
Contact Bob to:
Nick Bukowski - Technical Sales Engineer – North West England and Wales
nick.bukowski@anatune.co.uk
Contact Nick to:
John Damiral - Technical Sales Engineer – South East England
John.damiral@anatune.co.uk
Contact John to:
Keith Summerhill - Applications Chemist
keith.summershill@anatune.co.uk
Contact Keith to:
Jonathan Angove - Applications Chemist
Jonathan.angove@anatune.co.uk
Contact Jonathan to:
Simon McInulty - Service Engineer
simon.mcinulty@anatune.co.uk
Contact Simon to:
Matthew Carson - Service Manager
matthew.carson@anatune.co.uk
Contact Matthew to:
Andrew Davidson - Service Engineer
Andrew.davidson@anatune.co.uk
Contact Andrew to:
Keith Glyn-Baker - Service Engineer
Keith.glyn-baker@anatune.co.uk
Contact Glyn to:
Suzanne Nicholas - Office Manager
suzanne.nicholas@anatune.co.uk
Contact Suzanne to:
Sue Gilbert - Marketing Executive
susan.gilbert@anatune.co.uk
Contact Sue to:
Charlotte Bean - Internal Sales
charlotte.bean@anatune.co.uk
Contact Charlotte to:
Colin Willett - Marketing Consultant
colin.willett@anatune.co.uk
Contact Colin to:
James Wagland - IT Support
james.wagland@anatune.co.uk
Contact James to:
Paul Roberts - HPLC Application Chemist
paul.roberts@anatune.co.uk
Contact Paul to:
The company has come a long way since then and has changed and developed very significantly.
These developments have been both planned and forced, often in ways that could not even have been imagined in 1996 - the explosive growth of the internet with the resultant changes to distribution and marketing being the most obvious.
The original vision was to create a company which would be more than a supplier of Chromotography equipment.
Real customer value was seen to come from combining both industry, scientific and application knowledge. The outcome of this combination was an emphasis upon solving problems and creating efficiency and effectiveness.
In the words of Ray Perkins MD and founder:
‘Our customers don't buy our products; instead they buy what our products can do. As a result, we focus on providing solutions rather than selling instruments’.
Today, this vision is still at the centre of the business never more so than in the work undertaken in the ‘in-house’ laboratory, soon to be doubled in capacity.
This laboratory is not seen then as a luxury. It is, in many ways, at the centre of the way the company ‘does business’.
Within any sector our customers tend to face similar challenges. It makes sense then for us to develop analytical technologies which solve more generic problem.
As a supplier of equipment from the world’s best and most trusted chromatography manufacturers, Anatune is uniquely placed to combine the best technologies available to solve problems. The company stresses the need to focus on data quality, robustness, reliability, simplicity, speed and cost per sample. In addition, where a solution is industry wide, Anatune, in partnership with its customers, strives to develop complete analytical methodologies. This way the costs are shared to the economic benefit of all.
The future is, of course, notoriously difficult to predict but for Anatune, the future will mean:
1. Continuing to combine science and technology to solve problems and produce tangible customer benefits.
2. Further investment in the ‘in-house’ laboratory facilities.
3. Continued free publication of the well respected laboratory application notes.
4. Continued research and development in Automation techniques for chromatography laboratories.
Anatune timeline:
1996 – Company starts trading from St John’s Innovation Centre Cambridge.
1998 – Company moves to present address in Hardwick.
1998 – CompanyOpens first Application Development Laboratory
1998 – Company appointed as Agilent Value Added Reseller
2001 – Company becomes fully independent following MBO.
2002 – Turnover more than doubles from previous year.
2003 – Company signs distribution agreement with GERSTEL.
2004 - Turnover nearly doubles from previous year.
2006 – Company strategy changes to embrace new web technologies.
2007 – Company launches anatune.org as chromatography resource site.
2008 – Company launches into HPLC market and doubles application laboratory resource.
Your contacts:
Ray Perkins - MD
ray.perkins@anatune.co.uk
Contact Ray to:
- Give feedback on Anatune service and products
- Discuss sales projects
- Discuss potential partnership opportunities
- Discuss potential marketing opportunities
Bob Green - Technical Director and Regional Sales – North West England, Scotland and Northern Ireland
bob.green@anatune.co.uk
Contact Bob to:
- Discuss sales opportunities and related issues
- Discuss existing customer projects
- Discuss application development
- Discuss product development and solutions
- Discuss technical partnership opportunities
- Discuss UK distribution opportunities
Nick Bukowski - Technical Sales Engineer – North West England and Wales
nick.bukowski@anatune.co.uk
Contact Nick to:
- Discuss sales opportunities and related issues
- Discuss existing customer projects
John Damiral - Technical Sales Engineer – South East England
John.damiral@anatune.co.uk
Contact John to:
- Discuss sales opportunities and related issues
- Discuss existing customer projects
Keith Summerhill - Applications Chemist
keith.summershill@anatune.co.uk
Contact Keith to:
- Discuss technical and laboratory equipment applications
Jonathan Angove - Applications Chemist
Jonathan.angove@anatune.co.uk
Contact Jonathan to:
- Discuss technical and laboratory equipment applications
Simon McInulty - Service Engineer
simon.mcinulty@anatune.co.uk
Contact Simon to:
- Discuss the installation, maintenance and repair of Anatune supplied equipment
Matthew Carson - Service Manager
matthew.carson@anatune.co.uk
Contact Matthew to:
- Discuss the installation, maintenance and repair of Anatune supplied equipment
Andrew Davidson - Service Engineer
Andrew.davidson@anatune.co.uk
Contact Andrew to:
- Discuss the installation, maintenance and repair of Anatune supplied equipment
Keith Glyn-Baker - Service Engineer
Keith.glyn-baker@anatune.co.uk
Contact Glyn to:
- Discuss the installation, maintenance and repair of Anatune supplied equipment
Suzanne Nicholas - Office Manager
suzanne.nicholas@anatune.co.uk
Contact Suzanne to:
- Place orders
- Discuss accounts queries
- Discuss service contract quotations
Sue Gilbert - Marketing Executive
susan.gilbert@anatune.co.uk
Contact Sue to:
- Discuss Anatune marketing issues
- Discuss Anatune website issues
- Discuss Anatune PR issues
- Discuss Anatune Seminars and Conferences
Charlotte Bean - Internal Sales
charlotte.bean@anatune.co.uk
Contact Charlotte to:
- Discuss existing and potential sales opportunities
Colin Willett - Marketing Consultant
colin.willett@anatune.co.uk
Contact Colin to:
- Discuss Anatune’s marketing strategy
James Wagland - IT Support
james.wagland@anatune.co.uk
Contact James to:
- Discuss Anatune IT issues
Paul Roberts - HPLC Application Chemist
paul.roberts@anatune.co.uk
Contact Paul to:
- Discuss all issues relating to technical and laboratory equipment applications for HPLC.