Innovative Peterborough company triples staff numbers during lockdown

Meet Hugo, which is headquartered at the Brightfield Business Hub, in Bakewell Road, Orton Southgate, and with a base in Florida, has taken on 18 mew members of staff since the start of the lockdown in March bringing its workforce to 27.

Over the same period, it has taken on new work valued at £62 million and is also expecting to recruit more staff in the near future.

The start-up was created as a sales platform focused on helping companies achieve more sales, grow their sales pipeline and forge new relationships with other businesses.

Ben Harper, who founded Meet Hugo two years ago, said: “For the most part, we’ve been really fortunate in that our platform is focused around lead generation, and is effectively a work from home tool, which means we’ve seen a higher demand than normal, and we’ve been kept very busy since the start of the pandemic.

“We’re growing, and there is plenty of work out there for businesses - we’ve had over £62 million of projects on our platform in the last three weeks alone. Keeping up with the demand is the next challenge we face.

“As businesses have turned to digital methods of communicating and generating leads during the pandemic, the demand for a service to streamline the sales process and provide more targeted prospects has increased. As such, we were presented with the opportunity to hire more talent to meet demand.”