The Company

Broadening Horizons was founded in January 2004 by partners Martin Hastings and Yvonne Yates with the aim to break free from the limited range of services on offer to the customer base they were dealing with in their previous careers.

Broadening Horizons gave us the creative freedom to turn our design skills and our abilities to a wider variety of design opportunities, embracing new technologies and continually pushing the boundaries to effectively, Broaden OUR Horizons and more importantly, those on offer to our clients.

Starting out in a small home office and later expanding to commercial premises, our constant research and investment into new and improved technology has allowed us to expand our range of services, from the original core design services through to one of the widest ranges of print and design services anyone could expect from a design company.

Broadening Horizons 2006

Although we don’t profess to be the complete ‘one-stop-shop’ for all your design, print, web and marketing requirements, we do believe that whenever a product or service begins with a design concept that requires inspiration, creativity and imagination then there’s no reason why it can’t begin with us.

With it’s creation came another revelation, looking after the little guy.

…we wanted to market the start of the new company, but with a limited budget and many ideas we set out to find suppliers to produce various marketing materials in small quantities to get the name about, without spending a fortune on 100’s or 1000’s of promotional items that could become worthless long before we could distribute them all.

Unfortunately, at the time, the smallest quantity of any product we could find was 250 or 500 of one design/style/item. Knowing full well that we would be moving to commercial premises at some point in the near future we had to put our ideas aside and just concentrate on producing work for our clients, while all the time in the back of our minds we wanted to produce items to give out ourselves to our customers, but also came to the conclusion that we couldn’t be the only company that had come across this problem, and so the idea came to research the necessary equipment to produce bespoke items in a cost effective manner that meant that both ourselves and our clients could produce marketing items with a minimum quantity of, ONE.

As time has gone on, we’ve noticed a shift in various company’s and as always happens, the technology that we initially started with has become more widely available, cheaper to set up and now a number of our core markets have become saturated with a variety of companies and individual trying to offer similar services, at varying price scales both above and below our own, but fortunately for us, we have over 19 years experience, offering a higher degree of quality and personal service.