Merrows

This site is serving as the temporary corporate site for Merrows Ltd. Trevor Oakley is the outright owner and director of Merrows.

Key Facts

Core Business

The core business is retail. The company operates from a retail premises, has a web presence at merrows.co.uk, and has several trade contacts. Merrows is currently franchising its name into 10 stores nationwide.

New Ventures

Fullbe

This venture is concerned with joining product recommendations, from social networking systems, to actual product sales.

The website at fullbe has the site being used for this venture.

Eyes24

This venture is concerned with community based IPCCTV which would allow small business owners, individuals, and community centres to provide low costs and effective security and community monitoring. The systems can also be used to monitor traffic conditions, and local weather conditions.

Future

To grow a franchise chain, to develop full integration of product recommendations with products for sale, and to implement a system so that local merchants can meet order requirements via a platform similar to fullbe. Hence customer would be able to buy from a central platform and then deal directly with a local merchant.

Trevor Oakley Profiles

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Education

Southampton University - B.Sc. Physics (options in Mathematics, Electronics, Computing, Chemistry)

UMIST - M.Sc. Control and Information Technology (dissertation in modelling of heating systems)

Exeter- Ph.D. Intelligent Algorithms (control of coal feeds into furnances)

Awards

EDS systems engineering graduate, Outstanding Employee of the Year (one of nine in the UK) in third year of employment