One stop shop consultancy bags 2018 Melbourne Young Entrepreneur Award

Losing his job in the thick of the GFC turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Travis Erridge (pictured), who has gone on to co-found a succesful business and last night was crowned 2018 Melbourne Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

Covering property, supply chains and project management, Erridge's consultancy TM Insight caters to a range of businesses from SMEs through to large organisations including Australia's leading supermarkets as well as multinationals like Nestlé, Asahi and DHL.

He says TM Insight offers in-house consultants across a range of fields so that clients don't need to go to three separate consultancies to get the job done.

"It gave them a one stop shop. But the difference was that all of the people we brought in were from an operational background, so they weren't consultants, which is what clients actually wanted because they wanted people with real life experience in their relevant fields," he says.

"That became very disruptive because it caught all the real estate agents a bit on the hop to be honest. We basically attacked the market from the supply chain angle rather than a property angle." Read more

David Simmons and Matt Ogg - Business news Australia - 29 November 2018