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Three colleagues who were made redundant when their employer went into administration have teamed-up to resurrect the business during lockdown.

Dave Waterhouse and Tanya Salmon, from Kidsgrove, and Jess O’Dwyer, who is based in London, have launched business change and transformation consultancy Mobias Ltd.

The trio had been working together at change management business Mobias Change – part of Styles and Wood plc – up until February this year, when the firm collapsed.

Now the group have re-launched the company – and have big plans for the next five years.

Dave – who worked at Mobias for 11 years – said: “Being told the company had fallen into administration was like a bolt out of the blue because we had grown the business so successfully over the last six years. We had delivered more than 10,000 projects in six years and grew into a team of 60 – with around 20 of us based in Stoke-on-Trent.

“Then the pandemic struck. Everything happened at the same time and it was a shock, but it actually gave us time to reflect and think about re-building the business ourselves – and that’s what we’ve done.

“We have seen the last three months as an opportunity to take stock and see where we are and it is all coming together really well.

“Our clients have been really supportive and we already have a team of staff interested in joining us when the time comes.”