TAVISTOCK's Tindle Centre has provided the springboard for a local company whose growth rate has rocketed from one client to almost 30 in three years.

Broadley Speaking was founded by Hilary Broadley of Tavistock — it specialises in telesales, sales training and sales consultancy.

The company started life at the Tindle Centre but has now moved to Pearl Assurance House in Tavistock.

Hilary Broadley said: 'We wouldn't have been able to grow so quickly without the help of the Tindle Centre.

'In a growth situation you can be hampered by overpowering rents and rates — the subsidised Tindle Centre allowed us to go through our initial growing pains and plough all our profits into developing the business.'

One of Broadley Speaking's most recent coups was winning the sponsorship account for Plymouth Raiders basketball team — other clients range from multi-million pound international organisations to small local businesses.

Mrs Broadley has now been joined by her husband David Conn, who left his position as managing director of Tavistock-based Trident Exhibitions to join the company.

The Tindle Centre in Ford Street was set up several years ago by the owner of the Tavistock Times Gazette series Sir Ray Tindle.

The centre provides low-cost accommodation for fledgling businesses.