Case Studies

Rod Hayler, Managing Director HO2 (Brighton) Ltd Like many privately-run companies HO2 started life in a garret room, but not many carry the South Molton Street, London W1K postcode.  In 1990 Rod Hayler and Charles Osborne, chartered surveyors, started small, with a solid client base, and joined their surveying and property investment agency roots to...

Geofolia – it feels like it is developed for farmers… Nine miles south west of Bath, two Somerset arable farmers are not only sharing labour, machinery and chemicals but they have gone halves on their crop recording software as well. In an informal share farming arrangement covering some 1700 acres of owned, rented and contracted...

Why KEYPrime Intro? Breeding and rearing organic livestock is part and parcel of everyday life for Jim, his wife Jacqui and their youngest son Joe who have recently upgraded to KEYPrime Intro to replace their outdated KEY Cashbook program. The move is part of a plan for Jacqui to produce the regular cashflows and year...

Home reared beef and daily picked vegetables are the cornerstones of the Ardross Farm Shop, in the East Neuk of Fife, where the Pollock family are fifth generation farmers. Rob and Fiona Pollock with their daughters Nikki Storrar, Tara and Claire Pollock manage all aspects of the 1300 acre traditional farming business and complementary farm...

Elton Estates Co is the operating company for the Elton Estate which has been in the Proby family since the 17th Century. It includes Elton Hall which is a large Grade 1 Country House. Elton Hall contains many treasures including magnificent furniture and fine paintings from early fifteenth century Old Masters to pre-Raphaelite work of...

Landmark's flexible KEYPrime Accounts and KEYPrime Property management systems accommodate a hotel business, a property company and more unusually a Community Interest Company in the thriving market town of Malton, which has been christened Yorkshire's Food Capital by Antonio Carluccio. Bustling Malton itself and the food brand 'Made In Malton' are magnets for producers and...

Sarah Wilkins has been a farm administrator for 25 years. In the past she has worked on many large estates using or changing to KEYPrime Accounts software. I am Sarah Wilkins, a farm secretary married with two children and we live on our Wiltshire smallholding where we keep pigs and sheep for our personal consumption...

Efficient management primed for less paper. Scotland’s oldest firm of land agents, Davidson & Robertson Rural is by no means in the last century when it comes to IT. Part of Davidson & Robertson Rural’s commitment to clients is ‘to utilise technology to constantly improve efficiency and service’. This was borne out by the order...

King West is a firm of Chartered Surveyors, Land and Estate Agents with principal offices in Market Harborough and Stamford, at the heart of England’s thriving Welland Valley, a location that enables the practice to offer Farm & Estate Management and Conservation of Heritage Property amongst its list of property services. King West is using...

The Holt family has been trading under the same name for more than 75 years. I am the third generation tenant farmer at Droke and Manor farms, farming over 900 acres in partnership with my wife Janet. The farm employs my daughter Johanna and son Harry as well as a tractor driver and two herds-people....

In February 2013 Pilkington Farms approached Landmark Systems about upgrading its accounting and property management system for the large arable farm partnership and property portfolio near Hitchin. Set in traditional parkland on the eastern edge of the Chilterns the 4,000-acre in-hand mixed enterprise, is part of the 7,000-acre King’s Walden Estate, and is run as...

Third generation farmer Lucy Reynolds is a real asset to her father Gordon with a formal qualification in Animal Management from Plumpton College and with her ability to grasp and take forward some of the management workload. The 235 acre farm is situated on the Weald in Beneden, Kent and therefore plays to its strengths...

Francis Hampden (The 7th Viscount Hampden) is one of the new generation peers who grew up alongside IT and as an MBA graduate of Cranfield University he is never far from his computer. His home is Glynde Place, an Elizabethan Manor House built by his forebears in 1569 located in the heart of the South...

JW Grant Co is a family owned business operating for over 60 years near Boston in Lincolnshire. The business is now managed by the third generation of the family. It has a long history of growing many different crops. The business has always been very innovative. Many ideas and crops were brought into production by...

Katie and David Keiley make a formidable duo working for dairy farmers within Kite Consulting, David has recently joined from his position as Senior Dairy Consultant with SRUC and Katie is an Associate. They share a deep working knowledge of Landmark Systems’ KEYPrime Accounts and KEYPlanner software and use it to its full extent whenever...

KEYPrime Accounts and KEYPrime Property management software were purchased in 2013 by David Bradley, the Winchester based Director and property expert who has two companies for his Property Letting, Development and Consultancy business. Operating out of Windsor and Winchester DPI is a family concern with David’s partner, Davina Bullimore, managing the day to day issues...

Mark Peters is too busy running his arable and forage business, started seventy years ago by his grandfather and father, to spend time duplicating entries into a separate invoicing and accounts program.  He started using KEYPrime Accounts in April for his 1500 acre tenanted farm business which grows winter wheat and barley, OSR, linseed and...

The importance of good software when establishing a new business. When Jon McCosh (38) started Greenwood Surveyors Ltd, a rural land agency and property management company, in January 2010; it was a crossroads moment. At the time Jon was in Carlisle with H & H Land and Property and his wife, Eilidh, was following her...