United Quest Limited was formed in January 2002 to provide a service to the growing number of Small-to-Medium sized Enterprises (SME's) that benefit from accessing the skills and resources of a business support service that provides expert advice with practical and ongoing action.
Bringing together knowledge from thought leaders KPMG Consulting, McKinsey & Co. and AT Kearney and being backed up by true practical experience from AXA Investment Managers, Credit Suisse and JP Morgan, United Quest Limited were well positioned to bring big business understanding and know-how to the small business marketplace. However, in order to provide a even wider breadth of experience, the head of United Quest, Priyesh Mistry, successfully became accredited by the Institute for Independent Business (IIB).

The IIB

The Institute for Independent Business is a not-for-profit research and accreditation organisation established in 1984 to give independent businesses direct access to some of the country's top business people. It is the largest organisation of its type in Europe (over 2000 accredited Executive Associates) and draws upon one of the most comprehensive support infrastructures in the world.
Research, both by the Institute, and more importantly by several academic institutions , had indicated that the SME sector required not only information and advice in order to survive and grow, but also practical assistance in the form of both process and expert consultancy.
According to national statistics in the last few years of the 20th century, 99.5% of all businesses in the UK economy employed fewer than 200 people, 98% employed fewer than 50 people and 96.4% employ fewer than 20 people! These figures clearly illustrate the importance of caring for the SME's rather than aiming initiatives at the larger companies who can already afford to buy in expertise and a full board of professional directors on whom the large company Managing Director can call on at any time for specialist advice and assistance. However, the person responsible for an SME has no such facility and is expected to know everything, keep up with everything and do everything themselves. Clearly a very unsatisfactory situation especially as in most cases that person cannot be expected to 'know what they don't know'.

UQ and The IIB

Through in-house professionalism and experience backed up by the capacity and resource of The IIB, United Quest Limited has one ultimate aim…

…to help you to take your business where you want it to be.