As part of our ongoing support and continuous development of the Prestige Leisure UK e-commerce platform, we've recently launched a completely new customer dashboard to bring all the account information a user needs in to one place.

The dashboard shows most frequent orders, with a link to add to quick order to reorder, recent order history and link to view all, user profiles and delivery addresses which can be edited, returns, favourites, manage your users and contact info for your account manager and the customer support team.

"A big thank you to the team at bd2 for their continued support and hard work in bringing this feature to life. It's been great to see the progress made throughout the project." Prestige Leisure.

Following a change in ownership, Righton Insulation wanted to reflect the business's new ambition with a re-brand, new website and ongoing marketing campaign.

The completely new brand features a new logo which depicts insulation wrapped around a pipe - which is essentially what Righton does - which is echoed within the letter 'o'. The insulation marque is used as a background motif throughout the brand's application which is defined within detailed brand guidelines. A new website which boldly reflects the brand style is being launched supported by a Linkedin campaign,

The identity is modern, stylish, bold and eye-catching and is completely differentiated in its market.

Our new corporate site for Laltex is now live. With warehouses and HQ in Leigh, Laltex is a leading supplier of promotional materials and consumer goods with a turnover nearing £50M.

Built on Umbraco, the world’s largest Open Source .Net CMS, the site features rich media including video and a wealth of content within a custom Ui, all managed in Umbraco’s super-user-friendly backoffice.

see www.laltex.com

We've built a nice and simple little news site for charity The Bread and Butter Thing to keep supporters, the media and advocates informed of their various activities in food redistribution. The charity naturally generates a lot of great content which is regularly published on their social media channels, but there wasn't really one place to find it all. The news site houses quarterly editions with articles from that period collated in one place in a simple scrolling stack. Quarterly summaries are also emailed out with links back to the site for the full article. The site is built on Umbraco to provide a super user friendly CMS with an intuitive WYSISYG interface which allow editors to pick colour backgrounds and text, from the brand palette, or a background image with a tint overlay, add text and pics with the brand style 'wobbly' graphic frames.

It was a privilege to attend an event at the rather splendid Speakers House in the House of Commons to mark 10 years of food redistribution charity The Bread and Butter Thing.

We're proud to support a charity which, last year, supported more than 120,000 households through over 160 community hubs providing some 70 Million meals along with a wide range of support services in those communities. For every £1 of funding invested in The Bread and Butter Thing more than £19 of social value is created. In 2025 it generated £132 Million of social value.

Our favourite CMS Umbraco (in fact it's so good it's our only CMS) has announced that it's now officially a Certified B Corporation business.

B-Corp is a stamp of approval which verifies that the Umbraco organisation meets the highest levels in its social standards, environmental performance, legal governance and public transparency which are independently audited. The certification demonstrates Umbraco's balance of purpose and profit above shareholder returns alone.

At bd2 we've been using what has become the world's biggest .Net Open Source CMS since 2011, we're proud to be an Umbraco business partner and to be an active part of the wider community. Becoming B-Corp Certified is an affirmation of an approach to business that we've recognised from day one and is one of the reasons we chose to work with Umbraco.

Since we launched AIR-serv's new corporate site we've been adding sites for each of the 11 countries across Europe they operate in - including this one, the first we've ever done for Luxembourg!

AIR-serv are the largest provider of forecourt equipment in Europe - air pumps, jet washes, vacs, fragrance and combi-machines. The site features a wealth of media rich content with drone footage and animated video user guides along with in-depth company information covering the business's history, approach and team. There's a comprehensive employee section with a live roles advertised and application forms. The site also provides information and advice for end-users on road safety, car maintenance and how to use the machines. 

We’ve integrated an AI-powered research tool into the custom CRM platform we’ve developed for a retail client to give staff access without switching applications.

It allows the client’s sales team to look up background on corporate clients, research industries or a client's personal interests or hobbies to find information that helps to personalise conversations ahead of a visit or event. Any useful findings can be saved directly to the client's record, keeping everything in one place rather than scattered across browser tabs and notes.

We've added a neat new AI feature into the custom CRM we've built for iconic jewellery retailer Boodles. Sales staff can now search for clients by typing a question in plain English rather than finding through a series of filter dropdowns. A query like "items assigned to John Smith whose partner has a birthday in June" is interpreted by the AI, the right filters are applied and matching records appear within seconds. Results open in a panel so staff can browse through clients, move between records, review purchase history and see contact details instantly wihtout leaving the main screen. It's a meaningful shift in how quickly the team can identify the right clients for a particular outreach.

Umbraco V17 brings new features into a fully mature backoffice to match high-end enterprise level CMS platforms.

With built-in AI in the backoffice, near perfect WYSIWYG editors, backoffice loading balancing and plugins like Engage and our own proprietary SEO audit - tool exclusively for bd2 clients - it’s no wonder Umbraco tops the G2 CMS reviews!

Email us for a copy of our overview doc.

We’ve just finished the design and install of a bunch of office graphics and all the exterior signage for our favourite charity The Bread and Butter Thing.

The whole interior is bright and colourful - to match the people who work there - and features all kinds of wall graphics in their cartoony illustration style including this 12 meter long timeline in the boardroom to mark their 10 year birthday.

The latest edition of ‘Brief Distraction’ bd2’s company magazine is back fron the printers.

Featuring the usual mix of client success stories, case studies and articles which is intended to be, well, a bit of a distraction to your working day - but only a brief one.

Email us to get your copy mailed out.

We’ve just finished the design and install of office graphics and exterior signage for our favourite charity The bread and Butter thing.

The job included a forklift selfie truck for their corporate volunteers to take pics for their socials, they had over 100,000 volunteer hours last year so we’re expecting it will get plenty of use.

With many thanks to Concept Group for donating all the materials, build and installation.

FA Cup winning captain Emmerson Boyce made a guest appearance at another excellent Wigan Youth Zone Business Breakfast.

During a very open and honest Q&A Emmerson talked about his career in football from the lows up to the high of lifting the FA Cup. He also opened up about the challenges of life after football and dealing with his own personal mental health issues. Fascinating session.

The feedback members give about the difference the bread and butter thing makes to their lives is incredibly powerful, so we created a Members quote book with a collection of them along with member photos.

The book is a Moleskine style note book and is a giveaway for sponsors, suppliers and advocates to remind them about the charity's great work. It worked so well we've done another version this year.

The growth of the bread and butter thing in its first 10 years is nothing short of amazing - from 1 hire van to a fleet of over 40 taking food to over 120,000 members in 160 community hubs generating £132 Million in social value last year.

We've designed and produced this 10 year report to celebrate these achievements in their unique style full of colourful illustrations and infographics.

The Council's 'Believe in Business Charter' is designed to drive economic growth, community wealth building and local partnerships across the borough's businesses.

As a proud and longstanding Wigan-based business we felt it only right that we applied and are delighted to have been granted silver status, which we plan on upgrading to gold as soon as possible!

As part of the celebrations for its 10 year birthday, food redistribution charity is holding a party at the Speakers House in the Houses of Parliament in early September.

We've created an assortment of display materials and giveaways for the event including the 10 year report and members quote books, but obviously people will need something to carry it all home in so we've designed the 10 year tote bag!

The growth of the bread and butter thing in its first 10 years is nothing short of amazing - from 1 hire van to a fleet of over 40 taking food to over 120,000 members in 160 community hubs generating £132 Million in social value last year.

We've designed and produced a range of 'we are 10' graphics to celebrate the year in their unique style which features lots of hand-drawn colourful illustrations.