Scaramanga timeline
In 2020, Scaramanaga celebrates 20 years of business. A lot has happened, especially in the last year, so we thought we would spend a little time jotting down what we could remember.
16th November 2020
20 years of Scaramanga
This November, Scaramanga celebrates its 20th Birthday. It has been quite a journey, so we plan to celebrate reaching this milestone. For starters we have launched this new website, but there is more to come.
September 2020
Mike Gammon joins Scaramanga as Head of Design
Mike is a highly skilled and experienced graphic designer, with a special interest in creating great user experiences (UX).
August 2020
Scaramanga moves offices
The Surrey team moves to One Croydon, also known as the Fifty Pence Buidling, right in the heart of Croydon.
July 2020
Scaramanga moves to larger offices
The Kent team moves to larger offices in Churchill Square doubling the space. Thankfully, the move was painless as the new office was just across the corridor.
May 2020
Josh Martin promoted to Technical Lead to head up our web team
September 2019
Dawn Kinder joins Scaramanga as our Office Administrator
Dawn has a great deal of business experience, mostly gained in business development within insurance.
August 2019
New brand and website launched
To mark the merger, we created a new bold identity so everyone knows that we are here!
1st August 2019
Merger of Scaramanga Marketing and Thoughtful on 1st August to form Scaramanga Agency
November 2018
Hollie Ryan joins Thoughtful as a Junior Graphic Designer
5th November will forever more be remembered as the day Hollie joined the team. With are degree in Graphic Design (freshly screen printed I hope) in hand, she increased the team to four to provide her design flare to our branding projects.
October 2018
Kieran McNeill joins Scaramanga as our Social Media Marketing Executive
What Kieran doesn't know about social media isn't worth mentioning! Outside work he manages two Facebook pages with 80,000+ followers, which he has built from scratch.
May 2018
A fresh new approach to Thoughtful’s brand
As a design led company, the Thoughtful team decided it was time to shout about our design credentials. In an attempt to reposition the company we rebranded and established three core messages: that we develop brands, design stuff and are experts in the web.
We took a bold minimalist approach to the identity, inspired by Japanese aesthetics.
November 2017
Peter Burgess joins Thoughtful as a Graphic/Digital Designer
Fresh from Edinburgh University, Peter joined the team to provide his sharp design skills to our projects. We are now three (digital musketeers).
September 2017
Sarah Moran joins Scaramanga to head up client services
Sarah is an English graduate and skilled copywriter and digital marketer, having working previously in recruitment advertising agencies on high profile brands. Sarah is the main point of contact for our retained clients.
November 2016
Claire Scaramanga becomes a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing
July 2016
Josh Martin joins the Thoughtful team as a Junior Web Developer
In a baptism of fire, Josh joins the team (replacing the previous employee) and Simon promptly goes on annual leave a week later. Don’t worry. It was just bad timing; we hadn’t fallen out.
April 2015
Scaramanga moves into The Officers’ Mess in Caterham
Just like Thoughtful, Scaramanga started with a two person office and squeezed three people in, before moving to a four, and then five, person office so the proverbial cat could be swung.
Thoughtful hires its first employee
A junior web developer joins, doubling the size of the team overnight.
November 2013
Thoughtful moves into Churchill Square in Kings Hill
Having spent 2 years working from home, it was time to get a small 2-person office, in which we would eventually manage to shoehorn 3 people.
1 July 2011
Simon Leadbetter forms Thoughtful Web
After the anguish of making the decision and months of planning, It was finally time to open the metaphorical doors. Logo designed, website built, coffee made, we pushed the power button on the new computer and took the first step on our journey.
March 2011
Scaramanga secures BBC One TV Show for The Sheriffs Office (The Sheriffs Are Coming)
July 2003
Simon Leadbetter develops new branding and website for Scaramanga
April 2003
Scaramanga hires its first employee
Claire Scaramanga and Simon Leadbetter meet at networking
At that time, we were both based in Wimbledon, South West London. To avoid all the tennis stars and strawberry punnet wielding tourists, we would get up extremely early for a breakfast network meeting in Wimbledon High Street. Although not my [Simon] favourite activity, it was here that Claire and I first met and it would prove to be the start of a long lasting friendship.
16th November 2000