400 stores, 100,000+ employees – we helped one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains to unlock around £100m of opportunity, every year.
FOUNDED IN 2020
Supermarket sweep
Engineering engagement
There’s no prouder feeling than standing on the deck of one of the nation’s flagship carriers, knowing that you have helped deliver it six months earlier than expected – and saved £100m in doing so.
The toughest challenges: our first £100m projects
Our founders would hardly have dreamed it back in 2001, but today, we regularly tackle some of the country’s largest and most complex challenges.
Social Impact
Steve Phillips has been leading Health and Social Care since 2020
“Our work across health and social care is founded on a passionate belief that it is possible to improve services for the people that use them, while supporting the systems to meet their budgetary challenges.”
The founders
FROM JULY 2001 TOM WEDGWOOD KEVIN JONES ANDY HAWES
Review Days
From four people sat around a kitchen table to 300 people packing out hotels around the country, the whole company has always gathered in one place every fortnight. This allows us to bring our collective experience and energies to bear on our clients’ current challenges – and to help the business feel like the single, close-knit team we’ve always aimed to be.
“Well,it was clear when we first met you knew
nothing about submarines.
But you had so much
energy and passion that
I wanted some of it and we’re
still taking advantage of it today.”
DML (now Babcock) on Industries, 2019
Finding our feet – and laying strong foundations
In our early days, energy was everything. Tenacity and youthful enthusiasm pushed us through the first projects. Today, the lessons we learned cutting our teeth, along with a similar spark and drive that’s present in all our people, underpin everything we do.
Industry's FIRST GRADUATE
“We’ve gone from one production line in a factory, and a single theatre in a hospital, to huge and incredibly complex nationwide projects – covering everything from defending the nation to improving its health. But what hasn’t changed is the culture: everyone still has the same energy, optimism and desire to make things better.”
Work 1500 days. Get paid for 500?
Our goal is always to deliver a result. We keep ourselves and each other accountable; and we stick around until we’ve made change happen. On one early project, we quoted for 500 days of work, but in the end spent closer to 1500. We didn’t charge the client any extra; instead, we learnt the lessons, and have always kept this spirit of entrepreneurialism, endeavour and integrity at the heart of what we do.
Demanding better from day one
Everybody likes to say they’re different.
Newton was created to be different; to demand better for clients.
Fun, friendship and high performance
- Less than 1% of those who apply to join Newton are successful. Because we’re very particular about the people we hire.
- Our team is filled with not just the sharpest, but also the nicest people in the industry;
- the kind who relentlessly pursue brave ideas, and believe everything can be better. And they’re rare.
- Every aspect of our business is designed around delivering results for our clients. It’s infectious.
- So much so, that this mindset transfers to every organisation we work with.
- Those qualities are so important to us that Tom Wedgwood still leads the induction of each new member of the team;
- and the principles of ‘fun, friendship and high performance’ continue to shape our culture.
One team - from Head Office to the coalface
“In 2008, with the company growing and our people working up and down the country, the three founders recognised that our consultants were best placed in the field delivering value to clients. We needed a team of business specialists who shared in the values of Newton who could focus on helping us grow. We didn’t want the stereotypical glass office in central London; we wanted a place that would enrich the wellbeing of our team, so we chose a setting in rural Oxfordshire.”
James Frost - CFO
THE FUTURE
Cracking the nation’s toughest challenges
We’ve set ourselves a ‘1 billion’ challenge: continue to have a positive impact on people's lives, alongside saving a total of £1bn for our clients. That’s ambitious (excitingly so). To do it, we know we need to be facing up against bigger and more complex issues at a national level. Issues like UK productivity, the future of the NHS, and modernising the defence industry.
We’ll never shy away from taking on new challenges, new clients, and new industries – in fact, the bigger the challenge, the better.
1000 people strong. 1 strong culture.
How do you keep growing, without distorting the culture that got you this far? By refusing to settle. Some things will evolve but we’ll never compromise on bringing the brightest and most curious minds into the Newton fold. And we’re utterly committed to preserving our founding principles of fun, friendship, and high performance – and relentlessly, unapologetically demanding better for our clients.
Meet the founders and leadership team
Kevin embodies and articulates our values around people, because he wrote them.
His personality runs right through how we work with each other and gives everyone in Newton the freedom, scope and confidence to be more innovative and creative. Kevin knows that data shows the way but people make it happen.