From the fire into the frying pan

Everyone’s talking about the recession. Who’s mad enough to start up a new business? Us!!! The pic above is the 3 amigos in 2010. We’ve always been the adventurous kind.

We start Suninvent in Prague (after coming up with the idea in Brno). Based out of Ostrava we start doing gigs all over the Czech Republic.

The three men in a boat turn into four men and a walrus... and suddenly we were five. The first year saw a slow but steady growth – and the opening of a store in Brno-Řečkovice. Our production facilities catch up with Asia.

We have enough tents to open a camp.

Bigger brands, such as Pilsner Urquell or Heineken, begin to notice us. We start a project for Škoda Motorsport. What’s more, a customer from Walachia bought a beautiful printed “scissor tent” No. 1000… We have enough employees to put together a football team and we work for a number of towns and villages. The machine keeps rolling.

Thanks to big contracts we get more small customers. We offer much more than just tents and there’s no place to put the things. We open a branch with a warehouse in Prague. We launched pneumatic tents on the market. Not only ware we the first to offer this fresh product, we also coined its name. More freaks join our team and together we organise a biathlone world championship. Swell season...

A year later we organise another – this time orienteering - world championship. We have fallen in love with this sport and have stuck to it since. Same as the runners orientate themselves on the track, our sales champions orientate themselves on the market. We no longer simply listen to the clients’ requests – we fulfil dreams they don’t even know they had. Thanks to this we organise many great parties and events. We love our work more and more.

We have discovered another great sport – mountain biking. The world championship in Nové Město na Moravě was a dream come true. Another such dream was travelling around the world with Škoda Motorsport. Sardinia, Portugal, Scandinavia – the best experience there is. Thanks to this, we also get a lot of partners beyond the borders. We strengthen ourselves at home and open a new branch in České Budějovice.

Our crew has over 20 heads. We better don’t count outside workers and focus on the new R&D department near Brno.

We organise another world orienteering championship and keep on working with Škoda Motorsport while the core of our business is smaller company events, weddings and concerts.

The company spouts many new products and dares to organise crazier events. A new finance director has started bossing us – so that everything works well, they tell us. Now that we have a director, we must be a firm, mustn’t we? Anyway, we’re still a good team. We’re on the lookout for more global business and we want the world to notice us. We do a remake of the website– and have a social media coming out.

We open a new warehouse of 1400 m2 in Chotoviny near Tábor. We do more and more sport events. We start renting and selling design tents and stages KUPOLE. KUPOLE straightened the premiere as a VIP tent on the world championship in biathlon, the guests were excited. It was an extremely fruitful year: 2 babies were born in the company, another 2 babies are on their way.

This year's start of the season was not gradual- from February we are preparing a background for the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championship in Špindlerův Mlýn. Nearly 20,000 visitors repeatedly rushed through the racing area. Everything worked OK. Also this year, we circulate with the Škoda Motorsport service tent in Europe. We have full plans for what we want to do this year. Keep your fingers crossed for it to succeed.