Thanks, virtually all small British electronics companies are being run on tight-as-heck budgets, because the owners
know that UK is a bad place to start electronics companies, because....
1)...The UK trains very very few engineers who are British and will want to stay here after graduating.
2)....Property prices in UK are ridiculously high, so a small company simply wont be able to buy a bigger property
...unless they go up north, but most business types dont want to go up north.
...as such, the small uk electronics co's keep their operating costs extremely low, so that they can boast to
a potential foreign buyer that it wont cost them much to run.
...The classic example is a company called Cyden in UK.
Cyden is a brilliant once-UK company who invented and then produced its own fantastic technology. They still do.
-Yet even they succumbed and sold themselves off to Braun (which is owned by Proctor and gamble).
Now Cyden still make fab products...but they are not allowed to put their own name on their own product.
Also, they are not even allowed to start any work unless they have cleared it with Braun HQ.
Another example is uvintegration.com...they were generating ridiculous amounts of sales but still sold off.
Sadly, ML Electronics also went, despite being a fabulous electronics design house.