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Fresh Egg is a digital marketing company based in Worthing, West Sussex. It was founded in 2000 by Adam Stafford, his sister Philippa Stafford and friend Lee Colbran. They were joined in 2009 by Sarah Tunstall from the PPA. Initially operating from a bedroom, it expanded to two-floor office premises in Worthing before relocating to a purpose-built office in 2011, near Worthing Pier. It currently employs 93 staff employed across different teams, dealing with SEO, web design, social media and web traffic analysis. The current head of social media is electronic sports commentator Paul Chaloner.

Investment and Growth
The company received significant investment following a presentation at the 2009 Sussex Enterprise Conference when business entrepreneur James Caan from the TV series Dragon's Den decided to invest in Fresh Egg through his private equity company Hamilton Bradshaw. He later became the Chairman of Fresh Egg and delivered the keynote speech for "Internet Marketing in a Recession", a series of lectures organised by Fresh Egg held at the Magic Circle in London.

Caan's interest was later bought out by the Fresh Egg board following further growth with the departure from his chairman role being described as amicable.

Office Move
In order to provide working space for additional staff, Fresh Egg acquired the former retail store and warehouse of Allied Carpets in central Worthing. Situated at the base of the Buckingham Road multi-storey car park, the building had been empty and derelict following the Allied group falling into administration. The premises were completely re-modelled along the principles used in modern digital agencies such as the Googleplex, and features a kitchen, recreational area with pool table, a company gym, video games area and a graffiti mural across one wall, designed and painted by a local artist "Snug".

Cited as bringing in much-needed regeneration into the area during a period when the economy forced large numbers of major high street retailers to close, Fresh Egg championed the cause of town regeneration and hosted presentations by advocates of pop-up shops.

Services
Originally providing SEO services with limited web design services for clients, Fresh Egg now offers more extensive web design capability, blog platform set-up and consultancy on social media, paid search (or PPC) and web analytics.

Awards

 * Small Business of the Year 2002 (Littlehampton Business Partnership Awards)
 * Shortlisted, Digital Media Awards (South) 2008, digital marketing category
 * Shortlisted, New Media Age Effectiveness Awards 2009
 * E-Consultancy Innovation Awards 2009: Innovation in Web Analytics and Optimization Winner
 * Worthing Business Awards: Medium to Large Business of the Year (Highly Commended)

Partnerships

 * Fresh Egg partnered with paid search specialist JellyFish in 2009.
 * Fresh Egg are one of the UK's officially recognised Google Partners for Google Analytics

Charity Work
Fresh Egg staff are encouraged to engage in fun activities to aid local and national charities, with a costume event for talk like a pirate day raising money for the local Worthing Churches Homeless Project and participation in the Movember initiative for male cancer awareness.