Cogent has established a reputation as an excellent manufacturing firm – which makes products for other businesses. It is highly unique that when many firms in Britain are used to outsourcing their manufacturing abroad – Cogent are persuading firms at home and in other Countries to come here. Cogent has a healthy balance of export and domestic business and is a company that at the time of the downturn helped its customers diversify in to different markets. It is in a period of stabilisation having grown, fallen back and grown again – and a perfect example of British ingenuity.