Life began as a personal trainer in Darlington, UK. Founder and Director Harry Rowbotham helped clients of his local gym with weight management and injury rehabilitation. After 18 months of working with a wide variety of body types and injuries, Harry often asked the question to his clients ‘how did this situation you’re in come about?’ and most would answer; Work has caused me to be this way! With concern, Harry would ask the following question ‘have they tried to help you get better in any way?’ and the answer would always come back as; ‘No, we don’t have anything in place’.

From there Productive Plus Ltd was established in March 2018, with an aim to bring exercise classes such as yoga, meta fit, body conditioning and boot camps to the workplace in order to get more people moving. After much success the conclusion was formed that more individual intervention was needed for employees struggling with physical and mental health conditions at work.

Partnerships with local physiotherapists and counsellors was formed and a combined approach of medical intervention & health coaching saw employees of some top organisations on Teesside gain reactive and preventative care.

Then came March 2020… The pandemic hit and Productive Plus wasn’t prepared for what would follow. With little interaction with clients due to the restrictions, the company struggled to maintain its support for people in need. A digital approach was developed through our website in the form of a blog called Platinum Wellbeing which provided education for a subscription, however it was bested by the market share of apps and other digital property which had been around for much longer.

The companies evolvement prior to the pandemic was in line with its vision for the future, to have a majority share of businesses in Teesside receiving wellbeing support by 2025.

As Productive Plus was no stranger to evolvement, something had to be done. And so in 2021, Productive Plus Ltd rebranded it’s trading name to Teesside Health Co. Providing the new age of health and wellbeing support for businesses across Teesside and surrounding regions.

With little financial backing and much motivation, Harry built an app himself called Platinum Wellbeing, the redevelopment and evolvement of the online blog developed in 2020, with more features to help manage users health, access to private healthcare professionals, education and workout features as well as EAP capabilities. The app launched in late 2021 along with a new system of support for businesses which was incredibly scaleable called; The Ecosystem.

This is the new way of working for Teesside Health Co. It’s the Tool, The Protection and the Consultancy which can be learned more about from our downloadable PDF.

Thanks to the scalability and the introduction of new clients and partnerships, in January 2023 Health Co International was born. The next step in the companies evolvement. HCi consists of the following divisions; Teesside Health Co, North West Health Co, Midlands Health Co, South East Health Co and South West Health Co. As well as the UK divisions, Health Co International is the leading brand for any work done outside of the UK mainland with focus on North America, Europe & Canada.