Top spot at industry awards for local entrepreneurs

By: evolve telecom
 
SOUTHEND, U.K. - April 8, 2013 - PRLog -- Southend based evolve telecom have been awarded the prestigious industry award ‘Mobile News B2B Dealer of the year 2013’. Formed in October 2003 by Southend businessman Mark Gordon following success with the Mobile Phone Centre, evolve is now the second largest Vodafone Platinum Partner in the country. Four years after its formation, Paul Althasen joined evolve as co-director and under Mark and Paul’s management, evolve’s turnover has doubled from £8 million in 2010 to £16 million in 2012. The Mobile News awards are generally regarded as one of the highest accolades within the telecoms industry. evolve has been recognised by a panel of telecoms experts as offering a market leading range of products and services at a local level. The award reviewed unified communications, commercial growth, marketing and customer service as well as community and staff initiatives. evolve scored an impressive 22 points in the competitive category, beating the runner up, Derbyshire based A1 Comms by 6 clear points. The aspects that set evolve so far apart were clearly shown by the judge’s comments “Demonstrated they had a clear strategy for the future. The only entry to show they understood unified communications.” The award was presented to Mark and Paul (pictured) by Dara O’Briain at a ceremony at the Hilton on Park Lane and was supported by feedback from customers such as The Salvation Army, Clearsprings and The Royal Mint who awarded evolve their supplier award for Contract and Service Provider of the Year 2012. evolve telecom represents a local success story for Southend as the company has gone from strength to strength over the last few years and has completed the acquisition of five other telecoms companies across the South East and Midlands through the South West and over the bridge into Wales. Mark Gordon, MD of evolve comments on why the company has bucked the trend of the economic downturn and embarked on such an ambitious growth and acquisition strategy “Regardless of the economic conditions, there are plenty of talented people out there who are capable of driving a business forward, we have made it a priority to recruit and retain these individuals to ensure that we have a clear strategy to take the business forward.” “It has also been key to adapt our business model, as the mobile market became saturated with standard offerings; we were looking to offer our business customers total telecommunication and IT solutions that saved them money and increased efficiency and customer service.” Mark continued. Newly appointed Finance Director, Toby Stubbington comments on his move to the company “With a young family, it was fantastic to find a head office FD position that doesn’t require a commute into the city. evolve has both flexible working and a fantastic office space as well as having robust plans for growth, making this role the perfect opportunity.” As well as the support of local business customers, evolve were also commended for their commitment to the community with initiatives that ranged from working with the Carbon Trust to reduce environmental impact, offering work experience to local students, fund raising for local charities and sponsoring sports within the local community. Paul Althasen, MD of evolve offered insight into what was next for the company “We intend to keep growing, in all senses, acquisition, recruitment, and extending the range of products and services we support. This growth has been carefully mapped out and is being led by the management team. The acquisition strategy is now attuned to find companies that best fit our model and we are investing in new technologies that we feel have the potential to become key business tools going forward.” Mark Gordon concluded “Our focus has always been on helping local businesses optimise their key business systems and make them more cost effective and competitive. We are thrilled to see so many of our customers going from strength to strength and of course for the growth and opportunity that this delivers us in return.”
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