﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Cision News</title><link>https://news.cision.com</link><description>Cision is the leading global provider of media research, distribution, monitoring and evaluation services. With over 40 locations throughout the world, Cision provides the insight, expertise and intelligence that improve performance and build reputations.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:07:59 GMT</pubDate><image><title>Cision News</title><width>146</width><height>60</height><link>https://news.cision.com</link><url>https://news.cision.com/Content/img/news-logo.png</url></image><item><title>Double scoop for Softcat at NetApp Partner Awards 2013</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/double-scoop-for-softcat-at-netapp-partner-awards-2013,c9407453</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1315891</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 26 April 2013 – Last night Softcat took home two awards from the NetApp partner awards ceremony at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London. Hammer PLC’s Andy Emmett presented The NetApp Platinum Partner of the Year award to Martin Hellawell, Sam Routledge, Krishna Keshvara and Richard Wyn Griffith. Chris Barrie, of Red Dwarf fame, presented Ebow Barnes with the NetApp UK Sales Individual award for his outstanding individual sales performance over the past year.

The NetApp Partner Awards recognise the commitment of NetApp’s partners to ‘the pursuit of excellence, innovation]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:39:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat marathon effort raises £11,000 for Dreams Come True</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-marathon-effort-raises--11-000-for-dreams-come-true,c9405640</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1312221</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 23 April 2013 – Last Sunday, a marathon veteran, a first time runner, a footballer, and Sylvester the cat all joined together to run the London Marathon to raise money for the charity Dreams Come True. The Softcat team raised a total of £11,000 thanks to the generosity of friends and colleagues. If you would like to add your support to reward their hard work, it isn’t too late – please donate here (http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=SoftcatRunners&isTeam=true).

Steve Bull, James Pritchard, Alistair Musonzah and]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:12:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat takes 3,700 calls for Comic Relief pledges</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-takes-3-700-calls-for-comic-relief-pledges,c9387447</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1275462</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 18 March 2013 – 140 Softcat staff and family members rallied together on Friday night to take over 3,700 phone calls for Comic Relief, raising a substantial amount of money through public donations. The phone lines opened at 6pm at Softcat’s headquarters in Marlow, following a day of enthusiastic fundraising and fancy dress which saw the IT reseller raising £35,000 from company, employee and vendor donations.

At 5.30pm on Friday the IT Reseller transformed its headquarters into a Comic Relief call centre, and employees queued up to man the phones and do their part. The team]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:56:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat’s public sector team goes from strength to strength</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-s-public-sector-team-goes-from-strength-to-strength,c9386044</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1273503</guid><description><![CDATA[Over the last 24 months, Softcat has quietly but confidently gone about establishing itself as a credible and trusted IT supplier to the UK public sector. On the back of Softcat’s industry recognition and over 19 years’ experience in supplying a wide range of technologies to corporate clients, the initial signs indicate that public sector clients have been extremely receptive to a relatively ‘new’ supplier with proven credentials.

An ambitious three-year investment and growth plan designed to deliver public sector revenues in excess of £100m pa has helped Softcat’s public sector team]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:37:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat offers round-the-clock support</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-offers-round-the-clock-support,c9381866</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1265333</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 07 March 2013 – Softcat’s customers now have access to a 24/7, 365 days-a-year managed service support desk, from which trained Softcat engineers supply high quality, out-of-hours monitoring and support on customer infrastructure and platforms, as well as assisting end-users with a range of technical issues. The support desk, based at Softcat’s headquarters in Marlow, is manned by 40 trained engineers and managed by Simon Walker, Softcat’s managed services director.

Simon commented: “We can’t predict when an end-user is going to require technical support, but we can ensure]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:10:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat makes the call for Red Nose Day 2013</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-makes-the-call-for-red-nose-day-2013,c9373892</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1249387</guid><description><![CDATA[Softcat is proud to announce its support for Red Nose Day 2013. On Friday 15th March 2013, Red Nose Day will play host to a spectacular night of TV comedy gold and 140 Softcat staff, vendor partners, family and friends will be volunteering to receive donation calls. The call centre team will be getting active and fundraising themselves by staging a company-wide ‘Do Something Funny for Money’ 80’s fancy-dress day and holding a company raffle, all in the name of charity. 

Charles Harman and Michael Walker, Softcat’s chief charity representatives, are thrilled to have secured Softcat as one]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:45:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat wins HP’s prestigious EMEA Partner of the Year award</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-wins-hp-s-prestigious-emea-partner-of-the-year-award,c9373466</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1248488</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 20 February 2013 – Softcat has become the first ever UK HP partner to win an award at the HP Global Partner Conference, following a year of exceptional growth and overall excellence in partner support and innovation. HP’s CEO Meg Whitman presented the EMEA Partner of the Year award to Softcat’s sales director Dave Ridgway at an award ceremony hosted at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas last night.

The HP award recognises the top-performing partner across the whole of Europe, the Middle East and Asia. HP determines partner success by considering sales performance, product]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:20:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat to supply IT hardware and services to the NHS</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-to-supply-it-hardware-and-services-to-the-nhs,c9355206</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1213064</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 9 January 2013 – NOE CPC (North of England NHS Commercial Procurement Collaborative) and NHS Shared Business Services has selected Softcat, along with a small number of other suppliers, to supply IT hardware and services including financing and support options to the NHS and other institutions in the UK public sector via the ‘LINK-IT Hardware and Services’ framework contract.

Softcat, who worked closely with Lenovo within their tender response, were awarded all seven of the lots it competed for, allowing the reseller to supply: desktops, laptops, tablets and slate devices,]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:06:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New £3.8 million Softcat office really is a ‘Great Place to Work’</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/new--3-8-million-softcat-office-really-is-a--great-place-to-work-,c9350944</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1203963</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 18 December 2012 – In a bid to reflect and enhance its exciting company culture, IT provider Softcat has refurbished its new offices to provide its hard-working team with a working environment that is second to none. The ‘Great Place To Work 2012’ company moved its team into its new offices in Marlow earlier this autumn and employees can now enjoy some light relief with a quick game of pool, a wall-to-wall X-box experience, quirky décor and entertaining signage throughout.

Featuring a big red telephone box and signage showing the way to the pub, Softcat has joined the likes]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:16:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat to supply software to universities</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-to-supply-software-to-universities,c9342654</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1187279</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 29 November 2012 – The Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) has selected Softcat, along with a small number of other suppliers, to provide software licence reseller services to over a hundred higher and further education institutes in the UK. Potentially worth £60m per year, this is the first contract of its kind for UK universities to purchase software under a national agreement.

The new framework contract will help higher and further education institutes across the UK to attain the best value for their software licensing over the next three years, although]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:56:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat to double its technical team to support business growth</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-to-double-its-technical-team-to-support-business-growth,c9340907</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1183713</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 27 November 2012 – Award-winning IT reseller Softcat has plans to recruit around 40 people to bolster its team of technical staff over the next twelve months. The company is seeking experienced technical professionals to support its on-going growth and development following a phenomenally busy year in which turnover exceeded £300 million.

Softcat is recruiting for consulting services, as well as technical support positions, and is looking for experts in storage and virtualisation, networking, security, and Microsoft technologies. Some of the new recruits will work in Softcat’]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:45:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat does the double at Thames Valley Business Awards</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-does-the-double-at-thames-valley-business-awards,c9335990</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1174029</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 16 November 2012 – In an unprecedented award-winning week for Softcat, the IT reseller has now collected the prestigious ‘Business of the Year’ accolade and the RBS ‘Business Management Team of the Year’ award at the Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards, marking the company out as the most successful and dynamic business in the Thames Valley, with a truly innovative and forward-thinking management team.

The awards were presented last night at an elegant black-tie dinner at the Royal Berkshire Conference Centre at Reading’s Madejski Stadium. Martin Stanford of Sky News]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:53:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Unprecedented hat-trick for Softcat at CRN Channel Awards</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/unprecedented-hat-trick-for-softcat-at-crn-channel-awards,c9335978</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1174001</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 16 November 2012 – Last night Softcat made history by winning CRN’s prestigious ‘Reseller of the Year’ award for an unprecedented third consecutive year. The CRN Channel Awards are the channel’s premier awards evening, which recognise the ingenuity and exceptional achievements of the UK channel industry over the past twelve months.

After each shortlisted candidate presented their entries to the judges in person, the panel – made up of IT industry figures – concluded that Softcat should receive the ‘Reseller of the Year’ award for the third year in a row. Ed Byrne presented]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:15:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IT provider Softcat welcomes new deputy managing director</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/it-provider-softcat-welcomes-new-deputy-managing-director,c9318990</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1141568</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 15 October 2012 – Today, fast-growing IT provider Softcat is reinforcing its senior management team by appointing former Microsoft UK board member Colin Brown as deputy managing director.

Colin, an IT industry veteran, is joining Softcat after four years as general manager of the UK services organisation at Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, Colin spent 20 years at Computacenter, including four years as chief executive of its German business, where he had some 4,000 people reporting to him, and five years as its government sector director.

Colin commented, “I have had a]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:20:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat wins Canalys Channel Partner of the Year Award in Barcelona</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-wins-canalys-channel-partner-of-the-year-award-in-barcelona,c9316594</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1137465</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 11 October 2012 – Today Softcat is elevated to the European stage as it takes home the ‘Channel Partner of the Year’ award from the annual Canalys Channels Forum EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) event in Spain. The award, presented at Hotel Arts Barcelona, distinguishes Softcat for its consistently high volume of sales, outstanding levels of customer satisfaction and its on-going growth in a challenging economic environment. Softcat has more than doubled its turnover and staff in the last two years, and in July 2012 it announced a turnover of £307 million.

The awards are]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:54:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat announced as finalist in two National Business Awards categories</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-announced-as-finalist-in-two-national-business-awards-categories,c9291746</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1089245</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 14 August 2012 – Today, Softcat has been shortlisted for both the Huawei Customer Focus Award and the Croner Employer of the Year Award at this year’s National Business Awards in partnership with Orange. Softcat is a leading provider of software licensing, hardware, security and related IT services.
Going up against the likes of Rackspace and Baringa Partners, Softcat will battle it out for the two prestigious awards, with the winners being revealed at the National Business Awards gala dinner held on 13 November in London.
Jo Causon, judge for the Huawei Customer Focus Award]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:23:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat shoots past the £300m revenue mark</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-shoots-past-the--300m-revenue-mark,c9288292</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1081984</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 31 July 2012 – Softcat’s turnover has reached £300m, just as its financial year draws to a close. Its impressive rate of growth shows no sign of abating: it was just one year ago that the IT provider burst through the £200m revenue barrier with a full-year turnover figure of £219m.
The company has been recruiting heavily to ensure it can keep ahead of customer demand. Its headcount has doubled to almost 450 staff in the last two years and is expected to reach 500 within the next few months. It is currently planning its move to a new head office in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, to]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:41:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Greater Manchester Electronic Clinical Correspondence project set to send 5 million electronic documents</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/greater-manchester-electronic-clinical-correspondence-project-set-to-send-5-million-electronic-docum,c9284371</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1074161</guid><description><![CDATA[The Greater Manchester (GM) health economy consisting of all 10 provider organisations serving 2.8 million patients across 450 GP practices have signed a contract for up to 5 years with Softcat and PCTI Solutions to deliver the EDT Hub electronic document transfer solution.
The EDT Hub solution enables NHS provider organisations to send all of their patient clinical correspondence electronically to their respective GP practices.  The solution provided by PCTI is currently being used across over 70 provider organisations across the UK, including Acute Trusts, Mental Health Trusts and]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:07:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat is officially one of the UK’s best workplaces</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-is-officially-one-of-the-uk-s-best-workplaces,c9265378</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision499371</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 25 May 2012 – The lively, customer-centric IT provider Softcat has achieved a coveted place in the UK’s 2012 Best Workplaces list. It came 10th in the Medium Category for 75-499 employees.
Softcat’s managing director Martin Hellawell and its HR and recruitment manager Shelley Ferrigno celebrated the company’s achievement at a gala dinner held at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich last night.
“Employee welfare is the centrepiece of absolutely everything we do and everything we are as a business,” Miss Ferrigno said. “We have always done our best to keep our people enthused at]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:38:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat is Mimecast’s Premier Partner of the Year for fifth year running</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-is-mimecast-s-premier-partner-of-the-year-for-fifth-year-running,c9265320</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision499299</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 25 May 2012 – IT provider Softcat has won Mimecast’s Premier Partner of the Year award for the fifth year running, thanks to its exceptional sales figures and passion for customer service.
Alan Kenny, general manager at unified email management company Mimecast, presented the award at its black tie event in London last night.
“For the fifth year running, Softcat has added tremendous value to what we do,” he said. “Their hard work and commitment have been instrumental in helping us to retain our customers and maintain our strong year-on-year growth. We are delighted to present]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 08:31:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat to supply backup, archiving and networking solutions to the education sector</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-to-supply-backup--archiving-and-networking-solutions-to-the-education-sector,c9260929</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision494797</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 16 May 2012 – The Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC) has appointed Softcat, among a select group of suppliers, to provide backup, archiving and networking solutions to a wide range of institutions involved in further education throughout the UK.

Softcat has been successful in adding two framework lots – ‘backup and archiving’ and ‘networking equipment’ – to the four that it was awarded by the CPC in January. The CPC had decided to defer these lots, which form part of its framework contract for ‘network hardware and services including servers and data storage’, until later]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 08:43:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat wins the double at Sophos partner conference</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-wins-the-double-at-sophos-partner-conference,c9259671</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision493544</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 14 May 2012 – Softcat won two major awards – Partner of the Year and Corporate Reseller of the Year – at the EMEA Partner Connections 2012 conference hosted by Sophos, the developer of security software and hardware, at the Grand Hotel Princesa Sofia in Barcelona.

The IT provider is Sophos’ biggest partner in the corporate market. It generated £3.2m revenue from Sophos products in the year ending 31 March 2012, which represents a 28% increase on last year’s sales. Softcat attributes much of this growth to new business: its Sophos sales to new customers in the last year were]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:52:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat managed firewall service reaches 100th customer</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-managed-firewall-service-reaches-100th-customer,c9259512</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision493407</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 14 May 2012 – Softcat has recently signed up the 100th customer to use its managed firewall support service. The service, which forms part of Softcat’s growing managed services security portfolio, offers clients proactive availability monitoring and protection against malicious attacks over the Internet.

Malicious attacks jumped 81% in 2011 with over 4,500 new incidents every day, according to a recent report by Symantec. Not surprisingly, IT security is now one of the top concerns of many companies. As users become more mobile, perimeter security and availability of the core]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 08:10:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Softcat to supply IT related parts and accessories to Universities</title><link>http://news.cision.com/softcat/r/softcat-to-supply-it-related-parts-and-accessories-to-universities,c9257619</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision491371</guid><description><![CDATA[Marlow, UK, 4 May 2012 – The SUPC Universities purchasing consortium has selected Softcat, along with five other suppliers, to provide IT related parts and accessories to over 100 higher and further education institutes in the UK.
Potentially worth between £26-£60m, the new framework contract will help higher and further education institutes across the UK to attain the best value for their IT parts and accessories over the next two years, although SUPC retains the options to extend the Framework for up to a further two years.
This will be Softcat’s first year on the ITRAP Framework]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 08:41:53 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>