M2 doubles salesforce and regional office network following record growth
One year on from its acquisition by SCC, Managed Print Services business M2 has invested more than £1.5m in doubling its salesforce and regional office network following record growth.
M2 was acquired by SCC, Europe’s biggest independent IT services provider, in February 2014 and has since recorded an unprecedented number of new business wins.
That growth has enabled £1.5m of investment back into the business, in the shape of several strategic initiatives to further cement M2’s position as the UK’s leading Managed Print Services business.
With plans to double the size of its salesforce in FY16 underway, M2 has also expanded its office network to include: London, Bracknell, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, with a dedicated Scotland office under development.
M2 CEO John Taylor said: “Our growth within the large national corporate customers and Pan-European environment has been exceptional, with seven FTSE 100 and 35 FTSE 250 organisations selecting M2 for its expertise, service excellence, and people in recent years.
“This has driven growth through multi-year managed service contracts. And we are seeing more regional based customers realise the value of managed print in helping drive down cost, waste, and risk.
“This is a move away from the basic provisioning of product and consumables with a simple service provision.”
M2 already manages and serves more than 25,000 devices across the UK and expects to see this number grow rapidly as a result of complementing its national operational footprint with a closer regional customer and sales footprint.
Taylor added: “With the growing technical, complex nature of managed print, we are seeing many customers struggling to find quality, service excellence, and friendly organisations to trust in helping implement such services.
“With our pedigree, national capability and parentage we feel best placed to serve these customers – but only if we are closer to them, hence the investment in our regional network.
“This new regional branch strategy ensures we are closer, more local and thus more relevant to those regional customers. With this we can help regional customers maximise the benefits of managed print typically driving 30% savings from more basic or traditional services.
“It underpins our customer centric culture and customer experience strategy, not least demonstrated by our Customer Experience Director, Vikki Smith, who manages customer loyalty and satisfaction.”
Earlier in 2015, Photizo once again listed M2 in its Leaders Index as one of the world’s leading independent providers in managed print services.
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Shaun Staff
Marketing Communications Manager
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shaun.staff@scc.com
About SCC
We enable people to do business by planning, supplying, integrating and managing their IT. We make IT work through partnership, knowledge and passion: trusted to run IT infrastructure services for leading business across Europe for 40 years.
Points of interest:
- Europe’s largest independent IT Services business
- Top 3 UK Data Centre & Cloud Services provider
- The technology division of Rigby Group PLC
- Profitable track record since 1975
- SCC revenues: £1.55bn
- Over 5,000 employees
- Supporting more than 5 million users
- Leading strategic partner to all key vendors.
About M2
M2 is Europe’s leading independent Managed Print Services provider. Our 20 year track record reducing costs, waste and risk speaks for itself. We put you firmly back in control of your print estate by proactively managing your print infrastructure with full-service transparency. Our strength is M2 Intelligence – our own MPS platform. It drives our performance to deliver the service levels you expect on a nationwide basis and gives you information rich visibility. We are widely acknowledged for our reporting prowess and focus on the customer experience.
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