Glen Group PLC
22 February 2005
Glen Group plc
New sales appointments at Glen Group
as operations roll out into England
Edinburgh based, Glen Group plc, the AIM listed IT and communications
integration business announce the recruitment of its first English based sales
executives through its operating company Glen Communications Limited ('Glen') as
it prepares to open the first office outside Scotland. The new sales executives
will cover an area broadly equivalent to Yorkshire and Northumberland and once
the customer base has grown sufficiently it is expected a local office will be
opened. At the same time, Glen has increased its Scottish sales operation and by
early March, expects to have eight sales executives dedicated to growing their
operations in Scotland and the North of England.
Glen will continue to enlarge this sales operation, hiring additional
experienced sales professionals throughout the year as it expands its sphere of
operations throughout the UK. This recruitment is necessary to achieve the
Group's strategy of providing a local presence with national support for its
portfolio of integrated IT and communications products and services, focused on
the use of Internet Protocol (IP) technologies. Glen is also intending to expand
through acquisition into related services and into other geographic areas when
suitable target companies have been identified.
Commenting on the appointments and roll out, Graham J Duncan, Glen's Chief
Executive commented:
'I am pleased that we have been able to move quickly after our successful AIM
listing at the beginning of December last year. Our business is very focused on
the execution of a strategy that will see us deploy a sales, sales support, IT
and IT support organisation throughout the UK.
Focused on selling and supporting a wide range of communication and IT services,
we believe that we can deliver a one-stop-shop approach to the complicated
business of integrating these types of services. Although large corporate
organisations tend to have in-house expertise, SMEs do not have these resources.
With many applications, including voice services, moving to adopt IP
technologies, we believe that a significant market is opening up for an
integration skill set. We intend to capitalise on this change, which we believe
will have profound implications over time for the way that SMEs organise and
access their systems.'
Enquiries:
Glen Group plc
Graham Duncan, Chief Executive 0131 654 9479
gjduncan@glencommunications.co.uk
Walters Associates
Alex Walters 07771713608
alex@waltersassociates.uk.com
Notes to Editors:
About Glen Group plc
Glen is an AIM listed IT and communications integration business providing a
wide range of communications and IT services to SMEs in the United Kingdom. Glen
has been operating from Scotland since early 2002 and the Directors intend to
expand its geographic base through acquisitions and organic growth, rolling-out
its services across the UK.
Glen was established by Graham Duncan, who has been involved in the
communications industry at a senior level for over 20 years. Mr. Duncan was the
founder and Executive Chairman of Atlantic Telecom Group PLC, which built or
operated telecommunications networks in the 'last mile' or 'local loop' in three
European countries and employed over 1,100 people. Atlantic Telecom, which
developed out of a start-up cable TV business, was based in Aberdeen and grew
both organically and through acquisitions and its shares were listed on the
Official List in London in January 1995.
The current products and services offered by the Group are divided into the
following seven categories:
• IT Solutions
Glen offers a full range of IT solutions for its clients' voice, data and video
needs.
• Broadband Voice (VoIP)
Broadband voice is a step-change technology that allows voice to travel over
data networks. The Group offers a suite of products available from a range of
suppliers that allows the integration of voice services onto customers'
broadband networks.
• Mobile
The Group offers an account management service that manages customers' mobile
accounts with any of the five mobile networks in the UK.
• Internet Service Provision
The Group offers two types of service, managed and self-installed. The managed
services portfolio can be provided in conjunction with various suppliers who
provide ISP services and connectivity across the UK. Alternatively, the Group
provides clients with self installed ISP services using dial-up, ISDN, ADSL and
SDSL broadband.
• Telecom Solutions
The Group offers a wide range of telecoms-specific services, including advice on
CPS and traditional voice-based technologies. In addition, Glen Communications
owns and operates two branded prepaid phone card services: The 'Pumpkin' card
and the 'Scotland Phonecard'
• Tracking
The Group offers a mobile SIM tracking service, which allows business customers
to track, their mobile assets by polling the SIM card in a mobile phone or
mobile device.
• Wireless
Group personnel have expertise in advising customers on wireless products such
as WiFi.
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