The company has posted sales up 54% year-on-year, earning an acknowledgement as one of the UK’s top tech companies in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 list.
The 2008 Tech Track 100 ranks Britain’s fastest-growing private technology companies based on their sales growth over the last two years.
Probrand is recognised as ‘a company whose business growth and success is dependent on the development of technologies, and has evidence of technological innovation with regards to a product or service’ (Tech Track categorisation).
And it is the fact that its online IT procurement site is helping people buy IT for less money that is maintaining growth, says Probrand MD, Peter Robbins:
"In the current challenging environment everyone is looking to save time and money as well as stretch the reach of their existing budgets. This is exactly what www.theitindex.co.uk does.
"The public sector in particular is alive to the need for more efficient ways of working and our IT marketplace is giving end users the opportunity to help relieve the perceived burden associated with buying IT and related tasks like administration and accounting.
"This dynamic buying tool streamlines the entire process eliminating the need for people to spend hours calling suppliers for best price and availability before manually comparing information ahead of buying.
"Our current sales are very encouraging."
www.theitindex.co.uk daily updates over 125,000 products with best price and availability. It is accredited as offering Best Practice Best Value by the Institute of Chartered Accountants. As a buyers 'tool' it is saving end users an average of a working week in time every month and 10% on IT budgets.
(November 2008)