6. Total Computers acquired by boxxe
Revenues of acquired company: £88m
Month: January
Rationale
Public sector specialist boxxe acquired Total last January, partly to gain a foothold in the corporate space.
Total’s recent acquisition of OverBright “has some higher-end consultancy skills which are going to be really useful for us,” boxxe CEO Phil Doye told IT Channel Oxygen at the time.
“The combined business is going to be somewhere around £625m [revenues] in 2024, which gives us a really good base to start thinking about how we get to £1bn quickly,” he explained.
What happened next?
Total’s brand vanished from view on 1 September 2024 as boxxe completed its integration of the Kettering-based reseller.
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