Revenue: £506.8m (-52%)
Staff: 909
Headline revenues at this Portsmouth-based IT infrastructure provider roughly halved in its year to 31 March 2025 as it chose to go forward without its non-core procurement arm, Nomia (as well as rentals arm Hamilton Rentals).
Bell’s continuing operations – which focus on systems integration, managed services, cloud migration, IT asset management and consultancy – saw turnover slip 7% to £504.7m. Gross profit from continuing operations powered up by more than a fifth to £52.5m, while EBITDA fell from £13.7m to £8.5m on the same basis.
The Dell, IBM, Nutanix, Pure Storage, AWS, Microsoft and Nice partner plans to establish “significant operations” in the Middle East after setting up shop in the UAE during the period. It counts financial services, infrastructure, logistics and global charities among its key verticals.
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Bell founder Alastair Bell in September cut the ribbon on its new data centre technology and IT lifecycle services facility, ‘E2’.
