6 World Wide Technology
YoY growth: 62%
UK revenues: £2.55bn
Oxygen 250 ranking: 2nd
Specialism: Global enterprise IT provider
The world’s second-largest technology solutions provider (behind only CDW) has grown rapidly to occupy the same position in the UK.
Having first opened a London office in 2012, the $20bn-revenue, Missouri-headquartered goliath saw its calendar 2024 top line here balloon by more than 60% to $3.192bn (£2.55bn), according to numbers it broke out for us. Its tally for the wider EMEA region topped $5bn.
WWT counts NVIDIA, Cisco, Dell, HPE, NetApp, F5, Intel, Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks as its nine strategic vendors.
Recent moves
While others were pulling party poppers, WWT saw in the new year by announcing its first acquisition in a decade – and it was a biggie. Purchasing $2.2bn-sales, Canada-based software reseller Softchoice will bolster its software, cloud, cybersecurity and AI offerings, CEO Jim Kavanaugh claimed.
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