MSPs are “critical to the success of the UK economy”, Giacom COO Nathan Marke proclaimed as he pulled out his highlights from Oxygen Fast-Growth 50.
Published earlier this month, the report highlights 50 of the UK’s fastest-growing IT solutions providers by headcount.
Together, they added 1,680 employees during the three-year period under review.
Produced in partnership with Giacom, Fast-Growth 50 also sought to tease out some of the stories behind that growth.
“Planet IT is really punching above its weight and doing brilliant things,” Marke said when asked to pick out some of his report highlights.
“It’s just a fantastic story about those guys and how they did it – from car washing to becoming a really successful MSP.”
“Croft have been building an MSP and getting tremendous scale through acquisition, but starting more from a comms background,” Marke added.
“Both are really tremendous entrepreneurial stories.”
“One common feature”
The 50 companies featured in Fast-Growth 50 include MSPs, MSSPs, public cloud and software consultancies and resellers.
All have “one common feature”, Marke said, however – namely “high growth, driven by entrepreneurs that are trying to do amazing things for their SMB customers”.
The MSP movement is growing and is beginning to play a “critical role in the success of the UK economy”, Marke added.
“SMBs are still not using technology very well. They’re very exposed to security risks and are not getting the best out of their technology investments,” he said.
“We’ve got a strong belief that good-quality MSPs are able to solve the productivity problem for SMBs.”
Marke added: “We are very passionate about trying to elevate and promote the community of MSPs out there in the UK, so that SMBs become more aware of the options they have to work with these specialist technology providers local to them.”
Marke estimated that there are around 15,000 “reasonably sized” channel business in the UK.
“About 6,000 work with Giacom,” he said.
“Of your slice of 50 of these smaller, fast-growing businesses, about 20 happen to also be Giacom customers, so I was delighted some of them made it.”
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