| Business Description: Formed in the late 1980s Double Z has successfully managed the iconic characters of Zig & Zag, Podge & Rodge and Dustin in award winning TV shows in Ireland, the UK and the USA and in a range of spin offs including CDs, DVDs, books, Stage shows and mobile phone apps. Continuously reinventing the characters, the latest adventure for Zig & Zag is an animated series set to launch on CBBC in 2013. |
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| Products & Services: A creative team that reinvents existing characters and brings new characters to life on TV, Stage, Screen and in Print. |
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| Value Proposition: Double Z : An award winning, internationally successful team of creators, writers and performers, responsible for the launch of the iconic characters, Zig & Zag, Podge & Rodge and Dustin the Turkey, can bring your idea to life on television, stage, screen, in print or as licensed product. |
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| Sector(s) Served: •Technology •Software •TV Productions •Merchandising •Stage Shows •Publishing •Children’s Entertainment •Entertainment •TV Formats •Advertising, Marketing & Sales |
Geographical Market(s) Served: UK and USA |
| Key Clients: •RTE •BBC •ITV •Channel 4 •MTV •Largo Foods •Sky |
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| Address: 3 Wynnefield Road Rathmines Dublin 6 |
Contact Details: Sales Contact: Mr Ronan McCabe Phone: +353 (01 – 4979737) eMail: info@dze.ie Website: www.dze.ie |
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Trust5
| Business Description: Provision of managed mobile games services. Trust5 is an Irish based company that has been involved in mobile development for over ten years. For the last four years the primary focus of the company has been on the provision of managed mobile games services, offering a fully hosted and managed content delivery platform for mobile games. Trust5 is continuing to develop new services in the mobile and social games market and will launch the T5Live Games platform in early 2012. |
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| Products & Services: The Trust5 Mobile Games Platform is a hosted and managed service that is offered to mobile operators and game publishers. The platform offers clients a fully integrated end-to-end service for creating, managing and promoting mobile games services. The platform is comprised of a number of different modules including a mobile optimised CMS, a catalogue management application, publishing tools, Android DRM capabilities and a flexible global billing application that supports pay per download and micro-transaction models. Separately, Trust5 is developing a Live Games Platform that enables our clients to customise and promote their own sports related social games. |
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| Value Proposition: With a wealth of mobile experience, Trust5 manages the demands and complexity of operating mobile games services. This allows our customers to focus on what they excel at, namely creating, developing and marketing their games. Our flexible commercial model allows customers to grow their service with minimal upfront investment. A track record of maintaining long standing trusted relationships with our customers is testimony to the value that we bring. |
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| Sector(s) Served: •Technology •Software •Telecommunications •Mobile •mGaming |
Geographical Market(s) Served: UK, Europe, US |
| Key Clients: •EAMobile •PopCap Mobile Games •O2 •Vodafone •Irish Rugby |
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| Address: Unit 3Bracken Business Park Bracken Road Sandyford Industrial Estate Dublin 18 |
Contact Details: Sales Contact: Mr Patrick Fearon Phone: +353 (01 – 4885700) eMail: sales@trust5.com Website: www.trust5.com |
TileFilms
| Business Description: Tile Films Limited was founded in 1989 by leading Irish Director and Producer, Stephen Rooke. The company has been operating as a successful, high end, factual production company specialising in Documentary & film production for 22 years. |
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| Products & Services: The company specialises in producing Irish and International HD documentaries and films on: - Natural History - People - History - Art & Culture - Travel - Science Tile also produces documentaries and films for the educational markets. More recently it has begun to produce feature length drama documentary for TV and cinema release. |
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| Value Proposition: Working with our broadcaster clients our focus is very much on their viewer’s expectations so as much as possible we customise our programming ensuring it fits with their audiences expectations. Our goal is to deliver high end programming at a competitive cost and we achieve this with a team of dedicated experienced talented and committed professionals. Creativity and quality lies at the core of Tile’s ethos as does our commitment to deliver quality programming tailored to our client’s requirements on time and within budget. The end game is to ensure our programming holds their audiences attention. |
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| Standards & Certification: Tilefilms comply with all International standards set by Broadcasters worldwide. It also adheres to all Health and Safety standards in each country it films in. |
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| Sector(s) Served: •Technology •Software •TV production •TV Formats •Entertainment •Education •Media |
Geographical Market(s) Served: England/Wales, Mainland Europe, North America, Asia and Pacific Rim generally. |
| Key Clients: •TV3 •BBC •BBC NI •S4C •History USA •HistoryCanada •Canwest •Vision TV Canada •National Geographic Channel •The Learning Channel •UR Sweden •SRG SSR Switzerland •YLE Finland •France 5 •Channel 4 •DR TV Denmark •TV Catalunya Spain •Hong Kong Cable TV |
Key Partners: •RTÉ •TG4 •ZDF •ZDF Enterprises •History Channel UK •Smithsonian Networks •The Irish Film Board •The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland |
| Address: 13 Windsor Place Dublin 2 |
Contact Details: Sales Contact: Stephen Rooke (Ireland) Keith Farrell(UK) Email: stephen@tilefilms.ie (Ireland) keithf@tilefilms.co.uk (UK) Telephone: +353 1 6114646 (Ireland) + 44 161 8668634 (UK) Website : www.tilefilms.ie (Ireland) www.tilefilms.co.uk (UK) Social Media: Youtube VideoShare |
Samson Films
| Business Description: Feature films & TV drama production Samson Films are the producers of John Carney’s Once (2006) , the Oscar winning and Sundance Independent Spirit low-budget musical. As one of Ireland’s leading feature film production companies, Samson develops its own material and also acts as a co-producer and executive producer on a wide range of Irish, European and international projects. The company has been awarded slate funding by the Irish Film Board and the EU MEDIA programme. Recent films include The Moth Diaries, written and directed by Mary Harron and Grabbers, written by Kevin Lehane and directed by Jon Wright |
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| Products & Services: We develop and produce fictional feature films, television drama and scripted comedy. |
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| Value Proposition: Samson Films is best known as a creative Film and Television drama production company. It originates and co-produces work with Irish and European Talent for international cinema and broadcast markets Major awards include an Oscar for “ONCE” written and directed by John Carney and 5 Irish Film and Television Awards for our ground breaking series “PURE MULE”. We look to partner with Filmmakers and Television drama Producers who share our creative ambitions. |
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| Sector(s) Served: •Technology •Entertainment •Media •TV Formats |
Geographical Market(s) Served: Canada,England /Wales,United States of America |
| Key Clients: •Fox Searchlight •BBC •Film Four • RTE •TV3 |
Key Partners: Producers in Germany andCanada |
| Address: The Barracks 76 Irishtown Road Dublin 4 |
Contact Details: Sales Contact: Mary Claire White Phone: +353 (01 – 6670533) eMail: info@samsonfilms.com Website: www.samsonfilms.com/ Social Media: Individual films and television programmes on Facebook and YouTube |
OBELISK Group
| Business Description: Obelisk is a prvately owned Group that was formed in 1996. Since then it has grown steadily to a diversifed professional services group with 250 employees and turnover of €30m pa. Obelisk operates three key business units: 1. The Telecommunications business provides a comprehensive range of services for the mobile and fixed line telecommunications infrastructure industry 2. The Power Transmission and Distribution business provides specialist services for design and construction of power transmission and substation infrastructure 3. The Renewable Energy business provides wind emasurement services including metmasts and operations and maintenance services for wind farm operators. |
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| Products & Services: 1. Obelisk Group is a leading provider of infrastructure services for the markets of Irish mobile telecommunications, power transmission and distribution and renewable wind energy. Obelisk has a unique service provision capability that can meet all of the requirements of the telecommunications providers and specialist requirements for energy providers through a comprehensive skill base of over 250 in-house experienced professionals. Services include radio planning, site acquisition, design and construction, commissioning upgrade and optimisation for both fixed line and mobile telecommunications networks. 2. Obelisk has the experience of providing turnkey solutions to all of the major mobile operators in Ireland. We provide solutions involving wireless and fibre based infrastructure and have delivered all aspects of mobile infrastructure over the past 15 years. We have acquired over 1,000 sites and constructed over 2,500 sites in the past 2 years. In addition Obelisk has completed a number of contracts for fixed line operators including FTTC (fibre to street-side cabinet) and FTTH (Fibre to the home) rollout. 3. Obelisk is the largest provider of mobile infrastructure operation and maintenance services in Ireland managing the day to day quality of approximately 80% of the mobile networks in Ireland. 4. We provide power transmission infrastructure services to Irish and UK based power generators including line design, procurement, implementation, testing and substation construction. 5. Obelisk is a leading supplier of met masts to the wind energy industry in Ireland and the UK with installation teams in both Ireland and Scotland. We also service some operation and maintenance (O&M) contracts for emerging wind farms in Ireland and the UK. |
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| Value Proposition: Obelisk has developed with the Telecommunications and Power industries in Ireland through being truly customer centric. As a result our business has developed a strong reputation for being solution orientated which is at the core of our value proposition. This core value is demonstrated in the success we have delivered in Programme Management of all of the significant telecommunications rollouts of the past 10 years in Ireland. Obelisk combines the rigour and experience of Programme Management with the breadth of skills needed to give customers a complete working solution. An investment in an exemplary Health and Safety record and process driven service gives customers confidence to trust us to get the job done to the standards required. Obelisk is trusted to deliver Programmes where customers are unsure of new technology and rely on a supplier to make the solution work. We get the difficult and complex work and we deliver. We understand that by making our customers succeed we develop a strong working relationship with them and our business grows with theirs. |
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| Standards & Certification: ISO 9001:2008, ISO14001:2004 and ISO18001:2004 Achilles and Lloyds accreditation in the UK NISO Best Subcontractor in Ireland in 2010 |
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| Sector(s) Served: •ICT •Technology •Software •Hardware •Telecommunication •Renewable Energy •Warehousing •Logistics •Construction |
Geographical Market(s) Served: N. Ireland,UK,South Africa |
| Key Customers: •BT •Vodafone •Eircom •Meteor •O2•Alcatel Lucent •Ericsson •Telefonica •Hauwei•NSN•ESB |
Key Partners: Obelisk provides most services from our inhouse professional base supported by a small number of selected subcontractors |
| Address: Enterprise Centre Dublin Road Cavan Co Cavan |
Contact Details: Phone: +353 (049 – 4371044 eMail: info@obelisk.com Website: www.obelisk.com |
Marino Software
| Business Description: Marino was founded in 2006 and works with leaders in Education and Entertainment such as Sesame Workshop, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Interactive Services to produce innovate apps to entertain and educate children and adults. The team at Marino have many years experience in elearning and mobile gaming technology along with expertise in leading the design on interactive learning products and platforms. |
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| Products & Services: Marino provides design and development expertise for technology platforms including Apples iOS and Mac, Googles Android, Microsofts Windows and Windows Phone along with web applications and cloud computing. Education and learning games are our speciality. In addition Marino has developed platforms for interactive storytelling on mobile devices and a content distribution platform for publishers and media companies. |
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| Value Proposition: Marino provides development and design expertise in creating cross platform applications for making learning fun. We make cross platform applications for mobile along with web and desktop platforms including Apple’s iOS (iphone, iPad, iPod Touch & Mac OS X), Google’s Android, and Microsoft’s Windows and Mobile platforms. With years of experience in learning, gaming and entertainment apps Marino is efficient and knowledgeable about the solutions required in these industries. Marino works closely with world-class entertainment and learning organisations, Sesame Workshop, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Interactive Services to deliver best of class apps. Alongside our custom development services we offer cross platform publishing solutions for distributing content that can be licensed at a much lower cost and get to market faster than going through custom development. Marino’s cross platform publishing solutions are easy to use, regularly updated and support is always available. Marino takes care of all the technical and app design parts so you can focus on making your content available to a larger market as fast as possible. |
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| Sector(s) Served: •Technology •Software •Media •Mobile Applications •Mobile gaming •Education •Entertainment •Publishing•eLearning |
Geographical Market(s) Served: United States, UK and Ireland |
| Key Customers: •Sesame Street •Houghton Mifflin Harcourt •Amazing Techechnologies •Interactive Services •Fountainhead •Aviva •Topaz •Heineken •ASDA •Zoo Digital •Sony •Solo Optics •MTV •Damien Hirst •Evolve Mobile •Agency.com |
Key Partners: •Interactive Services |
| Address: 1st Floor 4 Marino Mart Fairview Dublin 3 |
Contact Details: Sales Contact: Keith Davey Phone: +353 (01 – 8337392) eMail: keith@marinosoftware.com Website: www.marinosoftware.com Social Media: Blog |
Beactive International
| Business Description: beActive is a TV, Film and Digital production company with a decade of experience in international TV and Film co-productions, digital content production, format development, and licensing. With offices in Dublin, London, Lisbon and Sao Paulo and a joint-venture with a Toronto-based production company, the company is able to offer the best co-production expertise whilst at the same time tapping into some of the most interesting Tax Credits and soft money schemes available from Ireland, Canada and Brazil. Recently the companies set up a Private Equity fund with FICA FUND that allows the company to co-invest in TV, Film and Digital properties and franchises. |
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| Products & Services: Recent TV co-productions include Sofia’s Diary UK and Sofia’s Diary China for Sony Pictures Television, the HBO Canada series “The Line” and “Living in Your Car” distributed by Shine Reveille, the Emmy nominated mini-series Final Punishment, shot in Brazil and the feature film “The Knot” feauturing Noel Clarke, Mena Suvari and Talulah Riley. beActive has also a Digital Media Studio developing Social Media experiences, Mobile Apps and fully multi-platform content experiences around their TV shows and Films. |
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| Value Proposition: beActive is a Film, TV and Transmedia production company, experienced in developing entertainment content across multiple platforms and in creatively engaging audiences in brand-initiated drama. With a worldwide distribution, beActive started off in 2003 with the multi-platform hit series Sofia’s Diary and has since achieved an extensive track record of award-winning Transmedia franchises and branded content for a client base of prominent international studios, broadcasters, telcos and brands (Sony Pictures, Universal, RTE, RTP, Fiver, Vodafone, Oi, Bebo, Unilever, Nestle, Ford, Procter & Gamble, Nivea).beActive is also involved in international TV & Film co-productions. The most recent include Sofia’s Diary UK and Sofia’s Diary China for Sony Pictures Television, HBO Canada primetime series The Line and Living In Your Car, Emmy-nominated Brazilian mini-series Final Punishment and the UK film production The Knot, featuring Mena Suvari. |
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| Standards & Certification: Sofia’s Diary UK nominated for Broadcast Digital Channel Awards 2008. Aisling’s Diary, nominated for the Best Multi-screen format, C21 Format Awards 2008. Aisling’s Diary, nominated for Best Children’s Programme (TV category), IFTA Awards 2009. Nominee Ernst & Young Emerging Irish Entrepreneur of the year 2009. Final Punishment, nominated for International Digital Emmy Awards 2010. Aisling’s Diary, nominated for Best Children’s / Youth Programme (TV category), IFTA Awards 2010. Aisling’s Diary (Christmas special), winner of Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie in the Teen/Tween Category, Kidscreen Awards 2010. Beat Generation Ireland/UK nominated for Best Multi-screen format, C21 International Format Awards 2010 Aisling’s Summer Diary, winner of Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie in the Teen/Tween Category, Kidscreen Awards 2011 |
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| Sector(s) Served: •Technology •Software •Transmedia •Gaming •mGaming •Entertainment •Publishing •Digital Publishing •Media •Education eLearning •Mobile |
Geographical Market(s) Served: Australia,England /Wales/Portugal /Brazil /US |
| Key Customers: •Sony •FOX •Setanta Sports •RTE •Channel 5 •Oi •Sappo.pt •Youtube•Pringles •Nivea •Harmony •Nestlé •Shockwaves •Unilever •OI Telecom Nair •Universal •Gillette |
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| Address: 87 Waterloo Road Ballsbridge Dublin 4 |
Contact Details: Sales Contact: Isabe Lopes Phone: +353 (01 – 4404205 eMail: iml@beactivemedia.com Website: www.beactivemedia.com Social Media: Youtube – beactivebereal Youtube – beComedyLab Youtube – beactivebechilled Youtube – beactivetv |
Scale-up Systems
| Business Description: Scale-up Systems Ltd. (SuS) is a privately held technology company founded in 1994, owned by executives, staff and institutional investors. DynoChem software was originally developed at Zeneca in the mid-1990s. Following its successful application to a range of troubleshooting projects for pharma manufacturing, SuS acquired full ownership in 2000. Today SuS is dedicated to producing fit-for-purpose software and services to accelerate process development in the pharma industry. An example of SuS commitment is the sponsorship of the AIChE Award for Excellence in QbD (Quality by Design) for Drug Substance. |
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| Products & Services: DynoChem® is the world’s leading process development and scale-up software for scientists and engineers working in the pharmaceutical industry. Scale-up Systems helps companies to increase their productivity in R&D and Manufacturing, enable collaboration across traditional boundaries and embrace Quality by Design. |
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| Value Proposition: “Accelerating Process Development” Our company is based around the objective of productivity. In order to help you increase your productivity, it is critical that your team has access to tools that can quickly answer questions and to the required degree of accuracy. For more than 10 years Scale-up Systems has partnered with our customers to implement strategies that help them accelerate process development and improve their decision-making processes. Licensing our DynoChem? software gives you access to industry-proven tools for all unit operations and enables you to leverage our global team of industry consultants to help you address your project objectives. Our customers say that DynoChem is an indispensable toolkit that is fit-for-purpose in today’s evolving pharma industry. |
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| Standards & Certification: •Microsoft Partner – Gold Independent Software Vendor (ISV) |
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| Sector(s) Served: •ICT •Technology •Software •Pharmaceuticals •Agrochemicals •Speciality Chemicals |
Geographical Market(s) Served: •USA•Europe•India•China |
| Key Customers: •Pfizer•Eli Lilly •Bristol-Myers Squibb •Merck •AstraZeneca |
Key Partners: •Microsoft |
| Address: The Victoria Building 2 Haddington Road Dublin 4 |
Contact Details: Phone: +353 (01 – 6675232) eMail: info@scale-up.com Website: www.scale-up.com Social Media: Linkedin – Groups Linkedin-Scale-up Systems Twitter – DynoChem Youtube Blog Scale-Up Online News Slideshare |
IMS MAXIMS
| Business Description: IMS MAXIMS is a leader in high-quality electronic patient record systems. Our products enable healthcare providers to make significant efficiency gains and to improve patient services, by ensuring every member of staff responsible for a patients care, is able to access everything about that patient at any time without reverting to paper. Our aim is to be the first choice for customers and to set the standard by which our competitors measure themselves. |
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| Products & Services: There are IMS MAXIMS products for each of the following areas: - Patient administration and information - Order communications and diagnostic reporting - Patient correspondence - Patient service and activity scheduling - Sexual and reproductive health - Electronic discharge documentation - Bed management - Integrated care pathways - User defined assessments In addition IMS MAXIMS offers a wide variety of departmental systems including Emergency Department, Therapies, Spinal Injuries, Cancer Care, Cardiology, Care of the Elderly |
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| Value Proposition: IMS MAXIMS is a leader in high-quality clinical patient administration systems. We pride ourselves on having the essential ability, agility and ambition to deliver exactly what our customers want – whether it’s for a major hospital trust or a small independent clinic. Our products enable healthcare providers to make significant efficiency gains and to improve patient services. Our aim is to be the first choice for customers and to set the standard by which our competitors measure themselves. Over 100 UK hospitals in the UK and Ireland and more than 30,000 system users already benefit from our solutions, and the numbers are growing all the time. Customers value the way that IMS MAXIMS products combine robustness with creative flair. Our products are reliable, advanced, flexible and effective. They have been developed with extensive input from clinicians and other healthcare professionals, so the systems operate in a way that is intuitive for users. No two healthcare customers have identical needs, so we adapt our products and services to suit each client. This approach has helped IMS MAXIMS establish a reputation for being good to work with – something we value extremely highly. We are also constantly looking to the future and have a talented team of software developers whose role it is to create the next generation of innovative solutions to support the healthcare sector. Our healthcare customer base includes acute trusts, community trusts, teaching hospitals, general hospitals, regional authorities, social services, doctors and consultants supporting, in all, over 100 hospitals with approximately 30,000 users. Furthermore IMS MAXIMS has involvement in the independent sector with organisations such as General Healthcare Group, CareUKand UK Specialist Hospitals as well as 15 organisations that use our PreView Sexual Health Clinic Management System. |
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| Standards & Certification: ISO 9001ISO 9001 |
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| Sector(s) Served: •Technology •Software •ICT Healthcare •Medical |
Geographical Market(s) Served: England /Wales |
| Key Customers: •Guy’s andSt Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London •Leopardstown ParkHospital, Dublin •Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust •Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, Liverpool •St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust •GreatOrmondStreetHospitalNHS Trust, London •ImperialCollegeTeaching Hospitals NHS Trust, London •Stoke Mandeville Hospitals NHS Trust •Nottingham University Hospital •Sherwood Forest Hospital NHS Trust •St Georges Healthcare NHS Trust |
Key Partners: •Dell •British Telecom •HSE •Highland Marketing |
| Address: Clara House Glenageary Park Glenageary Co Dublin |
Contact Details: Phone: +353 (01 – 2840555) eMail: enquiries@imsmaxims.com Website: www.imsmaxims.com Social Media: |
Phorest
| Business Description: CRM & online booking software for beauty salons |
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| Products & Services: Phorest Salon Software is a web based CRM, appointment scheduling and POS software application that helps Salons, Spas and health clinics run their business and improve their processes such as online booking and stock control. |
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| Value Proposition: ‘We help Salons increase the average spend of their customers’ Phorest enables salons increase the spend of their client base using a unique loyalty and online booking program. We enable salon owners collect valuable information on their business through our salon software application and then utilise that data to extract more value from their existing client base. Phorest’s key strengths are: 1. The “Kinesthetic” interface which we designed specifically for people working in the hair and beauty industry who are notoriously computer phobic. We have had significant success with this interface which gets salon owners to adopt technology much quicker. 2. Award Winning Training. Phorest has developed some online training curriculum which have been very successful in enabling salon owners to grow their businesses much quicker than the competition using Phorest Salon Software. In 2009 Phorest became the first software company to win a beauty training award (IBPA Best Training Award) |
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| Sector(s) Served: •ICT •Technology •Software•Hair and Beauty |
Geographical Market(s) Served: Ireland and the UK primarily. We also have customers in India, Malta, South Africa and the US. |
| Key Customers: Phorest has over 800 salon clients. |
Key Partners: •Dermalogica •ABT |
| Address: 100 Capel Street Dublin 1 |
Contact Details: Phone: +353 (01 – 8747800) eMai: info@phorest.com Website: www.phorest.com Social Media: Blog |
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