Office move to help tech firm to grow

NORTH East tech firm Razorblue has expanded into a new base to help support its continued rapid growth.

The company, winner of the services award at last year’s North East Business Awards, has its head office in Catterick, North Yorkshire, and has grown rapidly over the last few years.

It now has seven offices employing more than 140 people, including bases in Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, London and Edinburgh.

The IT-managed service provider, founded in 2007 by chief executive Dan Kitchen with an initial team of two, is moving its Teesside office to Admiralty House at the riverside in Stockton, with space for more than 100 colleagues to give it room to expand.

The new office has been kitted out with Razorblue’s high-speed connectivity, Microsoft Teams rooms and recreation areas for staff.

The move supports the company’s recruitment drive to support its expansion plans, which has seen it make two acqusitions in recent years.

It snapped up Stirling-based Sarn Technologies Ltd, which has 15 employees, for an undisclosed sum last August, two years after acquiring Manchester-based J-Media.

Razorblue also recently launch of its own apprenticeship academy and is constantly seeking new staff.