Sunday Times Tech Track 100

Nottingham, UK, 1^st October 2007 – Centiq, a leading IT services provider that focuses on premium-level IT consulting, architecture, design and implementation services, has been rated as one of the UK’s fastest growing private technology companies in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 listing.  The Nottingham-based start-up achieved 88^th position in the national ranking – entering the table for the first time - with an outstanding sales growth of 57 per cent over the past two years.

Glyn Heath, founder and managing director of Centiq, says, “It is a fantastic honour to be listed in this year’s Sunday Times Tech Track 100 and testimony to the excellent work Centiq is doing in helping companies to contain the risks inherent in technology change.  Our intent is to help those who are responsible for running IT systems get closer to meeting the real needs of their business, and it’s this that’s propelling our growth.”

In 2006 Centiq was ranked in the Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100; in 2005 in the Real Business Hot 100 and in 2004 in the Financial Times HM Treasury Inner City 100.

Centiq delivers cutting-edge technology change capabilities through separate Business Applications, Infrastructure, Data Management and Managed Services and Support practices, backed by partnerships with industry-leading systems integrators to deliver a unique range of services and evolving capabilities.  The Centiq team is made up of senior IT industry executives with vast experience of helping companies address the ever-changing technology environment to the best benefit for their business.

The Tech Track 100, which is produced in association with The Sunday Times and sponsored by Microsoft and PwC, collates corporate information of Britain’s fastest growing private technology companies ranking them by their sales growth over the 3 year period.  Centiq's outstanding 57 per cent growth over this period ensured high entry into the prestigious league table as sales leapt from £7.4 to £18.1million between 2004 and 2006.

Heath continues, “We have found that the biggest barrier to organisations benefiting from IT systems is fear of the unknown– Centiq is helping UK companies address that fear by aligning their IT with their business, to their benefit and the benefit of UK PLC.”

Heath will be collecting his award at the The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 awards dinner will be held at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday 27 November 2007.

About Tech Track

Tech Track 100 is published by Fast Track in association with The Sunday Times. Fast Track is an Oxford-based research, publishing and networking events company that tracks Britain’s top-performing private companies and the entrepreneurs who own and run them. Its six annual private-company league tables, national awards events and regional dinners provide a network for entrepreneurs and sponsors to meet.  The combined sales of the one hundred companies listed on The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 totalled £1.2bn, according to their latest available accounts.  Together they employed 8,282 staff in 2006/7, and have each hired an average of 22 staff in their latest financial year.  www.fasttrack.co.uk