Ixis celebrates decade of success with record turnover

A WARRINGTON web specialist is celebrating record turnover and staff growth in its tenth year.

Ixis is on target to achieve £1.6m in revenue, while the business, based at the Brew House on Wilderspool Park, Stockton Heath, has also doubled its workforce from nine to 18 in the last year.

In 2012 Ixis acquired Wrexham-based Drupal agency Leafish to expand its Drupal hosting, an open source platform used to build websites.

The company offers a mixture of web consultancy, development, hosting and support services to the public sector, leading charities and multinational businesses. Clients include Westminster City Council, global charity VSO, leading insurance company UK General, TES Education and the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations, The British Council.

Ixis was founded by Chris Haslam and Mike Carter.

Speaking about how Ixis has grown over the ten years, Mr Haslam said: “We moved away from providing general web and IT consultancy and focused on our niche, which is the open source content management platform Drupal.”

One of the major highlights for Ixis was being one of the first companies to be selected onto the public sector procurement framework the G-Cloud, which allows the public sector to procure cloud products from a list of suppliers through an online store called CloudStore.

This has given Ixis the opportunity to compete with and win work from large service integrators on contracts such as Bristol City Council and the Care Quality Commission.

Mr Carter added: “We look forward to the future and continuing to work with a diverse mix of businesses in a world where digital is becoming more and more important. The Government has a strategy to improve digital services in the public sector and we want to continue to play a part in working with this sector to improve their digital services.”