Yorkshire broker enters partnership to deliver services

A SHEFFIELD independent brokerage business has teamed up with another practice to deliver combined services.

Sheffield’s Switched On Brokers and Wandsworth-based Equinox Business Consulting have announced a formal partnership. 

Switched On has been providing energy brokering services for 12 years and runs a team of 60 brokers providing services to more than 3,000 clients.  

David Baker, managing director, said: “We have been looking for almost three years for a suitable telecoms partner we could introduce with confidence to our clients.  Equinox was the first genuine broker we found that shared our values and ethics and whose advice was genuinely independent.  They do not push one particular supplier or technology unlike all the other companies we spoke with previously.”

Equinox was established five years ago to provide telecoms brokerage and consultancy services. It has helped more than 300 companies in that time.

Dave Millett, managing director of Equinox, said “We have been a approached a number of times by energy brokers in the past.  However they all seem more interested in accessing our client base than creating a true partnership.  The Switched On Brokers approach is aligned to ours; helping customers make an informed decision rather telling them what is right for them.”

The companies intend to work together to promote their joint services to both new and existing clients.  

Both businesses said they believe the partnership will give companies the opportunity to get genuine independent advice on two of the major cost areas after people and premises. 

“We look to a long term relationship and the benefits we can pass on to our customers,” they said.