IT firm Amshire hungry for more

A FAMILY-owned IT business is looking for more acqusitions after buying a smaller rival.

Stockport-based Amshire Solutions has boosted its client numbers by around 50% after buying Wilmslow firm Select Network Services, which was sold after its managing director emigrated to Australia.

Amshire Solutions, which is run by Trevor Taylor and is son David, employs 12 people and provides  network, cloud and IT services for SMEs across the country.

It bought Select Network Services, which had more than 20 retained clients, from Mathew Humphreys who relocated to Australia after his wife took a secondment with her employer.

Managing Director Trevor Taylor said: ““hen we acquired Select Network Services, we were able to initiate a seamless transfer for Mathew’s clients to our systems and provide additional support through our in-house admin team and our fully qualified field-service engineers.

“In our industry it is our job to ensure that whatever issues or even disaster may occur, our clients do not suffer any interruption to their daily business routines”.

Amshire manages more than 120 servers and over 1,000 workstations, from the locally-based single user to national clients with multiple servers and hundreds of seats across multiple sites.
 
Mr Taylor said: “We are looking to grow the business so we would be interested in talking to other companies who are looking to exit.”