New customers for 2ergo’s podifi service

SALFORD technology firm 2ergo has signed up a string of new customers to its podifi offers service.

It allows customers on any mobile network to redeem local discounts and promotional offers using their phones.

Once the app is downloaded users can redeem offers by tapping the phone over a specially installed ‘podifi pod’, connected to the till.

New client wins include an unnamed Premier League football club and catering business the Compass Group, which is installing the technology at Bournemouth University, Deeside College and its training centre at Heathrow.

The company has also won new contracts with Trinity College Dublin and University College Birmingham, taking the potential student market to 50,000.

2ergo is also starting the second phase of a trial with 02 in Dublin and its agreement with Jersey Telecom to launch podifi in Jersey “is making good progress”.

Chief executive Neale Graham said: “With extensive group reorganisation and technology development behind us, these recent contract wins are a strong endorsement of our commercial positioning from some significant organisations.”

The group’s cash balance is £390,000 with its banking facilities unutilised. The company said it was in the advanced stages of securing funding.