Expanding tech company moves HQ into new digital business centre
A growing IT support business has become the second company to move into Barnsley’s new flagship digital media business centre – DMC 02.
Contrac IT has moved just over the road from DMC 01 to take on a larger office in the newly refurbished £1.7m business centre, and will create five new jobs.
Mark Harding, European managing director of Contrac, said: “We are very excited to be moving into DMC 02. It’s a fantastic building with great character and our new office provides the up-scale we need to work better as a team and also collaborate with others.”
Contrac has taken on a 1270 sq ft office with curved panoramic frontage. With the move also prompting the company to transfer its headquarters from Beverley to Barnsley.
The business will use its new office to oversee nationwide delivery of its specialist IT support and facilities management services, as well as deliver those services direct to regional clients.
Harding said said: “We decided to move our HQ to Barnsley as part of this move after building up a real affinity with the town’s spirit of enterprise and with the vibrant community of tech innovation and business support at DMC 01.
“Barnsley is also a great location which puts our new headquarters within very easy reach of places like Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield and Doncaster.”
Digital marketing agency Go Amplify, who work with Contrac IT has also moved into DMC02 to facilitate a closer collaborative working.
With both firms following global technology performance and security consultants TÜV SÜD in relocating to the new development.
DMC manager Tracey Johnson said: “It’s been a pleasure to work with Contrac IT over the past couple of years at DMC 01 and we are delighted they have moved over to larger office space in DMC 02 to create a new national HQ and facilitate growth.
“Our new business centre continues to attract interest from the UK’s digital technology sector which continues to grow, despite uncertain times, as we increasingly look to tech solutions to tackle the challenges of the working in a world with Covid-19.
“Whilst remote working and online communication have become massively more important aspects of running a business, innovative companies still need a physical space to call their own at the heart of their organisation – a hub at the centre of a network of satellite offices and remote workers. We are happy to provide this to Contrac IT.”
DMC 02’s development was supported by more than £2 million investment from the Sheffield City Region’s Local Growth Fund.
Dan Jarvis, Mayor of the Sheffield City Region, said: “It’s fantastic to see Contrac choosing to expand its business in to DMC 02, which has received more than £2 million investment from the Sheffield City Region’s Local Growth Fund.
“DMC 02 provides new opportunities for digital businesses to start up, grow and thrive and I’m sure the centre will play a hugely important part in securing Barnsley’s role at the heart of digital technology and innovation in the North.”
