2012 Tech Track 100
Rank: 50 Solar Communications
Has attracted five of its largest 20 customers within the last year
Solar Communications specialises in unified communications, helping customers to link head office phone networks into more sophisticated telecoms such as video conferencing. It can also use wi-fi to connect mobile phones into an organisation’s office phone network, which cuts the roaming charges normally associated with overseas travel and home working. Headed by chief executive Mark Colquhoun, demand for the company's services has led sales to rise 63% a year, from £2m in 2008 to £8.6m in 2011. It has also benefited from being the top UK reseller for US firm ShoreTel.
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Solar Communications specialises in unified communications, helping customers to link head office phone networks into more sophisticated telecoms such as video conferencing. It can also use wi-fi to connect mobile phones into an organisation’s office phone network, which cuts the roaming charges normally associated with overseas travel and home working. Headed by chief executive Mark Colquhoun, demand for the company's services has led sales to rise 63% a year, from £2m in 2008 to £8.6m in 2011. It has also benefited from being the top UK reseller for US firm ShoreTel.
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Company facts
Solar Communications
Communication systems provider
Company website
| Sales growth | 62.51% pa |
| 2011 sales | £8.6m |
| 2008 sales | £2.0m |
| 2011 staff | 50 |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Location of HQ | Wiltshire |
| If applicable: * = annualised figures ‡ = draft accounts |
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