ICP Networks sponsor Manchester City

ICP Networks launched its 10th year anniversary by agreeing to sponsor Premiership champions Manchester City.

The leading UK IT supplier joined forces with the Premiership champions by sponsoring the match ball for their clash with Everton.

It seemed a fitting way to end 2012 – ICP Network’s most best financial year to date and City’s first Premiership title.

And the match proved the perfect launch pad for ICP Network’s latest venture – NetworkSupermarket.com – an e-commerce retail site that enables customers to order products directly.

ICP Managing Director Matt Archer, said: “We’d like to think there is a certain synergy between us and Manchester City. We’ve built an incredible loyal fan base and promised great things and now are bringing home the silverware.

“It was a great honour to sponsor City and meet such incredible legends as

ICP Networks record its best financial performance to date in 2012 and Managing Director Matthew Archer believes the new NetworkSupermarket venture will help the Cheshire firm consolidate on last year’s successful performance.

“Last year was a big one for us,” admitted Mr Archer.

“But we restructured a little bit to help facilitate future growth and decided to take a look at how the performance of our existing websites could be improved.”

“We noticed that the requirements of our SME customers were changing; immediate availability and competitive pricing were becoming key factors in our client’s buying decisions.”

“So we set about designing NetworkSupermarket from scratch to service this need, quickly and efficiently.”

ICP Networks MD Matt Archer signals the kick off for NetworkSupermarket.com

“I’m really pleased with the results, and I’m sure our customers will be too,” he added.

After a successful launch at the home of EPL champions Manchester City FC last month, the site has been undergoing fine-tuning and final tests.

It now includes a wide range of LinkSys SoHo networking and Cisco IP Telephony equipment to compliment the firm’s enterprise offerings.

And Matt is sure that ICP Networks reputation for quality and service can be successfully maintained, even with a higher volume e-commerce venture like NetworkSupermarket.

“When all your customers can see is your homepage, it can be challenging to get your values and message across,” admitted Matt.

“For instance, we’re currently working towards our ISO14001:2004 accreditation after attaining ISO9001:2008 certification last year. But we knew that we had to work hard to communicate our commitment to quality properly.”

“So we’ve implemented the Feefo customer feedback system into NetworkSupermarket so that we can transparently demonstrate to new and existing clients just how we’re doing,” he added.

Since the establishment of the company in Wilmslow a decade ago, ICP Networks has developed into one of the North’s foremost providers of new and refurbished networking and server-room equipment from all principal manufacturers, such as Cisco, Checkpoint (Nokia), Sun, Nortel, BlueCoat and HP ProCurve.