Premier in Top 50 Training Companies

Premier IT has the distinction of showing the highest percentage growth ...a staggering 133 percent"

"During 2003, the UK IT training market continued to deteriorate, thanks to the persistent squeeze on IT expenditure. However, within this overall picture of decline, our Top 50 supplier table reveals that many companies are prospering. Although some providers have suffered and, in some cases, even gone out of business, others are doing well, simply by making sure that they really deliver what customers want most."

These are some of the comments from the report:

• Despite the difficult market conditions, some training providers are doing extraordinarily well. ... Premier IT - experienced growth that topped 100 per cent in 2003
• Premier IT has grown mightily on the back of demand from the NHS and government
• Among the new entrants, ...Premier IT grew by 133 per cent
• The company pedigree provides a clue to its success... it was bought about three years ago by new management team that included Julian Harley and Ian West, whose previous outfit, Harley-West Training, enjoyed spectacular growth during the 1990s
• Premier IT specialises in training for bespoke business applications using a mixture of classroom and online delivery."
• The firm employs about 20 trainers and operates from a high quality, 12 classroom facility in London's Holborn
• An IT and web division provides complementary services in ... learning system hosting or infrastructure development
• Most long-term customers are in the public sector ... Health, Central Government and Rail, and this has certainly contributed to the revenue growth

"The company believes that its focus on delivering learning solutions rather the bulk standard courses lies at the heart of it recent success" - says Ian West, the Chairman, 'We're not a high volume, low transaction company, we're specialists in learning."