UK managed service provider Intercity has acquired Microsoft specialist Centrality to create a combined £60m-revenue company.
Birmingham-based Intercity is a specialist in cloud, security, and comms services, with over 1,300 customers nationwide. Bedfordshire located Centrality is one of the UK’s most accredited Microsoft solutions partners, with more than 25 years of Microsoft experience.
Centrality CEO David Keeling will join Intercity’s board as a managing director of a new division, focused on leveraging Centrality’s deep expertise in Microsoft’s suite of products and solutions.
Centrality’s 100-strong team will continue to work from the Bedfordshire office as part of a smooth transition plan into the Intercity Group. This will take the combined team to over 325.
The acquisition expands Intercity’s Microsoft offering, complimenting existing partnerships with vendors such as Virgin Media O2, Vodafone, EE and Check Point.
Intercity owner and group CEO Andrew Jackson said: “Centrality has grown significantly over the last five years and become well-known for its innovative and forward-thinking solutions, by taking a Microsoft and cloud-first approach.
“Our commitment to be the best tech partner to work for and with will only be strengthened with this news. We look forward to welcoming all Centrality colleagues and their complementary expertise.”
Centrality CEO David Keeling added: “Our combined expertise will allow us to provide a more comprehensive range of capabilities for our customers. Centrality's position as a Microsoft partner puts us in an elite group of accredited organisations, very few in the UK possess the Microsoft credentials we do.”
Picture above: Andrew Jackson (left), group CEO of Intercity; David Keeling (right), CEO of Centrality
