{"id":7397,"date":"2021-01-06T10:07:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T10:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blueorangeit.co.uk\/?p=7397"},"modified":"2021-01-06T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T10:08:14","slug":"blue-orange-goes-for-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blueorangeit.co.uk\/trade\/blue-orange-goes-for-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Orange Goes For Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Flourishing IT support and supply specialist Blue Orange, has reached the gold standard with global electronics giant Sharp &#8211; demonstrating its growing education and general business pedigree \u2013 as part of a \u00a310m growth strategy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lancashire-based company has become a Sharp Gold Partner \u2013 the highest attainable tier \u2013 in recognition of impressive sales growth, in-depth expertise and exceptional customer support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve worked hard for the last 18 months with Sharp and this is another major milestone in our continued growth strategy,\u201d says Blue Orange MD, David Silous-Holt \u201cIt\u2019s a badge of honour that shows we are the best at what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWe currently focus on professional and interactive displays and are looking at extending our Sharp range across a combination and education and commercial products. These may include early years learning multi touch tables along with \u2018meet-up\u2019 battery powered communication platforms. In addition visitor management systems are also on our radar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gold accreditation provides Blue Orange with competitive pricing and access to exclusive products as well as enhanced service and support. The business specialises in remote and on-site IT services as well as hardware supplies, to businesses, schools and colleges throughout Lancashire and beyond. It was formed 13 years ago and has grown rapidly in recent times &#8211; set to hit \u00a35m in turnover this financial year, up around 25%.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Pretorius, Visual Consultant at Sharp Europe, says the Blue Orange success is fully deserved. \u201cBlue Orange are product champions and fully understand the Sharp range. Equally it\u2019s about the relationship we have with them. We don\u2019t just award gold status unless it\u2019s fully deserved. We only have a limited number across the UK and Blue Orange are worthy recipients of this prestigious accolade.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flourishing IT support and supply specialist Blue Orange, has reached the gold standard with global electronics giant Sharp &#8211; demonstrating its growing education and general business pedigree \u2013 as part of a \u00a310m growth strategy. The Lancashire-based company has become a Sharp Gold Partner \u2013 the highest attainable tier \u2013 in recognition of impressive sales&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueorangeit.co.uk\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueorangeit.co.uk\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueorangeit.co.uk\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueorangeit.co.uk\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueorangeit.co.uk\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueorangeit.co.uk\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7399,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueorangeit.co.uk\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions\/7399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueorangeit.co.uk\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueorangeit.co.uk\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueorangeit.co.uk\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueorangeit.co.uk\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}