UK-based Walkgrove has been acquired by Swedish multi-discipline know-how agency Semcon. Lively within the automotive, vitality, rail, life sciences, public sector, and telecom sectors, the acquisition alerts a push from Semcon into a brand new market, the UK. The monetary particulars of the deal weren’t disclosed, and Walkgrove was consolidated into Semcon as of the first of the yr.
Based in 1994, Walkgrove designs and delivers customised e-learning options to public, non-public, and third sector shoppers together with the Scottish Authorities, Transport for London, Tesco, Oxfam, and The UN. Along with tailor-made studying choices, the corporate additionally produces off-the-shelf trainings that target administration, IT, and well being & issues of safety.
On the acquisition, Walkgrove managing director Sarah Smith feedback, “This can be a nice alternative for Walkgrove to enrich Semcon’s services and products inside studying. We had been approached by a number of organisations earlier than discovering the synergy and cultural match that Semcon presents.”
With operations based mostly close to Nottingham and Derby within the UK East Midlands, Walkgrove’s 20 workers generated £1.four million in gross sales within the 2020/2021 fiscal yr. No indications of any staffing modifications had been indicated by Semcon.
“We’re very happy that Walkgrove is now turning into part of Semcon. It will present us with a stable base from which to develop our sturdy providing inside digital and blended studying to present and new prospects within the UK. The East Midlands is a perfect location close to prospects within the rail business cluster round Derby and near Semcon’s present operations inside product data in Warwick, simply south of Birmingham,” concludes Semcon’s Johan Ekener.