Recession fails to damp CodeBlue growth

National IT service company CodeBlue is celebrating the opening of a Tauranga branch that will service the Bay of Plenty area, following strong continuing market demand that has seen the company double in size over the past twelve months.

CodeBlue managing director, Ken Davis, says the company has enjoyed stellar growth in the Christchurch, Wellington, Hamilton, Hawkes Bay and Auckland markets by delivering ‘big company’ IT service to small and medium sized businesses at fixed prices. He says CodeBlue’s fixed price managed services contracts typically cut as much as 40% off the total cost of running PC’s and IT networks.

The new Tauranga branch brings the number of CodeBlue offices to six, with new customer demand increasing through the year, despite the recessionary business climate

“Tough economic times cause businesses to look for efficiencies and cost savings, which has resulted in more new business for CodeBlue,” he says.

“The largest companies still spend 40% less per PC than smaller businesses, and they do it by tightly managing each phase of the IT infrastructure lifecycle.  CodeBlue is growing by delivering this capability to small and medium-sized businesses as a fully managed proactive service, for a fixed price. A reduction in overall cost - and no unexpected costs - is what our customers want now more than ever,” he says.

Tauranga CodeBlue Branch Technical Manager David Hodge says his company – previously known as IT Task Force Ltd - is joining CodeBlue in order to offer customers new services such as online procurement and remote monitoring as well as a nation-wide service capability.

“We share CodeBlue’s philosophy of not making money from customers’ problems,” he says.

“We are on the same path – we want to make sure problems don’t occur, rather than waiting till something’s broken and then fixing it. That level of service demands proactive management and preventative maintenance, which is tough to do as a small player. By leveraging CodeBlue’s substantial investment in enterprise-level service management and support systems, we can achieve that very high level of service in a single stroke.”

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