SARASOTA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AlphaPoint Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: APPO) today announced the acquisition of Strategy to Revenue, Ltd. (STR), a Revenue Acceleration Company based in the United Kingdom. This acquisition marks the launch of AlphaPoint's strategic plan for rapid growth in 2016 through acquisitions. AlphaPoint / STR have identified a number of synergistically-focused Technology and Sales Enablement companies to acquire which have cutting-edge solutions to deliver Sales Enablement and Revenue Acceleration.
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The acquisition of STR advances the growth strategies of AlphaPoint and provides critical expansion in the explosive Revenue Acceleration sector.
Strategy to Revenue Limited (“STR”), was founded in January 2009 to provide Revenue Acceleration solutions to Fortune 1000 organizations. STR provides software-enabled services using advanced analytics and capability benchmarks that ensure their customers meet and exceed their corporate objectives through revenue acceleration and salesforce optimization. Today, STR’s customers include: Thomson Reuters, Vodafone, HP, Motorola, SAP, Zebra Technologies, Comcast, and DHL.
STR’s success comes from a unique combination of sales and marketing expertise, innovative digital and multimedia content production, and intelligent software platform delivery technologies. In the past four years the company has won a number of international excellence awards; 5 gold and 4 silver, from Brandon Hall (www.brandonhall.com) and 1 gold and 3 silver Stevie Awards for innovation in sales development. http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/sales/awards/426_2281_25576.cfm. The Company was also shortlisted as a finalist by BESMA (British Excellence in Sales & Marketing Awards) and The Learning Awards. STR has also been placed on the Training Industry.com 2015 watch list as a ‘mover and shaker’ in the training industry. http://www.trainingindustry.com/sales-training/top-company-listings/2015/2015-sales-training-companies-watch-list.aspx.
"STR has more than ten years of strategic Sales Enablement expertise," according to Gary Macleod, CEO of AlphaPoint. "At the core of the STR offering is the Revenue Acceleration Framework. This Framework consists of 3 key components, Surge, Sustain and Predict; comprising of software technology and services that enable organizations to take immediate, effective action to optimize their sales organizations and accelerate their corporate initiatives.”
Dominic Jones, STR's newly appointed CEO, adds, "Gary and the AlphaPoint leadership team have a reputation for growing successful companies. We hold the same vision for consolidating and disrupting the Sales Enablement market by creating software-enabled solutions that provide material improvements to our customer’s go-to-market capabilities. We are looking forward to working with AlphaPoint to execute against this vision.”
STR will become a wholly owned subsidiary of AlphaPoint and will keep its operations in the UK, while continuing to expand its customer base in the U.S. The STR leadership team will remain in their current positions. Also, STR CEO, Dominic Jones and Chairman, Rod Jones will join the AlphaPoint Board of Directors.
AlphaPoint Technology, located in Sarasota, Florida, is a publicly held information technology company, provides technology solutions for mid to large-size organizations and global enterprises. To learn more, visit www.alphapointtechnology.com.
About STR
(“STR”) was founded in January 2009 to provide Revenue Acceleration solutions to large organizations through the performance improvement and effective mobilization of their sales teams. Today, STR’s customers are some of most well-known companies in the world, including Thomson Reuters, Vodafone, HP, Motorola, SAP, Zebra Technologies, Comcast, and DHL. To learn more, visit www.strategytorevenue.com.
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