Buckhurst Hill-based Forest Communications is poised to mark its tenth anniversary year by breaking the £1m revenue barrier.
The company was founded on May 2nd 2008 by Managing Director Bradley Worboys who was later joined by his friend and Key Account Executive Andrew Louka.
"At the time I was looking for a new job and after a number of interviews came to realise that I wanted to start my own telecoms company," commented Worboys.
"My friend Andrew had the same idea. We complement each other and over the years have learned to understand each of our own strengths and weaknesses."
Prior to Forest Worboys had already gained four years comms industry experience working for Cellclear which sold GSM gateways.
"I came on board to manage a large sales project being rolled out to Unison over 35 sites. This deal was the largest that any reseller and T-Mobile direct had done that year. After we completed the project I sold GSM gateways into the NHS."
Forest now employs five people and focuses more on driving sales in partnership with resellers while keeping service levels high.
"We have 350 customers and turnover is circa £900k," added Worboys. "We grew £200k last year so should break the £1 million barrier this year."
Converting ISDN customers to hosted and winning new cloud, UC and mobile business has helped to drive growth.
"Three years ago we started to offer business gas and electric rates and card payment solutions which delivered new revenue streams and made us more of a business services company with telecoms at the core," explained Worboys.
"While we are keeping a close eye on the IoT we are currently focused on a new industry specific payment solution with feature add-ons. Looking further ahead, we aim to build a bigger base of customers and offer more business services which are currently being set up."
Pictured above (l-r): Andrew Louka and Bradley Worboys