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At a glittering summer event, Softcat were presented with a duo of awards at the CRN Sales and Marketing Awards event: the Best Graduate/Apprentice Scheme award and the Best Marketing Campaign award for our series of ExplainIT podcasts.

With the sales and marketing teams often sitting at the heart of many successful channel businesses, the annual CRN awards recognises the achievements of those individuals and teams that are responsible for making the UK IT channel truly great. The event focuses on innovation, evolution, and development, qualities that all vendors, distributors and resellers strive for.

At a glittering summer event, Softcat were presented with a duo of awards at the CRN Sales and Marketing Awards event: the Best Graduate/Apprentice Scheme award and the Best Marketing Campaign award for our series of ExplainIT podcasts.

With the sales and marketing teams often sitting at the heart of many successful channel businesses, the annual CRN awards recognises the achievements of those individuals and teams that are responsible for making the UK IT channel truly great. The event focuses on innovation, evolution, and development, qualities that all vendors, distributors and resellers strive for.

For the second year running, Softcat has been recognised as the best performing UK public company in the category of Infrastructure Services. Taking place at the Silicon Valley Bank, the awards evening also saw Softcat being placed 16th on the 2019 Megabuyte Quoted25 rankings, gaining three places on the rankings from last year.

The Megabuyte Quoted25 Awards is an annual event and an independent ranking of the UK’s best-performing public technology companies. The awards provide a unique independent measure of public company performance, looking beyond share price. Softcat was commended for strong revenue and gross profit growth over the year, and the role that its culture played in retaining talent which has led to more cross-selling opportunities with existing accounts.

Taking place during the UK’s largest cloud ecosystem event, the Ingram Micro Cloud Summit, the award is presented to the partner who has added the most value outside of their corporate agenda, and whose philanthropy has created real change in society.

Softcat has raised over £2m for charities, and recently raised over £330,000 though the annual May Ball charity event.

Varonis, a pioneer in data security and analytics, have now announced their ‘Partners in Excellence’ channel award winners, with Softcat scooping the prestigious Partner of the Year award.

The programme honours the Varonis channel partners that have excelled at delivering data-centric solutions to customers throughout 2018. They also wanted to reward partners for their successful relationships enabling both organisations to continually grow and achieve their business goals.

On 21 March 2019, at a black-tie event at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, Softcat was presented with the Company of the Year Award in the 33rd annual PLC Awards ceremony. The award has already been safely placed in the trophy cabinet at the company’s head office in Marlow.

When Softcat was established 25 years ago, the founders never imagined that there would be a need for a trophy cabinet. The business was set up to give people a fun and challenging working environment that would bring some shared success. To be recognised as the Company of the Year—from among all Main Market, FTSE 100, FTSE 250, FTSE Small Cap and Fledgling businesses, is a true indicator of how far Softcat has come in a quarter of a century.

Following an inaugural appearance last year, Softcat were pleased to once again be included in the 2018 list of top 50 Best Managed IT Companies.

The award, which celebrates best business practice by MSPs and VARS, sees companies evaluated in 12 key areas of business through around 200 questions designed to measure best practices, and follows a day of presentations and interactive sessions based around the value that the channel brings – even in a world where Cloud-based technology is prevalent.

During a glittering gala at the Madejski stadium in Reading, hosted by award-winning broadcaster Rachel Burden and guest speaker Sir Trevor McDonald OBE, Softcat picked up the award for ‘Best Company to Work For.’

The Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards is open to every company in the Thames Valley area and recognises not only profitability, innovation and employment but also the contribution made to the local economic community and the provision of support to culture and charities in the region.

At a glitzy event in Battersea Park Evolution, London, hosted by comedian Katherine Ryan, Softcat scooped the top prize, walking away with the award for Reseller of the year (£51m+ Revenue).

The annual awards, now in its 25th year, sees 1,600 industry execs celebrate the latest technology innovations and advancements, recognising the ingenuity and exceptional achievements of the UK channel industry over the previous 12 months.

Canalys recently announced the winners of the Candefero Channel Partner of the Year Awards for EMEA.

These awards recognize high achievement by partners in a range of areas. The winners were honoured in the lively Spanish city on Thursday, 11 October at the eleventh Canalys Channels Forum EMEA, which attracted around 1,000 leading channel partners, distributors and vendors from nearly 25 countries across EMEA.

Softcat has been announced as ‘Sennheiser Partner of the Year’ for 2018. Presented with the award at the recent Nimans Elite conference in Croatia, this title recognises the strong partnership that has been forged over many years.

Delivering the best in audio through their headphones, microphones and all-round conferencing and audio solutions, Sennheiser and Softcat share a commitment to providing the highest quality products, and Softcat has seen significant growth in demand for Sennheiser equipment.

Taking place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London last week, the CRN Sales & Marketing Awards were hosted by stand-up comedian and actor Tiff Stevenson. Softcat scooped the award for Best Company to Work For - £51m+ turnover, also picking up a highly commended for Best Marketing Campaign for our work educating and assisting businesses to meet GDPR requirements.

The CRN Sales & Marketing Awards focus on innovation, evolution and development, recognising and rewarding the achievements of those individuals and teams responsible for making the UK IT channel truly great.

The Megabuyte Quoted25 Awards are an annual event and an independent ranking of the UK’s best-performing public technology companies.

The awards provide a unique independent measure of public company performance, looking beyond share price. Softcat was commended for strong revenue and gross profit growth over the year, and the role that its culture played in retaining talent which has led to more cross-selling opportunities with existing accounts.

Celebrating the best of the UK’s PLCs, the annual Stock Market Awards have seen Softcat announced as the ‘Best Technology Plc.’ With nominees whittled down to a final selection of six organisations based on a range of factors including share price performance, management acumen and growth of revenue, Softcat were voted winners of the award in a public vote.

The Stock Market Awards recognise and reward all that is great about publicly-listed British firms, the equity market in which they operate and their enormous contribution to the United Kingdom's economy. The awards celebrate companies creating shareholder value, and Softcat’s award specifically acknowledges their success and development in the Technology sector.

Continually striving to prove that we are one of the Best Workplaces in IT, Softcat have now officially been named Top Employer for School Leavers in the IT and Technology sector, at the School Leaver Awards. The event was hosted at the glamorous Sheraton Grand, Park Lane with comedian Josh Widdicombe, presenting the awards. We were also shortlisted for the Best Training Provider and Best Training awards.

Recognised as one of the biggest and best awards ceremony of its kind for school and college leavers, this event rewards those employers who offer the best UK apprenticeships and school leaver programmes, as well as those who excel in areas such as job satisfaction, career progression, training and company culture. The award was based on feedback from surveys of our apprentices and school leavers.

At a prestigious event celebrating and recognising achievements across the UK PC and tech industry last night, Softcat picked up the award for Corporate VAR of the Year 2018.

Hosted at The Brewery in London by fast-rising standup star Phil Wang, Softcat was judged by a panel of independent experts to be the leading Corporate VAR in the UK market.

Softcat, a leading infrastructure provider, announced today that they have been named as the EMEA Partner of the Year by AlienVault®, a leading provider of Unified Security Management® and crowd-sourced threat intelligence. The Awards program recognizes AlienVault partners – both global and regional – that achieved phenomenal business growth during 2017.

The AlienVault Partner Program enables leading VARs, system integrators, MSSPs and corporate resellers to sell and support AlienVault solutions and deliver compelling services powered by AlienVault USM in the global marketplace. With a strong focus on partner enablement, it is designed to help partners create new opportunities for business growth, expansion and profitability.

Softcat was named one of 12 National Winners from 196 businesses representing the Ones to Watch in the United Kingdom at an exclusive event held at the London Stock Exchange for The European Business Awards, Europe's largest business competition.

Softcat was chosen by a panel of independent judges including senior business leaders, politicians and academics as the best in their country in the Awards' category of 'Business of the Year Award With Turnover of €150m or Higher', and will now go on to represent their country in this category in the final stage of the competition.

Softcat, a leading provider of IT infrastructure products and services, today announced it has been named the recipient of Puppet’s Channel Partner of the Year Awards for the Rising Star, EMEA category. In receiving this award, Softcat was recognised for contributions made to driving customer success with automation.

Highlighting the importance of the award, Sam Routledge, CTO at Softcat, said: “We appreciate the opportunity to work with new & innovative vendors, and I’m delighted to accept the award on behalf of the team at Softcat that have worked so hard in building this relationship and securing new mutual business.”

At a glitzy reception dinner at the Institute of Directors on Thursday, Softcat were pleased to be named one of Britain’s 50 Best Managed IT Companies.

The award, which celebrates best business practice by MSPs and VARS, sees companies evaluated in 12 key areas of business through around 200 questions designed to measure best practices, and follows a day of presentations and interactive sessions based around the value that the channel brings – even in a world where Cloud-based technology is prevalent.

Softcat is one of the top employers for young people at the beginning of their careers. Announced at the 2017 School Leaver Awards last week, the leading IT infrastructure provider claimed the title of Best Training Provider in partnership with apprenticeship training provider PDS, as well as placing third in the Top Advanced Apprenticeship category.

Leading the way with delivering cloud technologies, top IT infrastructure provider Softcat has been named Cloud Partner of the Year by ScanSource Imago, an award sponsored by video communications experts, BlueJeans.

Softcat's Collaboration Team collected the award at ScanSource Imago's Business Breakthrough event at The Brewery in London, early in May.

Softcat has once again been named by Great Place to Work® as one of the UK's Best Workplaces. The UK's leading IT infrastructure provider ranked 5th in the large category (organisations with 500+ employees).

Great Place to Work presented the award to Softcat at its annual Best Workplaces awards gala last night at the Park Plaza Hotel in Westminster.

Just weeks after being Highly Commended by judges at the National Apprenticeship Awards, Softcat has won the coveted Apprenticeship Programme of the Year award at the 2017 Learning Awards.

Softcat’s head of training and development Anushka Davies and Apprentice Programme Lead Laura Sneath attended the awards, held at the Dorchester Hotel, London.

Softcat has been highly commended by judges for the Rolls-Royce Newcomer Large Employer of the Year award. The IT reseller received the accolade while attending the National Apprenticeship Awards at Grosvenor House in London on Friday 20 January 2017.

The National Apprenticeship Awards, now in its 13th year, looks for standout companies that demonstrate the positive impact apprenticeship schemes have on organisations and careers.

Softcat won CRN's 'Reseller of the Year' at the CRN Awards last night at the Battersea Events Arena, London. The awards follow a momentous year for Softcat which has continued to grow in its first 12 months as a public company.

Martin Hellawell, Softcat CEO said, "There are hundreds of resellers in the UK market and many of them are fabulous companies. To be recognised as the best of the best is a tremendous accolade and testament to the tremendous work the fabulous Softcat team put in day in, day out."

Leading technology market analyst Canalys has named Softcat its ‘2016 Overall Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Channel Partner of the Year.’

Softcat’s CEO Martin Hellawell collected the award while attending the Canalys Channels Forum held at the Hotel Arts, Barcelona. This is the second time Softcat has won the award which distinguishes the solutions provider for its consistently high volume of sales, outstanding levels of customer satisfaction and ongoing growth.

Softcat, the leading IT infrastructure provider, was named by Great Place to Work® as first overall on the UK's Best Workplaces ranking in the large category (organisations with 500+ employees). Great Place to Work presented the award to Softcat at its annual Best Workplaces awards gala dinner on 27th April.

As well as being officially named as the UK's best workplace, Great Place to Work gave Softcat it's 'most trusted leadership' award and also named Softcat as one of its Laureates, which recognises the company's consistent ranking as a Best Workplace for five consecutive years. During the 16 years that the awards have been running, only 47 companies have achieved this status.

Great Place to Work named Softcat as one of its Laureates, which recognises the company's consistent ranking as a Best Workplace for five consecutive years. During the 16 years that the awards have been running, only 47 companies have achieved this status.

Great Place to Work gave Softcat it's 'most trusted leadership' award

Softcat has won the 'Management Team of the Year' award, at the Thames Valley Deals Awards, held at the Royal Berkshire Conference Centre, Madejski Stadium.

The Thames Valley Deals Awards bring together professionals from the finance community to recognise outstanding deals as well as top-performing banks, law firms and private equity houses. Nominations are drawn from across the Thames Valley, which incorporates one of the largest concentrations of businesses in the UK

GlobalCapital, a leading news, opinion and data service for the international capital markets, has presented Softcat with its Equity Capital Markets 'Best IPO under $300m' award for 2016.

Rory Watts, Softcat's marketing manager, collected the award on the company's behalf at a black tie ceremony hosted yesterday evening at The Banking Hall, London. The award recognises Softcat's successful initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange during November of 2015.

Earlier this week at IGEL Technology's partner roadshow, Softcat picked up its 'Southern UK Partner 2015' award in recognition of another year of strong sales, large deals and increased revenues.

IGEL, one of the world's leading thin-client providers, is one of Softcat's go-to partners for end user computing (EUC) solutions.

Softcat has ranked 23rd in The Sunday Times’ 11th annual Grant Thornton Top Track ranking of the UK’s mid-market growth private companies with the biggest sales – a jump of 29 places from its ranking in 2014.

The league table ranks companies according to their growth, with businesses needing to achieve either sales or profit growth of at least 10% to enter.

Softcat has won the ‘Best Emerging Partner’ award from security solution provider Becrypt, in recognition of its commitment, customer service and overall sales performance this year.

Softcat’s Grant Davey accepted the award from Becrypt CEO Dr Bernard Parsons at a drinks reception at InfoSec last week.

Just weeks after reaching second place in the UK 'Great Place To Work' rankings, Softcat has been ranked 6th best European workplace at a prestigious awards ceremony in Rome last night, having entered the large company category for the first time.

As with the UK awards, the European rankings are determined by reviewing employee satisfaction levels. 2,330 companies participated in the ranking. Last year Softcat achieved 10th place in the same ranking in the medium category.

Softcat won CRN's 'Best Company to Work For' at the CRN Sales and Marketing Awards last night at the Brewery in London. The award comes just a month after the IT infrastructure provider came 2nd and 8th in the 'Great Place To Work' UK and European rankings respectively.

Martin Hellawell, Softcat CEO said, "We are delighted to win this award from CRN. Softcat's fortunate to have been recognised a number of times for its commitment to employee satisfaction however these awards have always come from outside our industry. To be recognised by CRN and chosen from a prestigious list of candidates and employers who we hold in high regard, is humbling and a great start to the weekend."

Softcat has ranked second in the prestigious Great Place to Work ‘Best Workplaces’ awards for the second year running.

The award, announced at a gala dinner on 13th May, is testament to Softcat’s ability to maintain outstanding levels of employee satisfaction as it has grown by 28% over the past year while recruiting hundreds of new staff.

Great Place to Work honoured Softcat with the 'Delivering Excellence in Leadership' special award, in the large business category, also for the second year in a row.

"Workplace satisfaction comes from your employees being well led and well managed. This creates strong followership, and achieving the Great Place To Work leadership award at the same time as coming second again in the Best Workplaces large category listing underlines that this is definitely true for us," said Colin Brown, Softcat's managing director. "We tend to promote people internally rather than hire outside the company, which enables managers to relate well to their team, and it also inspires employees to work hard and move on up. Our managers and directors sit amongst teams 100% of the time, and this approachability is key to good employee engagement

For the second year running, Softcat has been named as ESET Partner of the Year. The award follows a booming financial year for Softcat which saw 25% growth and revenues of £504m.

Softcat accepted the ESET ‘UK Channel Partner of the Year’ award during a ceremony held by the antivirus software, internet security and virus protection provider in Hinkley.

Last week at the inaugural Megabuyte50 awards Softcat came 23rd in the Megabuyte top 50 ranking.

Softcat was the second largest in revenues, 6th in the owner-managed segment, and one of just three VARs on the list. The awards celebrate the top 50 best performing privately-owned technology companies in the UK mid-market.

Last night Softcat took home the 'Best IT Management Company' accolade at the Talk of Manchester Awards.

Over 400 guests from 112 local businesses attended the glittering ceremony, which was sponsored by Natwest in aid of The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and held at the Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel.

Entered in the large company category for the first time, Softcat was delighted to be announced a remarkable 2nd in the UK Great Place to Work rankings, at a prestigious awards ceremony in London last night.

The rankings are determined by reviewing employee satisfaction levels in companies across the UK. Softcat’s Executive chairman Martin Hellawell and Managing Director Colin Brown also jointly accepted a specialist award, ‘Delivering Excellence in Leadership’, in recognition of Softcat’s leadership efforts.

Softcat’s award cabinet is filling up quickly this month, with the recent additions of two ‘partner of the year’ awards from Barracuda and ESET.

The awards follow a booming financial year, which saw 30% growth and revenues of £398m. Softcat’s sales director David Ridgeway accepted the ESET ‘UK Channel Partner of the Year’ award in Hinkley. Alan Thake, head of sales at ESET, praised the proactiveness of Softcat’s account managers and added that Softcat had and continue to be a pleasure to work with.

Softcat’s award cabinet is filling up quickly this month, with the recent additions of two ‘partner of the year’ awards from Barracuda and ESET.

The awards follow a booming financial year, which saw 30% growth and revenues of £398m. Softcat’s sales director David Ridgeway accepted the ESET ‘UK Channel Partner of the Year’ award in Hinkley. Alan Thake, head of sales at ESET, praised the proactiveness of Softcat’s account managers and added that Softcat had and continue to be a pleasure to work with.

Softcat has won the ‘Best Partner Experience’ award from Becrypt at its third annual partner awards held at a reception at InfoSec Europe.

Becrypt presents these awards each year to its top performing and most innovative channel partners that have demonstrated success by delivering great customer service.

Vision Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of data protection and migration software and services, has announced Softcat as the first Vision Solutions Diamond Partner in the UK.

The new partner status has been awarded in recognition of Softcat’s outstanding expertise around the use of Vision Solutions technology to help customers deliver IT transformation and achieve new levels of cost-efficiency.

Lanamark Inc., a global provider of collaborative analytics and design automation tools for IT sales and services organisations delivering cloud, storage and virtualisation solutions, today announced that VAR Softcat has won the 2013 Lanamark Partner of the Year Award.

Softcat uses Lanamark Suite to deliver world-class desktop and datacentre solutions for corporate and public sector organisations.