Focus Group invests in Zest4: 'This opens up the possibility of more channel-focused M&A'

The group’s CEO told CRN it’s hungry for a bigger slice of the channel having not secured much scale so far

Kelsey Rees
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Ralph Gilbert , co-founder & Director, Focus Group (left), Mandy Fazelynia, MD,Zest4 (centre), and Barney Taylor, CEO, Focus Group
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Ralph Gilbert , co-founder & Director, Focus Group (left), Mandy Fazelynia, MD,Zest4 (centre), and Barney Taylor, CEO, Focus Group

Comms VAR Focus Group has made a strategic investment in UCC provider Zest4 in a bid to up its business in the channel. Zest4 is a Cheshire-based provider of unified communications solutions for...

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