Daisy
Convergence clout
After a dizzying M&A spree, Daisy's converged telecoms, IT and cloud capabilities will help it deliver the organic growth needed to hit its £1bn revenue goal, its CEO Neil Muller tells Doug Woodburn
CRN: March 2017
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Daisy CEO says further acquisitions unlikely for foreseeable future
Daisy has accumulated the converged IT, comms and cloud capabilities necessary to hit £1bn revenue goal organically, Neil Muller tells CRN
Daisy picks HP for £3.5m disaster recovery upgrade
Daisy will be installing 6,000 new desktops to all of its 13 nationwide work area recovery sites
Daisy's M&A strategy blossoms with Alternative Networks deal
Alternative Networks' shares spike as £165m takeover announced
Daisy launches online store to cash in on 'easy' product sales
Firm eyeing up traditional product sales in a bid to become and end-to-end IT provider
Blurred lines
As a number of vendors, including Microsoft and VMware, outline plans to bring a wider variety of partners into their channel businesses, Hannah Breeze finds out what this means for their existing resellers
Daisy: Subcontracting has created 'framework community'
Daisy's bid manager Lynne Magennis says subcontracting is on the rise as more resellers form agreements with each other
Daisy opens up on Phoenix, Damovo and 2e2 integration
Neil Muller completes tour of UK offices spreading the One Daisy message
Node4 picks ex Daisy man to lead sales
John MacMillan tasked with growing sales at cloud and colocation firm
Daisy Group strikes Gold with Cisco
Daisy becomes the 35th Gold partner in the UK
Pushing Daisy
The new leader of the IT channel's next billion-pound business talks Sam Trendall through his plans
Daisy reunited with private equity backer Oakley Capital
Oakley takes a minority stake in Daisy for £39m
Daisy Partner Services doubles revenue goal to £200m
Boss of combined Daisy-Phoenix channel services business tells CRN the strategy is 'very much one of growth'
Daisy eyes £1bn sales as Phoenix deal closes
Comms provider confident it can snatch 10 per cent of a UK comms and IT infrastructure services market it believes is worth £10bn
Six Degrees undergoes ownership separation
Acquisitions set to continue at managed services provider following 'substantial additional capital' from new backer Charlesbank
Phoenix in profit as it prepares to be picked by Daisy
Infrastructure services outfit returns to the black ahead of its £135m takeover
Daisy gobbles up Phoenix in £135m deal
Daisy says move 'likely to involve headcount reduction' at Phoenix IT Group
Daisy in talks with Phoenix for IT-comms mega-merger
Bid values Phoenix at £132.8m
Channel investor MXC Capital eyes four more deals
Redcentric, Castleton, 365 Agile and Pinnacle backer looking to add to stable after raising £12m in funding
Parts of Calyx offloaded to Daisy and Chess
New backer MXC sells off Break Fix and Carrier Services arms for £5.5m
Daisy targets £1bn mark as M&A set to continue
The comms VAR plans on more acquisitions in the comms and IT services space following Damovo move
Hosted voice: a year in the channel
Graham Harris discusses change in the hosted telephony market over the past 12 months
Daisy snaps up Damovo in enterprise push
Daisy kicks off 2015 with acquisition of comms VAR Damovo
