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Purple Outgrows Ashton HQ
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New Year, New Office, for Purple following large-scale recruitment drive We’re delighted to announce that Purple has moved its headquarters to Oldham, Greater Manchester, relocating due to a growth in staff numbers. The new, larger office will accommodate Purple’s expanding team, which has grown dramatically over the past year, following a £5.4 million investment being used…

Zak's Story: How Purple turned my world upside down
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Manchester to Melbourne Imagine being given the opportunity to work in one of the greatest cities in the world, Melbourne… with an incredible climate, gorgeous scenery and almost 2,000 kilometres of beaches! Well for me, Purple made it happen. I was a Technical Solutions Specialist working at Purple HQ in Manchester and was given the…

Purple completes $7 million investment to boost global team
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Purple, the intelligent spaces company, today announced a $7 million investment. This comprises a growth loan secured from Boost&Co, which totals $3.9 million, and additional funds contributed by existing investors. The investment has been secured following Purple’s impressive global traction with major service providers, a series of large customer wins and huge growth in platform…

Retail experts join Purple's Board of Directors
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Our CEO Gavin says that the only constant is change, and that’s certainly true here at Purple. We don’t just deal with change as it happens; we seek it out. Change is part of the journey. It shapes us and the direction we take to reach our vision – Intelligent Spaces. Just one of the…

Purple Appoint Mike Greig VP, Americas
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Purple, the intelligent spaces software company, today announced the appointment of Mike Greig, as VP Americas. Mike joined Purple in July 2015 as VP Service Providers, Americas. He has over 20 years of experience in technology and, before joining Purple, was VP Sales, Americas & EMEA at Smith Micro Software.  He developed and executed the…

Purple expands further into Europe with Madrid office
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Gonzalo Sánchez appointed Regional Sales Manager March 14th, 2016: Purple, the intelligent spaces company, today announced the opening of a new office in Madrid, Spain. Gonzalo Sánchez has been appointed to the role of Regional Sales Manager, reporting to Roberto Aguirre, Sales Director, EMEA who is also based in the Madrid office. Gonzalo is an…

Young coders set to conquer Purple challenge in local hackathon
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Our dedicated tech team gave up their weekend to come into the Manchester headquarters to take part in the inaugural Purple Hackathon. The night owls worked 24 hours straight to explore how we can harness the Internet of Things to help our customers better understand and interact with their physical spaces. Two teams, captained by…

Purple Appoint Petah Green VP, Asia Pacific
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March 7th, 2016 Purple, the intelligent spaces software company, today announced the appointment of Petah Green, as the new VP for Asia Pacific. Petah joins Purple from Microsoft. Prior to joining Purple, Petah was the Head of Microsoft’s Enterprise and Public Sector Sales for Australia and New Zealand and their Specialist Sales Director. Before Microsoft, she was…

Get to know Purple People: Kirsty Reilly, Customer Success Manager
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1) What is your very first memory? Sneaking out of our apartment with my sister, I was 5 and she was 3, to play in the sand pit at 5:30am while our parents slept. 2) What were you doing before you joined Purple WiFi? Before Purple I worked at JD Williams doing customer behaviour analysis…

Global Sales Kick Off 2016 - and staff awards
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Last week, I was delighted to welcome our entire international team here for a whole week to have our Global Sales Kick Off. The team flew in from all corners of the world, including Europe, Australia, Singapore and the U.S. The week flew by with presentations and learning sessions, and featured some real highs such…

A look at Purple’s new brand with John Oliver, Chief Product Officer
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You might have noticed that we’ve changed our branding. The first thing to say is that we are definitely still providing WiFi solutions. Purple WiFi is still a core product of ours. It’s just that driven by our customers needs, we’ve started to think of what we can provide above and beyond WiFi. With the arrival…

Purple WiFi evolves into Purple, the Intelligent Spaces company
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January 18, 2016: Purple WiFi, the cloud-based marketing and analytics WiFi software company, today becomes Purple, the intelligent spaces software company, to better reflect the organisation’s wider scope of focus. Since 2012, Purple has been changing the WiFi landscape starting with easy to access social WiFi for the customer and a range of WiFi marketing…

Get to know Purple People: Iain Jewitt, Head of Technology
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  1) What is your very first memory? Throwing an almighty tantrum at my own birthday party because I didn’t win pass the parcel. 2) What were you doing before you joined Purple WiFi? I spent eight years as Director of Technology at a digital agency working with cool and fun clients like Molson Coors,…

Get to know Purple People: Mike Greig, VP Service Providers, Americas
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  1) What is your very first memory? Being in our back yard, playing in the mud and my older sister trying to ride a bike and coming off big time. I remember thinking that was great. 2) What were you doing before you joined Purple WiFi? I was responsible for Americas and EMEA Sales…

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