Birmingham city centre office for expanding international team.
Birmingham, 4 November 2013. Mobile Fun, the UK’s leading online retailer of mobile device accessories, has announced the opening of a new office which will act as the international hub for the company’s expanding overseas business.
Fifteen employees will initially work from the office, which is based in Birmingham Science Park Aston. They will be joined by new team members as Mobile Fun continues its recruitment drive.
The international team is responsible for Mobile Fun’s expanding portfolio of country websites. Complementing in-country offices, the Birmingham-based team will provide customer service and translation across eleven different languages.
Mobile Fun has recently boosted its multi-lingual capability, by hiring native-speakers to service Polish, Japanese and Russian customers.
Mohammed Hussain, Managing Director of Mobile Fun, commented: “The opening of our second office in Birmingham is a major step in our rapid expansion. We are entering an exciting phase as our newly established international websites are performing strongly, and the expanding team will strengthen our international footprint further.”
Situated close to Mobile Fun’s Birmingham headquarters, Mobile Fun’s new office benefits from a central location, convenient proximity to the city’s universities, and access to the second city’s diverse student and graduate population.
Head of International at Mobile Fun, Richard Moored added: “We are continuing to grow and with this comes job creation for Birmingham and our in-country international teams. By tapping into the international graduate and student population, as well as recruiting experienced employees, we will be able to secure the talent we need to maintain our market-leading position.”
The Mobile Fun team currently stands at 85 employees. Mobile Fun now has websites in over 30 countries, offices in six countries and close to 50% of total orders are generated by its international websites.
Mobile Fun has experienced its best year to date. The company announced record turnover and profits for its financial year ending 31 March 2013, with sales of £11.5 million.
For more information on Mobile Fun, please visit https://www.mobilefun.co.uk/.
– ENDS –
About Mobile Fun
Mobile Fun is the UK’s leading online retailer of accessories for mobile phones, tablets and other mobile devices, offering a market leading product range from its extensive portfolio of international websites.
Headquartered in Birmingham UK, with a product range of 7,000 globally-sourced mobile accessories, Mobile Fun has successfully established a market-leading position within the competitive mobile, smartphone and tablet sectors.
Mobile Fun was ranked as the UK’s 7th ‘Fastest Growing Technology Based Company’ in the Sunday Times 2006 Microsoft Tech Track 100, was awarded the ‘Online Retailer of the Year’ title at the Mobile News Awards 2011 then again in 2012; won Best Online Business (Consumer) at the ECMOD Awards 2012, the Online Retail Awards 2011 and 2012 ‘Computers and Telecommunications’ category and What Mobile’s Best Accessory Retailer 2012. The company was also a finalist in the Online Retail Awards 2013 and is currently shortlisted in the What Mobile and Retail Week Enterprise Awards 2013.
For more information, please contact Ranbir Sahota at Vitis PR on 0121 242 8048 or ranbir@vitispr.com