Europlus Direct goes for growth in Africa with office openings

IT company Europlus Direct is to expand its operations in Africa with the opening of three new offices in Mozambique, Senegal and Angola in 2011.

The Saltaire-based company, which offers telemarketing and IT services, is working with IBM in Africa.

As part of the expansion plans Europlus Direct will provide IBM spare parts for local IBM business partners and promote IBM maintenance services through these business partners.

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The extension of the partnership with IBM will result in Europlus Direct opening new offices in Mozambique, Senegal and Angola by the beginning of 2011.

In addition, new business in Madagascar will be run through the group's existing operationin Mauritius and business in Mauritania will be run through the proposed office in Senegal.

Europlus Direct's chief executive Jim Hart said he was very pleased about the expansion of the business

"We are already successfully supplying local Mauritian business partners with IBM spare parts and promoting IBM maintenance services," he said.

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"We are very pleased that we will now be able to offer the same services to business partners in another five African countries."

Europlus Direct also runs an operation in South Africa, promoting IBM maintenance services to South African IBM business partners.

Europlus Direct is based in Saltaire in the UK and has offices in Australia, Spain, South Africa and Mauritius.

It has over five years' experience as an outsourced sales and marketing operation for IBM Global Services, supplying IBM maintenance to IBM business partners, distributors and end-users across the globe.

Europlus Direct is part of the TEMA Group.

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TEMA offers globalisation services to UK businesses that are looking to expand their business geographically into European and global markets.

The services include multilingual telemarketing, translation, multilingual recruitment and multilingual website building.

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