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The USA officebroker.com Team

Britain's fastest growing online office broking company has expanded into the US market.

officebroker.com, based in Tamworth, Staffordshire has opened an office in the Carrollton business district of Dallas – the business capital of the USA and home to some of the world’s largest corporate headquarters.

Within months of setting up operations the company has already secured major office-space contracts with several global giants, including global talent management solutions provider, Stepstone, who took an exclusive office space in New York’s Empire State Building.

Turnover for the first financial year is projected at $600,000 which added to the UK’s sales will create Group turnover of around £3.5m.

Founded in 2001 by Birmingham born entrepreneurs - Jim Venables and Andy Haywood, officebroker.com has doubled its sales year on year. It is now the largest online commercial property broker for both serviced office space providers and SME’s & corporate businesses requiring flexible office accommodation in the UK and overseas.

Our mission is to become ‘the global place to find your office space’ and the US market is responding well to officebroker.com

Jim Venables, MD officebroker.com

One of the company’s longest established clients is flexible office space provider Avanta and officebroker.com already generates a large proportion of Avanta's UK business. With plans to grow this relationship in the USA market, the future certainly looks bright.

David Alberto, Chief Executive of Avanta said: “The global business demand for serviced office space is ever increasing as companies seek to maximize productivity and improve profit margins with a mobile workforce.”

“Avanta places significant importance on meeting its customer’s demands quickly and efficiently and officebroker.com forms an integral part of this process. The company’s referrals form a crucial part of our ongoing sales strategy.”

Commenting on the move to America Jim Venables said: “Our mission is to become ‘the global place to find your office space’ and US commercial property landlords and tenants are responding to our fast and sales orientated approach to solving their office requirements.

“The American market is quite set in its ways and our first hurdle was to convince our staff of a different way of doing things. We have built on their existing dedication to customer service to add an additional element which is more dynamic and progressive and – they seem to be loving it!”

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