Avanta’s on-line office brokering company officebroker.com opens in the USA

Britain’s fastest growing online office brokering company has expanded into the US market, citing the support of one of it’s long established clients, serviced office company Avanta, as a significant factor in it’s growth.

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

The firm has doubled its sales year on year since being founded by Birmingham-born entrepreneurs, Jim Venables and Andy Haywood, in 2001. Since arriving in the USA, the firm has already secured exclusive office space for global talent management solutions provider, Stepstone, in New York’s Empire State Building.

officebroker.com is the UK’s largest online commercial property broker for serviced office space and has been working with London serviced office company Avanta for over three years. Officebroker.com generates a large proportion of Avanta’s business for serviced offices in London, virtual office services, meeting rooms in London and training rooms in London.

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."

Avanta currently operates seven business centres in prime locations across London, offering highly flexible, unbranded office space, with advanced and competitively priced business technology, tailor made to meet the requirements of the company, whatever shape or size.

The company has recently launched a new virtual office service – Avanta Virtual PA. Designed to offer businesses a complete package of office support but without the actual office space, Virtual PA can deliver a full range of business centre facilities to home workers, business start-ups, professionals on the move, or larger organisations seeking a market presence in London.

Aligned to the launch of the Virtual PA, is Avanta’s Meeting and Training Room service (MTR). For companies who wish to hire space for a board away day or brainstorm session, a day’s interviewing or seminar and training, Avanta can offer meeting rooms complete with audio and video conferencing.

About Avanta
Avanta is an emerging name in the serviced office market, with a rapidly growing portfolio of office suites in prime locations across London. The company was formed in 2004 by David Alberto, previously with Regus and former Managing Director at MWB Business Exchange. Avanta can offer highly flexible, unbranded office space, with advanced and competitively priced technology, tailor made to meet the requirements of the occupier. The company manages a total of 280,000 sq ft of office space across seven locations, with an average occupancy rate of over 90%.

About officebroker.com
UK based officebroker.com was formed by Jim Veneables and Andy Haywood and began trading in 2001 as an online commercial property broker. The premise for business is to bring office space suppliers and landlords together with business customers seeking flexible office space solutions. Growing organically, the company has since doubled its profit year on year to become the number one, online office broker in the U.K. Meeting the company’s global strategy, an officebroker.com office opened in the US in summer 2006 and an office in Asia is due to open within the first six months of 2007

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PR agency contact:
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FD Tamesis
Tel: 020 7269 9355

Avanta contact:
David Alberto
Avanta Management Services Ltd
1 Hammersmith Grove
London
W6 0NB
Tel: 0203 008 6000
http://www.avanta.co.uk/