Awards
Local entrepreneur shortlisted for EN awards
Marcus Simmons from Leyland’s iknow-uk has been shortlisted for the Digital Entrepreneur of the Year category at the EN Entrepreneur of the Year awards
Our History
Founded in 2003 with no staff, no office, no reputation and zero capital...
The company has experienced year on year growth of 100% since inception.
Timeline:
January
- iknow now has 55 staff.
- iknow-hampshire is launched.
February
- iknow hits a record breaking 2.5 enquiries per minute.
March
- iknow hospitality is launched in Yorkshire.
May
- iknow is shortlisted for National Business Awards, Growth Strategy.
April
- iknow-somerset is launched.
May
- iknow-dorset is launched.
July
- iknow wins National Business Awards North west regional finalist.
August
- iknow-uk celebrates its first five years.
October
- iknow-kent is launched.
November
- iknow-sussex is launched.
January
- iknow sites receive 30million page views and over 5.5million visitors.
March
- iknow-wales is launched.
April
- iknow gets its 1000th customer.
December
- iknow-scotland is launched.
January
- Simplest availability calendar launched.
- iknow-devon launched.
March
- iknow receives ‘Excellence in e-business’ award.
- iknow-lakedistrict celebrates its 400,000th visitor.
August
- Short listed for Start up Awards
September
- Whitby Hoteliers Association work alongside to negotiate deal.
- Customer retention tops 90% across all sites.
October
- iknow short listed for ‘Entrepreneur of the year’ award at the North West Society of Chartered Accountants.
- iknow-yorkshire celebrates its 3 millionth visitor.
November
- iknow-cornwall is launched.
- iknow-northwest celebrates its 1.5millionth visitor.
January
- Customer control panel launched giving customers their own marketing tool.
February
- iknow-uk short listed for Lancashire Business Awards.
March
- Customer retention tops 85% for iknow-yorkshire.
April
- iknow-uk receives more national press coverage.
August
- Over 1/2million visitors flock to iknow sites over summer.
October
- iknow short listed for ‘Start up Business of the year’ award in the North West Society of Chartered Accountants.
November
- Customer welcome packs are launched.
- Announded as 'New Business award Winners.
December
- Short listed for ‘Excellence in e-business’ award at the Lancashire Business Awards.
February
- World champion Tony Hewitt MBE becomes a customer.
- iknow is short listed for Lancashire Business Awards.
- Mark Cullen resigns as director.
March
- iknow-northwest is launched.
June
- iknow wins website award ‘Best Use of website’.
July
- iknow-yorkshire receives national travel press coverage.
August
- iknow-yorkshire generates £12million in the first year.
September
- iknow trials on line bookings with Yorkshire Tourist Board.
October
- iknow-uk are ‘star performers’ in BNI.
November
- iknow-lakedistrict is launched.
December
- iknow-uk receives more national press coverage.
September
- iknow-yorkshire & iknow-uk are launched.
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