Month: April 2013

Cellhire has once again sponsored the Young Enterprise initiative as they celebrate their 50th Year running the organisation. Cellhire supported the award of Excellence in Leadership which was won by Polly Chapman from Skipton Girls High School, the Managing Director of Boom Boom Bags.

The Skipton girl founded Boom Boom Bags at the beginning of the academic year in order to take part in the nationwide Young Enterprise competition. The Boom Boom Bags team has been involved in a number of money making activities so far including, designing two limited edition bags and organising sweet swaps between the boys’ and girls’ grammar schools for Valentine’s Day.

In 2012, Young Enterprise worked with 220,000 young people aged 4 to 25 in 5,000 schools, colleges and universities with help from volunteers from 3,500 businesses.

Young Enterprise’s pioneering Start-up scheme to help university students launch their own business has boomed as the economic downturn has triggered a surge towards graduate self-employment. Now in their 50th year, Young Enterprise launched the Tenner programme in spring 2013, a competition that challenges young teenagers to take a ten pound loan and do something enterprising to make a difference and give something back.

The award was presented to Polly Chapman by last year’s winner of the award, Bronny Embleton of King James’ School Knaresborough.

Cellhire, the international mobile solutions specialist, has added another major network to its global coverage. A partnership with Russian network MegaFon adds to Cellhire’s global presence and continued growth and expansion in to the region following the opening of its Russian office in 2012.

Cellhire Russia offers both corporate and consumer telecoms solutions to the region, including local support, with a product portfolio of local and international voice, data and smartphone solutions. Prepaid products are available for those travelling to and from Russia with competitive services offered for both Europe and the rest of the world.

Bogdanova Nadejda, Senior Development Manager of Small and Medium Business at Stolichny branch MegaFon says: “MegaFon is delighted to be partnering with Cellhire and working with them in the run up to a number of major sporting events taking place in Russia in 2013/14 and beyond. The unique offers we have with Cellhire have put us in an excellent position to maximise the inbound opportunities coming to our region in the near future.”

The partnership enables Cellhire to offer local communications to sports teams and media groups as they prepare for high profile events in the region, including the World Athletics Championships and the G20 Summit in 2013 and the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.

Martyn Stevens, International Business Development Director at Cellhire says, “Our expansion into Russia comes at a crucial time for the region when many major world events are using Russia as their venue. Our unique partnership with MegaFon has allowed us to deliver the very best offers to our existing customers and to those that are making plans now for upcoming events”.

The unique agreement with MegaFon has enabled Cellhire to offer very competitive rates in the region whilst maintaining its high standards of customer service. Cellhire’s global customer base is now supported by its Moscow office, delivering unrivalled levels of international telecoms service for upcoming global events in the region and to multinationals based in Russia.