Gamma Global Timeline
- 2009
Gamma completes the transition to ISO 9001:2008 certification. Gamma supports Avocent at the CRN Fight Night. Gamma opens operations at Madrid in Spain. Gamma opens operations at Warsaw in Poland. Gamma staff supports Comic Relief and raises £1,000 for the charity.
- Michael Jackson, the King of Pop sadly passes away in June 2009
- Barbie turns 50
- England wins the Ashes back from Australia
- 2008
Gamma partners with Rittal to become their sole UK Distributor.
Gamma renews its Investors in Poeple certification. Gamma switches banks from RBS to HBOS to provide better transactional handling and faster response times enabling a more efficient service to our clients . Gamma re-locates London operations to cater for a growing team of sales & purchasing in that region. Gamma turns over £58,000,000 with 59 staff Gamma sells to 1,204 unique customers across 39 countries
- Britain officially enter the ‘Great Recession’
- Barack Obama becomes the first African American President of the United States of America
- The first Blu-Ray Disc titles are introduced
- Honda begins selling its zero-emission, hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle The Honda FCX Clarity
- 2007
Gamma maintains its UKAS ISO 9001 : 2000 and Investors In people Certisication. Gamma commences making use of offsite warehousing to cater for the over-flowing stock making up its £6 Million worth of inventory. Gamma establishes operations at Milan in Italy.
Now with 58 staff across 5 operations, Gamma turns over £51,000,000. Gamma sells to 1,061 unique customers across 43 countries.
- Gordon Brown replaces Tony Blair as the prime minister of Great Britain
- The summer of 2007 was the wettest since UK rainfall records began in 1914
- The New Wembley Stadium in London, UK is completed
- Apple introduces the iPhone
- The Final Harry Potter book is published Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Following its introduction in late 2006 Nintendo Wii with it's motion sensitive controllers is the game system in demand
- 2006
Avocent acquires Cyclades and Gamma is awarded Avocent’s Best UK Distribution Partner in the first trading partnership year With 48 staff Gamma turns over £48,000,000 Gamma sells to 855 unique customers across 40 countries
- Myspace goes live, launching a new era of social networking around the globe
- Saddam Hussein is charged and found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging
- The one billionth song is purchased from Apple iTunes.
- Pluto is downgraded from a Planet to a dwarf planet by The International Astronomical Union ( IAU )
- 2005
Cyclades spots a Gamma advertisement at Manchester Airport and recognises Gamma as a forward-thinking, innovative distributor for their product range.
Gamma goes global and announces goal to reach the £100M mark. Andy Bridden, Gamma Global’s newly appointed Finance Director leads a second Management Buy Out.
Gamma turns over £47,000,000 with 56 staf Gamma sells to 823 unique customers across 42 countrie
- Pope John Paul II Dies and Benedict XVI becomes the next Pope
- London is hit by Islamic terrorist bombings, killing 52 and wounding about 700. It is Britain's worst attack since World War II
- England takes home the Ashes
- London, UK is chosen to host the 2012 Olympics
- The Xbox 360 is launched
- Live 8 concerts happen in members of the G8 cities around the world to put pressure on the Leaders of the G8 countries to do more for the world's poor
- 2004
Gamma Global refurbishes its Head Office to create a better atmosphere for staff Gamma Global acquires small French Broker
– Alter Options Gamma turns over £44,000,000 with 53 staff Gamma sells to 562 unique customers across 32 countries
- An enormous tsunami devastates Asia, causing 200,000 deaths
- The 60th anniversary of D-day is remembered by world leaders
- 2003
Gamma installs Sage Line 500 to increase performance, reduce downtime and streamline the business processes.
Gamma re-structures its warehouse to enable increased stocking and a more efficient picking process. Gamma relocates Birmingham operations to cater for a growing team in sales & purchasing.
Gamma turns over £43,000,000 with 46 staff & sells to 437 unique customers across 26 countries.
- The United Kingdom celebrates the 50th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II - Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won a record 11 out of 11 Oscars
- Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected as Governor of California
- Concorde makes its last commercial flight
- 2002
Gamma Global becomes an ISO 9001:2000 registered company. Gamma commences a new £150,000 IT infrastructure roll-out.
Gamma acquires adjacent premises to improve efficiency in stock and delivery turnaround. Gamma Global is re-branded to create more awareness throughout the reseller market. Management buy out by Managing Director, Martin Smith.
Gamma increases staff numbers to 46 and turns over £42,000,000 - an impressive 53% growth.
Gamma sells to 326 unique customers across 21 countries.
- The Queen Mother dies peacefully in her sleep at the age of 101
- England get the quarter finals of the world cup, losing out to the Champions, Brazil
- 2001
Steve Lee entered for Entrepreneur of The Year awards and is a semi-finalist. Martin Smith is brought into the company as Managing Director to take Gamma Global forward into success. Gamma increases staff numbers to 43 and turns over £30,000,000.
- Terrorists attack the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in New York, killing nearly 3,000 people, now famously know as 9/11
- Wikipedia is born - HP (Hewlett Packard) and Compaq merge - Apple computers release the iPod - Microsoft releases Windows XP
- 2000
Gamma signs lease on London property and increases Sales & Purchasing operations. Gamma turns over £28,000,000 with 32 staff.
- Big Brother hits our screens, opening the nation to a new world of reality TV
- Sony launches Playstation 2
- The mobile phone is now seen as a essential item
- The London Eye opens as the Worlds Largest Ferris Wheel
- 1999
Gamma increases employee numbers to 26 and turns over £26,000,000
- an impressive 63% growth.
- The Euro is established - World-wide Y2K scare
– computers are predicted to crash at the end of the year
- Sega Dreamcast is released, Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario Brothers become household names
- 1998
Gamma Management renames to Gamma Global (UK) Ltd.
Gamma relocates its Head Quarters operation to larger Manchester premises creating a better platform for its fast growing business .
Gamma brings in a Birmingham based Sales & Purchasing team and signs a lease on a Solihull office. With 20 staff, Gamma turns over £16,000,000
- Google is born – introducing the world to a easier way to search the World Wide Web
- 1997
Gamma turns over £12,000,000
- Britain's Princess Diana is killed in a car crash in Paris
- Tiger Woods becomes youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament
- NASA’s Mars Pathfinder probe lands on Mars
- Titanic becomes the highest grossing film ever made
- The Simpsons is the longest running prime-time animated series
- Microsoft becomes the worlds most valuable company valued at $2.6 billion
- 1996
Gamma opens a London Sales office With 11 staff, Gamma turns over £11,000,000
- Mad Cow Disease hits Britain
- NEXT merges with Apple
- HRH Prince Charles and Lady Diana divorce
- DVD’s are launched in Japan
- Ebay is created
- The Spice Girls go straight to number one with their first single…Wannabe
- 1995
With 9 staff, Gamma turns over £9,000,000
- Microsoft introduces Windows 95
- Javascript was first introduced
- The average house price in the UK is valued at £68,000
- 1994
With 9 staff, Gamma turns over £7,500,000
- The Channel Tunnel opens after 15,000 men worked for 7 years on the 31 mile tunnel, linking the United Kingdom with Northern France
- UK National Lottery is launched
- 1993
Gamma turns over £6,000,000
- Intel introduce the Pentium Microprocessor
- The first person-to-person SMS text message was sent in Finland
- Buckingham Palace opens its doors to the public
- The Dyson becomes the first bag-less vacuum cleaner
- Jurassic Park hits our cinema screens
- 1992
Gamma turns over £4,500,000 growing by 200% in its third full year of trading
- ‘I will always love you” by Whitney Houston hits the top spot in the charts’
- British FA Premier League is formed
- Microsoft introduces windows 3.1 - Euro Disney opens in France
- DNA fingerprinting is invented
- Bill Clinton inaugurates as President of the United States
- 1991
With 4 staff Gamma turns over £1,500,000 growing the revenue by 150%.
- Byran Adams was at number one for 16 weeks with his hit ‘Everything I do”
- Helen Sharman is the first Briton in space
- Apple releases first version of Quick Time
- The Internet is made available to unrestricted commercial use and the number of computers on the internet reaches 1 million
- The car airbag is invented
- The Web Browser is introduced
- 1990
In its first year of trading Gamma turns over £600,000 with just 3 staff.
Gamma Management was born as a small operation in Whitefield, Manchester.
- Tim Bernes-lee invents ‘The World Wide Web’
- Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 28 years
- West Germany wins the World Cup
- The first in-car satellite navigation system was introduced
