Learning Pool Acquires UK e-Learning Company Mind Click
Strongly positions Learning Pool to meet growing demand for innovative online learning solutions
Thursday, 1 September 2016: Northern Ireland’s Learning Pool has acquired Mind Click, a leading e-learning company with offices in Nottingham and Brighton. The acquisition continues Learning Pool’s exceptional growth story and provides a compelling e-learning offering to companies who need a range of low cost online learning solutions to improve organisational performance. Learning Pool is now the largest provider of Totara learning management systems (LMS) in the global network and has significantly expanded its product portfolio and capacity to deliver to public sector organisations and private companies throughout the United Kingdom and internationally.
Sean Reddington, Mind Click’s Managing Director, is reinvesting in the expanded business and will join Learning Pool’s strategic management team, working closely with Paul McElvaney, CEO to grow the business further including new product development and expansion into new markets.
Paul McElvaney, CEO, Learning Pool said; “I’m delighted to welcome Mind Click to the Learning Pool family. The company’s organic growth in recent years has been remarkable and driven by genuine innovation and customer focus. These are attributes that we share at Learning Pool and I’m confident that this acquisition will be a springboard to deliver more innovative training solutions to our clients. This acquisition follows the investment in our company earlier this year by Carlyle Cardinal Ireland and positions us strongly for continued growth”.
Commenting on the combined capabilities of the two companies, he said; “Mind Click brings a new dimension to our offering and their creative team will be instrumental as we build out our technology and content at a quicker pace around trends like gamified learning and highly immersive content for our customers benefit. Similarly Learning Pool’s suite of e-learning catalogues will help customers to achieve significant benefits and deliver increased return on their training and compliance budgets”.
Sean Reddington, Managing Director, Mind Click said; “We’re excited to join Learning Pool which has enjoyed sustained growth and has led the way in rolling out Totara LMS and off the shelf content to its 1.25 million learners across 350 companies and government bodies. The combination of our two organisations will provide a compelling end-to-end learning solution for customers in a market that is growing globally”.
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For further information please contact:
Laurie Mannix, MKC Communications +353 1 7038620 / laurie@mkc.ie
About Learning Pool
Learning Pool is Northern Ireland’s largest e-learning company. Founded in Derry in 2006 by Paul McElvaney, Learning Pool delivers a one-stop-shop solution for organisations seeking consistent and cost effective online learning services to train their employees.
Customer organisations typically use Learning Pool’s online learning services to meet a compliance requirement or to improve organisational performance. Learning Pool provide a hosted online-learning management system that allows training to be published, tracked and reported, and a library of online content catalogues that can be tailored to individual customer training requirements.
Through Learning Pool’s annual subscription offering, customers benefit from a flat-rate affordable solution which is capable of delivering the appropriate training to their learners regardless of when or where learner access is required.
Learning Pool’s clients include Government bodies, public sector organisations and mid-to-large corporates operating across a range of sectors. The company has a significant presence in the hospitality, healthcare and public sectors. Customers include the NHS; Amway; Jury’s Inn; Somerset County Council; the UK Houses of Parliament, Capita, British Sugar, St James Hospital (Dublin), the Nursing and Midwifery Council (UK), and the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health.
An award-winning company, Learning Pool achieved the highest possible accreditation of three stars in the 2016 Sunday Times list of Top 100 companies to work for - an accolade reserved for companies regarded to be ‘extraordinary’. In 2015, Learning Pool was named one of Ireland’s fastest growing technology companies in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards, won the Institute of Customer Service, Customer Focus Award and was recognised by the Learning and Performance Institute as their Learning Provider of the Year.
Following its acquisition of Mind Click, Learning Pool will employ over 120 people in Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom.