History

The Group was founded in 1991 by Mark Hill.

Ours is a straightforward story of steady growth in people and expertise - of gradually developing new skills in-house and adding specialists to extend our capabilities..

We have a longstanding relationship with nearly all our clients. We design, build and maintain their sites and, in most cases, we host the sites for them too, as they use our content management and online communications tools. We also provide consultancy services for them, as well as other corporate communications projects such as mobile sites and online reporting.

• We built our first corporate web site back in 1995 for Kingfisher, our longest-standing client
• 1997 brought the first award for our work as our client Severn Trent was recognised as having Best FTSE 100 online annual report - the accolades for our work have kept coming
• By 2003 we were creating sites that are accessible to disabled users
• In January 2005 we updated our name from IR Group to, simply, The Group, a name which better reflects the breadth of our skills and our business and captures something of the character of the company
• In February 2008 we relaunched our web site and blog, showcasing our new brand identity and letting you know what we're thinking
• Today, we're still helping companies make the most of their online communications - developing mobile sites, blogs, podcasts, video and wikis that allow our clients to deepen their engagement with their audiences and to build online communities

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