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Asperity Employee Benefits

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Asperity Employee Benefits is a provider of intranet based employee discount services employees of over 750 corporate clients including McDonalds, American Express, IBM and AT&T.

The company’s product, Reward Gateway, is the largest closed-group, discounted shopping network in the UK, handling over $400m of retail commerce in 2011. Asperity also provides the same service in Australia, where it launched in 2010 and the USA where it launched in 2012. Clients in the USA include Yahoo!, AOL.com and Discovery Channel.

Between 2008 and 2011, the company ranked as the 2nd fastest growing technology company in the UK - announced in the Sunday Times Tech Track 2011. Also in 2011, the company won both the NatWest Fast Growth Business of the Year and the Service Business of the Year in the Fast Growth Business Awards published by Growing Business Magazine.

In May 2012, Asperity placed 9th in the GPBullhound Media Momentum Top 50 league table, based on growth of 280% across the three years to 2011.

The company has 5 offices worldwide with headquarters in New York, London and Sydney.

Recent Milestones

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  Asperity Employee Benefits added Tracy Mellor as Group People Director. (2/1/12)
  Posted 2/28/12 at 12:51pm
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  Asperity Employee Benefits added Andy Smith as CFO. (3/1/11)
  Posted 2/28/12 at 12:51pm
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  Asperity Employee Benefits received $39.7M (£25.5M) in Venture Round funding. (12/2/10)
  Posted 2/28/12 at 12:51pm via cityam.com
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  Asperity Employee Benefits added Andy Vaughan as Chairman. (12/1/10)
  Posted 2/28/12 at 12:51pm
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  Asperity Employee Benefits added Tom Lavery as Group Sales Director. (8/1/08)
  Posted 2/28/12 at 12:51pm
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  Asperity Employee Benefits added George Farrow as Client Services Director. (7/1/08)
  Posted 2/28/12 at 12:51pm
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  Asperity Employee Benefits acquired BringMe for £500k. (10/4/07)
  Posted 2/28/12 at 12:51pm via co.uk
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  Asperity Employee Benefits added Chris Whitcombe as Founder. (3/1/06)
  Posted 2/28/12 at 12:51pm
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  Asperity Employee Benefits added Glenn Elliott as Founder & CEO. (3/1/06)
  Posted 2/28/12 at 12:51pm
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  Asperity Employee Benefits added Helen Craik as COO. (3/1/06)
  Posted 4/20/12 at 10:59pm
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  Asperity Employee Benefits added Charlie Murphy as CFO. (3/1/06)
  Posted 4/20/12 at 11:00pm

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Sources

1. Asperity acquires BringMe from Lloyds TSB Registrars (employeebenefits.co.uk) [edit]
2. Inflexion in £25.5m buyout of Asperity (cityam.com) [edit]