Espresso travels to Sweden!
Swedish version of Espresso Primary announced in partnership with Liber
5th November 2007
Espresso Education, the UK’s leading digital curriculum service, has announced its expansion into the Swedish primary education market. Espresso has signed an exclusive agreement with Liber, a division of Infinitas Learning and the premier provider of educational solutions in Sweden.
Espresso will license and develop a Swedish-translated version of Espresso Primary and provide weekly resource updates. Liber will have responsibility for sales and marketing, service delivery, and customer support. Espresso has taken responsibility for the language translation and curriculum alignment. Already successfully market tested with Swedish teachers in advance of the agreement, ‘Espresso by Liber’ will fill a large gap in the Swedish schools’ market for multi-media, online curriculum content.
Espresso’s video-rich service will be officially unveiled at Skolforum, Sweden’s largest educational fair taking place in Stockholm, October 29-31, 2007.
This agreement is the latest in a series of strategic business development moves that Espresso has made, starting with the merger with Netmedia in 2005 and most recently the acquisition of Channel 4 Learning in March 2007.
Lewis Bronze, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Espresso Education commented: “This agreement is an incredible move forward for Espresso as it is our first entry into the European marketplace. We are pleased to be working with such a distinguished partner, Liber, and we are confident that Espresso will be as successful and popular in Sweden as it has been in the UK.”
Susanne Svensson, Publishing Director for ICT of Liber commented: “It is a very exciting time for ICT in Sweden and we are thrilled to be working with Espresso to offer Swedish schools the best digital product on the market today. ‘Espresso by Liber’ will satisfy a large need in Swedish schools today and will also influence the way that ICT is used in everyday teaching and learning.”
The Espresso Group
The Espresso Group is a market leading group of companies based in the UK dedicated to developing and delivering content, learning platforms and web portal applications to the education markets.
The group consists of three subsidiary businesses: Espresso Education, the UK market leader in the provision of video-based digital curriculum services to primary and secondary schools (featuring Espresso Primary, Clipbank and Channel 4 Learning), which includes an international division that licenses and distributes content into more than 40 countries worldwide; Netmedia Education, one of the UK’s largest providers of learning platform, web portal and integration services to RBCs, local authorities and schools; and Education Media Delivery, the leading online content delivery service for educational software to RBCs, local authorities and schools in the UK.
For further press information or paper versions of this release please contact:
Espresso Marketing, Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith, W6 9RL
Tel: +44(0)20 8237 1200
Fax: +44(0)20 8237 1201
Email: info@espresso.co.uk
