iTICKET wins 2014 Fast 500 Asia Pacific ranking

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iTICKET wins 2014 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ Asia Pacific ranking

MONDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Event ticketing company, iTICKET, has won a place on the 2014 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ Asia Pacific index. It means the company is one of the 500 fastest growing technology organisations in Asia Pacific.

Managing Director Reece Preston attributes the result to a constant commitment to innovation.

“We are totally focused on delivering the best experience for our event promoter clients, the venues who work with us, as well as the end consumer. Our proprietary technology is one of the key ways we can deliver on this promise and we’re constantly working to make sure we stay ahead of the game.

The event ticketing industry is fiercely competitive, yet we continue to go from strength-to-strength with an 80% growth in revenue over the last two years. Winning a place on the Deloitte index is a tribute to our ‘can-do’ philosophy.”

iTICKET is a New Zealand owned and operated company which specialises in online and mobile ticketing via its website www.iticket.co.nz, box office software, outlet sales, as well as offering on-site services at events. Its most recent innovation has allowed event promoter clients to access unique and cutting-edge ways of marketing their events to the public via social media.

The Deloitte win comes at the end of another bumper year for iTICKET. The company celebrated its 10 year anniversary and added to its list of achievements by being named a finalist in the Excellence in Innovation category at the 2014 Westpac Auckland Business Awards.

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About iTICKET

iTICKET was founded in 2004 by two software engineers with big dreams. Reece Preston (Managing Director) and Phil Jobbins (Technical Director) have spent the last ten years building a thriving, Kiwi-owned and operated business that punches well above its weight, employing twelve staff and delivering millions of tickets for thousands of events - ranging from community shows and local sports events, to major concerts and large-scale festivals - all over New Zealand, as well as entering into Australia.

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The Technology Fast 500™ list is compiled from the Deloitte Asia Pacific Technology Fast 50 programs, nominations submitted directly to the Technology Fast 500™, and public company database research. To qualify for the Technology Fast 500, entrants must have had base-year operating revenues of at least US$50,000. Entrants must also be public or private companies headquartered in Asia Pacific and must be a “technology company”, defined as a company that develops or owns propriety technology that contributes to a significant portion of the company’s operating revenues; or manufactures a technology-related product; or devotes a high percentage of effort tot the research and development of technology. Using other companies’ technology in a unique way does not qualify.

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