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Local business success story celebrates its tenth anniversary with a staff trip to Vegas!

A Coventry based technology company is toasting ten years of success by holding a staff trip with a difference.

Rapide Communication, based in Heron House at the University of Warwick Science Park, celebrated its anniversary on Thursday. To mark the occasion and to reward staff for meeting the ambitious financial target they had set for them this year MD Nigel Shanahan has offered each of his 26 employees the chance to follow him to the bright lights of Las Vegas.

"As a company we've always tried to champion a work hard, play hard ethos. The trip to Las Vegas is a chance to have a bit of fun and to acknowledge all the hard work that each employee puts in on a daily basis."

"It's also an important marker though of how far we've come, from a small, ambitious company to a competitive market leader."
Nigel Shanahan -Rapide Communication Managing Director.

Rapide count 1/3 of the FTSE 500 as clients including such household names as Premier Inn, Barclays and The Co-operative.

The firm are employee and customer engagement specialists who use a range of cutting edge technologies to send out timely communications via text, voice and email. The same technology is then capable of capturing and understanding the feedback of recipients, helping businesses find out exactly how they are being perceived, giving them a competitive edge.

Although they are pleased with their current success the company are far from complacent, as well as recently launching their services in Ireland the company are setting their sights on international expansion by this time next year.

"This is a really exciting time for Rapide, despite the economic climate we’ve managed to continue to prosper and we remain confident that the best is yet to come."

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