Portsmouth: Transalis expands its footprint at Technopole

Transalis, a privately-owned specialist in retail software which underpins billions of pounds of stock orders by helping companies trade electronically without the need for costly paper documentation, has expanded its footprint at Portsmouth Technopole, the serviced business centre opposite the city’s port.  

Transalis has 27 staff on site and relocated to the 20,000 sq ft premises from London three years ago.  It now occupies nearly 2,000 sq ft.

Adam Swanson, sales director at Transalis, said: " Our finance and marketing sections are now in separate offices following reconfiguration carried out by Portsmouth Technopole’s operator, Oxford Innovation. Its friendly team takes care of all our office-related needs, such as reception, mail, security and cleaning, allowing us to focus on what we do best."

Peter Outen, centre manager at Portsmouth Technopole, said: "This is the third space requirement by Transalis within three years, reflecting the firm’s excellent growth.”

There are more than 10,000 users of Transalis’ global digital platform, in areas such as retail, manufacturing, distribution, logistics, fast-moving consumer goods and health and beauty. Clients include AS Watson, which is the largest international health and beauty retailer in Asia and Europe with more than 12,800 stores in 25 markets; international cafe chain Pret a Manger; The Hut Group, a global online retailer in health and beauty; and Microsoft.  

Transalis provides business-to-business cloud-managed solutions and developed OpenEDI, its award-winning supply-chain solution, as the “glue”’ to enable companies of all sizes and regardless of IT deployed, to communicate electronically and seamlessly anywhere in the world. 

The firm was founded by joint managing directors Aniello Sabatino and Paul Simpson.