Largest ever icenet contract goes live | January 2006
January 2006, ICE has gone live with its largest ever contract, worth in excess of £2m over the next 4 years further strengthening its position in the retail finance sector.

This latest and most significant win in ICE’s eight year history is Everyday Financial Solutions Limited which offers a wide range of credit, insurance and warranty products to customers of the Littlewoods Shop Direct Home Shopping brands including household names such as Marshall Ward, Great Universal, Littlewoods Even More and of course Additions. With annual sales in excess of £2.1bn, Littlewoods Shop Direct Home Shopping is the UK’s biggest home shopping businesses and one of the largest in Europe.

Everyday Financial Solutions used the ICE.net hosted platform to launch a new fixed term loans business to support the sale of high value goods such as furniture and premium electrical goods through a number of the brand catalogues.

Alex Stephen, Chief Executive of ICE said “We are delighted that Everyday Financial Solutions chose ICE for this high profile project. It’s a significant statement of confidence in the company and the product. Our combined team has worked exceptionally well on this demanding project from initial discussions to a live working solution in just five months”.

“ICE has been an excellent partner to work with on this time critical project for the release of our September catalogues, it was vital that they delivered a quality solution on time, which I’m pleased to say they did” comments Arnie Iversen, Chief Executive Officer, Everyday Financial Solutions. “ICE.net provides us with a powerful tool to support our future business strategy.”

Alex goes on to say, “It proves our long term strategy of ‘on demand’ hosted solutions works well and is highly scalable not just for new start ups, but large organisations such as Everyday Financial Solutions”.

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