Dan Corby CEO 118 Group Announces 400 new jobs for Essex

Pressbox (Press Release) - Fast growing directory business 118 Group, creates 400 new jobs at state of the art call centre in Chelmsford.

Daniel Corby, CEO and founder of 118 Group has announced the opening of a new state of the art call centre in Chelmsford. 118 Group was founded in 2005 and has been an incredible success, with interests in the Directory, Advertising, New Media, Telecoms and Publishing.

Already employing around 200 people in Chelmsford, Dan Corby, comments "We have built an incredible business in a very short space of time, by creating great products and recruiting a fantastic team of people to build the business. We have recently appointed Richard Allan as Chairman to help guide the business through its agressive expansion over the coming years ahead.

Our core products involve Internet Advertising, and it is great to see such massive growth when so many competitors are struggling with their own sales.

Our new call centre at Chelmer Village in Chelmsford will be the companies biggest ever spend in terms of Infrastructure and development and we expect to be fully operational by October 2006"

118 Group operates a number of trading businesses, with include 118 trades, which is the UK's leading directory servive of tradespeople and businesses with checkable references. The service is provided free to end users and the business makes it money through charging membership fees. You can also access the member base by calling 0800 2471184 free of charge 24/7.

118telecoms is a telecom reselling arm, which sells memorable telephone numbers, including 0800, 0845, 0870 and 090 premium numbers.

118gethitched is a portal for anything to do with getting married, and follows the same highly successful format as 118trades.

118new media sells banners and advertising products across the portals.

The main board consists of Dan Corby, Founder and CEO, Bradley Chapman, Commercial Director and Richard Allan, Chairman.

Dan Corby was previously Sales Director at phones4u, the high street retail chain and part of the Caudwell Group. Bradley Chapman was sales director at Zenith Conservatories and Richard Allan was CEO at Perry Motor Group plc