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Applegate joins forces with European tech firm Visable

Applegate, an AI-powered procurement platform based in Barnstaple, has formed an exclusive strategic partnership with European tech firm Visable to provide UK companies with access to its services.

Visable is the parent company of Europe’s leading b2b platforms, Europages and wlw, which between them cover 3.6m businesses. The agreement will enable British businesses to increase their...

SupplyDevon helps the South West economy bounce back from Covid-19

SupplyDevon is a project that aims to help Devon’s economy bounce back and become more resilient as coronavirus lockdown restrictions are lifted.

The county is home to seven of the 20 districts predicted to be worst affected economically by the pandemic. Even before the virus, devon was home to the district with the lowest average wages in the UK. The effects of the pandemic on the...

Applegate CEO Stuart Brocklehurst

Exclusive: One billion pieces of PPE delivered by Devon firm

A Devon tech business behind a digital procurement platform has facilitated the delivery of more than one billion items of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Barnstaple-based Applegate Marketplace , an artificial intelligence-powered procurement platform that connects commercial buyers with providers of goods and services, started to see...

Applegate CEO Stuart Brocklehurst

Stuart Brocklehurst, Applegate CEO: "We have in the South West an area in which we are genuinely world-leading and it’s an area of increasing importance"

Stuart Brocklehurst is chief executive of Applegate Marketplace, a Barnstaple-based artificial intelligence-powered procurement platform that connects commercial buyers with providers of goods and services. He sits on the board of the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership, where he also chairs the Innovation Board.

Stuart spoke to SWTD about running a tech business...