blur Group is a technology company reinventing how businesses do commerce at blurgroup.com. Its Global Services Exchange delivers services differently: a new way to buy, manage and pay for core services. As of July 2013, more than 30,000 businesses in 141 countries have adopted this s-commerce platform and changed the way they work. 100 projects per month from companies like Broadridge, Coral, Exceed, HCA, Momentive, Red Commerce, the Financial Times, Berlitz, Butlins, GE Healthcare and Tyco are received. Over the same time, average brief value has grown from around US$1,500 in 2010 to US$10,800 in the first quarter of 2013. By mid-2013, more than 2,200 projects had been submitted with a combined value of over US$35 million. These have come from the US, UK, Europe, Africa and Asia with over 28,000 expert service providers on eight exchanges responding to them


http://blurgroup.com/

Milestones show accelerated growth of s-commerce

RNS


RNS Number : 2416M

blur (Group) plc

22 August 2013








22 August 2013

blur (Group) Plc

("blur Group" or the "Company")



blur Group shows accelerated global growth of s-commerce



This week, blur Group, the company that is reinventing commerce at blurgroup.com, has passed more significant milestones on its platform as the rate of s-commerce adoption increases. In the last year alone 1,500 projects have started, bringing the total to over 2,500 and the total value of these projects has increased to over $42m.



Recent projects on the Exchange have shown the increasing demand for higher-value projects to be delivered using s-commerce. These include a $500,000 design and technology project for developing an online community, a $750,000 marketing project for a property development group and a $750,000 streaming video application for a media company. Larger enterprise customers include a major baby food manufacturer and a global healthcare company, further establishing blur's applicability for all sizes of business and enhancing the appeal for service providers to switch to using s-commerce for new business.



'It took us nearly four years to reach 1,000 projects. The fact that we have now reached 2,500 less than a year later shows an ever increasing, global appetite for s-commerce', said blur Group CEO Philip Letts. 'We always knew that the business would become global very quickly. Our 30,000 service providers come from across 141 different countries, meaning that our customers have the opportunity to work with anyone across the globe and our rapidly growing affiliate program provides more scalable growth in new regions.'



Lewis Owens, Strategic Market Development Manager Owen Mumford, commented: 'We adopted the s-commerce platform over the past year and have never looked back. We have used it for four very different projects. Each time it's been a simple process and provided beneficial results.'



Milestones reached:



● 2,500 projects started on the Exchange. Just one year since announcing it had passed 1,000 projects, the project counter has now passed 2,500.



● The total project value has now passed $42m. Currently total project value is $42,138,439 which means $21,892,212 received in total project value in 2013.

● Over 30,000 expert service providers, from 141 different countries.

● blur Group's partner program now has over 200 affiliates from 36 countries.



-ENDS-

Blur’s total project value doubles in 2013
By Jamie Nimmo August 22 2013, 7:21am



Blur’s larger customers include a major baby food manufacturer and a global healthcare companyBlur’s larger customers include a major baby food manufacturer and a global healthcare company

Crowdsourcing specialist blur Group (LON:BLUR) has seen the total value of its projects more than double in 2013 as appetite grows for its s-commerce platform.

The company, whose shares have proved a hit with investors since it listed on AIM last October, has received $21.9 million in total project value in 2013, taking the total since the company’s birth to $42.1mln.

It also revealed that 2,500 projects have now been started on its Global Services Exchange, just a year after revealing it had passed the 1,000 mark.

“It took us nearly four years to reach 1,000 projects. The fact that we have now reached 2,500 less than a year later shows an ever increasing, global appetite for s-commerce,” said chief executive Philip Letts.

“We always knew that the business would become global very quickly. Our 30,000 service providers come from across 141 different countries, meaning that our customers have the opportunity to work with anyone across the globe and our rapidly growing affiliate program provides more scalable growth in new regions.”

Blur’s larger customers include a major baby food manufacturer and a global healthcare

dreamcatcher View dreamcatcher's profile - 11 Aug 2013 12:48 - 17 of 21

lol Dil. Sounds like you put half a dozen company names on a dart board and threw a dart blind folded.



Yeah something like that dc :-)

Bought 10 shares hitting new highs with a 20% stop loss to see how it went. Full list was these Lok , MAB , MBH , PIM , SPD , TPK , TRG , UDG and WWH.

Hold this one in my ISA and SIPP now, expecting many upgrades to follow

blur Group boosts C-Suite Appointees

RNS


RNS Number : 5894M

blur (Group) plc

28 August 2013








28 August 2013

RNS Reach

blur (Group) Plc

("blur Group" or the "Company")



s-commerce firm blur Group boosts C-Suite Appointees



Dorothy Mead to become Global Head of Digital (Marketing) and

Jon Hogg to become Global Head of Platform





blur Group, the company that is reinventing commerce at blurgroup.com has today announced another set of Global appointees as Dorothy Mead and Jon Hogg become Global Head of Digital (Marketing) and Global Head of Platform respectively.



Reporting directly into CEO Philip Letts, Mead's role will encompass all digital channels including Content Marketing, SEO, PPC and Affiliate Marketing driving customer acquisition.



Also reporting into CEO, Philip Letts, Hogg will be responsible for all front and back end development for the technology company. This includes the company's R&D facility in Exeter and as such he will operate from both Exeter and London.



Manuel Bordes will be promoted to Head of R&D and will be the day-to-day senior manager of the R&D Center in Exeter. Nunzio Avino becomes Front end Architect whilst Clare McSporran becomes London Studio Manager. The team will be joined by Gavan Raine, who joins as Head of Tech Ops.



Within the Global Digital (Marketing) team, Jacky Lok steps up to Insights Manager, Robert Sandall moves up to Content Marketing Manager and will be joined by David Tapp who joins blur Group as Digital Advertising Manager.



blur Group CEO Philip Letts commented, 'Since announcing our most recent C-Suite appointees in Kara Cardinale and Gerry Gross, we have broken through 2,500 projects submitted to the Exchange, surpassing $42,000,000 in total project values. Today's appointments will ensure that the C-Suite managers will be further supported in helping the business grow.'

3.0 platform augmented with automated billing

RNS


RNS Number : 6944M

blur (Group) plc

29 August 2013








29 August 2013

RNS Reach

blur (Group) Plc

("blur Group" or the "Company")



s-commerce firm blur Group further augments 3.0 platform with automated billing





blur Group, the company that is reinventing commerce at blurgroup.com, is continuing to industrialise many of its platform features and improve its s-commerce proposition with a new advanced billing system and enhancements to the blurSense system.



Building on blur's 3.0 platform launch earlier this year, the new billing system will automate the statement of work and payment schedule within the Global Services Exchange. This move is specifically designed to help blur Group continue to scale to facilitate SME volumes as well as new corporate customers with project values of $5m+. The advanced billing system will in the future enable blur to consider self service solutions and multi-device operations as well as very high volume auto-payment mechanisms.



blur Group has enhanced blurSense, the automatic selection tool on the Exchange. This now includes a data centre to analyse the vast quantity of customer and expert data within the platform and further streamline the customer experience during the pitch shortlist and selection stages of the s-commerce process. blurSense also now adds machine intelligence based ratings to both service provider pitches as well as the service providers themselves. In the future, it will develop Big Data tools and perspectives on buyers, sellers and broad services industry intelligence.



blur Group CEO, Philip Letts commented, 'These process and platform enhancements are part of the stated roadmap made possible through the secondary fundraise completed earlier this year. We are committed to maintaining our lead at the forefront of the s-commerce industry through continually augmenting and expanding the capability and scope of the Global Service Exchange. Like blurSense, this new payment update will help us begin to industrialise features of the business, allowing customers - old and new - to speed through the procurement process at rates before unimaginable. They all use blur's new API which will be released for more public use in 2014.'





-ENDS-

Contract Win

RNS


RNS Number : 6943M

blur (Group) plc

29 August 2013








29 August 2013

blur (Group) Plc

("blur Group" or the "Company")



s-commerce firm blur Group confirms new large project



blur Group, the company that is reinventing commerce at blurgroup.com announces that its platform has been adopted by a global music event promoter for a major milestone anniversary of a Caribbean Music Festival. The entire project is valued at $750,000.



Philip Letts, blur Group CEO commented, 'We recently increased the maximum project values managed on the Exchange and significant projects like this show how blur 3.0 is enabling high value complex projects to be delivered on the Exchange. We hope to continue to attract plenty of new projects of this calibre from customers, new and old.'



-ENDS-

blur music project reveals co's platform can cope with larger jobs; upgrades exchange
By Ian Lyall August 29 2013, 7:14am The company said it is continuing to “industrialise” many of the features of its platform.The company said it is continuing to “industrialise” many of the features of its platform.

blur Group (LON:BLUR) said its global service exchange has been selected by a global music promoter organising a milestone anniversary of a Caribbean music festival.

The total project value is in the order of US$750,000.

Chief executive (CEO) Philip Letts said: 'We recently increased the maximum project values managed on the exchange and significant projects like this show how blur 3.0 is enabling high value complex projects to be delivered on the exchange.

“We hope to continue to attract plenty of new projects of this calibre from customers, new and old.”

That latest iteration of the blurgroup.com platform has had a number of bells and whistles added.

The company said it is continuing to “industrialise” many of its platform features and improve its s-commerce proposition with a new advanced billing system and enhancements to the blurSense system, which streamlines the work pitching process.

Building on blur's 3.0 platform launch earlier this year, the new billing system will automate the statement of work and payment schedule within the global services exchange.

This move is specifically designed to help blur continue to build volumes from its tradition small company customer base as well as allowing it deal with new corporate projects, where values might exceed of US$5mln.

CEO Letts said: “These process and platform enhancements are part of the stated roadmap made possible through the secondary fundraise completed earlier this year.

“We are committed to maintaining our lead at the forefront of the s-commerce industry through continually augmenting and expanding the capability and scope of the global service exchange.

“Like blurSense, this new payment update will help us begin to industrialise features of the business, allowing customers - old and new - to speed through the procurement process at rates before unimaginable. They all use blur's new API [application programme interface] which will be released for more public use in 2014.”

blur (Group) schedules interims

StockMarketWire.com

blur Group,will be announcing its unaudited interim results for the six months to the end of June on 24 September.



Story provided by StockMarketWire.com

Contract Win

RNS


RNS Number : 9332M

blur (Group) plc

02 September 2013








2 September 2013

blur (Group) Plc

("blur Group" or the "Company")



s-commerce firm blur Group confirms new large project from US MVNO



blur Group, the company that is reinventing commerce at blurgroup.com announces that an innovative US Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) has adopted blur Group's Exchange to purchase and manage a number of design and marketing projects valued at $480,000.



Philip Letts, blur Group CEO commented, 'This is another example of a forward thinking company recognising the convenience and agility of the Exchange as a platform for managing and delivering all of its design and marketing projects. Committing this budget to the Exchange ensures choice, value and efficiency of delivery - a further testament to the power of s-commerce.'



-ENDS

UPDATE - blur Group signs up US mobile operator
By Jamie Nimmo September 02 2013, 12:01pm Chief executive Philip Letts is the man behind blur's successChief executive Philip Letts is the man behind blur's success

--ADDS BROKER COMMENTS, SHARE PRICE--

blur Group’s (LON:BLUR) Global Services Exchange got another seal of approval as it revealed a US Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) has adopted its s-commerce platform.

It will allow the company to buy and manage a number of design and marketing projects to the tune of US$480,000 (£309,000).

In the States, MVNOs sublease wireless from major American spectrum licence holders such as AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless.

Blur CEO Philip Letts said: “This is another example of a forward thinking company recognising the convenience and agility of the Exchange as a platform for managing and delivering all of its design and marketing projects.

“Committing this budget to the Exchange ensures choice, value and efficiency of delivery - a further testament to the power of s-commerce.”

Almost 35,000 businesses have now signed up to the AIM-listed company’s services, including food giant Danone, bookmaker Coral and the Financial Times.

House broker N+1 Singer sang blur’s praises.

“Today’s announcement shows the increasing sophistication with which some buyers are now using the Exchange and is a positive lead indicator of things to come,” said analyst Tintin Stormont.

“We continue to expect significant growth going forward as the corporate market is clearly ready for a new model for procuring services and blur is at the forefront of this trend.”

Shares dipped 1.9% to 308p.

Contract Win

RNS


RNS Number : 2698N

blur (Group) plc

05 September 2013








5th September 2013

blur (Group) Plc

("blur Group" or the "Company")



s-commerce firm blur Group confirms new $900,000 large-scale project



blur Group, the company that is reinventing commerce at blurgroup.com announces that a US based international property development firm has used blur Group's Exchange to develop a marketing strategy and customer acquisition campaigns for a sizable new development in Panama. The project is valued at $900,000.



Philip Letts, blur Group CEO commented, 'This is a great example of blur Group's international reach. The customer recognises the choice and convenience available on the Exchange when launching a time-critical marketing campaign. Committing a project of this value to the Exchange ensures choice, value and efficiency of delivery. We are pleased to receive yet another large project so soon after blur Group increased the size of projects that can be entered on the Exchange to $5 million.'



-ENDS-

Tipped in Shares Mag today too.

Looks good greyhound. Roll on 24 Sept interims. Could just be very good. :-))

Blur has won shares 2013 IPO best performer with Clinigen second. Wandisco was last years winner.The sp is up 301% since opening price on admission date and closing price on 22 Aug.

What makes the best IPO/ fund Raising -

Well managed shareholder expectations

Sensible issue price

Good liquidity in the after market

Clear communication and implementation of strategy

share price performance

Needs new analyst upgrades now.

These upgrades will come soon hopefully after the interims on the 24th! Great write up in Shares Mag yesterday as you know DC. Rising nicely now in last 30 mins on very low buying at present, a good sign! These projects are just going to keep coming through now I believe more and more frequently! This Company is getting noticed out there now!!

Thanks mcgraph1958.

Just glanced at Shares again and N+1 Singer has a top of the range 517p price target, made my weekend. :-))

Yeah when I read that price target it defo made my day! Think as Shares say's there be in Profit before 2015, could well be next year, let's hoping! Then what price Blur be then DC