Agilico Wrapped: Our 2024 Highlights

As the year comes to a close, we’re looking back on a year filled with milestones, meaningful impact, and moments of gratitude – all made possible by our incredible team. Welcome to Agilico Wrapped: Our 2024 Highlights!

Our People, Our Foundation

At Agilico, everything we’ve achieved this year stems from the passion, drive, and dedication of our people. From launching new initiatives to running marathons, our team constantly goes above and beyond to make a difference.

Supporting Wellbeing

We’ve expanded our focus on mental health with trained Mental Health First Aiders, wellbeing walks, and a new Wellbeing Hub launching in 2025. Our colleagues have embraced giving back through volunteer days, social responsibility initiatives like litter picks, and events that strengthen our communities.

Inspiring Team Efforts

• 30 colleagues raised over £23,500 in the Great North Run for the Alan Shearer Foundation.
• The Gateshead team collected over 200kg of rubbish to keep their local area clean.
• Offices like Southampton, Inverness and Rochester worked with charities like Jamie’s Computers, Maggie’s Cancer Charity, and Martha’s Trust to create real impact in their regions.

Looking Ahead

We’re gearing up for even bigger things in 2025 – from team podcasts promoting mental health awareness to completing our Strava challenge ‘Around the World in 80 Days’, where every step counts toward helping Cancer Research UK.

Highlights from Across the Business

Our achievements this year reflect our shared commitment to sustainability, innovation, and growth.

Growing Together

New Aberdeen Office: After 20 years in the region, we opened a modern, energy-efficient facility at City South Business Park. This move sets the stage for another two decades of sustainable growth in the North East of Scotland.

Verify x Barclays Eagle Labs: We teamed up with Barclays to offer Verify, our automated invoice processing solution, to members of Barclays Eagle Labs, one of the largest entrepreneurial networks in the UK.

Recognition on Sage Marketplace: Verify is top-rated on Sage Marketplace with 5-star reviews.

Making Connections We’ve supported, hosted, and attended business events throughout the year, giving our teams the chance to step out of the office and connect with customers and like-minded professionals from a wide range of industries. From legal and education sectors to entrepreneurs, care homes, and financial services, these events have been invaluable in building relationships, sharing knowledge, and sparking new ideas.

Sustainability at Our Core

This year, sustainability has remained at the heart of everything we do, and our award-winning Agilico Zero initiative continues to make a meaningful impact:

• This year, we have refurbished just under 1,600 devices, helping us to avoid over 1.5 million kilos of carbon emissions since the initiative started – that’s the equivalent of planting 72,500 trees!
• Every primary school that installed an Agilico Zero device also received a copy of Jessie the Jellyfish, a sustainable children’s book teaching important lessons about plastic pollution and protecting our oceans.
• At our purpose-built local refurbishment centres, we restore ex-showroom or low utilisation MFDs to ‘as-new’ condition, drastically reducing waste. Our expert engineers carefully harvest and repurpose every usable component. Any parts that can’t be reused are sent to our recycling partners, ensuring nothing goes to landfill. This year, we also swapped our shrink-wrap packaging for a biodegradable alternative.
• All of which positions us the UK’s pioneering Circular-First Managed Print Services business, leading sustainability in our sector.

In May, we hosted our most sustainable sales conference yet at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC). The EICC, renowned for its eco-friendly practices, has diverted all waste from landfill since 2013. Sustainability was woven into the event, with eco-friendly goody bags made from recycled plastic, water provided in recyclable cartons, and multi-cable chargers crafted from ocean plastics.

Over 90% of our fleet is now electric or hybrid, and we’ve chosen to partner with Ogilvie Fleet to lease lightly used electric vehicles where available. These cars have been previously leased and returned to the leasing company, allowing us to reduce our environmental impact even further by avoiding the need for brand-new vehicles. We’ve also installed solar panels at multiple offices.  And we’re always looking for new ways to reduce our environmental impact.

From innovative packaging to meaningful partnerships, we’re proud to champion sustainability in all aspects of our business.

Giving Back and Making an Impact

This year we’ve supported partnerships and fundraising efforts that reflect our purpose-driven culture:

Fundraising Highlights: From marathons and bake sales to toy drives and Christmas Jumper days, we’ve supported causes like the Alan Shearer Foundation, Maggies, Macmillan Cancer Support, and Save the Children.

Community Support: Our teams have collected toys for Mission Christmas to ensure that every child has a gift on Christmas Day. And also, we’ve been busy collecting Christmas stockings filled with essentials such as shampoo, deodorant, body wash, underwear, socks, and more for Changing Lives - one of our valued customers. They do incredible work supporting people facing homelessness, domestic violence, addiction, long-term unemployment, and other challenges, helping them make positive changes in their lives.

Awards and Recognition

While the true measure of success lies in the difference we make, we were honoured to receive recognition for our sustainability efforts from Chambers of Commerce and our industry peers across the country. We were even more delighted to have won the Environmental Excellence Award at the PRINT IT Industry Awards for our commitment to sustainability and our Agilico Zero range.

And that’s not all, we climbed higher in CRN’s Top 100 VARs, the UK’s premier managed service providers list. This recognition from CRN, a leading global technology publisher, reflects a successful year for Agilico and highlights our continued growth, driven by our commitment to supporting businesses across the UK.

These achievements are a testament to how our sustainable practices inspire not only our business but others too.

Looking Ahead to 2025

This year, we’ve been driven by one purpose: to create positive change. But we know there’s always more to do. Whether it’s building a greener future, building an environment where everyone can thrive, or driving innovation, we’re ready to do even better in the years ahead.

Thank you to our amazing teams, customers, and partners for being part of our 2024 journey. Wishing you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a wonderful New Year!

2025, we’re ready for you!