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From a humble beginning to industry leading

2009

The Beginning

Paddy & Stephen were made redundant during recession & decided to set up a business. With no industry experience and no customers, they decided that ink & toner would be a good sector as it’s something that every business needed across all sectors. With €1000 savings they bought laptops & phones & got busy hustling. They rented a tiny office & started getting some small orders from family & friends to begin.

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2010

Winning

They started to win new business through prospecting calls & knew there was real potential to make this business work. However, there wasn’t enough money for wages & a lot more work was needed.

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2011

Expanding

IGate Ink expanded into the world of office supplies & they rebranded to ‘IGate Ink & Office Supplies’ (LOGO) . They launched their first website to make ordering easier & achieved growth of 94%.

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2012

Success

The first monumental customer was landed which inspired them to pursue more of the same. They moved to their second office to have more space & make room for a bigger team.

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2013

The Rebrand

They hired their first two employees, one sales rep & one office administrator to help share the workload giving, hence giving birth to the IGate HR Dept. The company was rebranded to IGate Office Supplies.

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56%

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2014

Customer Happiness

The team launched the ‘IGate Customer Happiness Department’ to ensure customer centricity was at the core of what they do. They started doing business with Government Bodies & other large organisations.

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42%

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2015

New Departments

The IGate Finance Department & Sales Team were established & a lot of work was done on a new strategy for success.

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2016

Rewards

This was a BIG year as they rebranded to IGATE.ie with a new customer experience to offer. The pioneering IGate ‘Rewards’ programme was launched to great success, and the rest of the market would soon follow. IGate Interiors was also launched & the team started to work on small furniture & light Fitout projects.

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21%

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2017

Workwear

IGate Workwear was launched to expand their service offering. IGate became the preferred supplier for the largest Data Centre in Ireland at the time giving the business a big boost.

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21%

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2018

Promotional Goods

IGate Promotional Goods was launched to further expand their offering to their customer marketing teams. They also launched their new much improved website. The registered their new ‘Love Your Office’ Trademark to demonstrate how a customer will feel working with IGate.

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12%

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2019

10th Anniversary

10th Anniversary!!!! PARTY!!! Celebrations were had with lots of customer promotions & an investment was made in the new IGate HQ in Ballycoolin, Dublin 11. There was now room for more growth, more warehousing & a real feeling of pride. A company video was made to tell their story so far. The fist IGATE Van & Driver started doing deliveries around Dublin (taking the dependency off 3rd party couriers & adding to the customer experience).

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16%

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2020

COVID19

IGate pivoted it core business at the start of the pandemic to facilitate their customers with PPE supplies, Hand sanitiser and Perspex screen to facilitate them being able to provide safe working environments for their staff.

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22%

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2021

iGate Print

The team continued to grow & the 2nd IGate Van & Driver hit the road servicing all of Dublin and surrounding counties. They launched IGate Print. The Sales Team really developed this year paving the way for further growth of 33%.

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33%

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2022

Sustainability

The new premises are at full capacity. Their main emphasis this year has been the ‘IGate Sustainability Plan’ (LOGO). It’s been a very busy year again & they are on track for growth of 40%.

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40%

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2023

Launched New IGate Interiors Website

IGate launched their new office Interiors website, showcasing all their latest completed projects & highlighting all their products and services.

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40%

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2024

15 Year Anniversary

To celebrate 15 years in Business Igate brought all their team to Amsterdam for the weekend.

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40%

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2025

IGate Launch new B2B Website

IGate spent 8 months working on their new B2B webstore to give their customers a better online experience and embracing AI, they provided more enhanced online ordering features.

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50%

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2026

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Get To Know Us

Find out more about Paddy and Stephen.

Paddy Richards

Sales Director

After leaving School at an early age, I worked very hard to achieve very little. Realising my errors I returned to adult education. In 2001 I created an opportunity that would eventually lead to building my own engineering business and employing 30 staff in 2007.

Unfortunately, like most companies by 2009 the recession lead to the closure of the company and a sense of despair as my wife & I just had our 4th child and we were jobless. So it was time to pick myself up, brush off the past and start anew...

Stephen Rooney

Managing Director

Since studying Business at School I had a vision of someday setting up a business for myself, with this in mind I went on to earn a BSc in Business in D.I.T. & graduated in 2002. But to my disappointment I found that the business world was not awaiting my arrival with open arms, the hard work was only beginning.

The jobs that followed were far from enterprising, but with a mixture of skills picked up from different industries I ﬁnally put them together and we established IGate in 2009, and it was the best move we ever made. ...