Roseville-based
AbleNet
last week announced the acquisition of TeleConcepts, a local company
that provides telemarketing services, largely for the hard-of-hearing
market.
AbleNet designs, develops and manufactures more than 800
products for people with all kinds of disabilities, "from a switch that
enables a person to use a computer, to classroom curriculum for
special-education students, to environmental controls for Afghan war
veterans," says Jason Voiovich, vice president of marketing for AbleNet.
"Our products are really designed to improve quality of life," he says.
The
acquisition of TeleConcepts will improve AbleNet's ability to follow
that mission and market its products, and it allows AbleNet access to
the hard-of-hearing market, says Voiovich.
TeleConcepts will continue its work with its existing customer base, as well as take on new work for AbleNet.
Both
companies have been in business for 25 years. AbleNet will operate
TeleConcepts as a wholly-owned subsidiary at its new corporate
headquarters, just west of AbleNet's previous offices in Roseville.
AbleNet
has been growing in terms of revenue at about 20 percent per year for
about five years, says Voiovich. AbleNet, now with 50 employees, has
been growing in terms of employees as well, adding six in the past three
months, says Voiovich. The new space is "quite a bit larger" and allows
the company to as much as double in size in the future.
Source: Jason Voiovich, AbleNet
Writer: Jeremy Stratton