Tenant Testimonials
The North East Business and Innovation Centre (BIC) is home to a diverse range of companies, which have been able to grow and flourish through our flexible accommodation and business space, whilst taking advantage of 24 hour business support and cutting edge technical facilities.
Ian Chapman Managing Director of CIA Training
CiA Training is a leading light in publishing training resources for ICT qualifications, as well as bespoke products and courses, with over 400 titles in an ever-growing product portfolio.
The company was started in 1985, in response to the demand for high quality training solutions, and has since offered flexible and user friendly resources to partners and clients all over the world within both further and higher education, schools, local government, health care, corporate and training organisations, as well as supporting individual learners.
CiA training became on of the BIC’s first tenants in 1994, when Managing Director Ian Chapman moved his growing business on-site to take advantage of available technology. Since then the team has moved through offices of various sizes to meet their growing needs.
Ian Chapman, Managing Director of CiA Training, says: “1994 saw massive advances in software and communications, and these were the very developments that brought our business to the BIC that year, as the location had quickly become established as an ideal base for cutting edge companies. Provisions on-site have since developed in parallel with the success and growth of our business, allowing us to continue to base our operations here.”