The Leighton Group

The Sunderland-based, Leighton Group, has a long and successful history in the technology, software, new media and interactive communication industries.

We have a strong portfolio of local, national and international clients earned through creating a sound reputation for:

• continually producing robust, creative and effective applications and solutions;
• delivering unsurpassed levels of customer service;
• consistently meeting and exceeding clients expectations.

The group has established itself as a breeding ground for the development of innovative, high growth ventures and is currently made up of five independent companies: Leighton Ltd, The Communicator Corporation Ltd, Leisure Travel and Tourism Ltd, Business Education Publishers Ltd and Workcast Corporation.

Founded in 1992, Leighton is one of the UK’s leading digital agencies with an international portfolio of clients. By combining fresh ideas, strategic development and technical excellence, Leighton tailors a complete design, development and integration package of both websites and online systems for clients such as British Airways, Tourism Australia and Sage.

The Communicator Corporation is one of the world’s leading providers of digital messaging services. Formed in 2003, it has developed  award winning software and provides technology and consultancy services to hundreds of clients across a diverse range of sectors. Communicator Corp delivers over one billion messages every year to over 100 countries in more than 20 languages.

Communicator® is our industry leading 'on demand' email and marketing platform. It allows our clients to collect their customers’ email addresses and mobile phone numbers into databases and then to analyse, segment and manage these databases. Clients then use the software to intuitively create email and text messages. The software delivers these messages and provides the client with assurance and certification that the messages have been delivered and provides a comprehensive set of reporting tools.

Leisure, Travel and Tourism Limited is the latest addition to the Leighton Group of companies. Formed in the summer of 2007, it  has developed innovative on-line software services to meet both the operational and development needs of businesses in the leisure, travel and tourism sectors.

The Leisureport® application allows clients who have operations spread over many locations, to collect management information and data over the internet. It then automatically notifies the client of business critical events and provides full management reporting. Client benefits include increased efficiencies, minimising exposure to risk and the improved transparency of management processes.

Business Education Publishers Ltd is a founder member of the Leighton group of companies. It is an independent publishing company specialising in: Information Technology, Business, Education, Travel, Tourism and Leisure

In Business Education Publishers, we adopt a personal interest in each project. Our staff works closely with authors to produce high quality work. With our attention to detail, each book is produced efficiently and to the highest standards. By using direct mail, the telephone and the Internet, our marketing strategy is to maximise the exposure of each and every publication. Our policy is to provide the highest standards possible throughout the entire publication process.

Workcast Corporation specialises in the design, delivery and deployment of Enterprise Web Conferencing and Collaboration solutions.

As Organisations desire to communicate more effectively internally and with their customers, prospects and stakeholders grows, the cost, time and environmental impact of travel associated with this has increased dramatically. Travel time and costs are also becoming more tightly controlled. However, the ability to reach a wider geographical audience in a more effective, engaging way via the internet has improved dramatically through the use of Collaboration solutions.

WorkCast helps Organisations realise the benefit of these Collaboration tools such as Web Conferencing by deploying them to help communication in real time with these disparate audiences. WorkCast also enables Organisations to capture and replay these sessions on demand to allow the full potential of this content to be reused. Whether an Organisation wants to hold a Webinar, Webcast, Online training session, Sales, Department or Project meeting, Executive or Analyst Briefing, WorkCast can help capture, deliver and replay these sessions to anyone at anytime over the internet.