Listening Company moves into W Indies

LONDON - Call centre operator The Listening Company is to offer clients a low-cost alternative to UK-based call centres in a partnership with West Indies call centre firm Ocean Call.

The deal sees The Listening Company provide management expertise to Ocean Call in return for call centre services from the company's Grenada-based facility for its UK clients.

In using an offshore call centre, The Listening Company will be able to offer clients a call centre service at a reduced price. The service will be offered to clients on a trial basis initially.

Neville Upton, chief executive of The Listening Company, said: "With a good command of English, no problems with the call handler's accents, good education levels and up-to-date technology, Grenada offers a good base to trial an offshore solution."

Ocean Call operates one call centre in Grenada with a capacity for 250 seats, handling projects in the US and the UK.

The Listening Company, which has a 500-seat capacity call centre in the UK, said it has no plans to reduce the scale of this facility.

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