London firm boosts European presence ahead of Brexit with new Milan office

A London-headquartered IT provider has opened a new office in Italy to take advantage of the digital business community that is emerging there.

Network infrastructure specialist Heficed has set up a new base in Milan in order to provide services to businesses leaving the UK as well as expand into Africa.

Vincentas Grinius, CEO of Heficed, explained: “A couple of reasons were at play when choosing Milan as a destination for Heficed to expand to.

“First, we got continuous inquiries from our customers on whether we are planning to become present in Italy, and we reacted upon it.

“Second, the digital business climate in Lombardy is really favourable. With Milan being one of the key European beneficiaries of enterprises leaving London due to Brexit, as a company, we strive to be where our current and potential customers need us the most.”

The firm, which specialises in providing IP address, cloud, and server services to businesses, also hopes that the new Milan base’s proximity to Africa will give it access to a largely untapped but potentially lucrative market.

Vincentas added: “When it comes to reaching servers located in Africa, European cities in the Northern part of the continent offer poorer latency.

“Milan, with its developed data centre infrastructure, is a great compromise for companies in need of a server location fairly close to the African continent yet unwilling to invest in the still-developing data centre ecosystem in Africa.”