Great Fridays Ltd
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| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Product & service design |
| Founded 📆 | Manchester (December 12, 2008) October 31, 2014 - acquired by EPAM Systems |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Manchester , UK |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Matthew Farrar, Co-Founder, European CEO Robert Noble, Co-Founder, American CEO |
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Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | [2] |
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Great Fridays was a Manchester-based product and service design company founded in 2008 by Matthew Farrar and Robert Noble.[1]
In October 2014, the company was acquired by EPAM Systems, a product development and software engineering company.[2]
Background[edit]
Great Fridays was founded in late 2008 in Manchester by Matthew Farrar[3] and Robert Noble with investment from Peter Gabriel,[4] through his Real World Holdings company.
The company opened a second office in London in 2011. In December 2012, the company announced the opening of two further offices in San Francisco and New York City . [5]
Great Fridays was acquired by Epam Systems in October 2014.[2] The company now employs more than 60 full-time staff.[6][7]
In January 2012, the company acquired product design company Dekode.
The company has worked for Adobe, Imagination Technologies, Gucci, Sonos, Citrix, Microsoft, Experian, Thomson Reuters, Vodafone, Pearson, Williams Lea, among others.[8][not in citation given]
Projects[edit]
- PayPal - Developing and designing a shared central system that designers can use to access pattern guidance, images and assets.[9]
- Adobe - Creating a business case and prototype app in Adobe Air run-time system for Android tablets. It was later released as Adobe Collage on iOS and Android.[10]
- Thomson Reuters - Improving the existing Boardlink app which helps the companies board members to access, review and annotate sensitive business information at board level within the company.[11]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Great Fridays steps London operations". The Business Desk. September 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "EPAM Acquires Great Fridays, Expands Product and Service Design Capabilities" (Press release). Epam Systems.
- ↑ Medium (28 May 2014). "Cavemen didn't need Google Glass". Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ↑ "Media Mix: New wins for Great Fridays; Mentors for Raw Design". The Business Desk. 28 September 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- ↑ "Great Fridays steps London operations". thedrum.co.uk/. March 2011.
- ↑ "Great Fridays' LinkedIn". Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- ↑ "Beats' and Apple's Core Is Cooler Than Cool, Probably..." 19 May 2014. Huffington Post. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
- ↑ [1] from Great Fridays' Official Website.
- ↑ "PayPal – Pattern Library". Behance. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- ↑ "Adobe | Collage prototype app for Android". Core77 Design Directory. Co. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2014. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Thomson Reuters | BoardLink app for iPad". Core77 Design Directory. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2014. Unknown parameter
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External links[edit]
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