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Creative digital agency Pod1 has announced the opening of its worldwide technology and innovation centre in Cape Town, South Africa. This announcement is inline with the agency’s expansion into different territories and a need to push forward with innovation in ecommerce.

Pod1 co-founder and London CEO Fadi Shuman comments, “South Africa has an extremely strong internet pedigree so it was a natural choice for us to open our technology centre there. With our current growth strategy we hope to become the international leader in full service ecommerce services (covering all technology and marketing areas), and with the strong calibre of internet specialists in Cape Town, we felt now was the perfect time to do it.”

First established in London in 2001, the agency is a strong collective of creative, strategic and technical experts, specialising in ecommerce solutions for leading brands from an array of industries. In 2007 Pod1 became one of the first UK independent ecommerce agencies to open an office in New York, and are now considered to be the leading agency in the retail space, with clients including Matthew Williamson, Marks & Spencer, Net-a-Porter, Jigsaw and Uniqlo.

Marc Caudron, Pod1 co-founder and New York CEO comments, “This is going to be extremely beneficial to all our clients, in the UK and the USA as it allows us to scale up very very quickly during the busy periods providing cost effective, burstable capacity when needed.”

The new office will be run alongside Fontera, Africa’s leading mobile development agency, who will be providing Pod1 Cape Town management support and local expertise.