10ticks

10ticks is owned by Ian Fisher and was set up in 2000 originally selling maths worksheets
The business has been included as part of a number of academic studies, the most notable being “The Benefits of e-Business Performance Measurement Systems” by Barnes and Hinton 2008. Which looked at the benefits of e-businesses, taking a sample from 2005 winners of the Government DTI e-commerce awards.
The work by 10ticks has also been included as part of other studies such as the “The Circle of Apollonius” by Wilson (2000)
Myton School in Warwich have used the resource and appeared on the National Times Education Newspaper . Ian Fisher the Managing Director also appeared in a Magazine article for the Times Education Magazine talking about website expansion
In 2003 10ticks challenged a VAT fight in which the company thought it was being unduly charged VAT for selling its products on a pdf rather than as a textbook, which is exempt from VAT.
In 2004 10ticks won ‘e business of the year' at the North Manchester Business Awards.
10ticks joined a government backed initiative by UKTI and attended a Trade Mission to South Africa , leading to a book dealwith Internationally renowned publishers Hinemann.
More recently 10ticks took advantage of the Government funded ‘KTP’ scheme ‘which allows companies such as 10ticks to access skills and expertise, and to employ a recently qualified graduate, specifically recruited to work on a bespoke project.
In 2011 10ticks started selling to Australia and mapped their courses to the New Australian Curriculum.
In early 2012 10ticks signed a deal with partners in Australia and Malaysia to sell 10ticks in the respective countries.
Darren Wood, the Head of Business Development and Marketing published an article on 'keeping Teachers Safe on Facebook' which received International recognition including from the USA .
10ticks also sponsored a school learning system as a prize for the International Lasco Maths Challenge, which 'is the Latin American Street Children Organisation, a registered charity formed in Northern Ireland in 1985 to help provide education and healthcare to some of Latin America’s estimated 40 million street children'5.
Ian Fisher was recently crowned one of the top 20 tweeters for maths.

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