Viglen

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company_name = Viglen Ltd
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company_type = Ltd
foundation = UK (1975)
location = Hertfordshire
key_people = Sir Alan Sugar, Chairman
Bordan Tkachuk, Chief Executive
industry = Computing
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homepage = [http://www.viglen.co.uk/ www.viglen.co.uk]

Viglen Ltd provides IT products and services, including storage systems, servers, workstations and data/voice communications equipment and services. The British company was formed in 1975 and was acquired by Amstrad in 1994. In 1997, it was listed as a public limited company and Amstrad plc shares were split into Viglen and Betacom shares, Betacom being renamed to Amstrad PLC. Following the sale of Amstrad PLC to Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB, Viglen is now Sir Alan Sugar's sole IT establishment. Viglen is run by CEO Bordan Tkachuk, a long time associate of Sir Alan, who can be seen making special guest appearances on The Apprentice (UK)

Viglen focuses particularly on the education and public sectors, selling both desktop and server systems. Viglen also has interests in other IT markets such as managed services, high-performance clusters, and network-attached storage.

Viglen has recently moved into the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) business, resulting from a successful tie-up with Norwegian learning platform specialists it's Learning.

In December 2005, Viglen relocated from its London headquarters in Wembley to Colney Street near St. Albans into a building which also houses its fabrication plant.

The Apprentice

The new headquarters doubles up as one of the filming locations for the hit BBC show The Apprentice (UK), with various scenes including the infamous "job interviews" being shot there.

ee also

*Alan Sugar
*The Apprentice (UK)

External links

* [http://www.viglen.co.uk/ Viglen Corporate Site]
* [http://www.itslearning.com it's Learning Site]