industry mobile marketing founded 2005 founder alastair shortland ceo darren daws chairman headquarters chester & malvern number of locations 2 products bulk sms sms marketing messenger and mobile marketing number of employees 45 may 2016 website http www.textlocal.com textlocal is a mobile communications company founded in 2005 with offices based in malvern and chester . in 2005 alastair shortland and darren daws decided they wanted to transform the way businesses individuals and groups communicate using mobile . txtlocal ltd was then formed . since then with the development of their messenger product it has allowed over 165 000 users to communicate via sms mms and mobile web . its services include inbound and outbound sms and mms communications using a web based control panel sms gateway and mms api mobile web page creation mobile forms and surveys sms attachments and mobile vouchers and loyalty cards . 1 they are members of the chartered institute of marketing institute of direct and digital marketing direct marketing association and federation of small businesses . contents 1 history 2 products 3 recent awards 4 references 5 external links history edit txtlocal ltd was formed in september 2005 as a provider of bulk sms for businesses . in 2011 txtlocal ltd rebranded to become textlocal with a new website and branding . in 2012 textlocal launched a new iteration of their messenger platform messenger 2.0 . created by the team of in house developers the new platform added a number of new features and a more streamlined interface . in 2013 they released their attachments tool 2 which allowed users to attach documents to an sms through a combination of file hosting and shortened urls . this was the first product of its kind in the mobile messaging market . this technology enabled the development of subsequent features including mobile forms and surveys 3 in 2013 and vouchers tickets and loyalty cards 4 in 2014 . in 2014 imimobile purchased txtlocal ltd. in 2015 messenger 3.0 was launched updating the platform and then allowed the launch of textlocal india . products edit send and receive sms online send and receive mms online sms api gateway sms attachments email to sms mobile web pages mobile forms and surveys mobile vouchers tickets and loyalty cards mobile app recent awards edit 2014 gp bullhound northern tech top 50 finalist 2013 deloitte fast 500 emea 5 2013 deloitte uk fast 50 6 2012 dma marketing innovation award 7 2012 media momentum top 50 finalist 8 2011 160 characters winner of best sms platform 9 2011 effective mobile marketing awards winner 10 2011 north west digital and media entrepreneur of the year darren daws and alastair shortland 2011 winner of chester business award 2010 internet business awards best telecommunications website references edit mobile marketing services . textlocal . retrieved 30 july 2014 . attachments tool . textlocal . textlocal . retrieved 18 august 2015 . mobile forms and surveys . textlocal . textlocal . retrieved 18 august 2015 . vouchers tickets and loyalty cards . textlocal . textlocal . retrieved 18 august 2015 . fast 500 emea uk winners . deloitte . deloitte . retrieved 30 july 2014 . fast 50 winners 2013 . deloitte . retrieved 30 july 2014 . textlocal are victorious at the dma honours awards . 2012 05 25 . txtlocal awarded top 20 fastest growing digital agency in europe . 2012 05 24 . mobile messaging awards winners announced . 2011 06 23 . emma 2011 award winners . external links edit textlocal website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title textlocal & oldid 743867844 categories companies based in chestercompanies based in worcestershirecompanies established in 2005hidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 at 18 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view