product & service design founded manchester december 12 2008 october 31 2014 acquired by epam systems headquarters manchester uk key people matthew farrar co founder european ceo robert noble co founder american ceo website www.epam.com great fridays is 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 leading provider of product development and software engineering solutions . contents 1 background 2 notable projects 3 references 4 external links background edit the company was founded in late 2008 in manchester by matthew farrar 2 and robert noble with investment from peter gabriel 3 through his real world holdings company . with a head office in manchester and a rising demand for their services in london the company opened an office in the capital in 2011 . in december 2012 the company announced the opening of two further offices in san francisco and new york as part of its global expansion plans . 4 great fridays was acquired by epam systems in october 2014 . 5 the company now employs more than 60 full time staff 6 and has an in house team of design experts across all disciplines including audio 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 on october 31 2014 great fridays was acquired by epam systems a leading provider of product development and software engineering solutions . notable 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 . medium . 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 limited . 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. retrieved 10 may 2014 . thomson reuters boardlink app for ipad . core77 design directory . retrieved 10 may 2014 . external links edit great fridays official website peter gabriel s official website great fridays on linkedin product design company website design authority official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title great fridays & oldid 740320717 categories companies established in 2008privately held companies of the united kingdomcompanies based in manchesterdesign companiesinternet companies of the united kingdom 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 20 september 2016 at 09 56 . 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