According to a statement, Kewill will now be able to provide ‘multi-carrier’ shipping for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through new cloud-based software services.

<>Paul Nichols, chief executive of Kewill, comments: ‘In line with our strategy, we are now able to support the largest enterprises as well as the SME market with both on-premise and SaaS [Software-as-a-Service] based shipping solutions.

‘This enables us to not only offer scalable choices for the market, but also supports our expanding VAR, reseller, and partner channels.’

Surrey-based Kewill has customers including DHL, UPS, Hitachi, Mothercare and Black & Decker.

While the terms of the acquisition were undisclosed the gross assets being acquired amounted to approximately £1.2 million.
 
In November Kewill announced that it had made an operating loss of £700,000 for the six months ending 30 September 2011, after making profits of the same amount during the same period in 2010.
 
The loss of a contract with mobile phone company Nokia, and a reduction in value of its contract with HP impacted the business by £900,000.

The deal for Pointandship is the first purchase made by Kewill since its June 2010 buy of Minihouse for up to £16.7 million.