SHI’s 6.8B 2015 revenue sets stage for continued growth in 2016

SHI International Corp. finished its 2015 fiscal year with a record $6.8 billion in revenue, an increase of 14 percent year over year, the company announced in a news release Thursday.The Somerset-based IT solutions provider also added 400 new employees in 2015, totaling its workforce to 3,200, with more than 900 employees in Texas and 1,500 in New Jersey. Of the 400 new hires, 200 were in sales and 180 were in pre-sales or professional services roles.

“Growth came from all sides in 2015 as we strengthened longtime partnerships, cultivated new ones, expanded resources, and reinvested in our team and facilities,” Thai Lee, CEO and president of SHI, said in a prepared statement. “2015 not only reshaped what technologies organizations purchase and deploy, but also the ways they license, consume and manage IT assets. This past year, we maintained our focus on the changing needs of our customers and continued to adjust our business to help solve their evolving IT challenges. We are well positioned to extend our global leadership in delivering coordinated end-user, security, cloud, and data center solutions that enable our customers — and SHI — continued growth.”

According to the release, SHI’s strategic enterprise, commercial enterprise, corporate and public sector divisions all contributed an equal share to the total revenue for the year. Global development was also stable, with SHI’s Canada, U.K. and France divisions each reporting double-digit growth. In addition, SHI accumulated more than $1 billion in revenue from cloud products and solutions.