Training firm enters construction and infrastructure sector with Synergie Training acquisition

Jim Kirkwood
After 30 years of improving the well-being and safety of road users through its pioneering licence checking, road safety and driver rehabilitation courses, trusted training and compliance expert TTC is expanding its offer to include construction and infrastructure training as part of its entry into the broader health and safety marketplace.
The company has acquired an accredited education specialist Synergie Training, enabling the move into an additional regulated training market where compliance and learning are central to successful business operations.
It will provide a perfect opportunity for Synergie Training – which currently operates nationally across the UK - to accelerate its growth with a nationwide parent company that truly complements its business. For TTC, it enables the expansion of its driver-related product suite to support large construction and infrastructure companies.
Jim Kirkwood, CEO of TTC, said: “2024 marks TTC entering a new strategic phase, backed by financial investment from Pricoa Private Capital. The acquisition of Synergie Training is an excellent first step into this complementary and adjacent market where compliance and learning are key. It has an enviable reputation for quality training and outstanding service, boasting a rarely achieved Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 100.
“Its method of delivery is very similar to our own ‘book-pay-deliver’ model but currently largely delivered manually and face-to-face. This is a fantastic opportunity to further leverage our tech-enablement and virtual training skills to increase Synergie’s customer base still further while also accelerating growth into new areas such as environmental training.”
2023 saw TTC reach a new milestone, training over 700,000 people across the year. TTC will work with Synergie to extend its already wide array of courses to help ensure that construction and infrastructure workers across the nation can operate safely and competently.
Steven Nelson, managing director of Synergie Training, added: “We are delighted to be joining the TTC family of trusted training and compliance solutions. As a tech-enabled business, TTC represents an exciting and significant opportunity for Synergie Training to make our training programmes even more accessible to our existing clients, whilst offering improved scalability for us to deliver the best possible training en masse to the construction and infrastructure sector.”