Record international sales for Scanning Pens!
WESTBURY, WILTSHIRE – We're so proud of our award-winning EdTech company Scanning Pens and their recent commercial successes in the international market! The first quarter of 2022 has seen growth on a number of global fronts, and has culminated in a record sale of over half a million pounds to the South African governmental supplier framework which Scanning Pens are part of, via their in-country representatives EditMicro, their exclusive area partners who have supported Scanning Pens for the last five years and helped them grow the assistive technology market substantially during that time.
The period has also seen another sale in excess of a quarter of a million pounds destined for Malta via the Maltese Ministry for Education, in partnership with Scanning Pens’ in-country representatives Energy Investment. These units will go to support students with low literacy and who require exam accommodations, joining the millions of reading pen users all over the world who rely on our tech to hone their literacy skills so that they can go on to read and succeed.
Scanning Pens: reading heroes and EdTech experts
Created in 2003 by Empowering Tech founders Jack Churchill and Toby Sutton, Scanning Pens is a dedicated global EdTech business supplying text-to-speech devices to people with dyslexia and literacy differences, and they're committed to raising awareness of dyslexia worldwide and connecting individuals and organisations with literacy solutions that put people first.
Reading pens represent a huge quality-of-life change for people with dyslexia and low literacy, and work by allowing users to scan through and listen to texts via an audio feedback system. Removing the need for in-person readers and modified texts, they make reading an independent act, and help people who struggle with reading able to engage with texts in the same way that a neurotypical person might. From working through a history exam or reading the latest bestsellers to the day-to-day admin tasks of running a business, Scanning Pens tech is designed to make reading accessible and simple, so that users can focus on what matters.
New opportunities and new market challenges
As a multinational business, Scanning Pens have dedicated the past two years to exploring what new opportunities they can offer to people with dyslexia and literacy differences during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as continuing to support the markets that rely on their transformational text-to-speech technology. It’s been a period of international co-operation and growth, expanding markets in territories such as the US, India, Australia, and Canada and developing new markets in other countries all over the globe.
And our Scanning Pens are no strangers to capturing the international market. 2021 saw the company add a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade to their company accolades, joining their 2019 trade success in achieving BETT’s Exporter of the Year Award. 2022’s already impressive international sales are emblematic of a paradigm shift in the global neurodiversity landscape in that people are adopting support strategies like Scanning Pens tech that prioritise independence and a reliable technology foundation that can travel with them from education, to the workplace, to their home and social lives.
Fostering a lifelong relationship with reading through the use of dedicated and reliable tech is one of Scanning Pens’ core methodologies when it comes to raising literacy worldwide, and as a parent company, Empowering Tech are proud of the achievement and excited to see just how far they can take their message in the remaining quarters of 2022.
One-half of Empowering Tech's founder duo, Jack Churchill commented:
“It's fantastic to see wider adoption of assistive technology grow beyond the UK, and for Scanning Pens to be leading the way through our global reseller network.”