A FIRM headquartered in Colchester has cemented its move into the Spanish market.

Cloudfm employs more than 330 people across the UK and is based on Severalls Business Park.

It recently opened an office in Barcelona in conjunction with Optima Facility.

The expansion was cemented with an ideas sharing event featuring a presentation from Chris Drew, chief financial officer at fast food chain KFC UK and Ireland.

KFC is one of the brands facilities management firm Cloudfm works with.

Jeff Dewing, chief executive of Cloudfm, said: “We’ve proven the success of our market-leading approach in the UK, and are delighted with the international momentum our radically different partnership formula has gained – this event has been a really promising start to the positive evolution of our provision across Spain and the rest of Europe.”