AN EXPANDING York-based ecommerce agency is celebrating after winning recognition at a regional awards ceremony.

Allies was founded by local entrepreneur Ryan Atkins in May 2015, and in the following 12 months it has started three new ventures, with three more in development.

Now it has won Small Ecommerce Agency of the Year at the Northern Ecommerce Awards.

Mr Atkins said: “Seventy-four weeks ago we took our first step to create an altogether different kind of ecommerce agency - an agency that was laser-focused on growth; an agency that fully invested in the businesses we work with.

“I’m humbled and honoured to have seen such a quick and enthusiastic adoption of our unique ‘Growth Formula’ approach, backed by our open-source commerce platforms team.”

He said the recognition for the agency’s achievements and ‘unique offering’ from the Northern Ecommerce Awards had been ‘the cherry on the cake.’

“The category had a high quality spread of agencies competing for the award, which makes the win even sweeter!

“We’ve developed some fantastic success across our client portfolio using Growth Formula methodology, and are looking forward to continuing this pattern,” he said.