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Avon-based iCleanse ‒ which makes a non-chemical cleaning product for electronics ‒ announced a major expansion into the United Kingdom market. The company is owned by Chris Allen, who founded and sold for more than $100 million Avon smart home technology company iDevices. ICleanse’s expansion into the U.K. market includes the addition of a four-member sales team working out of England, Wales and Scotland.
Now Allen says he can grow his newest business, the Avon-based iCleanse, to $ 100 million in just a few years. In July, Allen took ReadyDock Inc. about, a small company in West Hartford that makes docking stations that – using UVA radiation – charge and disinfect electronics such as phones and tablets. He said he saw a lot of potential in the four-person company, but felt it needed a more experienced management team to grow. In April 2020, Hartford Business Journal reported that COVID-19 was creating high demand for ReadyDoc’s product, particularly among hospitals that were short of N...
HARTFORD, Connecticut (Hartford Business Journal) — About eight years after Chris Allen founded smart home technology company iDevices, the Avon-based business was generating about $100 million in annual revenue. He eventually sold iDevices — which develops and sells smart switches, plugs, sockets, outlets, thermostats and other devices — in 2017 to Shelton-based Hubbell Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Now, Allen says he can grow his latest company, Avon-based iCleanse, to the $100-million mark in just a few years. In July Allen acquired ReadyDock Inc., a small West Hartford compa...