EXPANDING e-commerce business PureNet is expanding into new premises.

The growing business, which won Science and Technology Business Of The Year, has been recruiting over the past year and found it has filled its current premises.

The business, which employs about 20 people, will move its headquarters from the IT Centre at York Science Park, where it has been for five years, to Westminster Place at York Business Park, Nether Poppleton.

The business said its new premises at Kensington House, where it will move on June 1, will accommodate up to 40 staff.

Dr Paul Gibson, chief executive of PureNet, said the move follows a number of successes including new business wins from West Ham United Football Club; performance bicycle distributor Saddleback; Purple Mountain, which offers cycle hire and mountain biking services in Dalby and Kielder Forests; health supplement supplier Syncro Health and Green-Tech, a landscape, forestry and construction business.

He said: “We will be arriving at a time of great expansion for the company and the new office will offer the space we need to continue to expand our operation and will enable us to improve our customer communications and services.”

Tracey Smith, managing director of York Science Park, said: “It’s been fantastic to witness PureNet grow over the past five years from a small, fledgling start-up company to the large and award-winning business that they’ve now become. I’m pleased that the Science Park has provided the environment in which Purenet has been able to grow and develop, and I wish them all the very best as they move out and take their business to the next level.”