SYDNEY, Australia — Oct. 25, 2023 — Lumify Group’s parent company EdventureCo completes the acquisition of City Desktop Training to expand its offering in Adobe end user training.
Lumify Group, Australasia’s largest provider of corporate ICT and digital skills training, has completed the acquisition of City Desktop Training, Australia’s leading provider of instructor-led Adobe end user training.
Established for over 30 years, City Desktop Training is an Australia-based provider of live instructor-led training in Adobe end user applications, such as Adobe InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Over the past six years, it has provided training to a highly diversified customer base, spanning over 3,000 business and government clients.
City Desktop Training primarily supports individuals and teams focused on graphic design, marketing, communications, and administrative roles.
Acquiring City Desktop Training will broaden the solutions offered by Lumify Group, which now includes Lumify Work Australia (formerly DDLS), Lumify Work Philippines, Lumify Work New Zealand (formerly Auldhouse), Lumify Learn, Lumify People and Nexacu.
Jon Lang, Lumify Group CEO, said,“Since we rebranded from DDLS and Auldhouse to Lumify Work in Australia and New Zealand, we have sought to leverage our strengths and broaden our offering.
“The acquisition of City Desktop Training perfectly complements the group offering; beyond our highly rated instructor-led ICT and cyber security courses, students will benefit from Lumify’s state-of-the-art campuses across Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines.
“We are thrilled to welcome City Desktop Training to the fold, accelerating our expansion in end user application training and building on the successful acquisition of Nexacu, Australia’s leading provider of Microsoft end user application training, in October 2022.”
About City Desktop Training
City Desktop Training is Australia’s leading provider of training in Adobe Creative Cloud applications, including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and more. We offer both short courses and custom training for beginners through to advanced users. Courses are conducted live face to face or virtually by experienced and Adobe Certified Instructors. City Desktop Training has venues in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane CBDs. Visit the website: https://www.cd.com.au
About Lumify Group
For more than three decades, Lumify Group (formerly DDLS) has been helping organisations and people master technological change. As the preferred training partner of the world’s leading technology vendors, Lumify Group can create best-in-class, vendor-authorised learning experiences for its students and customers across a vast and ever-growing range of topics and courses. Through its four core brands – Lumify Learn, Lumify Work, Lumify People and Nexacu – it can deliver the full spectrum of IT training.
Lumify Learn (RTO No. 45994) provides hyper-relevant, accredited IT qualifications, globally-recognised certifications and vendor-certified bootcamps for individuals, delivered 100% online.Lumify Work offers best-in-class, vendor-certified, IT training for business and enterprise customers, delivered in the classroom and online by industry-accredited trainers.Lumify Peopleprovides tailored IT learning solutions, technical advice and strategic consulting to upskill workforces and transform organisations from the inside out.Nexacudelivers quality, instructor-led Microsoft app training for end-users across APAC.
