Pinch said:

"Intrepid's decision to go with Pinch and offer our service to their staff is clearly wonderful news for us. They immediately saw what we were trying to do and valued the difference Pinch brings to the employee benefits marketplace."

The Intrepid brand appeals to travelers with a yearning to get off the beaten track. With a huge variety of travel styles available, Intrepid travelers explore the world's most amazing places - discovering real people, real cultures and having incredible real life experiences along the way. Intrepid opens up a whole new world.

"Like Intrepid, Pinch wants to bring a new experience to its customers and we're convinced that when employees and their staff see what Pinch offers, like Intrepid, more will be making the switch." Pinch added.

Nick Ladd, General Manager of Intrepid Travel UK said:

"As businesses, we all seek ways of providing affordable benefits to staff to build loyalty and retain our top performers. To achieve this in the current economic environment has made that challenge harder. Pinch have shown a real understanding and empathy towards the style of travel that we offer and really understood our overall business ethos. As a result, we're delighted to support Pinch and their clients as their preferred partner in adventure travel and we're looking forward to a long and profitable business partnership together. We rarely offer such irresistible discounts on our trips - so it will certainly be worth signing up with them."

Pinch is the first employee benefits provider to emerge following the recession with a business model, technology platform and set of solutions designed to respond to the needs of businesses as they compete in the war for talent in a challenging economic environment.

The new employee benefits solution offered by Pinch has broken the mould used by existing providers to offer a more cost-effective and streamlined product. It has achieved this by harnessing the latest technology and global services to cut overheads and pass on the savings and the advantages of flexible, cutting edge technology to its clients.

The company has already signed up over 1000 high street names to offer discounts that will more than offset the imminent rise in VAT.

Pinch is the first organisation of its kind to be completely web-enabled with the latest tools and technologies as used by Facebook and Twitter for its core application as well as components such as Skype for telephony, and salesforce.com for CRM.

Its solution deploys the latest data mining and analytics tools to provide management information at the fingertips of an organisation. Pinch is offering a full suite of solutions including voluntary benefits, flexible and salary sacrifice benefits, total reward statements, employee surveys and communications.

Employees can secure hundreds of pounds worth of discounts on everyday purchases through a wide variety of well-known retailers and e-tailers with cashback, discount vouchers and electronic cards offered by Pinch.