AN internet-based business in Burnley that caters for disabled people is on the 'super highway' to success just months after its launch.

4DP.com has recently signed five separate deals to offer full e-commerce set-ups to other businesses that offer services to the disabled..

These recent deals mark a period of rapid growth for the company, which is teaming up with suppliers of products and services to offer a complete online service to people with disabilities.

4DP.com launched its own online superstore, selling everything a person with disabilities might need, following significant financial backing from Redmammoth.com, part of the successful East Lancashire-based Prestons group which is best-known for its BMW dealership.

The shop, at www.4dp.com, is now live, and offers a complete catalogue of thousands of products, designed to make life easier for those with disabilities.

Neil Allday, managing director of 4DP, explained: "We piloted this type of deal with one of our long-standing partners, Promedics in Blackburn. They are a supplier of living aids for the disabled and we offered them a fully functioning online shop to market their products to the whole world over the internet.

"We have now set up a similar relationship with other specialist suppliers and retailers, whereby we offer them our full online shop, branded as their own, so they can take their products to the world at large. The partner company then pays us a small commission to take the orders direct from their customers and manage the dispatch as though we were an extension of their company.

"This has effectively meant that several bricks-and-mortar retailers have now acquired a fully-functioning online superstore overnight."

Neil added: "There are an estimated eight million people in the UK alone with some sort of disability, and there is no other shop where they can get everything at once. This new venture promises to be extremely successful."

4DP employs a staff of seven from its base in Burnley. It not only targets those with disabilities but their friends, families and carers as well as private and public sector organisations that cater to them.