ARP group

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ARP group

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legal form Corporation
founding 1990
Seat Rotkreuz ZG SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
management Thomas Olemotz, CEO

Matthias Metz, Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Branch IT service
Website www.arp.com
As of May 14, 2017

The ARP Group (proper spelling without hyphen) with headquarters in Rotkreuz ZG ( Switzerland ) is an international IT service provider for business customers (mainly medium- sized companies and those in the public sector) with branches in Switzerland, Germany , Austria , France , the Netherlands and Belgium . In Germany, ARP GmbH is based in Dietzenbach , Hesse . The ARP Group has belonged to Bechtle AG since 2004 and is therefore its subsidiary.

Portfolio

The ARP group is active in the IT e-commerce segment of Bechtle AG . The scope of the portfolio includes IT hardware and software, services and solutions. The ARP Group offers tailor-made solutions in the workplace (printing, client and enterprise mobility), digital signage solutions for modern communication, networking, storage and security, right up to the simplification of procurement processes through eProcurement solutions.

history

As a forerunner of the company, a new department called Datacon was founded within ARP AG (Swiss supplier for industrial products) in 1988 , which offered standardized IT accessories via catalog. After only one year, in 1989, products were sold under the brand name ARP for the first time. In 1990, the Datacon department became the independent ARP Datacon AG based in Rotkreuz. In the same year, ARP Datacon GmbH was founded in Dietzenbach, followed by expansion into Germany. In 1990 a purchasing company was founded in Taipei ( Taiwan ) for the first time with the aim of being able to purchase products for the ARP own brand directly from the manufacturer. The first call center was founded in 1992 in order to be even closer to the customer. In 1995 expansion continued with the opening of an Austrian branch in Wiener Neudorf . In 1999 ARP opened its first online shop and thus approached an international expansion.

On January 1, 2004, the founder and sole owner of ARP, Alex Häusler, sold his company to the German company Bechtle . At this point in time, a total of 220 employees work in the companies of the ARP Group and the expected turnover for 2003 was 135 million euros.

With the takeover of Artikona Holding in the Netherlands , the ARP group expanded for the first time into a non-German-speaking country on January 1, 2006. Furthermore, the ARP group again promoted its customer proximity by using account management, in the summer of the same year the ARP group took over the Masy micro advantage system in Renens ( Vaud ). A year later, ARP France was founded in Courtaboeuf Cedex near Paris .

The addition "Datacon" was deleted from the official company name in 2011. In the same year, ARP received the official status of "Authorized Apple Reseller" from Apple. In 2013 the ARP group employed over 250 people. Official sales figures are not communicated, for the ARP Switzerland appreciates HandelsZeitung the sales in 2012 to 95 million Swiss francs .

The most recent expansion takes place in 2014 with the establishment of ARP NV in the Belgian city of Nerpelt . Since then, the ARP brands have been represented in 6 countries and in Taiwan across Europe . In 2014, the ARP Group won the Swiss E-Commerce Award in the Business-to-Business (B2B) category .

Sales channels

The ARP group focuses on sales via cross-channel channels. The ARP sells its goods via account management and online shops . At the headquarters in Rotkreuz , the company has its own warehouse, through which a large part of the logistics for Switzerland is handled. The logistics in the other countries are handled by the parent company Bechtle . The ARP Group also operated its only shop in Rotkreuz until the end of 2016. This was closed because the sales market dominated online.

Services

In addition to trading in IT hardware , software and its own brand, the ARP Group also offers various IT services . These include online procurement logistics , C-article and printer management , services for mobile devices and the production and sale of customizable IT-related promotional items .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the one-man office to the billion in sales. Manager Magazin, December 10, 2003
  2. ↑ ARP (Bechtle) expands to Holland. inside-it.ch, December 27, 2005
  3. ↑ Daily register no. 2329 of February 16, 2010 (Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce, PDF file; 115 kB)
  4. ↑ Exclusive! That is the ARP strategy. Huron (inside-channels.ch), May 27, 2013
  5. ↑ ARP Shop Rotkreuz ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. arp.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arp.com
  6. ↑ C-Article Management. ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. arp.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arp.com