Comparex

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Comparex AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 2011
Seat Leipzig , Germany
management
  • Thomas Reich, CEO
Number of employees 2,450 (2017/2018)
sales 2.533 billion EUR (2017/2018)
Branch IT service
Website www.comparex.com

The Comparex AG is an international company for IT services , with headquarters in Leipzig . After the takeover of COMPAREX by SoftwareONE , which was completed on February 1, 2019, a rebranding process from Comparex to SoftwareONE has been running since April 1, 2019 .

Business area

The main business area of ​​Comparex AG comprises the management of software licenses and usage rights, as well as consulting and services and the development of cloud computing solutions.

Corporate structure

The Executive Group of Comparex AG consists of the Management Board and the Vice Presidents.

Board

The Management Board of Comparex AG consists of Thomas Reich, CEO and Chairman of the Management Board since December 2017, as well as CFO since June 2009 and Marc Betgem, CSO since July 2016.

Supervisory board

The Comparex AG supervisory board consists of five members: Michael Kafesie (chairman), Nikolaus Brajkovic, Andreas Fleischmann, Oliver van Haentjens and Thomas Muchar.

Shareholders

At the beginning of October 2018, the competitor SoftwareONE took over all the shares in Comparex AG.

Holdings

Comparex AG holds shares in various companies worldwide through acquisitions and start-ups.

2015 Acquisition: Dataserv Information Technologies Inc. (Turkey)
Acquisition: amando software GmbH (Germany)
Establishment: Canada
Establishment: Singapore
2014 Acquisition: Cloudbearing Inc. (USA)
Acquisition: PERIFEL (Periféricos Electrónicos, SA de CV) (Mexico)
Acquisition: 2S Gestao de Ativos de Software Ltda. Business Unit (Brazil)
2013 Acquisition: Agile Software BV: & InfraControl BV (Netherlands) Establishment
: USA
2012 Acquisition: Datalog Software AG (Germany)
Establishment: Bulgaria, Indonesia
2011 Acquisition: Iris Unified Technology Pvt. Ltd. (India)

Locations

Through various acquisitions in recent years, Comparex AG is now represented in over 35 countries worldwide.

history

Comparex was founded in 1986 as a joint venture between Siemens and BASF to market mainframes from the OEMs Hitachi and Fujitsu . Siemens left the company at the end of 1988. After that, only Hitachi systems were marketed. BASF only took over 100% of the shares in 1991.

After a drop in sales in 1995, BASF gave 40% of the Comparex shares to the service provider Persetel from South Africa and, after handing over 75% of the shares in 1998, withdrew completely in 1999.

A management buy-out took place in 2002 and the partnership TDMI was formed around Comparex, which went bankrupt in 2009. After their bankruptcy in 2009, PC-Ware founded the new company COMPAREX PC-Ware Deutschland GmbH with former COMPAREX employees .

Comparex AG has been 100% owned by Peruni-Holding, a subsidiary of Raiffeisen Informatik, since 2011 .

Historical logo of PC-Ware Information Technologies AG

PC-WARE was founded in 1990 by Knut Löschke as a GmbH . In 1998 it was converted into a public limited company. On May 5, 2000, the company was listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange .

After the takeover of several local companies from Saxony in 1999 and 2000, the European subsidiaries of the American company Programmer's Paradise Inc. , which operated under the name Logicsoft , were purchased on April 1, 2001 , which is the first time that the area of ​​activity crossed borders Germany expanded.

In 2002 there was a 70 percent majority stake in BISON Systems AG in Switzerland, which has been operating under the name PC-Ware since April 2007 . In 2003 PC-Ware switched to the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

In March 2006, the Ravenholm group of companies, which is mainly active in Scandinavia, was taken over. All companies have since been renamed under the name PC-Ware . On June 1, 2007, several Comparex companies were taken over, whose name change is currently not planned due to the clearly different business areas. As a result of these acquisitions, the number of employees worldwide rose to over 1,700 by the end of 2010.

So far, subsidiaries have been founded in Algeria, China, Serbia, India, Kazakhstan, Russia, Romania, South Africa and the Ukraine.

On October 13, 2008, Raiffeisen Informatik , a company of the Raiffeisen Banking Group Austria , announced its intention to take a strategic stake in PC-Ware. Raiffeisen Informatik GmbH then brought in 36.6 million euros in PC-Ware with an immediate capital increase of PC-Ware through its group company Peruni Holding GmbH and acquired around 73 percent of the shares in PC-Ware as part of a subsequent voluntary public takeover offer.

Knut Löschke was CEO until June 24, 2009 and held 13 percent of the company's shares. His contract as Chairman of the Management Board had been prematurely extended to 2013 by the Supervisory Board at the end of 2007, but the Raiffeisen banking group's entry at the end of 2008 changed the majority of the capital owners. Therefore Löschke and the CFO Tillmann Blaschke resigned from their offices. Klaus Elsbacher was appointed by the supervisory board as the new chairman of the board, Hansjörg Egger as board member for Operations / Organization and Thomas Reich as chief financial officer. On September 9, 2009, the hardware sales and hardware- related services areas were closed. In March 2010, Löschke sold his shares to Peruni Holding GmbH , which now holds 100 percent of the PC-Ware shares through a squeeze-out . As a result, the company revoked the admission of PC-Ware common shares to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange with effect from January 24, 2011.

On 20 March 2010, from the Swiss PC-Ware Systems , the Comparex Switzerland AG . On April 13, 2010, the management of Comparex Schweiz AG resigned under the leadership of Oliver Schalch. The Bison Switzerland AG is a subsidiary of Bison Holding AG , with thirty percent of the capital of Comparex Switzerland AG is involved. At the same time, Bison Schweiz AG is also an important customer of Comparex Schweiz AG . Peter Jung has been Head of Comparex Central Europe since 2007 .

The system house PC-Ware and its subsidiaries in 28 countries around the world will in future operate uniformly under the Comparex brand; the German parent company was renamed on May 5, 2011.

PC-Ware AG, which emerged from PC-Ware Gesellschaft für Industrieinformatik Leipzig mbH , took over two Comparex subsidiaries on June 1, 2007 with activities in Austria, Spain, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary and Romania. Both companies previously belonged to the Dutch Comparex Group.

Comparex Germany itself was then bought by the Dutch TDM Holding.

PC-Ware AG has been operating under the name Comparex AG since 2011.

At the beginning of October 2018, the competitor SoftwareONE took over all the shares in Comparex AG.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Board of Directors and Vice Presidents
  2. ↑ a b Supervisory Board COMPAREX AG, accessed on June 17, 2015
  3. ↑ COMPAREX AG Group , accessed on June 17, 2015
  4. ↑ www.comparex-group.com: Brand change: COMPAREX becomes SoftwareONE. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Brand change: COMPAREX becomes SoftwareONE | COMPAREX AG. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Press release from Comparex AG: SoftwareONE and COMPAREX create a leading global provider of global software platform solutions and services , accessed on October 9, 2018
  7. ↑ COMPAREX takes over Turkish IT service experts Dataserv ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Tagesspiegel.de of October 19, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tagesspiegel.de
  8. ↑ Comparex takes over Amando Software it-zoom.de from October 7, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2016
  9. ↑ Comparex opens branch in Canada , channelpartner.de from August 28, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2016
  10. ↑ COMPAREX AG press release of November 9, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2016
  11. ↑ COMPAREX AG press release of April 30, 2014, accessed on June 17, 2015
  12. ↑ IT service provider takes over Perifel , May 22, 2014, accessed on June 17, 2015
  13. ↑ COMPAREX AG press release of May 22, 2014, accessed on June 17, 2015
  14. ↑ COMPAREX opens up the South American market and takes over the Microsoft licensing business of the Brazilian system integrator ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. , May 6, 2014, accessed June 17, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.nachrichten.yahoo.com
  15. ↑ COMPAREX takes over Dutch software companies , Heise online from March 22, 2013, accessed on June 17, 2015
  16. ↑ COMPAREX AG press release of March 22, 2013, accessed on June 17, 2015
  17. ↑ Comparex founds subsidiary in the USA ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 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. , Computerwelt.at of May 14, 2013, accessed on June 17, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.computerwelt.at
  18. ↑ COMPAREX takes over Datalog Software AG from Munich , zdnet.de on February 6, 2012, accessed on June 17, 2015
  19. ↑ COMPAREX AG press release of January 7, 2013, accessed on June 17, 2015
  20. ↑ Mergers & Acquisitions Comparex Group , accessed on June 17, 2015
  21. ↑ COMPAREX buys Indian IT service provider , crn.de from October 18, 2011, accessed on June 17, 2015
  22. ↑ COMPAREX AG press release of October 18, 2011, accessed on June 17, 2015
  23. ↑ Comparex AG locations , accessed on June 17, 2015
  24. ↑ Computerwoche of March 25, 1988  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.computerwoche.de  
  25. ↑ Computerwoche of April 26, 1996  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.computerwoche.de  
  26. ↑ Comparex presentation at IBM
  27. ↑ corporate finance specialist portal  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.corporate-finance-fachportal.de  
  28. ↑ Article on crn.de from October 22, 2009
  29. ↑ Article on crn.de from November 11, 2009
  30. ↑ heise online: IT service provider PC goods go off the stock exchange
  31. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2012 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.comparex-group.com
  32. ↑ http://www.pc-ware.com/pcw/de/de/ir/main.htm
  33. ↑ heise resale: PC goods are now called Comparex
  34. ↑ PC-Ware expands in the direction of data centers , from June 28, 2007, accessed on June 24, 2016
  35. ↑ TDM Group buys Comparex Germany , dated September 25, 2007, accessed on June 24, 2016
  36. ↑ PC goods are now called COMPAREX , Heise online from May 5, 2011, accessed on June 17, 2015