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ALSO Group

Profile
ALSO brings providers and buyers of the ICT industry together. The company offers services at all levels of the ICT value chain from a single source. In the European B2B marketplace, ALSO bundles logistics services, financial services, supply services, solution services, digital services, and IT services together into individual service packages. ALSO's portfolio contains more than 255 000 articles from more than 700 vendors.
The Group has about 4 000 employees throughout Europe. In fiscal year 2020 (closing on December 31), the company generated net sales of 11.9 billion euros.
Headquarters
ALSO Holding AG, Emmen, Switzerland
Value enhancement strategy
- Operative excellence making it a market leader in most of the countries where it has a presence
- Establishing presence in new countries
- Increasing customer benefits by optimizing and digitalizing the processes
- Expansion of the e-commerce business
- Further developing to B2B-multichannel providers
- Targeted acquisitions –"Buy & Build"
Sector
IT / TK
Acquisition of shares
- Acquisition of Actebis GmbH in September 2009
- Merger of Actebis and ALSO in February 2011 / "Spin off" of Schindler Holding AG
Website
Management Team


News about Also
ALSO Publishes Separate Sustainability Report
New paths in reporting: Over the past ten years, ALSO has systematically worked on developing and expanding its commitment to sustainability and...
First step Spain: ALSO expands to Southern Europe
An increasing number of customers has been asking ALSO about offering its value proposition in this region. Here, the IT channel currently experiences...
ALSO goes live with AI-enhanced Celonis Execution Application for Accounts Payable
Celonis, the global leader in Execution Management Systems (EMS) and the Swissheadquartered technology provider ALSO today announced the successful go...
ALSO besser verstehen
Für den Technologieanbieter ALSO Group ergibt sich durch den konsequenten und frühzeitigen Ausbau des Cloud-Geschäfts ein solides Potenzial für...
Acquisition of dicom: ALSO Strengthens Solutions and Service Business
ALSO takes over dicom Computer-Vertriebsges.m.b.H., an Austrian Value AddDistributor. The acquisition is part of the systematic...
Interim Report 2020: ALSO increases net profit by 31.9 percent
Net sales 5.4 billion euros (+13.1 percent) - EBITDA 92.4 million euros (+21.1 percent) - ROCE 17.6 percent
ALSO launches Adobe’s VIP marketplace to help partners drivebusiness growth
Adobe’s VIP Marketplace makes it easier for partners to manage their Adobe solutions with ease, allowing them to focus on driving growth and extending...
Also Cloud Marketplace widens its Portfolio with SignNow
Starting in June, the ALSO Cloud Marketplace offers a comprehensive yet easy-to-use solution for digital signing and management of documents with...
Certified Security: ALSO Cloud Marketplace to offer solutions for internet identity, authentication and encryption from global market leader DigiCert
DigiCert is the world’s leading provider of scalable TLS/SSL, IoT and PKI solutions for identity, authentication and encryption for websites,...
ALSO and IONOS: European champions bundle competences
With over eight million contract customers IONOS is Europe’s leading provider of cloud infrastructure, cloud services and hosting services while ALSO...
Focus on Europe: ALSO and Allied Telesis expand partnership
ALSO and Allied Telesis, partners for years, are now expanding their cooperation at a European level. The Japanese technology company Allied Telesis...
New ALSO as-a-service platform for healthcare service providers
ALSO has partnered with P.E.G. eG, a leading purchasing cooperative in the German healthcare market, to enable its co-owners to obtain services from...
Additive manufacturing: ALSO distributes BASF Ultrasint®TPU01
ALSO is cooperating with BASF, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of 3D printing materials, which is marketing its Ultrasint®TPU01 product...
ALSO achieves excellent result
Net profit over 100 million euro (+24 percent). Board of Directors proposes a dividend payment of 3.25 Swiss francs per share (2018: 3.00 Swiss...
ALSO adds further 3D printers to its range
Technology provider ALSO is continuing to expand its 3D technology portfolio. Newcomers to the range are the DWS and Leapfrog professional 3D printers...
ALSO Polska enlarges its footprint
The merger of ALSO Polska and Roseville Investments, the successor company of ABC Data, is finalized. From now on the business operations of the two...
ALSO: Leeway for further growth
The ALSO Group is signing a new EUR 300 million revolving credit facility (RCF) that marks the successful Europe-wide technology...
ALSO offers innovative Post-Processing solution for 3D Printing
As part of the expansion of its 3D portfolio, ALSO has signed a contract for the Europe-wide distribution of DyeMansion finishing systems. The...
ALSO completes takeover of leading Bulgarian IT distributor
The ALSO Holding AG has received regulatory approval to take over Solytron Bulgaria’s operations. With a turnover of 110 million euros and around 120...
ALSO Expands its Cybersecurity Platform
As part of an exclusive cooperation for the channel, the intelligence solutions of cybersecurity specialist CYE are now being integrated into the...
ALSO: Megatrend Cloud Gaming
At Gamescom, ALSO presented the future of innovative streaming services. The platform-as-a-service solution allows content to be made available in...
ALSO boosts earnings: Developing into a technology provider
In the first half of 2019 the ALSO Group generated an EBITDA of EUR 64.4 million, a 15 percent increase before application of IFRS 16. Sales were up...
ALSO buys IoT platform provider
With the acquisition of the IoT platform specialist AllThingsTalk, ALSO continues to expand its technological expertise and its IoT (Internet of...
All closing conditions fulfilled for ALSO’s takeover of ABC Data S.A business operation
The Tender Offer, submitted by ALSO Holding AG and MCI Euroventures in December 2018, for shares of ABC Data S.A was successful. After approval of the...
ALSO acquires largest Bulgarian IT distributor
Solytron Bulgaria, with sales of €110 million and a market share of over 30 per cent, is one of the leading IT distributors in Bulgaria. In acquiring...
The future of streamingservices: ALSO offers new virtualisation platform
The market for streaming services is growing. If the big technology companies and content providers have their way, content in, say, the entertainment...
ALSO successfully drives sustainable profitable growth forward
Group sales increased over-proportionally by 3.2 percent to 9.2 billion Euro. Adjusted EBITDA improved by 6.0 percent to 162.4 million Euro. Board of...
ALSO and PTC Enter into Partnership
PTC, a specialist and international pioneer in the development of IoT platforms, has joined forces with ALSO to market PTC products.