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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 expands in Croatia
ALSO has acquired RECRO, one of the largest IT distributors in Croatia. The acquisition will allow ALSO to further strengthen its market position in...
ALSO becomes market leader in Slovenia
ALSO has acquired the value-added distributor (VAD) DISS d.o.o., along with its subsidiaries VAD d.o.o. and Marmis d.o.o. The move makes ALSO the...
ALSO signs partnership with leading Russian IT distributor Treolan
Treolan is a fast-growing IT distributor in Russia and part of LANIT Group. ALSO enables Treolan to monetize the IT Seat with the Cloud Marketplace...
ALSO: Net sales increased.
Currency effects and optimization expenses influenced half-year results. Net sales increased from 4 130 to 4 181 million euros (+1.2 percent) with...
ALSO buys networking and security specialist in France
ALSO Holding AG announced today an agreement to acquire DistriWan, a French specialist wifi networking and security distributor headquartered near...
ALSO complements its Consumptional Business model with a new financing Company
The newly established ALSO Financial Services GmbH will offer financing and services for resellers in the areas of IT- (ITaaS), Infrastructure-...
ALSO Group appoints Chief Process Officer and Chief Logistics Officer
ALSO is driving forward its transformation with the creation of two new functions that will both report directly to Group management.
ALSO is driving forward transformation
In order to actively drive forward its transformation into an end-to-end solutions provider, ALSO established an interdisciplinary transformation...
ALSO: Group net profit increases by 11.2 percent to 92.5 million euros
In 2017, ALSO increased its net sales by 11.4 percent to 8.9 billion euros. Group net profit increased by 11.2 percent to 92.5 million euros compared...
ALSO lanciert europaweite Partnerschaft mit Scale Computing
ALSO arbeitet künftig mit Scale Computing zusammen, einem marktführenden Anbieter von integrierten Speicher-, Server- und...
ALSO Holding AG completes successful placement of a promissory note (Schuldscheindarlehen)
Strong demand from investors results in significant oversubscription / Issuance of EUR 154 million with maturities of five, seven, and ten years /...
ALSO and CANCOM support new IT course of study at the Hochschule Augsburg
ALSO and CANCOM are supporting a new part-time course of study for IT project and process management at the Hochschule Augsburg.
ALSO increases net profit by 32.4 percent in the first half of the year
The ALSO Group has earned a net profit of 36.9 million euros in the first half of the year, an increase of 32.4 percent compared to the same period in...
ALSO finalizes the acquisition of Dutch distributor Five 4 U
ALSO Holding AG (SIX: ALSN) today reported that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Dutch distributor Five 4 U B.V.
ALSO creates new business segment for Consumptional Business
The ALSO Holding AG announced today that it has merged several areas into a new business segment called “Consumptional Business”. This business...
ALSO recognized as Winner of the 2017 Microsoft Distributor Partner of the Year Award
The company was honoured among a global field of top Microsoft partners for successfully implementing innovations and customer solutions based on...
ALSO wins HPE’s 2017 Global Distributor of the Year Award
ALSO has been named “2017 Global Distributor of the Year” by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), as the company announced today.
Zwei Gewinner beim ALSO Start-Up Award
ALSO und Droege Ventures haben mit tradico und oneclick in diesem Jahr gleich zwei Gewinner des ALSO Start-Up Awards ausgezeichnet.
ALSO shareholders receive increased dividend for sixth consecutive year
At the Annual General Meeting of ALSO Holding AG the shareholders approved the Annual Report 2016 and formally granted the Board of Directors and...
ALSO acquires Dutch distributor Five 4 U
ALSO Holding AG will acquire the Dutch distributor Five 4 U B.V. The closing of the transaction, which is expected in the coming months, remains...
ALSO Group: Another Record Result
In fiscal year 2016, ALSO’s profit before taxes (EBT) rose by 25.4 percent to 113.9 million euros.
ALSO acquires Finnish distributor Internet Smartsec
ALSO Holding AG has acquired Internet Smartsec, the Finnish importer and value-added distributor of high-standard security and network products.
ALSO acquires French specialist network and security distributor BeIP
ALSO Holding AG (SIX: ALSN) has acquired BeIP, a French IT network and security specialist distributor headquartered in Paris. The parties agreed to...
ALSO increases profit and turnover
ALSO Holding AG has successfully completed the first nine months of the 2016 financial year.
ALSO accelerates growth of cloud services portfolio
ALSO expands its cloud business offering with a Mobile Datacenter service enabling customers to individually configure modular cloud platforms.
ALSO Group increases net profit by 14 percent in the 1st half year
ALSO Group concludes the first six month of 2016 with Group net profit of 27.8 million euros and thus increases its results by around 14 percent...
Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Der Elektro-Lover"
ALSO-CEO Prof. Dr. Gustavo Möller-Hergt im Süddeutsche Zeitung-Portrait aus der Reihe "Nahaufnahme"
ALSO and Logicom form cloud partnership
ALSO and Logicom have agreed on a strategic partnership to bring a wide range of local and global cloud-based software services to customers in...