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COMPAREX AG
TypeStock corporation
IndustryIT services
Founded1990
Headquarters Leipzig, Germany
Key people
Revenue2.533 billion EUR (2017/2018)
Number of employees
2,450 (2017/2018)
Parent SoftwareONE
Website softwareone.com

COMPAREX AG is an international company for IT services with headquarters in Leipzig, Germany. Following a takeover by SoftwareOne COMPAREX AG announced on April 1, 2019 that all its subsidiaries will undergo a rebranding process and fully integrate into the SoftwareOne Group. [1]

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Business field

COMPAREX AG is mainly involved in the management of software licenses and usage rights as well as in IT consulting and the development of Managed Services and cloud-based solutions.

Corporate structure

The Executive Group at COMPAREX AG consisted of the Board of Directors and the Vice Presidents. Since being acquired by SoftwareONE in February 2019, COMPAREX AG's corporate structure is undergoing restructuring with Marc Betgem (CSO) to serve on SoftwareONE's Executive Leadership Team and Thomas Reich, the former CEO of COMPAREX, supporting the integration process before leaving the company.

Board of directors

The Board of Directors at COMPAREX AG currently consists of two people:

Supervisory Board

The Supervisory Board at COMPAREX AG has five members:

Shareholders

Raiffeisen Informatik GmbH has owned 100 percent of COMPAREX AG since 2011; it holds these shares indirectly via “PERUNI” Holding GmbH. Raiffeisen Informatik GmbH belongs to the Raiffeisen Banking Group Austria (RBG).

Shareholdings

COMPAREX AG holds shares in companies around the world due to its strategy of acquisitions and start-ups.

2015

Start-up: Canada
Start-up: Singapore
Acquisition: Dataserv Information Technologies Inc. (Turkey)
Acquisition: amando software GmbH (Germany)

2014Acquisition: Cloudbearing Inc. (USA)
Acquisition: PERIFEL (Periféricos Electrónicos, S.A. de C.V.) (Mexico)
Acquisition: 2S Gestao de Ativos de Software Ltda. business unit (Brasil) [2]
2013Acquisition: Agile Software B.V: & InfraControl B.V. (Netherlands)

Start-up: USA [3]

2012Acquisition: DATALOG Software AG (Germany)

Start-up: Bulgaria, Indonesia

2011Acquisition: IRIS Unified Technology Pvt. Ltd. (India)

Locations

A number of acquisitions in recent years mean that COMPAREX AG is now present in 35 countries worldwide.

Europe
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Turkey, Slovenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Romania
Asia
India, Kazakhstan, China, Singapore, Indonesia
South America
Brasil
North America
Canada, Mexico, USA

Origins

The company has operated under the name COMPAREX AG since 2011. [4] Originally the company was named "PC-Ware Gesellschaft für Industrieinformatik Leipzig mbH".

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References

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