EMMEN, SWITZERLAND — (Marketwired) — 02/09/17 — In fiscal year 2016, ALSO–s profit before taxes (EBT) rose by 25.4 percent to 113.9 million euros. "For the sixth time in a row, the ALSO team has achieved a record result," says Gustavo Moller-Hergt, CEO of ALSO Holding AG (SIX: ALSN).Group net profit climbed to 83.2 million euros, exceeding the previous year–s figure by 32.3 percent. EBITDA rose to 146.0 million euros by 4.3 percent. This includes initial investments in the new m
EMMEN, SWITZERLAND — (Marketwired) — 02/02/17 — ALSO Holding AG (SIX: ALSN) has acquired Internet Smartsec, the Finnish importer and value-added distributor of high-standard security and network products, for an undisclosed sum. Internet Smartsec–s portfolio encompasses secure e-commerce solutions, VPN routers, user identification equipment, smart cards, encryption technology, IDS and filtering products, as well as various firewall devices. The company also provides consultation and traini
EMMEN, SWITZERLAND — (Marketwired) — 01/09/17 — ALSO Holding AG (SIX: ALSN) has acquired BeIP, a French IT network and security specialist distributor headquartered in Paris. The parties agreed to keep the purchase price confidential.BeIP offers a wide portfolio of IT technologies and related support services across France and Africa, mainly in the areas of network and security infrastructure. The company focuses on so-called vertical markets such as those for telecommunications operators.
EMMEN, SWITZERLAND — (Marketwired) — 12/15/16 — ALSO (SIX: ALSN) is expanding its Cloud Marketplace offering with DocuSign–s vertical Digital Transaction Management (DTM) and eSignature cloud services. ALSO will introduce these widely used cloud services for making every agreement fully digital with seamless, automated delivery. Simultaneously, ALSO is also adopting DocuSign for internal use.DocuSign changes how business gets done by digitizing paperwork, empowering anyone to transact anyt
EMMEN, SWITZERLAND — (Marketwired) — 10/21/16 — ALSO Holding AG has successfully completed the first nine months of the 2016 financial year. While sales increased to EUR 5,586.8 million compared to EUR 5,483.7 million (+ 1.9 percent) in the same period last year, the company–s profit rose from EUR 28.4 million to EUR 44.5 million (+ 56.7 percent), which benefited among other things from fewer write-offs and the absence of one-time effects from the previous year. Earnings before taxes (EBT)
EMMEN, SWITZERLAND — (Marketwired) — 10/19/16 — ALSO (SIX: ALSN) and Innovix Distribution (Innovix) have agreed on a strategic partnership to bring a wide range of local and global vertical-focused cloud services to SMB and Enterprise customers in South-East Asia and Hong Kong in November 2016. Both companies are joining forces to make the ALSO Cloud Marketplace platform available to 5,500 of Innovix–s channel partners starting in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, with plans to expand fur
EMMEN, SWITZERLAND — (Marketwired) — 10/04/16 — ALSO expands its cloud services portfolio with The Connected Cloud, a cloud delivery platform built by Ormuco in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) technology, which allows managed cloud deployments on and off premise. The new offering will enable customers to consume local IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services while addressing security and data sovereignty requirements. The solution is managed through a state-of-the-art portal to ensu
EMMEN, SWITZERLAND — (Marketwired) — 09/15/16 — ALSO Holding AG (SIX: ALSN) reports a change in its ownership structure. Due to the ongoing exchange of ALSO shares relating to the Exchangeable Bond issued by Schindler Holding AG, Schindler announced that Schindler Holding AG–s investment holding of ALSO shares has fallen below 10 percent. Consequently the shareholders– agreement between a subsidiary of Droege International Group AG and Schindler Holding AG, which hold the shares of ALSO,
EMMEN, SWITZERLAND — (Marketwired) — 09/14/16 — ALSO broadens its security portfolio and offers Thycotic security solutions in eight countries with immediate effect. Thycotic thoroughly secures privileged accounts in enterprise IT systems against cyber attacks, with more than 7,500 companies already trusting their services globally.Privileged accounts are at the center of any IT system and serve as universal access for administrators to systems, applications and databases."Thycotic is
EMMEN, SWITZERLAND — (Marketwired) — 09/09/16 — Editors Note: There is an image associated with this press release.ALSO expands its cloud business offering with a Mobile Datacenter service enabling customers to individually configure modular cloud platforms. ALSO is the first B2B market place to offer Mobile Datacenter services in Europe. The Mobile Datacenter has been tailored for ALSO by CANCOM Group."Both Private and Hybrid Cloud present great opportunities for our customers. In this
