One of the largest Slovak integrators of IT solutions bolsters its position in the market, thus confirming its growth strategy. The newly acquired company is ClarioNet, a Czech IT infrastructure, security and identity management firm.
Embarking on the process of acquisition by buying the ownership shares, Soitron continues to increase its portfolio of products and services and confirms the announced business and technology expansion.
“Our goal is to provide complex solutions with a high value added. Acquiring ClarioNet enables Soitron to enrich its product portfolio. At the same time, we are in the process of attracting more professionals with extensive know-how and a lot of experience from projects in the Slovak and Czech markets. Thereby we become better prepared to satisfy the needs of our customers in many areas,” says a Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, Marián Skákala.
The Managing Director Ondrej Smolár adds: “Our goal in the long run is to reinforce our position in the Czech Republic so as to become more significant in the Central Europe region. The acquisition just undertaken is yet another step towards achieving this goal.”
“It is an ideal and indeed an inevitable step for ClarioNet. The team has now a background of a large, strong company. It can focus more on deepening its professionalism and improving the quality of service in the areas it dominates. It means higher security for the customer, and more unease for competition. I have always believed in ClarioNet’s performance, now I believe in Soitron just as much,” Štěpán Benyovszky, the Managing Director of ClarioNet, commented on the acquisition.
The entire acquisition was supervised by Milan Hužvár of VICF, a consultancy specializing in mergers and acquisitions in the Central Europe region. “I believe that the fusion of ClarioNet and Soitron is a ‘marriage made in heaven,’” says Michael Rostock, a partner in VICF. “Merging Soitron’s activities with the references and knowledge base of ClarioNet creates a prominent, if not the most significant IT integrator with a federal background,” Rostock adds. “The successful sale of ClarioNet shows that the mergers and acquisitions market is alive, thereby making the talks of its decline of little significance.”