Emmen, Switzerland, June 8, 2017
ALSO has been named "2017 Global Distributor of the Year" by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), as the company announced today.
The annual award, which recognizes HPE partners that have excelled in developing business opportunities with joint customers, was
announced in Las Vegas this week at HPE's Global Partnership Summit.
"We at ALSO are pleased to accept this award. Against the backdrop of fast growth in private and hybrid cloud ecosystems, we are
convinced that the partnership between ALSO and HPE delivers the innovative and scalable solutions that our customers need to
address their verticals. We see tremendous value in our continued cooperation with HPE and look forward to accelerating the
adoption of cloud services together," said Gustavo Möller-Hergt, CEO of ALSO Holding AG (SIX: ALSN).
HPE's Partner of the Year Awards are based on several criteria, including excellent financial performance, innovativeness, and
the ability to drive meaningful business results for shared customers.
"We congratulate ALSO Group for winning the 2017 HPE Global Distributor of the Year Award," said Andy Isherwood, Managing
Director of EMEA at HPE. "We are excited to continue working with ALSO to enable our joint customers to transform and accelerate
their businesses."
Direct link to the press release: http://also.com/goto/20170608en
Contact person:
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ALSO Holding AG (Emmen/Switzerland) 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 188 000 articles from some 500 vendors. The Group has around 3 520
employees throughout Europe (annual average 2016). In fiscal year 2016 (closing on December 31), the company generated net sales of
8.0 billion euros. The majority shareholder of ALSO Holding AG is the Droege Group, Düsseldorf, Germany. Further information is
available at http://www.also.com
Droege Group
(Major shareholder)
Droege Group (founded in 1988) is an independent advisory and investment company entirely family-owned. The company acts as a
specialist for tailor-made transformation programs aiming to enhance corporate value. Droege Group combines its corporate
family-run structure and capital strength into a family-equity business model. The group carries out direct investments with own
equity in corporate subsidiaries and medium-sized companies in "special situations". With the guiding principle "Implementation -
following all the rules of art," the group is a pioneer of implementation-oriented corporate development. Droege Group proves its
implementation excellence daily within its own portfolio. The entrepreneurial platforms of the Droege Group are aligned to current
megatrends (knowledge, connectivity, prevention, demography, shopping 4.0, future work). Enthusiasm for quality, innovation and
speed determines the company's development. As a result the Droege Group has successfully positioned itself within the market, both
nationally and internationally and operates in 30 countries. More information: https://www.droege-group.com
Disclaimer
This press release contains forward-looking statements which are based on current assumptions and forecasts of the ALSO management.
Known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors could lead to material differences between the forward-looking statements
made here and the actual development, in particular the results, financial situation, and performance of our Group. The Group
accepts no responsibility for updating these forward-looking statements or adapting them to future events or
developments.