Alsendo, a Polish expertise platform supporting delivery course of administration, declares its acquisition of Italian delivery platforms Spedire.com and SpedirePRO for €5.5 million.
This acquisition marks Alsendo’s first in Western Europe and a strategic step towards constructing a pan-European expertise chief in logistics and e-commerce – made attainable by the strategic help of Abris Capital Companions, which has been the corporate’s majority shareholder since 2020.
“At Alsendo, our ambition is to grow to be Europe’s main supply administration and delivery platform. That’s why we’re steadily constructing our place within the logistics expertise market.
“With the expertise gained within the aggressive markets of Central and Jap Europe, we’re able to scale our mannequin in Western Europe. Coming into the Italian market confirms the effectiveness of this technique, and our partnership with Spedire is only the start of our pan-European journey,” says Magdalena Magnuszewska, CEO of Alsendo.
Warsaw-based Alsendo focuses on delivering complete options for optimising supply and post-sales processes for all enterprise buyer segments. The group encompasses a number of technology-based delivery providers (Apaczka, Sendit, Zaslat, Ecolet, Siusk24, Cargobooking) and provides DMS (Supply Administration System) options for supply administration tailor-made to main e-commerce gamers, led by the Innoship platform.
Alsendo’s logistics providing consists of options tailor-made to market platforms, integration with over 80 e-commerce techniques, a single API integration with a number of courier firms, worldwide providers beneath the Alsendo Worldwide model, and Alsendo Enterprise Professional – an SaaS platform supporting logistics, advertising and marketing, and customer support for e-commerce.
Rovereto-based Spedire.com and SpedirePRO are progressive logistics options created by Esite, which has been working available in the market for over 10 years and handles greater than 400,000 shipments per 12 months. The platforms collaborate with main carriers equivalent to UPS, FedEx, InPost, and Poste Italiane, providing a complete vary of providers – from pick-up and supply level operations to cash-on-delivery and triangulated shipments.
Esite – developed in partnership with Triboo S.p.a – is one in every of Italy’s main e-commerce and digital providers teams and brings not solely native experience to the group, but in addition a technological spine.
“The Italian market remains to be within the early levels of APM growth, however its scale and the massive variety of worldwide e-retailers (e.g. within the trend and sweetness industries) create preferrred situations for the additional enlargement of our digital options, equivalent to Innoship and BusinessPro, together with our cross-border providers. Spedire suits completely into our growth imaginative and prescient,” provides Magnuszewska.
The acquisition is aligned with Alsendo’s buy-and-build technique, aimed toward consolidating the fragmented delivery options market and increasing cross-border providers in Europe. It strengthens Alsendo’s place as a dynamic Polish tech firms working within the logistics sector.
In line with Alsendo, the Italian parcel market – with an annual quantity of about 1.1 billion, just like Poland – stays extremely fragmented, significantly within the delivery platform phase. It’s dominated by native gamers, with Poste Italiane holding the main market share, and the logistics infrastructure remains to be growing, additionally pushed by InPost’s launch in Italy in November 2024.
The share of PUDO factors and parcel lockers stays considerably decrease than in CEE. Moreover, Italy exhibits a comparatively excessive penetration of worldwide shipments – round 13.5% – indicating strong demand for cross-border providers, that are a core pillar of Alsendo’s technology-driven enlargement.
“Joining Alsendo Group is a pure step in our evolution. Lately, we’ve targeted on technological innovation and broadening our vary of providers. Now, by changing into half of a bigger group with worldwide experience, we’re in a stronger place to scale our enterprise, strengthen our presence within the Italian market, and provide even larger worth to our clients – particularly enterprise purchasers who depend on superior, dependable delivery options,” provides Luca Lorenzini, CEO and founding father of Spedire.com e SpedirePRO.
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