ANKER takes over POS service provider PORESY
With the acquisition of the implementation and service provider PORESY, ANKER is consistently continuing its growth course. With this further building block, the Bielefeld-based company is developing into a holistic POS solution provider.
November 2021
For more than a century, the name ANKER has been closely associated with the process chain at the POS as a driving force. Since 2015 under new management, the traditional company from Bielefeld is increasingly focusing on strategic development. Through the acquisition of the German POS service provider PORESY, ANKER is specifically expanding its competencies and developing into a holistic POS solution provider.
Since the reestablishment of ANKER in 2015, the company has succeeded in building on the brand's historic success. In doing so, the young company with old roots focuses equally on stability and growth. As a first, decisive milestone, a management buy-out took place in 2019. In its wake, Managing Director Dr. Fabian Schühle and Operations Manager Maik-Oliver Winzker took the company's fortunes into their own hands as new shareholders. To date, they have thus succeeded in developing ANKER into the market leader in German-speaking food retailing.
ANKER becomes full-service provider
The growing challenges of the increasingly digitalized market convinced those responsible at ANKER that the future of the company also lies in returning to the brand's tradition as a holistic POS system provider for hardware and software. The company took the first step in this direction in 2020 with the acquisition of the software company LocaFox. Since then, the Berlin-based company has supplemented the ANKER offering with cloud-based software solutions for sole proprietorships and small and medium-sized retail businesses.
With the acquisition of PORESY, ANKER now goes one important step further. With PORESY, ANKER is expanding its range of services to include software development, customizing, implementation and long-term support for POS systems, including 24/7 first and second level support. Thus, ANKER consequently completes the step from an expert for hardware to a full-service provider with comprehensive solution competence at the POS, for customers of any size.
"We are pleased to add another member to the ANKER family through our cooperation with PORESY and to strengthen the competencies of the ANKER Group in the area of software and services."
Dr. Fabian Schühle
Managing Partner of ANKER Group
"We are pleased to add another member to the ANKER family through the cooperation with PORESY and to strengthen the competencies of the ANKER Group in the area of software and services," explains Dr. Fabian Schühle, Managing Partner of the ANKER Group. "We would like to thank all those involved at ANKER, PORESY and LocaFox, without whose outstanding work this acquisition would not have been possible."
After the retirement of the company founder Thomas Pluskat and the handover of the management to his successor Katja Schestakow, PORESY's customer base, which has grown over two decades, will now also benefit in the long term from the new constellation and will continue to be served by the usual 80 PORESY employees, who have now been transferred to the ANKER Group. "By merging our companies, we want to continue our successful work in the interest of our customers," explains Katja Shestakov. "At the same time, we are also looking forward to contributing our expertise as part of the ANKER Group to joint projects in the future, so that we can offer our customers an even more attractive portfolio of products and services for the POS."
Together with LocaFox and PORESY, ANKER is focusing on the combination of modern hardware, such as the self-checkout systems that are increasingly in demand from customers, and combining these with the necessary software, integration into existing IT infrastructure and a comprehensive range of services, from roll-out to accompanying support from a single source.
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