Bechtle: Strategic Corporate Assessment - Strategy, SWOT Analysis and 5-year Financial Insights with In-depth Company Profile

Bechtle plans to drive growth through organic and inorganic measures to achieve its mid term goal of earning E2,000 million in revenues by 2010. The company’s organic and inorganic initiatives in the recent period include introduction of managed services for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and acquisition of Coma, buyitdirect.com, and ITZ.

Report Highlights
Bechtle is one of the major providers of Information technology (IT) infrastructure and services in Germany. The company’s offerings include IT consulting, managed IT services, custom solutions in specific industries, and a catalogue of 33,000 IT products offered over e-commerce platform.

The company manages its operations over two business segments: IT system house and IT e-commerce. In FY2007, the IT system houses accounted for 64% of its total revenues. The company’s revenues and operating profit have grown at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15% and 21%, respectively, for the period between 2003 and 2007.

Bechtle reports its operation under two geographic divisions: domestic and foreign. Bechtle’s German operations account for its domestic segment. The company’s foreign operations include Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and Taiwan.
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Table 1: Bechtle—key facts 5
Table 2: Bechtle—other locations and subsidiaries 9
Table 3: Bechtle—revenue by division, 2006-2007 (Em) 11
Table 4: Bechtle—revenue by geography, 2006-2007 (Em) 11
Table 5: Bechtle—major products and services 13
Table 6: Bechtle—top competitors 14
Table 7: Bechtle—SWOT analysis summary 20
Table 8: Bechtle—value chain analysis 25
Table 9: Bechtle—key employees 27
Table 10: Bechtle—financial and operational highlights, 2003-2007 ($m) 30
Table 11: Bechtle—key industry-specific ratios, 2003-2007 32

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