Alsendo, a Polish expertise platform supporting transport course of administration, proclaims its acquisition of Italian transport 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 transport 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 transport companies (Apaczka, Sendit, Zaslat, Ecolet, Siusk24, Cargobooking) and presents 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 programs, a single API integration with a number of courier corporations, worldwide companies beneath the Alsendo Worldwide model, and Alsendo Enterprise Professional – an SaaS platform supporting logistics, advertising, and customer support for e-commerce.
Rovereto-based Spedire.com and SpedirePRO are modern 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 yr. The platforms collaborate with main carriers similar to UPS, FedEx, InPost, and Poste Italiane, providing a complete vary of companies – from pick-up and supply level operations to cash-on-delivery and triangulated shipments.
Esite – developed in partnership with Triboo S.p.a – is considered one of Italy’s main e-commerce and digital companies teams and brings not solely native experience to the group, but additionally a technological spine.
“The Italian market remains to be within the early levels of APM improvement, however its scale and the massive variety of worldwide e-retailers (e.g. within the style and sweetness industries) create splendid circumstances for the additional growth of our digital options, similar to Innoship and BusinessPro, together with our cross-border companies. Spedire suits completely into our improvement imaginative and prescient,” provides Magnuszewska.
The acquisition is aligned with Alsendo’s buy-and-build technique, aimed toward consolidating the fragmented transport options market and increasing cross-border companies in Europe. It strengthens Alsendo’s place as a dynamic Polish tech corporations 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 transport platform section. 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 reveals a comparatively excessive penetration of worldwide shipments – round 13.5% – indicating stable demand for cross-border companies, that are a core pillar of Alsendo’s technology-driven growth.
“Becoming a member of Alsendo Group is a pure step in our evolution. Lately, we’ve targeted on technological innovation and broadening our vary of companies. Now, by turning 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 better worth to our prospects – particularly enterprise shoppers who depend on superior, dependable transport options,” provides Luca Lorenzini, CEO and founding father of Spedire.com e SpedirePRO.
