Alsendo, a Polish know-how platform supporting delivery course of administration, broadcasts 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 know-how chief in logistics and e-commerce – made attainable by the strategic assist of Abris Capital Companions, which has been the corporate’s majority shareholder since 2020.
“At Alsendo, our ambition is to turn into Europe’s main supply administration and delivery platform. That’s why we’re steadily constructing our place within the logistics know-how market.
“With the expertise gained within the aggressive markets of Central and Japanese Europe, we’re able to scale our mannequin in Western Europe. Getting 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 affords 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 methods, a single API integration with a number of courier corporations, worldwide providers underneath 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 revolutionary logistics options created by Esite, which has been working out there for over 10 years and handles greater than 400,000 shipments per yr. The platforms collaborate with main carriers comparable 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 certainly one 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 phases of APM growth, however its scale and the big variety of worldwide e-retailers (e.g. within the vogue and sweetness industries) create supreme situations for the additional enlargement of our digital options, comparable to Innoship and BusinessPro, together with our cross-border providers. Spedire matches 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 corporations working within the logistics sector.
In keeping 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 creating, 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. In recent times, we’ve centered on technological innovation and broadening our vary of providers. 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 delivery options,” provides Luca Lorenzini, CEO and founding father of Spedire.com e SpedirePRO.
