Addtech in brief

INTERNATIONAL AND NICHE TECHNOLOGY TRADING

Addtech operates in the international technology trading market as a cooperation partner in the supply chain between manufacturers and customers. The Group focuses on selected niches and provides both technological and economic value added. The business is based on a large number of agency companies, in which Addtech is responsible for selling a certain supplier’s products to one or more markets.

Addtech’s customers comprise industrial companies or technology-intensive service companies in the private and public sectors. The operational focus is on the Nordic region, although markets outside the Nordic countries have also grown in importance in recent years. Besides having its own operations in 14 countries outside the Nordics, Addtech also exports to a further 20 countries.

TECHNOLOGY TRADING UNDER MANY BRANDS

The business comprises about 140 independent companies that operate within separate, yet carefully selected, niches in the market for high-tech products and solutions. Addtech’s success is based on the subsidiaries being key partners of both suppliers and customers, and that they provide technological and economic value added in various ways.

The Group has more than 2,200 employees and achieves annual sales of over SEK 6.8 billion to more than 30 countries.

HALF STANDARD, HALF SPECIAL

About half of sales are generated from standard products and half from specially adapted products. The Group’s subsidiaries have worked for decades with several world-leading customers such as ABB, Ericsson, Siemens, Novo Nordisk, Sandvik, Tetra Pak and Volvo. Cooperation with these customers requires high levels of innovation and technical expertise, which are two key characteristics of the Addtech Group’s sales representatives. Equally important success factors are Addtech’s long-standing relationships with market-leading, innovative suppliers who are ultimately guarantee delivery reliability, technological development and quality.

HISTORICALLY HIGH RETURN AND EXTENSIVE RISK DIVERSIFICATION

Half of an investment in Addtech comprises an investment in Northern European industry, and the other half constitutes an investment in the Nordic public sector and infrastructure. 

Owning shares in Addtech means ownership in about 140 entrepreneur-driven companies with operations spanning a wide variety of technological fields and market segments. Addtech’s shareholder value is driven by:

• 140 subsidiaries’ ability to generate profit growth,
• Corporate governance that drives the subsidiaries to achieve even better results,
•  Acquisitions that bring new employees, customers and suppliers to Addtech.

Since the Addtech share was listed in 2001 it has increased by 747 percent.