Farewell at technology distributor Komsa: Following a realignment and the merger with British company Westcoast, Komsa CEO Pierre-Pascal Urbon is leaving the company. After five years, he is leaving on March 31 "on the best of terms", as the company announced in Hartmannsdorf near Chemnitz.
Komsa was founded in 1992 as a supplier and service provider in the field of communication technology and developed into one of the largest family-owned companies in eastern Germany with an annual turnover of around 1.3 billion euros (2022/2023). It is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Westcoast.
In recent years, Komsa has been successfully restructured, Urbon told the German Press Agency. The loss-making repair business is profitable again. Cloud offerings and the Device-as-a-Service business have also been established. With Device-as-a-Service, companies no longer buy smartphones, laptops and entire workstations, but rent them instead. This gives them more flexibility and allows them to save on IT capacity, explained the 54-year-old. The company's financing has also been set up for the long term and significant investments have been made in automation.
