Present for more than 25 years alongside the professionals in its markets, Akanea Developpement is today major player in the development and distribution of industrialized software packages for the daily management of transport, logistics, customs services and the food industry.

Akanea Developpement’s objective is to remain as close as possible to its markets and its clients while favoring innovation and service.

Akanea Developpement’s management wished to partner with Argos Soditic funds to enable them to accelerate the growth of the group, by offering its clients up-to-date software products perfectly adapted to the challenges of each specific market : more and increasingly complex regulations, high traceability requirements,…

The company has 3 local agencies in Paris, Lyon and Toulouse.

Founded in 1993, Aytos is the leading company in the development and implementation of Administration Resource Planning (ARP) software solutions and Electronic Administration for Spanish public entities. Aytos is recognized for its complete portfolio of applications that covers the full scope of back-front office needs of the local authorities, and for its constant focus on innovation to fulfill the new requirements of eGovernment and Smart City concepts.

Aytos employs over 100 people and serves more than 3,800 city councils in 17 regions and 52 county councils. This achievement is based on the experience of the teams and a perfect knowledge of the customer needs.

Argos Soditic funds and Aytos managers team up to strengthen the organic growth recorded over the last years, and to reinforce its leadership in the Spanish market, supporting its technological development, and its strategic and external growth plans.

Salvia Développement is a software publisher whose software and services are dedicated to Local Public Authorities, Social Housing companies and Property Developers.

Formerly  named Loan Solutions and Logan and acquired by Sage in 2005, Salvia Développement has large market shares and a high level of  customers satisfaction thanks to its team’s know-how and expertise and also thanks to the quality of its software.

Salvia Développement supplies more than 1,000 Local Public Authorities out of which 67 General Councils, nearly 100% of Social Housing companies and 200 Property Developers with its software.

Salvia Développement manages more than 100 Billion of outstanding loans, fixed assets for more than 4 millions  Social Housing  and the day-to-day follow-up of more than 46,000 group-housing built every year.

For the future, our main targets are to provide our customers with useful innovative software,  support them in their new challenges (electronic documents and transactions), their new uses (SaaS) and answer their needs for value-added services.

The MBO carried out with Argos Soditic allows Salvia Développement to recover its strategic and operational independence  and  gives a new  impulse to its growth and ambitions.

I’Car Systems, a software editor, proposes management solutions for car repairers (agents and registered repairers) as well as for franchised dealers and distribution groups. A partner to the biggest automobile manufacturers in Europe (Peugeot, Citroën, Renault, Nissan, Ford, Opel, Mercedes, BMW, Volvo, Toyota, Hyundai, Kia), I’Car Systems focuses on the quality of its products, leveraging its vertical expertise and its proximity to its clients. The company has accompanied automobile professionals for more than 30 years.

Today I’Car Systems serves more than 700 franchised dealer and automobile distribution group clients spread across 7 European countries as well as 2 500 agents and registered repairers using specific products :

• I’Car DMS, the DMS software for franchised dealers and automobile distribution groups ;
• I’Car Mobility, the SaaS solution for agents and registered repairers ;

The objective of the association with Argos Soditic is to enable the company to sustain its strong ambition to foster the growth of I’Car Systems in the automobile distribution-repairs market and to accelerate its European development.

The group FIS-Antex is the first independent player in the Italian market of Human Resources (“HR”) and Finance and Administration (“F&A”) services in outsourcing.

The two companies were established in the 60s, and have been able to penetrate the market thanks to the high quality and broad range of services offered and to the completeness of the software platforms, which permitted to reach high level of customers satisfaction and client retention rate.

In particular, Antex is a business partner, capable of accompanying its customers through growth and change, analysing and managing, together with the client and on a case by case basis, the most appropriate solution for the management and administration of human resources.

FIS has been providing administrative-accounting, treasury, internal organisation and control services in outsourcing for over 40 years, identifying solutions to enable its clients to focus on their core business, maximising use of the internal resources of clients’ companies.

The investment of Argos Soditic in FIS-Antex is aimed at supporting a strong development plan, to allow the companies to accelerate their organic growth and managerialization, together with exploiting additional growth opportunities via market consolidation in the domestic market, rest of Europe and in the Mediterranean Region.

ASC International House is active in the area of language schools and private education in Western Switzerland. Incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland, it is located in a strategic area, where the demand for international private education and language services is very strong due to the important role of international organisations and the growing presence of multinational firms in the Geneva area. With several locations in the Leman region, ASC IH provides language training to the general public and many of the region’s leading companies and organisations. The private school branch consists of the British School of Geneva, with classes from primary to pre-university level and also runs a bi-lingual programme in Gex (France) in collaboration with Institution Jeanne d’Arc. The company currently employs 200 people, including 164 teachers.

Having earned a strong reputation for high quality language training over the last 40 years, the group has accelerated its growth in more recent times by means of successful expansion into the private education sector.

Argos Soditic’s investment plan is to pursue, with the existing management, the development of the group by growing the private education business in the French-speaking part of Switzerland and by offering high quality private education solutions to the local community where demand for private education, particularly for ex-pats, exceeds supply.