The Cloud Business Management Solutions Company Cegid Follow shopping. After announcing that he stayed just a few days with Microdata and Sevdesk, he has confirmed One more acquisition This month. It’s about PHC Business Softwarebased in Lisbon and with which the company will expand its presence in the Peninsula and also in Portuguese -speaking Africa countries, markets in which PHC has a presence.
PHC Business Software was born in 1989, and has facilitated digital transformation to the Portuguese market, focusing on small and medium enterprises. It is estimated that it has facilitated the process of more than 37,000 companies. It currently has more than 170,000 clients in Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.
Ricardo Parreira, founder of PHC Business Software and its general director so far, will leave its position to focus on other projects. João Sampaio, who held the position of the company’s international business division, will be his general manager from now on. Both Sampaio and his team will become part of Cegid, informing Javier Torres Ramírez, General Manager of Cegid for Iberia, Latin America and Africa.
Parreira has stated about the operation that is strategic for the future of PHC, and that when they raised their path of growth, they knew «that would go through integration into an international company that value our culture and provide global investment capacities. Among several interested parties, Cegid stood out as the best positioned to offer this future to PHC, with recognition and conservation of our culture, PHC CS and PHC Go solutions and human capital ».
Enanto to João Sampaio, he points out that «My team and I are happy to join Cegid, whose technology and market vision will reinforce our growth agenda and make our PHC portfolio even more solid. Together, we will continue to help our clients throughout the region. Our channel network, the best of its category, formed by more than 300 members that we have developed in recent years, will also benefit from future synergies. ”
Pascal Houillon, CEO of Cegidhe pointed out for his part that «PHC Business Software, with its 262 employees and management equipment, aligns perfectly with Cegid. We will take advantage of PHC’s key assets and support its impressive growth with added value technologies such as the generative AI to better serve the market; Our Braga -based Center of AI will mobilize naturally to this purpose ».
