{"id":44544,"date":"2019-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/efficy-llega-a-espana-adquiere-suma-crm\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T11:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:47:59","slug":"efficy-llega-a-espana-adquiere-suma-crm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/efficy-llega-a-espana-adquiere-suma-crm\/","title":{"rendered":"EFFICY ARRIVES IN SPAIN: ACQUIRES SUMA CRM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Efficy is a Belgian customer management software company,<\/strong> which has just acquired the Spanish Suma CRM, dedicated to the same sector, but specialised in SMEs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The amount of the transaction is \u20ac2.1 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite this acquisition, the Spanish firm will continue to operate independently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the process of business transformation, the customer has been placed at the centre of their strategies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Knowing their needs, their tastes and being able to anticipate them is now the main challenge for companies and, to achieve this, the main solution is to integrate a <em>Customer Relationship Management<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CRM helps companies to strengthen customer relationships and build customer loyalty. It is increasingly present in corporate finance.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">WHO IS EFFICY?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company was founded in Belgium in 2005, <strong>is Europe's most comprehensive CRM for medium-sized and large companies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At present, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.efficy.com\/es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Efficy<\/a> has an annual turnover of around \u20ac20m, 175 employees and a presence in 33 countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to be present in Spain and to enter the SME market, which is new to them, on 22 October <a href=\"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/acquiere-a-company-2\/\">bought the company<\/a> the Spanish Start Up, for an amount of <strong>2&#8217;1M\u20ac<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The payment for the acquisition has been divided into several instalments:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>\u00a02019, November (already paid)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a02020, November<\/li>\n<li>\u00a02021, November<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It should be noted that the first payment <em>upfront <\/em>750,000 and the other two will be variable until the agreed amount is reached.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">SUMA CRM<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It is a company dedicated to the development of customer management software for SMEs.<\/strong>which was launched 4 years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The headquarters are located in Madrid, and its monthly turnover is around 50,000 euros.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was mainly controlled by its two co-founders, who shared 66% of the shares, plus the first two employees, another 18%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another 10% of people from the entrepreneurs' environment, and the rest from Jean Der\u00e9ly, founder of several technology companies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In terms of integration, SUMA CRM will remain independent for life, although it will have a large part of Efficy's technological machinery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This will allow you to further accelerate and fine-tune your technology.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">VARIOUS VERSIONS<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Initially, it was born simply to address the needs of its founders with previous businesses that needed to earn income.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus a first version was created, which, after being polished, led to a second, this time open version.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With it, and through a website, the firm could now be used by other users and, in addition, a blog was included where the evolution of the company could be told.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unlike other companies that publish what happened weeks or months later, SUMA CRM does it on the spot, \"in the heat of the moment\", as they themselves state.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efficy, a Belgian company specialising in customer management software, acquires Spanish company Suma CRM for \u20ac2.1m. 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