Global4Net recently joined Unity Group. The outcome of our merger, puts us in the position of being the largest Adobe e-commerce technology team in Poland, making us a key Adobe partner with strong overseas potential. The unification will enable 135-140 mln in revenue by the end of 2023.
– For more than 25 years, we have witnessed and co-created the reality of Polish commerce and its digitization process. We have successfully implemented more than 500 digital transformation projects for the biggest brands in Poland and have grown during this time at a pace ahead of the market. As a result of the pandemic, the process of shifting commerce to digital tracks accelerated and jumped by about 10 years in a year. Consumers’ shopping habits changed dramatically, and as a result – also the expectations of retail companies. To meet these needs to an even greater extent, we decided to strengthen our competencies and invited the Global4Net team to Unity Group. This is a strong company, which, like us, is home to extremely experienced experts in Magento technology – the most popular platform for developing e-commerce systems worldwide. In the era of the global boom in digitalizing projects, people count above all – strong and numerous teams of the best of the best. We believe that by acting together, we can offer not only an even better and faster service for our clients but also more and more interesting projects for our employees – comments Grzegorz Kuczynski, CEO and Managing Partner of Unity Group.
– I am extremely proud that our organizations were able to join forces. The world of technology is developing very dynamically, and in order to build a sustainable competitive advantage in this area, it is necessary to be open to cooperation and mutual exchange of experience. Only in this way is it possible to keep up with the intensity of technological change, allowing us to provide a comprehensive service in the area of e-commerce. By combining the strengths of both companies, we are able to do this even more effectively and to develop the businesses of our customers. I am convinced that by effectively creating e-commerce leaders, we ourselves will become a leader in the area of new technologies on a European scale – says Andrzej Szylar, CEO of Global4Net.
Technically, the transaction involved Unity S.A.’s acquisition of. 100% of Global4Net in exchange for 12% of the first company’s newly issued shares which was finalized in late 2021. The teams of the two companies had already worked together on several projects, each time achieving goals set by the client. Now they will work even closer together, and their capabilities will expand significantly. As a result of the transaction, the largest team of Magento experts in the Polish market has been created, thus the technological potential to handle demanding projects on foreign markets has increased.
The merger of the brands also strengthens the implementation of Unity Group’s strategy in the area of end-to-end commerce digital transformation. As an end-to-end Commerce Transformation Partner, it wants to be an end-to-end service provider for its clients – from the stage of preparing the digitization strategy preceded by an audit of processes, systems, and activities in companies, to offering the relevant technologies, to the maintenance service. In this way, Unity Group, together with Global4Net, co-creates additional business value at every stage of the process, and the client itself gains a responsible/reliable partner that is able to comprehensively manage the process and is well acquainted with the realities of trade and trade-related business processes, including in foreign markets.
The merger of the brands also strengthens the implementation of Unity Group’s strategy in the area of end-to-end commerce digital transformation. As an end-to-end Commerce Transformation Partner, it wants to be an end-to-end service provider for its clients – from the stage of preparing the digitization strategy preceded by an audit of processes, systems, and activities in companies, to offering the relevant technologies, to the maintenance service. In this way, Unity Group, together with Global4Net, co-creates additional business value at every stage of the process, and the client itself gains a partner that holistically manages and is responsible for the process, and is well acquainted with the realities of commerce and commerce-related business processes, including in foreign markets.
– The level of quality of services provided in the area of digital transformation depends mostly on the work of experienced teams composed of top experts. Thanks to the cooperation between Unity Group and Global4Net, we will be able to broaden the labor market access and propose an attractive job offer to the best talents, that is better tailored to specialists at different stages of their career path, that have very ambitious expectations towards the employer – concludes Grzegorz Kuczyński.