Esselte Group

The Esselte Group is one of the world's premier manufacturers of organizational solutions. Esselte is a $1 billion office products company with subsidiaries in 31 countries and distribution in more than 120 countries. The company's products are sold in Europe primarily under the Esselte®, Leitz® and Rapid® brands and in North America primarily under the Pendaflex®, Oxford®, Xyron® Rapid® and Ampad® brands.

Founded in 1913 in Stockholm, Sweden, Esselte Has always been a leading global office supplies manufacturer.  Esselte is owned by J.W. Childs , a U.S.-based private equity investment firm.Esselte is in the process of executing an aggressive three-pronged growth strategy that includes investing heavily in its core brands, making strategic acquisitions that expand the company's brand portfolio or global reach, and leading the industry in organizational excellence.In 2010 Esselte made two strategic acquisitions: Isaberg Rapid, one of the world's leading companies within the stapling business and American Pad and Paper (Ampad), a leading North American manufacturer of nationally branded and private label office and stationery products.

Esselte signed a long term agreement for the hosting and technical support of it's several of it's key systems in the Comarch Data Center. A complete, dedicated server infrastructure provides a platform for its European SAP environment, and corporate e-mail servers. Under the contract, systems are located at the Krakow Comarch Data Center and qualified specialists provide full-service management of the hosted environment, including comprehensive 24/7/365 monitoring.

Esselte selected Comarch after a thorough tender process with a number of potential suppliers. The greatest importance was attributed to the criterion related to the ability to keep stringent SLA parameters, ensuring high availability of systems. In addition, the international company expected that a single, trustworthy site should be able to simultaneously host a number of systems critical to the company.

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