Company Profile
Figures and Facts
| Established | 12. September 1995 |
| Accounting standard | HGB (German Commercial Code) |
| End of business year | December 31 |
| Executive Board | Tobias Kaulfuss (CEO) Sergey Skatershchikov (CFO) |
| Supervisory Board | Serge Umansky, Chairman, Chief Investment Officer of Whiteridge Advisors SA Norman Hansen, Deputy Chairman, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Holotrack AG Jörn Matuszewski, Attorney at Law |
Business area and products
asknet, a pioneer in the development of global e-commerce solutions, offers manufacturers comprehensive expertise and customized shops to allow them to sell their products and services 24/7 in more than 190 countries. Customers benefit from international payment and logistics processes, both for digital and physical goods, as well as from the experience that results from several dozen successful e-commerce solutions.
The Karlsruhe-based company also operates portals for software distribution in the academic research and teaching segment. Founded in 1995 as a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the company is a partner to around 80 percent of Germany’s universities and research institutes. asknet acts as a large account reseller for Adobe and Microsoft in the academic market. Using the established studyhouse.de internet platform, asknet also offers students a wide range of software for personal use.
Selected Key Figures of the Group
| (in million euros) | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
| Sales revenues | 65.42 | 74.82 | 82.21 | 89.38 | 73.32 | 68.72 | |
| Gross profit | 10.7 | 10.12 | 10.38 | 10.64 | 10.39 | 8.92 | |
| Gross profit margin | 15.4% | 13.5% | 12.6% | 11.9% | 14.2% | 13.0% | |
| EBT | -0.85 | 0.10 | 0.24 | 0,11 | 0.09 | -1.83 | |
| Net profit | -0.88 | 0.08 | 0.23 | 0.10 | 0.08 | -2.50 |