Intershop sees revenue finally increase

Intershop, a European provider of ecommerce software, saw its revenue increase by almost 5 percent to reach 35.8 million euros. It’s the first time in four years that the German company was able to increase its revenue. Meanwhile, earnings before interest and taxes increased from -2.4 million euros in 2016 to 0.4 million last year.

The ecommerce software provider says the 5 percent increase in revenue is mainly thanks to “the positive trend in licensing revenues and to a sharp rise in full-service revenues”. The latter grew 37 percent to 6.3 million euros, while licensing revenues increased by 8 percent to 6.1 million euros.

Accelerating expansion of SaaS business

“Last year marked the first success of our ‘Lighthouse 2020’ strategy”, says CEO Jochen Wiechen. “Our key task for this year will be to accelerate the expansion of the SaaS solutions business, as we expect this market to achieve the highest growth rates.”

Intershop will also put more effort into the standardization of its cloud solution. In November of last year, our Dutch website Ecommerce News Nederland spoke with Wiechen, who said the market in the Benelux region is very important for the solutions provider, with many new customers coming from countries such as the Netherlands.

And it’s Intershop’s cloud solution that has helped the company with attracting new customers. Intershop serves mostly B2B companies, which are sometimes reluctant to operate online. For them, suddenly selling through the internet costs lots of money, effort and time. Intershop’s cloud solution aims to help these companies take steps into the world of online retail.

Cloud solution leads to more customers

In November, Wiechen said: “Our cloud solution makes it easier to take the first step [towards online retail] and this has led to many new customers, which otherwise wouldn’t were able to reach. In 2016, we welcomed twelve new customers, while during the first nine months of this year, we’ve already had twenty new customers.”

Aside from the focus on its cloud solution, further investments in sales and marketing are also planned. “We want to continue to grow in the future, if possible faster than before”, Wiechen explains. Intershop’s share already showed what growing fast means: its value increased by almost 79 percent during the last twelve months.