Press release

Press release

 

03.04.2019

ComLine expands management for further strategic growth

ComLine increased its turnover to a new record height of 378 million euros in the previous business year. With an expanded management, the specialist distributor will in future be focussing even stronger on the Volume and Value divisions.

Specialist distributor ComLine continues with double-digit growth in revenue, increasing turnover in the previous year by 16 per cent to 378 million euros.
he company’s most important manufacturers include Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Seagate/LaCie, Wacom, AJA and Steinberg.

„Our system house business improved massively yet again. Also the Audio/Video, Digital Content and Storage divisions were in greater demand than ever before. We are well on the way to breaking the 400 million euro mark, and in the medium term we are aiming for revenue amounting to 500 million euros.“
Harald Rapp, ComLine managing director
To achieve these ambitious growth goals, the specialist distributor is optimising its internal structures on a permanent basis and is focusing stronger on the Volume and Value divisions: ComLine’s executive management, centred on Harald Rapp and Anja Sobottka, is being complemented in the person of experienced manager Richard Gäbel. Business graduate Gäbel previously held responsible positions at Beate Uhse, Amplifon and Opta Data. In his new position at ComLine he will be concentrating on the strategic expansion of the VAD business. He will be supported by a new Value Director, experienced ComLine manager Stephan Leonhard, who will be primarily driving the operative Value business forward. At the beginning of April, Tim Daumann took over from Klaus Preuschhof as head of the Audio and Video business unit. Klaus Preuschhof is staying on until the end of September to oversee the transition.

As management spokesman, Harald Rapp will be focusing on the Volume business and the important cornerstones Adobe, Microsoft and Apple. Oliver Bartsch, who previously headed ComLine’s Business Unit Apple most successfully, has been appointed Director Volume.

„With our new line-up we will in future be able to address the two important areas of Volume and Value in a more targeted way, and with further internationalisation we will meet our ambitious goals.“
Harald Rapp, ComLine managing director