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Infor announced the acquisition of Alfa-Beta Solutions, a Dutch system integrator. Alfa-Beta Solutions, a Gold Infor Channel Partner, specializes on mid-market and large enterprises in the food & beverage (F&B) industry across Benelux and Germany. The acquisition of Alfa-Beta Solutions, with decades of deep industry expertise, expands Infor’s capabilities to support the company’s growing F&B customer base in Europe.

“As companies across Europe embrace the cloud as an enabler of modernization and digitization, demand for our CloudSuite products has been strong; in no industry has this demand been higher than food & beverage,” said Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor. “The acquisition of Alfa-Beta Solutions will bring a talented and experienced team to meet the growing demand for our products, and help new customers quickly realize their value.”

Based in Arnhem, Netherlands, Alfa-Beta Solutions is a leading consulting firm specializing in Infor M3 and BI with approximately 70 employees based at its Dutch headquarters or its German location in Darmstadt. Alfa-Beta Solutions concentrates on F&B, with a specialization in the Dairy, Agrofood, and Convenience micro-verticals. Alfa-Beta customers include Royal A-Ware, Cono Kaasmakers, HZPC, Colbrand, Riedel, Huuskes, Roerink Food Family, Fransen Gerrits, Coroos Conserven and Jermi.

“Infor delivers modern solutions that are tailored to the F&B industry and we have specialized on that industry for the past decades. The increasing demand for specialized solutions for F&B can only be met predicatable, profitable and quick implementations using standard software and industry expertise. This acquisition allows Infor and us to extend and grow our methodologies and best practices.” said Frank Resink, CEO of Alfa-Beta Solutions.

The acquisition closed today, and the terms are not being disclosed.

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