OBT Group strengthens focus on SMEs
OBT AG and St.Gallen-based Revidas Treuhand AG and Revidas Revisionsgesellschaft AG are merging. With this step, OBT says it is reaffirming its focus on SME clients.
The team led by Markus Jäger (pictured 2nd from left), Patrik Bawidamann (center), and Hans Martin Zanetti (far right) Revidas is a fiduciary company specialized in SMEs in Eastern Switzerland. In view of the increasing digitalization of the industry and the need to find a sustainable and long-term succession solution for key positions, the managers of the company, which was founded in 1984, decided to partner with the OBT Group. According to Revida's main shareholder and partner Markus Jäger, "In addition to knowledge of OBT's strengths in the area of IT, the decisive factors in this decision were not least mutual sympathy, a common basis of values and a clear commitment to SME customers.
Revidas' core offering and existing competencies will remain in place; however, SME clients will be able to benefit from the merger with OBT not only in terms of IT know-how and infrastructure, but also from new resources in the areas of tax, legal and management consulting as well as fiduciary and auditing services, according to a press release. The Revidas brand will continue to be used until further notice and the company will retain its locations at Flurhofstrasse in St.Gallen and Theaterweg 11 in Chur, it added.
OBT partner and head of the fiduciary department, Christoph Brunner (pictured above, far left), will join the Revidas management and board of directors as an interface to the group. All 22 employees of the company will continue to be employed by Revidas at the current location. The priority for those responsible is to bring the employees together, generate synergies and standardize the IT processes in the takeover process that is now getting underway. In this way, the desired digitization thrust and the succession of the previous owners, who will continue to be available, are to be purposefully initiated. For the OBT Group, this step is a further, gratifying addition in the SME sector, with which it will now be possible to further strengthen its position in eastern Switzerland, the company explains.
Source and further information: OBT
