Across Europe, across the globe

From our inception, the IBX vision has been to be the leading provider of services and solutions for efficient purchasing in Europe. We believe strongly in working in close collaboration with our customers to create sustainable customer value. Operational excellence shall be a fundamental part of everything we do.

Today, 10 out of Europe’s 50 largest companies are IBX customers. As a very demanding customer base, they make it necessary for IBX to stay in the forefront in terms of service width, innovation and quality. Our customers are truly global and have taught us how to manage large eProcurement and eSourcing roll-outs. Today we support customers in both Source and Procure to Pay initiatives all over the globe: North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.

IBX has successful customer cases in all major business segments.

Manufacturing Health care Utilities
Volvo Novo Nordisk Vodafone
SAAB Aerospace   Vattenfall
Hilti Construction  
Novozymes Skanska Business Service
Sandvik MT JCB Lufthansa
Lego   SAS
  Telecom Copenhagen Airport
Professional Services Ericsson Deutsche Post World Net
PriceWaterhouseCoopers Deutsche Telekom SEB
    Thomas Cook
Public Sector Retail  
Norwegian State IKEA Chemical
  Tchibo Norsk Hydro

 

eSourcing and eProcurement customers in brief 

 

Copenhagen Airport, founded in 1925, is owned and operated by Copenhagen Airports A/S, a listed company which also owns and operates Roskilde Airport. In addition, Copenhagen Airports A/S is engaged in international acitivities in Mexico (nine airports), Newcastle International Airport in the UK and Meilan Airport in China. There are about 22,000 employees in the many different companies that together provide the services that have given Copenhagen Airport one of the highest ranking in the world.


Deutsche Lufthansa AG ranks upfront among the world’s leading airlines. As an Aviation Group, Lufthansa adheres fi rmly to economic and strategic criteria, focusing on the core competencies of its six business areas: passenger traffi c, logistics, MRO, catering, leisure travel, and IT services.


Ericsson is the largest supplier of mobile systems in the world. The world's ten largest mobile operators are among Ericsson's customers and some 40% of all mobile calls are made through Ericsson systems.


H. Lundbeck is a leading pharmaceutical company in the fields of research and marketing of pharmaceuticals for treatment of psychiatric and neurological diseases. The group focuses on five areas, viz. depression, psychosis/schizophrenia, anxiety, dementia and Parkinson's disease.


IKEA offers a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. Sales for the IKEA Group for the financial year of 2005 (1 September 2004 - 31 August 2005) totalled 14,8 billion euros (135 billion Swedish kronor). There is a total of 220 IKEA stores in 33 countries/territories. The IKEA Group owns 196 stores in 24 countries and additional stores are owned and franchised outside IKEA. In total, 410 million customers visited IKEA stores during last year.


The LEGO® Group was founded in 1932 and today the group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of play materials for children, employing approximately 7,400 people globally. The LEGO Group is committed to the development of children's creative and imaginative abilities. LEGO products can be purchased in more than 130 countries.


Novo Nordisk is a focused healthcare company and the world leader in diabetes care. Novo Nordisk is also a leader in hemostasis management, growth hormone therapy, and hormone replacement therapy.


Novozymes is the biotech-based world leader in enzymes and microorganisms. Using nature's own technologies, we continuously expand the frontiers of biological solutions to improve industrial performance everywhere. Novozymes' 600+ products are a key factor in the production of thousands of products you use in your everyday life - from the textiles in your clothes to the food you eat. In more than 40 different industries and 130 countries our biological solutions improve industrial performance and quality while at the same time saving water, energy, raw materials and waste.


The Ministry of Labour and Government Administration's Programme of Electronic Commerce in the Norwegian Public Sector, renamed Ehandel.no, has established a national electronic marketplace for public procurement. Ehandel.no is a service for public entities to either implement or improve their purchasing/supply chain strategy. The introduction of e-procurement to support the procurement process will contribute to efficient purchasing and cost-cutting gains.


Saab is one of the world's leading high-technology companies, with its main operations focusing on defence, aviation and space. The Group covers a broad spectrum of competence and capability in systems integration.


The SAS Group is the Nordic region’s largest listed airline and travel group, offering air transportation and airline-related services. Scandinavian Airlines is a member of Star Alliance™, the world’s largest airline alliance. The SAS Aviation Services business area includes SAS Technical Services, SAS Ground Services and SAS Cargo. In 2006, the SAS Group transported 38,6 million passengers to approximately 160 destinations.


 The SEB Group is a leading financial partner in the Nordic countries with a strong European presence and international scope. They constitute a natural partner for both private individuals and companies, for everything from simplifying your everyday finances to advice on complicated corporate deals.


Skandinavisk Tobakskompagni is among Denmark's largest international companies and is the parent company of a number of subsidiaries engaged in the production and sales of tobacco products, as well as in the Danish everyday commodities trade. ST also has a significant share of the ownership of Tivoli. The Group employs approx. 11,000 people.


Skanska is the third largest construction company in the world with over 70 000 employees on the primary markets in Sweden, the US, UK, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Poland, the Czech Republic, Argentina, Hong Kong and India.


The Volvo Group is a corporation intensively focused on transport solutions for commercial use. All of their business areas-Trucks, Buses, Construction Equipment, Marine & Industrial Power Systems, and Aero-have a strong presence on the global market.


 

IBX in brief
IBX is Europe's leading provider of efficient purchasing solutions. IBX provides purchasing expertise, scalable on-demand solutions and managed services for sourcing and procurement.
IBX has seven offices across Europe; Stockholm (hq), Copenhagen, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Paris, Oslo and Oxford.
IBX was founded in 2000 and is owned by Ericsson, SEB, Novo Nordisk, b-business partners and founders.
Finance and management
IBX turnover 2007: 311 MSEK
EBITDA positive since April 2003
Chairman: Tuve Johannesson
CEO: Leif Bohlin 
IBX by the numbers
Performed purchasing transactions in 81 countries
Procurement volume in 2007:
1.9 million POs and 8.2 BEUR
Sourcing volume in 2007:
15,000 events and 17.0 BEUR
Employees: 232 FTE (end of 2007) at 7 offices across Europe
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