OREANDA-NEWS. Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta), today announced that Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd. (KMBGB), its sales company of business technologies, signed an acquisition agreement with ProcessFlows Holdings Ltd. (ProcessFlows), an IT service company in the United Kingdom. Following the acquisition, ProcessFlows will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of KMBGB.

Purpose of acquisition

Konica Minolta aims to:

  • provide more valuable services to the customers through a hybrid sales structure with combining documents solutions knowledge by KMBGB and IT services knowledge by ProcessFlows; and
  • strengthen sales platform to realize a hybrid sales structure by utilizing ProcessFlows’ knowledge and expertise of Managed Content Services (MCS)*.
MCS optimizes information-relevant corporate processes such as managing documents efficiently.

Overview of ProcessFlows

ProcessFlows is a leading IT service company which is strong with managed contents services. Their strengths are high consulting skills for pre sales, flexible software development capabilities to ensure realizing customers’ needs, and their own service portfolio with their 29 years customer experience.

Company name/Established ProcessFlows Holdings Ltd./2014 (Holding company)
ProcessFlows (UK) Ltd./1987 (Operating company)
Headquarters Winchester, United Kingdom
Number of employees 168 (consolidated)
Sales 13.5M GBP (consolidated) FY ended June 2015

Konica Minolta has decided to acquire ProcessFlows with a view to deepening relationships with its customers and accelerating its efforts to reinforce its business base towards the last year of its medium-term business plan, TRANSFORM 2016.

With its brand proposition Giving Shape to Ideas, Konica Minolta will continue creating new values through offering of customer-centric services that combines IT and document management.