Valtech Announces Absolunet Acquisition

Valtech is a global business transformation agency that provides purpose-driven innovation. We help clients anticipate future trends and connect with customers more directly across digital and physical touchpoints, all while optimizing time-to-market and ROI.

Fremont, CA:  Valtech, a global leader in digital services and business transformation, announced today the acquisition of Absolunet, a professional services firm that specialises in commerce and digital transformations.

Absolunet, which has over 300 employees and five offices in North America and Europe, assists brands, manufacturers, and distributors in accelerating their digital transformation to become commerce leaders. According to leading analyst firms, this acquisition solidifies Valtech's position as a dominant global player in the commerce services space. Partnering with companies to accelerate their end-to-end commerce, whether it's driving their direct-to-consumer strategy, enabling omnichannel commerce, reinventing the store's future, or even reimagining business models, such as establishing revenue streams from digital services in connected cars and digital products.

Valtech is strengthening its position on many of the market's major commerce platforms, including Adobe, Salesforce, commercetools, Optimizely, SAP, and VTEX, with the addition of Absolunet. Valtech is also expanding its expertise in assisting businesses to scale their commerce channels, such as customer experience strategy, marketing automation, customer data platforms, data analytics, personalization, merchandising, product information management (PIM), order management (OMS), digital asset management (DAM), and media networks orchestration.

"We are delighted that the team from Absolunet is joining Valtech," said Olivier Padiou, CEO of Valtech. "Their commercial expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and technical capabilities perfectly complement our existing talent and capabilities. Companies in all industries must innovate in their business practises. The importance of omnichannel commerce in this evolution cannot be overstated. Thanks to the excellent team at Absolunet, we are well-equipped to take our clients' businesses to new heights."

"Today, commerce is about understanding the customer journey and providing relevant commerce experiences at every level," said Charles Desjardins, CEO of Absolunet and Valtech's new EVP, North America. "Your commerce strategy should permeate all aspects of your business, from purchasing to marketing, distribution, and customer service, among other things. Valtech and Absolunet work together to provide a solution for businesses looking to address the complexities of customer experience design, commerce execution, and organisational change."

Valtech creates, builds, and deploys transformative digital solutions for the world's most recognizable brands. Recognizing that industries and sectors worldwide are experiencing significant economic shifts, Valtech works with its clients to innovate digitally at a rapid pace to meet changing customer needs and, ultimately, position their businesses to gain a sustainable competitive advantage. As a result, Valtech is the preferred strategic business transformation partner for many of the world's most recognizable brands, including ADM, Audi, Goodyear, Dolby, Estée Lauder, Henkel, Linde, L'Oréal, LVMH, MARS, Novo Nordisk, PepsiCo, P&G, Samsung, Toyota, Universal Studios, Volkswagen, and many more.

Valtech has over 4,500 strategists, experience designers, marketers, data scientists, creatives, and software engineers spread across five continents and 50+ offices in 18 countries.