Intershop Annual Shareholders’ Meeting: Improved financial figures and strategic course set for 2025
Jena, 16 May 2025 – Intershop Communications AG (ISIN: DE000A254211), a global provider of B2B commerce solutions for the upper mid-market in the manufacturing and wholesale sectors, conducted its Annual Shareholders' Meeting in person today. Shareholders also had the option of following the event digitally via the company's AGM portal.
The Management Board, consisting of Markus Klahn (CEO), Petra Stappenbeck (CFO), and Markus Dränert (COO), answered questions from shareholders and presented key developments from the past financial year as well as the focus areas for 2025.
CEO Markus Klahn explained the market trends in B2B commerce and provided an outlook on the company's strategic development. He particularly highlighted the positive analyst ratings from IDC and Forrester for the Intershop platform, which specifically praised the integration of AI applications – the dominant megatrend in the industry.
Chief Financial Officer Petra Stappenbeck presented the significantly improved financial figures for 2024 and for the first quarter of 2025 (including a balanced EBIT) and explained measures for long term cost reduction. The cloud business continued to develop positively, the gross margin increased and the service business has stabilised with an improved margin since the beginning of 2025.
Markus Dränert (COO) presented key initiatives for the current year, including the further expansion of AI functionalities, the migration of existing customers to the cloud and the introduction of autonomous AI agents as an extension to the already proven Intershop Copilot.
Changes to the Supervisory Board
There have been several personnel changes to the Supervisory Board. Mr. Oliver Bendig resigned from his position at the end of the past financial year and left the Board for personal reasons. Mr. Ulrich Prädel also resigned from his position as a member of the Supervisory Board at the end of today's Annual General Meeting for personal reasons.
Günter Hagspiel, CEO of GUNTHA GmbH, Schwarzach, Austria, and Matthias Breuckmann, private investor from Frankfurt am Main, were elected as new members of the Supervisory Board at the request of Intershop's major shareholder, Shareholder Value Beteiligungen AG. The Supervisory Board will therefore continue to consist of four members in the future.
Attendance at the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting was 56% of the share capital. With the exception of agenda item 7 on reducing the Supervisory Board to three members, the shareholders approved all items on the agenda by a large majority.
The complete voting results are available on the Intershop website at https://www.intershop.com/en/shareholders-meeting.
About Intershop
Intershop (founded in Germany 1992; Prime Standard: ISHA) enables the world’s leading manufacturers and wholesalers to digitalize, transform, and boost their businesses. Our e-commerce platform and cloud-based technology give B2B companies the power to establish and expand their digital presence, improve customer experience, and increase online revenue. With 30 years experience and a global presence, we help our 300+ clients turn products into profits, customers into business partners, and transactions into lasting relationships.
Intershop is built to boost your business. Learn more at www.intershop.com.
This news release contains forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial and operational performance of Intershop. Actual events or performance may differ materially from those contained or implied in such forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that could lead to such difference could include, among other things: Intershop's limited operating history, the unpredictability of future revenues and expenses and potential fluctuations in revenues and operating results, significant dependence on large single customer deals, consumer trends, the level of competition, seasonality, risks related to electronic security, possible governmental regulation, and general economic conditions.
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