Bechtle is one of the largest IT service providers in Europe and is an established IT company with over 42 years of experience. We stand for future strength and offer technology concepts and comprehensive IT solutions for digital transformation. Our multichannel strategy combines personal support at over 120 locations in 14 European countries with digital services and global collaboration. The decentralised structure of the Bechtle Group enables the individual companies to operate with a high degree of autonomy and entrepreneurship. This ensures close customer support for more than 70,000 business partners. Bechtle AG performs central services for all group companies in a cost-efficient manner and coordinates cooperation between the local units.
Legal structure
Customer focus even in the legal structure
The networked decentralisation model provides the more than 120 regional and international subsidiaries with plenty of leeway to arrange their operations. At the same time, they benefit from the central functions as well as the competence, financial strength and organisation of a European group of companies. This allows the local units to concentrate fully on their core business.
Autonomous operations of subsidiaries ensures close customer relationships.
This is also reflected in our legal structures, as the Bechtle Group has a conventional holding structure. Bechtle AG, as the parent company and holding company for the entire group of companies, is responsible for all overarching tasks such as corporate communications and brand management, digital business services, finance and taxes, human resources and personnel development, investor relations, group controlling, marketing, mergers and acquisitions, sustainability management, platform strategy, legal and compliance, risk management and central IT.
Up to 31 December 2025, the Executive Board responsibilities were as follows:
Dr Thomas Olemotz. Chairman of the Executive Board. Finance, taxes and insurance, review of financial statements and internal audit, human resources and people development, investor relations, group controlling, risk management, real estate and mobility, mergers & acquisitions and corporate development, legal & compliance, corporate communications & brand management, CISO and Bechtle Stiftung gGmbH.
Konstantin Ebert. Multichannel responsibility for the national markets of Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the United Kingdom as well as the international business.
Michael Guschlbauer. Multichannel responsibility for Germany and Austria, as well as all specialists of the Bechtle Group, public-sector division, central project management and quality and environmental management.
Antje Leminsky. Responsible for Bechtle Logistik & Service GmbH, Financial Services and Sustainability Management.
The Executive Board’s joint responsibility extends, in particular, to strategic corporate development, risk management, compliance and the activities of the CTO.
Dr Thomas Olemotz’s contract is set to expire on 31 December 2026. By then, he will have served on the Bechtle Executive Board for almost 20 years and will be retiring. Christian Jehle joined the Executive Board as CFO on 1 January 2026. He will initially take over responsibility for finance, group controlling and risk management, which previously fell within the CEO’s remit. Further areas of responsibility will follow during the year. At its meeting on 4 February 2026, the Supervisory Board decided not to extend Antje Leminsky’s Executive Board contract, which expires on 31 December 2026. From 1 January 2027, the Executive Board will once again be a three-member body consisting of Konstantin Ebert (CEO), Michael Guschlbauer (COO) and Christian Jehle (CFO). With this step, Bechtle is returning to a size of Executive Board that already proved successful for the company’s development between 2009 and January 2024.
Holding structure of the Bechtle Group
A layer of various holding companies has been implemented directly under Bechtle AG, in which primarily tasks relating to business development and strategic direction are performed.
As part of the segment restructuring, it became necessary to realign the holding companies. The first step was to rename the former Bechtle E-Commerce Holding AG to Bechtle International Operations Holding AG. This entity consolidates a large part of Bechtle AG’s international business. This measure reflects the Bechtle Group’s now consistent regional focus and provides a clear allocation of international activities. Further adjustments to the holding structure are planned and will be implemented over the course of the current fiscal year.
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The legally independent subsidiaries are allocated to the second holding level. Bechtle AG holds 100 per cent of the shares in almost all subsidiaries, either directly or via associated companies.
Objectives of this two-level holding structure:
To relieve the decentralised subsidiaries of administrative and cross-company work, thereby ensuring focus on the core business
To bundle competencies and resources in order to generate synergies, e.g. by achieving economies of scale in purchasing and logistics, thereby enabling more sustainable operations
To centrally design and provide services, in particular outsourcing and cloud services, in order to optimise the capacity utilisation throughout the group and to provide, wherever possible, services on a supra-regional basis
To outline clearly aligned lean leadership responsibility and competence, which are vital in view of the size of the Bechtle Group
Management
Networked decentralisation as the essential basis for corporate success
The hierarchical separation of the strategic group management, for which the Executive Board is responsible, from the leadership of the operational units and from the direct customer contact is the most prominent feature of the management structure. In this way, Bechtle underlines the principle of networked decentralisation, which is rooted in the business model. At the same time, this concept enables us to stay abreast of the extensive and continually growing management tasks as well as the highly dynamic development of the business environment.
Executive Vice Presidents or Vice Presidents act as a link between the group’s Executive Board and the operational units:
six group-wide Executive Vice Presidents and Vice Presidents:
Finances of the Bechtle Group
Managed Services
Business Applications
CTO
Public sector
PLM/Engineering & Manufacturing
three Executive Vice Presidents in Germany and Austria:
Region Germany North/East
Region Germany Centre and West
Southern Germany and Austria
four Executive Vice Presidents or Vice Presidents for the countries:
France
Benelux
Switzerland
Southern and Eastern Europe
At Bechtle Group locations, the Managing Directors bear sole responsibility for the economic success of their respective companies. Performance-related variable compensation ensures that each Managing Director participates directly in the company’s success. Bechtle thus promotes and supports entrepreneurial thinking and economic responsibility at all locations to create the basis for sustainable successful business performance.
Entrepreneurship is embodied and promoted at Bechtle.
Locations
Largest location: headquarters in Neckarsulm
The Bechtle Group has its headquarters in Neckarsulm. In addition to Bechtle AG and the IT system house Neckarsulm, Logistik & Service GmbH and various intermediate holding companies are also based there. With more than 2,500 employees, Neckarsulm is the largest location within the Group. In total, the Bechtle Group comprises more than 120 operating companies. The majority of these companies are located in Germany, which is also Bechtle’s most important market. However, Bechtle also has a strong international presence. Around 43 per cent of the total business volume is generated outside Germany. France, the Netherlands and Switzerland are among the most important markets for Bechtle.
Bechtle is represented in a total of 14 European countries. We already offer the entire range of our portfolio in nine countries. In five countries, the focus is currently still on the trading business. In the medium term, we want to offer our customers all IT-related services in all 14 countries. Our core brand in every country is the Bechtle brand. In addition, we are also active in individual countries with other brands that joined the Bechtle Group through acquisitions – for example, in France with the brands Inmac Wstore and Bechtle Comsoft or in the Netherlands with PQR.
Since 2022, as part of our acquisition strategy, we have consistently expanded our service business beyond the borders of the DACH region. This means that the network of service-orientated locations extends across Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, the United Kingdom and, since February 2026, Portugal. The aim of our internationalisation strategy is to further expand the complete portfolio in all 14 countries in which Bechtle is represented. In this way, we not only strengthen the stability of our business model, but also consolidate our existing market and competitive position. Our customers benefit from the fact that they can be addressed individually and according to their needs via various sales channels. In the reporting period, Bechtle strengthened its position with four acquisitions: two in the Netherlands, one in Italy and one in Spain.