There we go again: in a few days (4th to 9th March), Pentalog will be exhibiting at CeBit for the third consecutive year. This time, visitors will find us in hall number 4, booth A54, next to some of the biggest IT actors in the world.

This announcement is a good opportunity to have a look back at the results of Pentalog’s former participations in this IT trade show and more globally at the company’s efforts to develop international business. The English and German website www.pentalog.biz, associated with regular multilingual e-mailing campaigns efficiently contributed to building a European image and a broad network of contacts, customers and partners all over Europe.

German trade shows (CeBit, in Hanover and Systems, in Munich) proved to be an interesting acceleration factor for this development. The strength of these world-famous professional events lie in the diversity of opportunities they offer: one comes to Germany and meets people also coming from Scandinavia, Cyprus, the UK, Australia,…! CeBit 2006 was the start of an amazing partnership between Pentalog and Dmailer, a very dynamic company supported by an offshore team of 8 persons based in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Then at Systems 2006, Pentalog met OSB, an IT engineering company from Munich, leading to a collaboration which has now lasted for more than 6 months. 

Now Pentalog has taken another step forward: the German subsidiary « Lasnier & Popa GmbH (Pentalog group) » is being created and will be operational in April 2008. This decision is the result of the take-over by Pentalog of the Romanian IT outsourcing company Carpath Software, which was acting on the German-speaking market. Carpath’s former C.E.O. Mr. Mircea Popa is a very experienced salesman who has been working in Germany for many years. He is going to be Lasnier und Popa’s Managing Director and his main task will be to expand the group’s offshore activities in Germany and Austria. It is again at CeBit 2006 that Mr. Popa met Pentalog’s C.E.O. Frédéric Lasnier for the first time.

The group’s European development strategy is now into its stride since Pentalog permanently sells its services in Germany, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Moldova and France, and occasionally in some other countries. With the English Pentablog as well as the English recruitment blog which is soon going to be launched, Pentalog will even strengthen its global position in the next months. Then why not think of new business relationships with the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, or the USA…?