Greater variety, more bustle in the weclapp store

  • Cloud ERP provider weclapp expands range of program extensions and strengthens developer community
  • Relaunch of the weclapp store stimulates customers and community
  • High access rates already on the first day
  • User ratings create more transparency and dynamics

Marburg, 23 September 2020 – As part of its growth strategy, weclapp SE, a subsidiary of 3U HOLDING AG (ISIN DE0005167902), has redesigned the internal marketplace store.weclapp.com and added numerous offers. The cloud-based ERP platform weclapp enables small, medium-sized, and also larger companies to run their business processes comprehensively from one application. The marketplace complements this service with interfaces to a variety of specialized applications and functionalities (plugins), which offer customers additional options. They include for example Plugins for shipment processing, for project management or for connecting cash registers or telephone installations.

The Plugins available in the weclapp online store were developed partly by weclapp, partly by the active Community, consisting of customers and third-party IT service providers. Their plugins are offered as services (SaaS, software as a service) on the marketplace, where these connections of weclapp with industry or customized programs or devices can be rented. Thus, the community members have the possibility to present their program interfaces to a larger clientele and offer them for a fee. The community developers are free to set the prices for their programs themselves. The plugins are on display on the marketplace after having passed a compatibility-check by the weclapp development team.

As a cloud-based platform, weclapp enables efficient teamwork independent of location. This offers decisive advantages over all conventional “on-premises systems”, which run on the customers’ respective servers and are therefore dependent on infrastructure and updates. With weclapp, however, data from business transactions are accessible any time anywhere. This also applies to third-party programs coupled via the plugins which also get access to any data necessary for processing.

“The marketplace is our contribution to strengthen the community. Here, our partners can offer their services to all weclapp users worldwide under their own label. weclapp provides the trading platform. The marketplace with an active community of developers worldwide is an important strategic component in the worldwide orientation of our platform. Therefore, we will continue to expand the possibilities for developers and solution providers to enable smart extensions around our multiple award-winning platform,” says Ertan Özdil, CEO and founder of weclapp SE.

With the relaunch, the internal award “Plugin of the month” was initiated. Furthermore, customers now have the possibility to rate the plugins. Thus, all customers can participate in the active community and extend their weclapp with useful additional functionalities.

On the day the new offering was announced, the number of users accessing the store increased tenfold.

“weclapp users get in contact with developers and their products via the store and experience what is possible with weclapp. The fact that business transactions can be processed and closed far beyond the borders of a core ERP is a great advantage for weclapp users and for us a milestone on the way to internationalisation”, emphasizes Michael Schmidt, speaker of the board of 3U HOLDING AG.

 

Further information:
Dr. Joachim Fleïng
Investor Relations
3U HOLDING AG
Tel.: +49 (0) 6421 999-1200
Fax: +49 (0) 6421 999-1222
E-mail: ir@3u.net

About weclapp:
weclapp SE was founded in 2008 and offers since 2013 the cloud-based platform of the same name. Since market entry it has grown by an average of 50% each year and is operating profitably. With Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) it addresses mainly small and medium-sized companies, especially with the integrated ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) functionalities. Customers thus have unlimited access to their business transactions and data from any Internet-capable end device and from any location connected to the Internet. With storage and computing capacities in Germany and Switzerland and the certification according to ISO 27001, weclapp offers a high degree of data security. The platform has repeatedly been awarded the title of ERP system of the year. The weclapp SE is based in Frankfurt am Main with further locations in Marburg and Kitzingen. It is a subsidiary of the 3U HOLDING AG based in Marburg.

About 3U:
3U HOLDING AG (www.3u.net) has its headquarters in Marburg, Germany, and was founded in 1997. It is the operating management and investment holding company at the head of the 3U Group. It acquires, operates, and sells companies in the three segments of ITC (Information and Telecommunications Technology), Renewable Energies and SHAC (Sanitary, Heating and Air Conditioning Technology). The 3U Group has successful and profitable business models based on megatrends in all three segments. It continues to expand its business activities dynamically, particularly in its strongest growth areas of cloud computing and online trading, in which it is striving to achieve leading positions in the market.

3U HOLDING AG’s shares are traded on XETRA, Tradegate and on the German regional stock exchanges (ISIN: DE0005167902; identifier: UUU).

3U subsidiary Selfio is one of the best online shops in Germany for the fourth time in a row

  • Consumers awarded Selfio first place in the construction and DIY segment (excluding store network)

Marburg, 17 September 2020 – Selfio GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of 3U HOLDING AG (ISIN: DE0005167902), received the award for “Germany’s Best Online Shops” in the segment “Building and DIY (excluding store network)” for the fourth time in a row. The consumer survey was conducted by “DISQ – Deutsches Institut für Service-Qualität”, a private company, on behalf of the news channel n-tv. The survey examined customer satisfaction with the online shops in six categories. Selfio achieved higher scores than the other competitors in the segment, particularly for its very good price-performance ratio and its Internet presence. But also for product range, customer service, ordering conditions and shipping and returns, the SHAC online retailer from the 3U Group achieved a place in the top ranks of its segment.

Since its start in 2011, the 3U subsidiary has increased its sales of systems and components for sanitary, heating and air conditioning systems and components (SHAC) more than twelve-fold from EUR 1.5 million (FY 2011) to EUR 20.6 million (FY 2019) giving it a strong position among the specialist providers in its industry segment; further growth is planned and foreseeable. In addition to the further expansion of its successful online marketing and online consulting services under the motto “Do it yourself – but do it right”, the company’s growth drivers include the ongoing expansion of its range of attractive products and services, closer cooperation with renowned providers, and the targeted use of private labels. The goal remains to join the ranks of the 100 top-selling German online retailers and on this way to further improve profitability.

“The customers are our top priority. We offer them competitive prices for high-performance products – and we support them with a comprehensive range of planning and consulting services,” emphasizes Roger Moore, Managing Director of Selfio GmbH. “Particularly in view of the generally good rating of the online shops in the DISQ customer survey, it is a special honour that Selfio was able to assert itself at this high level and convince the customers. We continue to work on maintaining and extending this lead”.

Further information about the award can be found at: https://disq.de/online-shop-preis.html. You can find the n-tv-guide article here: https://bit.ly/3maxMlq.

 

About Selfio:
Selfio GmbH is a provider of high-quality home technology systems and components with a focus on sanitary, heating, air conditioning (SHAC) and products such as under-floor heating, central and decentral ventilation and water management. Selfio supports home builders and do-it-yourselfers with professional planning services both for new buildings and for refurbishment projects. In addition, Selfio provides extensive video tutorials and product presentations and offers services for everyone along with technical advance calculations (quick layouts).

About 3U:
3U HOLDING AG (www.3u.net) 3U HOLDING AG (www.3u.net) has its headquarters in Marburg, Germany, and was founded in 1997. It is the operating management and investment holding company at the head of the 3U Group. It acquires, operates and sells companies in the three segments of ITC (Information and Telecommunications Technology), Renewable Energies and SHAC (Sanitary, Heating and Air Conditioning Technology). The 3U Group has successful and profitable business models based on megatrends in all three segments. It continues to expand its business activities dynamically, particularly in its strongest growth areas of cloud computing and online trading, in which it is striving to achieve leading positions in the market.

3U HOLDING AG’s shares are traded on XETRA, Tradegate and on the German regional stock exchanges (ISIN: DE0005167902; identifier: UUU).

3U HOLDING AG: Release according to Article 40, Section 1 of the WpHG / September 14, 2020

Voting Rights Announcement according to Article 40, Section 1 of the WpHG can be downloaded here:

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Lupus alpha Investment GmbH: Release according to Article 33 of the WpHG / September 14, 2020

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3U HOLDING AG places around 1.2 million own shares with institutional investors

  • Lupus Alpha invests in management and investment holding 3U

Marburg, 11 September 2020 – With the approval of the Supervisory Board, the Management Board of 3U HOLDING AG has just sold 1,183,640 of its own shares to Lupus Alpha Asset Management GmbH. The purchase price amounted to EUR 1.747 per share. The net proceeds of the transaction are to be used to finance the further growth of the subsidiary weclapp SE. After completion of the transaction, 3U HOLDING AG holds no treasury shares.

The treasury stock results from a share buyback program resolved by the Annual General Meeting of 3U HOLDING AG on May 30, 2012. The resolution of the Annual General Meeting authorises the Management Board to sell the shares with the approval of the Supervisory Board. The shares may also be sold by means other than via the stock exchange or by means of a public purchase offer to all shareholders, provided that the acquired treasury shares are sold at a price that is not significantly lower than the market price of the Company’s shares of the same class at the time of the sale. The relevant stock exchange price within the meaning of the above provision is the average closing price of the Company’s shares in Xetra trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange during the last five trading days prior to the sale of the shares. These conditions have been met. The share price of the transaction did not significantly fall short of the corresponding average closing price of the Company’s shares in Xetra trading of EUR 1.838.

 

Publishing Person:
Dr. Joachim Fleïng
Head of Investor Relations
Tel.: +49 6421 999-1200
Fax: +49 6421 999-1222
Email: ir@3u.net

Issuer:
3U HOLDING AG
Frauenbergstr. 31-33
35039 Marburg
Germany
LEI: 529900VVQ4470YJ67K26
Registered: Marburg District Court HRB 4680
ISIN DE0005167902
MTF:
XETRA
Tradegate
Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg/Hannover, Düsseldorf, München, Stuttgart

About 3U:
3U HOLDING AG (www.3u.net) has its headquarters in Marburg, Germany, and was founded in 1997. It is the operating management and investment holding company at the head of the 3U Group. It acquires, operates and sells companies in the three segments of Information and Telecommunications Technology (ITC), Renewable Energies (RE) and Sanitary, Heating and Air Conditioning Technology (SHAC). The 3U Group has successful and profitable business models based on megatrends in all three segments. It continues to expand its business activities dynamically, particularly in its strongest growth areas of cloud computing and online trading, in which it is striving to achieve leading positions in the market.

3U HOLDING AG’s shares are traded on XETRA, Tradegate and on the German regional stock exchanges (ISIN: DE0005167902; identifier: UUU).

weclapp SE and Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG cooperate

  • The discoverFP customer portal and weclapp ensure more efficiency in everyday business and secure communication and business processes
  • Partners address the same medium-sized customers
  • Start in Germany, future internationalisation possible

Marburg, 8 September 2020 – Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG (ISIN DE000FPH9000), expert for secure mail business and secure digital communication processes (FP), and weclapp SE, a subsidiary of 3U HOLDING AG (ISIN DE0005167902), have agreed on a sales cooperation. Under the terms of the agreement, FP will provide its customers with online access to the cloud-based ERP platform weclapp via the portal discoverFP. Initially, all customers of the German FP sales organisation will have this possibility. The agreement can be extended to other FP national companies in the future. FP receives commissions on the sales generated in this way at weclapp SE.

The active marketing is to start shortly.

Ertan Özdil, CEO of weclapp SE, underlines: “Francotyp-Postalia and weclapp address the same medium-sized customer groups: successful companies and service providers who are currently on the road to digitalisation. Also, FP brings weclapp within reach of their broad customer base, and weclapp opens up comprehensive and easy-to-use possibilities for faster, team-oriented work for these companies”.

“For discoverFP, we are constantly looking for attractive offers that make our customers’ everyday office life and their communication and business processes more digital and thus easier and more efficient,” adds Patricius de Gruyter, Chief Sales Officer of Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG. “In our search for an innovative, comprehensive ERP solution for medium-sized businesses, we found what we were looking for at weclapp.

The cloud-based one-stop platform discoverFP represents the convenient way for FP’s customers to enter the new, digital working world. In addition to practical enhancements for reporting cost centres and managing postage rates, which make letter communication with a modern franking machine even more efficient and cost-saving, discoverFP also allows other FP products and offers from partners to be discovered and used. FP customers benefit, for example, from FP Parcel Shipping (parcel shipping solution for the American market) or the process-supporting FP Sign (eSignature workflow solution for every industry). The overall goal is to reduce administrative effort, make processes more efficient and, as a partner, to accompany customers step by step on the path to meaningful digitalisation.

As a cloud-based ERP platform, weclapp enables its enterprise customers to process all business transactions from customer contact to invoicing comprehensively with only one software, independent of location and system. Developed for internal and comprehensive teamwork, weclapp ensures faster workflows and more efficient work. The intuitive user guidance simplifies the introduction of the software, the onboarding of the employees and the daily work. The offer as Software-as-a-Service makes on-site installations – for introduction or updates – obsolete: Users automatically always work with the latest version. With ISO/IEC 27001 certification and data hosting in German data centres, the software meets high data security standards.

 

Further information:
Dr Joachim Fleïng
Investor Relations
3U HOLDING AG
Tel.: +49 (0) 6421 999-1200
Fax: +49 (0) 6421 999-1222
E-mail: ir@3u.net

About weclapp:
weclapp SE was founded in 2008 and offers since 2013 the cloud-based platform of the same name. Since market entry it has grown by an average of 50% each year and is operating profitably. With Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) it addresses mainly small and medium-sized companies, especially with the integrated ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) functionalities. Customers thus have unlimited access to their business transactions and data from any Internet-capable end device and from any location connected to the Internet. With storage and computing capacities in Germany and Switzerland and the certification according to ISO 27001, weclapp offers a high degree of data security. The platform has repeatedly been awarded the title of ERP system of the year. The weclapp SE is based in Frankfurt am Main with further locations in Marburg and Kitzingen. It is a subsidiary of the 3U HOLDING AG based in Marburg.

About Francotyp-Postalia:
The international, listed FP Group with headquarters in Berlin, Germany, is an expert in secure mailing business and secure digital communication processes (FP = “secure digital communication”). As market leader in Germany and Austria, the FP Group offers digital solutions for companies and authorities as well as products and services for efficient mail processing and the consolidation of business mail in the “Software/Digital”, “Franking and Inserting” and “Mail Services” segments. The Group generated revenue of more than EUR 210 million in 2019. FP has subsidiaries based in ten different countries and is represented by its own trading network in an additional 40 countries. With a company history spanning almost 100 years, FP possesses a unique DNA in the areas of actuating elements, sensor systems, cryptography and connectivity. FP has a more than twelve percent share in the global market for franking systems. In the digital sector, it offers unique, highly secure solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT/IIoT) and for signing documents digitally.

Further information is available at www.fp-francotyp.com.

About 3U:
3U HOLDING AG (www.3u.net) 3U HOLDING AG (www.3u.net) has its headquarters in Marburg, Germany, and was founded in 1997. It is the operating management and investment holding company at the head of the 3U Group. It acquires, operates and sells companies in the three segments of ITC (Information and Telecommunications Technology), Renewable Energies and SHAC (Sanitary, Heating and Air Conditioning Technology). The 3U Group has successful and profitable business models based on megatrends in all three segments. It continues to expand its business activities dynamically, particularly in its strongest growth areas of cloud computing and online trading, in which it is striving to achieve leading positions in the market.

3U HOLDING AG’s shares are traded on XETRA, Tradegate and on the German regional stock exchanges (ISIN: DE0005167902; identifier: UUU).