News & Press Releases - February 12, 2019

Loopia Group acquires WebSupport, the #1 web hosting company in Slovakia

WebSupport, headquartered in Bratislava, is a major Central European provider of web hosting and web services to over 100,000 customers in Slovakia and Hungary. Part of the growing local tech community, WebSupport has an impressive history of high customer satisfaction and double-digit growth. Besides hosting, it offers domain registration and cloud infrastructure-services to consumers and small & medium sized companies.

– We are excited to welcome the WebSupport team into the Loopia Group as we continue our growth journey. Over the past three years the team has shown how extraordinary focus on making customers happy and building a great entrepreneurial culture can result in high growth and solid financial results, says Sara Laurell, CEO of Loopia Group.

WebSupport and Loopia Group are a good match, sharing the ambition to deliver high-quality products, technological innovations and outstanding local customer support. In addition, the customer-base in Slovakia and Hungary complements the groups Active24 business based in Prague.

After the acquisiton, Loopia Group has a solid platform for future growth, organically and through further acquisitions, across Central Europe.

– For WebSupport, this is an acceleration of our ambition to reach more customers with our quality products and outstanding support, says Jan Cifra, CEO of WebSupport.

About Loopia Group
Loopia Group is an innovative European web services and hosting business with operations in Sweden, through market leading Loopia, and in the Czech Republic, with Active24. Loopia Group also provides services to customers in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Norway, Serbia, Slovakia and Spain. Loopia also recently acquired SE Direkt, Internetstiftelsen’s Swedish registrar-business.

Since June 2018, Loopia Group is owned by Axcel, a Nordic private equity company focusing on mid-market companies.

For more information, please contact:
Sara Laurell, CEO Loopia Group, +46 72 708 4848, www.loopiagroup.com
Jan Cifra, CEO WebSupport, +421 903 184 310, www.websupport.sk