Comtrade Group
Native name
Комтрејд Група
Company typePrivate
IndustryIT
Founded1996; 28 years ago (1996)
FounderVeselin Jevrosimović
Headquarters
Belgrade
,
Serbia
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Veselin Jevrosimović (chairman and owner)
Alexis Lope-Bello (CEO)
Terry T. Curtis (CFO)
ServicesIT solutions, system integration, software engineering, IT distribution
RevenueIncrease US$500 million (2022)[1]
Number of employees
3,000
Websitecomtrade.com

Comtrade Group is a software & IT hardware company based in Belgrade, Serbia with divisional head offices in Boston, Dublin, Amsterdam and Ljubljana.[2] Founded in 1991, its business focuses to developing hardware and large software storage systems for institutions and corporations, as well as core software for online & land-based casinos.[3]

History

Comtrade Group was founded in 1991 by Serbian businessman Veselin Jevrosimović. It designed the first Serbian desktop and notebook in 2006.[4]

In 2015, the company joined CERN openlab as an associate member.[5][6] In 2016, the firm partnered with Citrix to develop management packs for their platforms. Additionally, ComTrade has the largest artificial intelligence division in South Eastern Europe for now.[7]

Comtrade wrote the code for the warehouse robots used at Amazon.com. It also developed the software infrastructure at Ryanair and various luggage transport systems.[8][7]

The company has offices in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Sunnyvale, Boston, Dublin, Budapest, Ireland and the Philippines.[7] In 2008, it acquired the Slovenian software firm Hermes Softlab. In 2014, ComTrade Group launched the Tesla brand of tablets, smartphones, monitors and TVs. In 2016, ComTrade Software, a subsidiary of ComTrade Group, launched its US headquarters in Boston.[9] In 2017, Jevrosimović opened the parent company's 18th office in the city of Dubai, as well as a technology center in Čačak.[10] Comtrade employs 1,200 software engineers and has been a member of the World Economic Forum since 2009.[3]

References

  1. ^ Company Profile dnb.com
  2. ^ "LinkedIn Profile". LinkedIn. Retrieved 29 November 2023.[user-generated source]
  3. ^ a b "Kapital ne dolazi preko noći". 29 February 2012.
  4. ^ "Najbolji investitor u Evropi". 5 July 2006.
  5. ^ "Researchers worldwide access CERN data via our data sharing system - Comtrade". Comtrade. Retrieved 2018-05-27.
  6. ^ "Comtrade Facilitates Global Access to CERN Research - CERN openlab". openlab-archive-phases-iv-v.web.cern.ch. Archived from the original on 2018-05-28. Retrieved 2018-05-29.
  7. ^ a b c "Veselin Jevrosimović o tome kako je Comtrade preživeo svetsku ekonomsku krizu: Zabranio sam otpuštanje, ako brod tone, svi ćemo potonuti zajedno (FOTO)". www.telegraf.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 2018-05-27.
  8. ^ "Iz krize smo se izkopali s prijemi iz časopisov". svetkapitala.delo.si (in Slovenian). Archived from the original on 2018-07-17.
  9. ^ "Comtrade Software opens first US office in Boston - The Boston Globe". The Boston Globe.
  10. ^ "Veselin Jevrosimović – Informatički opismenjena deca su naša budućnost". PC Press. 2018-01-15. Retrieved 2018-05-27.
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