Carlsberg has entered into negotiations with the IBM Group regarding a possible outsourcing of Carlsberg's IT services in Europe. The final contract signing is ex-pected to take place in summer 2005.
IBM has been chosen after a period of thorough analysis, where both internal and external sourcing options have been evaluated. This analysis led to the conclu-sion that external sourcing offers the best combination of technical performance, adaptability to growth and cost efficiency.
The proposed agreement will cover most of Carlsberg's wholly owned subsidiar-ies in Europe, i.e. Carlsberg in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the UK, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey and Bulgaria. Finland, Italy and Croatia are not in scope until SAP has been implemented at a later stage.
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