Sopra Steria buys Egg Design: – We provide full throttle
Sopra Steria buys Eggs Design and creates one of the largest design and innovation environments in Scandinavia. In Norway, they will be the largest, he says Kjell Rusti, CEO of Sopra Steria in a press release.
– Eggs Design is a strength company that has been established as a beacon within design-driven innovation and business development. I am proud that they will soon be part of Sopra Steria, and we look forward to building a new future together. In total, we will together tell almost 300 employees in the design and innovation segment, says Rusti.
Ten year old Eggs Design made a brak debut in last year’s Agency Profile survey, which places them in second place behind Netlife Design in the design and technology category. Agency profile is a survey of the best agencies in the communications industry, and is conducted annually by Kantar and Kampanje.
Eggs Design currently has offices in Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim and Bergen in Norway, and in Copenhagen in Denmark. The agency is headed by Ulla Sommerfelt, which is also one of the original grounds and the owners. She says that they have always had ambitions for international growth and have set out to find a partner to grow with.
– We feel that we have got that in Sopra Steria. I could not imagine a better place to further develop what we think is the world’s best workplace for creative people. We share values and views on people and are both ambitious companies driven by growth and entrepreneurship, she says in the press release.
Sommerfelt will be part of Sopra Steria’s management team and continue to lead the Eggs Design business unit.
– We have long had one of the country’s largest design environments in Sopra Steria, but both we and our customers see how important design is for success with digitalisation and sustainable business transformation. This means that we want to provide full throttle within the area. With Eggs on the team, we also get a strong branded product, an incredible number of nice people and solid customer references on innovation in all sectors. We want to maintain the company as a separate business unit in Sopra Steria – but in close collaboration with our other business areas. We look at this as a partnership, says Rusti.
Sommerfelt believes the merger will strengthen the relationship with existing and future customers.
– We have already set goals for what we will achieve in the future. With this partnership in technology and design, we will stand stronger together for our customers, and to create a better society, she says.
Eggs Design had a turnover of DKK 115 million and a profit before tax of DKK 4.7 million in 2020.