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Maandag® Holding strengthens IT position through acquisition of WIBA IT.

Maandag® Holding sets its sights on further market expansion.

Today, Maandag® Holding announced the acquisition of WIBA IT. With this, Maandag® Holding strengthens its position as market leader and meets the rapidly growing demand for high-end IT profiles, such as analysts, software developers, cloud engineers and data specialists. Furthermore, with the takeover, Maandag® Holding aims to broaden its services by also better serving the commercial sector in the Netherlands.

Maandag® sees a strongly increasing need for higher-end IT and data profiles in both the public and commercial sectors. Organisations are running into digitalisation issues more often; the amount of data is growing, and people need to move faster and on a project basis. With the acquisition of WIBA IT, Maandag® is able to solve these increasingly complex IT issues and steer processes in the right direction by deploying high-end IT profiles.

‘Maandag® wants to better serve the public sector with a wider range of IT profiles such as developers and data specialists. This is what WIBA IT has been doing for years. Moreover, WIBA IT also serves the commercial market, which offers Maandag® Netherlands a great opportunity to expand,’ according to Freddy Verweij, CEO of Maandag® Holding.

WIBA IT will be fully integrated into the Maandag® organisation. With the acquisition, WIBA IT can now also use its knowledge for clients of Maandag®.

sees where our strength lies: coupling speed with quality. The two are difficult to combine, so it is important to maintain focus. We focus on serving A-brands, with high-end IT profiles.’ said Anne Willeboordse, CEO of WIBA IT.

With the acquisition, Maandag® is also targeting further growth within the commercial sector. In Belgium, Maandag® is already active in engineering and life science markets. In Poland, the company meets the high demand for IT profiles for both the public and commercial sectors.

About Maandag® Holding

With 46 branches in 15 cities, Maandag® has been a leading secondment provider in the public sector in the Netherlands for more than 30 years. We do this with more than 4,000 professionals who work in healthcare, education and government on a daily basis. In addition, Maandag® operates under the Whoohoo brand in life science and engineering markets in Belgium and in IT in Poland.

About WIBA IT

Founded in 2007, WIBA IT is a nationwide IT intermediary of universities of applied sciences and research university IT specialists within the Software Development Life Cycle and focuses on A-brands in various sectors (energy, financial, insurance, logistics, healthcare and the industrial sector). With a network of more than 7,000 freelancers and a large network of specialised partners, WIBA IT knows how to match the best IT professionals to the most suitable clients.

www.wiba-it.nl