The word is out! Bagaar is joining forces with Verhaert Innovation.

Verhaert Masters In Innovation, a fast-growing innovation service provider, and the AXE group, (Ahlers - Xylos - AXE Investments) - Access to Xcellent Expertise, are pleased to announce that the digital product agency Bagaar is joining Verhaert’s new umbrella brand Verhaert Digital. This extends the capabilities of Verhaert Digital and Bagaar for digital end-to-end solutions further, making it a leading B2B digital product development company. This brand will give customers access to an even more complete set of services, focusing on user-centered, business-driven, technology-enabled solutions, to boost their capacity to innovate.?

Growth strategy for digital end-to-end solutions?

Both Bagaar and Verhaert have a similar DNA, combining user-centricity with a strategic business focus and strong technological expertise. This ensures easy integration and collaboration between the teams in the future under the new umbrella brand within the group, Verhaert Digital.??

This brand will cover all digital competences from the teams of Bagaar, Verhaert Digital Innovation, Load and the former Pegus Digital, and offer an even more complete and profound set of services. The multi-disciplinary team ensures seamless execution of the ideation, validation, and implementation. With a hands-on approach, Verhaert Digital delivers high-quality digital solutions ranging from back-end, front-end and mobile, to hardware, electronics, and infrastructure.??

“With this deal, the AXE group, including Ahlers and Xylos, enter into a strategic partnership with Verhaert to cooperate on key innovation projects. Our employees and customers are excited to join Verhaert Digital, allowing us to continue innovating strategically”, says Christian Leysen, Chairman of AXE Group.?

Perfect match for extended digital product development?

Bagaar strongly believes that sustainable business revolves around people and that technology is a tool to change the way to do business. This vision, in combination with their start-up DNA, encourages and fits perfectly with Verhaert’s RICE strategy, which values open and innovative thinking, inverted learning, and a ‘can do’ fail cheap, learn fast approach.??

Located in the center of Antwerp, Bagaar’s vibrant offices will help to further attract new ambitious talent to support and extend our portfolio. The current customer portfolios of Bagaar and Verhaert are already highly complementary and cover multinationals and start-ups throughout Europe in the smart home, mobility, logistics, FMCG, health and space industry.?

"Together, we connect the digital and physical innovation world and enable our customers to optimize their processes and create new opportunities more successfully. By building end-to-end solutions and developing more successful digital products and applications, customers will boost their capacity to innovate”, continues Koen Verhaert, CEO Verhaert Masters in Innovation.

Jannes Van De Maele (Co-Founder Bagaar) on Kanaal Z

Discover some of Bagaar's customer cases

Wienerberger: We built All4Roof for Wienerberger, a leading manufacturer of building materials. It’s an intuitive platform for roofers with a project calculator, warranty portal, and quote generator.

Telraam: Making streets safer starts with objective traffic data. Discover our home traffic monitoring device for Telraam, a neat feat of citizen science.

Ahlers: We partnered with Ahlers to improve safety in logistics. Together we developed a smart logistics solution that replaces – well – Kalashnikovs.

Read more cases on www.bagaar.be