• recruitment and new premises for its headquarters in Lomme (59)
• Renewal of governance in France
• Development of new branches throughout France
• Roll-out of new offerings for IT resellers
• Target: sales of €82m by 2030 in France (up 42% in 5 years)

Three years after its acquisition by Kappa Data, Exer, a value-added distributor of IT Security & Networks solutions since 1986, will now operate under the name Kappa Data France. This rebranding underlines the continued integration of Exer within the Kappa Data group, and will be accompanied by a number of new features designed to reinforce Kappa Data’s added value in France.

‘2025 promises to be an exciting year for Kappa Data France. The recruitments and developments currently underway should enable us to consolidate our added value on the French market, with the aim of increasing our turnover in France from €48 million in 2024 to €82 million by 2030. These objectives are in line with those of the Kappa Data Group, which aims to double its sales in Europe over the next five years to €250 million.

Patrick Casteels, CEO of the Kappa Data Group

The company is also confirming its roots in the Lille area, with the ongoing recruitment of new talent in the pre-sales  functions, to bring the Kappa Data France team up to around forty people by the summer. At the same time, the company is looking for new premises close to its current headquarters (Lomme), in order to move its teams into larger buildings and anticipate future needs linked to its growth.

Kappa Data France is also announcing that its new Managing Director, Erwan Le Guen, will take up his post on 4 February 2025. An expert in the BtoB IT world, Erwan Le Guen founded Be IP in 2005, a company specialising in voice-over-IP solutions, which he sold in 2017 to Also, one of the leading technology providers in the IT and telecoms sector in Europe, whose French subsidiary he has headed since then. Michel Grunspan, who had headed Exer in France since 2007, is leaving the company, although he will remain a shareholder in the Kappa Data group.

In terms of development, and in order to extend its offer to the whole of France, Kappa Data France plans to open several branches in France over the next five years, in addition to its current branches in Toulouse and Lyon. Depending on opportunities, the target areas will be the Nantes region, the Nancy – Strasbourg area in eastern France, and the Côte d’Azur.

Finally, Kappa Data France will offer its reseller customers new solutions already marketed by the Group elsewhere in Europe, such as RunZero, an asset management solution that enables SMEs and enterprises to easily identify and inventory their IT, IoT and OT devices. Other brands will be introduced throughout 2025, following on from Barracuda (a network and application security solution), Solarwinds (centralised management solutions for networks, systems and IT infrastructure) and OneSpan (multifactor authentication solutions), which were introduced to the French market in 2024 and are continuing to develop. Not to mention other brands already well established on the French market, such as Stormshield (IT security solutions), Extreme Networks (network equipment solutions), WithSecure (anti-malware and MDR solutions) and Ucopia/Weblib (high-density WiFi solutions). To market all these solutions, Kappa Data’s reseller customers can take advantage of the French-language training programmes available at its Training Academy (https://academy.kappadata.eu).