Emax

What Emax does

Emax is a private Austrian firm founded in 2001, headquartered in Wienau, Austria, that offers project management, design, and build services for retail and interior projects across Europe. The company operates at a small scale, with 11-50 employees, and is positioned within the European retail and commercial/residential interior fit-out services market. Its stated service offering spans the full project lifecycle for retail and interior engagements.

The firm's business model is project-based services delivery — engaging clients on retail and interior construction, fit-out, or refurbishment assignments rather than selling a discrete product. Geographic scope per the firmographic profile is European, although only one Austrian location (Wienau) is disclosed. Pricing mechanics, contract structures, customer segments, and customer logos are not detailed in the source material, leaving the commercial architecture largely unverified.

The available source data for Emax is thin: no revenue figures, named customers, leadership team, funding history, certifications, or technology stack are disclosed. Broader aggregated content in the source pertains to umdasch The Store Makers, the general contracting division of Umdasch Group, which operates a substantially larger interior construction platform across Office, Retail, Hospitality, and Living verticals in German-speaking markets — but the relationship between Emax and umdasch/Umdasch Group is not established in the source material and cannot be inferred.

Name

Emax

Website

https://emax.at

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Emax is a private Austrian firm founded in 2001, offering project management, design, and build services for retail and interior projects across Europe, with 11-50 employees based in Wienau.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Interior Construction Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413)

SIC

General Bldg Contractors - Residential Bldgs (1520)

akta.pro primary industry

Renovation, Remodeling & Tenant Improvements (General Contracting) (IMAFAAAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Design-Build / EPC General Contracting (IMAFAAAD), Exhibition, Retail & Experiential Design (BPAHAKAL)

Keywords

• Interior construction services
• Retail fit-out projects
• Project management services
• Commercial interior design
• Building refurbishment services

Headquarters

HQ city

Wienau

HQ country

Austria

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. General Contracting Services: Project-based revenue from providing comprehensive interior construction, refurbishment, revitalization, energy-efficient renovation, conversion, and expansion/rollout services for commercial and residential properties. Revenue is generated through full-project contracts covering multiple phases from initial assessment through execution and service.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Emax offers project management, design, and build services for retail and interior projects in Europe. The offering spans general contracting and interior construction, covering new builds and existing properties, with supporting service modules for refurbishment, revitalization, energy-efficient renovation, conversion/repurposing, and expansion/rollout across Office, Retail, Hospitality, and Living sectors.

Product overview

umdasch is a general contracting company offering a unified suite of interior construction and building revitalization services. The core Generalunternehmer (General Contracting) service provides end-to-end project management, supported by modular service offerings including Innenausbau (interior construction), Refurbishment, Revitalisierung (revitalization), Energetische Sanierung (energy renovation), Conversion/Umnutzung (conversion/repurposing), and Expansion/Rollout services. The company serves four industry sectors: Office, Retail, Hospitality, and Living.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Project Management, Design and Build Services for Retail and Interior Projects

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Umdasch GroupcoreOthersumdasch General Contracting operates as a company under Umdasch Group, leveraging the parent company's resources, expertise, and brand identity as 'The Store Makers'. The relationship provides strategic backing and group-level capabilities.

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• Swietelsky: Major Austrian-headquartered full-service construction company with broad capabilities across building construction, civil engineering, and interior fitout. Comparable as a regional incumbent able to bid on commercial interior projects, though at much larger scale and broader scope than Emax.
• PORR: Austrian full-service construction group active across building, civil, and infrastructure projects in DACH and CEE, including commercial interior fitout. Comparable as a regional incumbent operating in the same Austrian/European commercial construction space, though at considerably larger scale.
• Strabag: One of Europe's largest construction groups, headquartered in Austria, with significant building construction and interior fitout operations. Comparable as a large-scale general contractor active in the same DACH commercial and retail interior markets, though spanning a far wider service portfolio.

Emerging players

• Vitra: Swiss design company with deep involvement in office, retail, and residential interior solutions, including furniture systems and spatial concepts. Comparable on the design-led interior space focus serving retail and office end markets in Europe, though product-led rather than construction-led.

Direct peers

• Lindner Group: German family-owned interior fitout and building services specialist covering floors, walls, ceilings, doors, and full interior construction for commercial, retail, healthcare, and public-sector clients. Comparable as a multi-vertical European interior general contractor with similar one-source responsibility positioning.
• Drees & Sommer: European construction and real estate consulting firm providing project management, design, and engineering oversight for interior and building construction projects. Comparable on the integrated design-build-project-management value proposition targeting demanding enterprise clients.
• Kinzo: Berlin-based interior architecture and design studio specializing in workplace, retail, hospitality, and brand-space environments with integrated concept-to-execution capabilities. Comparable on the design-build integrated model targeting premium retail and office interiors in Europe.
• umdasch The Store Makers: General Contracting division of Umdasch Group offering end-to-end interior construction, refurbishment, revitalization, energy renovation, conversion, and expansion/rollout services across Office, Retail, Hospitality, and Living sectors. Closest functional match in the DACH region for retail and interior fitout general contracting.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCRbHCncnRSHADK5akYMMdiQ
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/emaxgmbh
• Instagraminstagram.com/umdasch_thestoremakers
• Facebookfacebook.com/EMAX-GmbH-100071090299559

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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