agater s r l

Name

agater s r l

Legal name

Agater SRL

Website

https://agater.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Grassobbio

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Third-party processing services (lavorazioni conto terzi): Agater earns revenue by charging clients for outsourced manufacturing support services — quality control, assembly, packaging, returns refurbishment, and warehousing/logistics. Clients pay for the services rendered, typically based on the volume or complexity of work and space/duration used in storage. This is a job-work/outwork model where clients bear variable costs rather than fixed overhead.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Agater SRL provides outsourced third-party processing (lavorazioni conto terzi) services for B2B manufacturers and brands, covering quality control inspection, assembly and packaging, returns refurbishment, and warehousing and shipping. Clients outsource non-core production support tasks to Agater's trained, long-tenured in-house workforce at its Grassobbio facility, eliminating the need to maintain fixed internal staff, equipment, and storage space. Services are performed either at Agater's facility or on-site at client premises, and are sold as bundled or stand-alone outsourced processing engagements.

Product overview

Agater is a third-party processing (outsourcing) company offering a unified suite of contract manufacturing services since 1989. The portfolio consists of four integrated core services: Quality Control (Controllo qualità), Assembly and Packaging (Assemblaggio e confezionamento), Returns Refurbishment (Ricondizionamento resi), and Warehousing and Shipping (Stoccaggio e spedizioni). These services are designed to complement each other—quality-inspected goods can flow directly into assembly and packaging, completed orders can be stored in their warehouse, and refurbished returns can be reintegrated into the supply chain—providing clients with a single partner for end-to-end post-production operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Controllo qualità (Quality Control) Third-party quality control service for B2B manufacturers and brands: visual inspection, testing, and measurement to identify products with anomalies or defects. Available as both statistical sampling and unit-by-unit inspection, serving diverse merchandise sectors including textiles, leather goods, cosmetics, and hardware.
• Assemblaggio e confezionamento (Assembly and Packaging) Component assembly and product packaging service for B2B manufacturers and brands: montage of finished products, gift wrapping, labeling, and repackaging, including padding and void-fill operations for bags and cases, with quality inspection embedded during packaging.
• Ricondizionamento resi (Returns Refurbishment) Refurbishment service for returned or unsold merchandise from retail outlets: restores items to new condition through ironing, folding, minor repairs, relabeling, and repackaging so they can be resold as new. Operates across textile and non-textile sectors.
• Stoccaggio e spedizioni (Warehousing and Shipping) Third-party warehouse management and logistics service: goods reception, container unloading, storage, inventory management, sorting, labeling, packaging, and shipment organization, with delivery via company vehicle or courier. Storage is priced based on space needed and duration of use.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• DHL Supply Chain: DHL Supply Chain provides contract logistics, value-added warehousing services including packaging, assembly, and returns management, and serves multinational manufacturers and retailers. It competes for the same outsourced production-support budgets but with global scale and integrated transport.
• Geodis: Geodis is a global logistics provider with contract logistics and value-added services covering warehousing, packaging, kitting, and reverse logistics. It serves many of the same B2B manufacturing and retail customers Agater targets but as part of a much broader end-to-end supply-chain portfolio.
• XPO Logistics: XPO Logistics provides contract logistics, warehousing, packaging, and reverse logistics services to manufacturers and retailers across Europe. Its value-added and returns-management offerings overlap with Agater's service portfolio, though XPO operates at significantly larger scale and geographic breadth.
• CEVA Logistics: CEVA Logistics offers contract logistics solutions including warehousing, packaging, light assembly, and reverse logistics to manufacturers and retailers. It overlaps in functional capability and target customers but operates across far broader geographies and verticals than Agater.
• GXO Logistics: GXO Logistics is a pure-play contract logistics provider offering warehousing, packaging, value-added services, and reverse logistics for major B2B and retail customers. It targets similar outsourced production-support work as Agater, especially around returns and packaging, but at enterprise scale.

Direct peers

• Arvato: Arvato (Bertelsmann subsidiary) provides contract logistics, fulfillment, quality control, and value-added services such as assembly, packaging, and returns management for B2B clients across multiple sectors. It is the closest large-scale functional analogue to Agater's bundled outsourced production support offering, though at much larger scale and broader geographic reach.
• Logwin: Logwin offers contract logistics solutions including warehousing, value-added services like packaging and assembly, and transportation management for industrial and consumer-goods clients. Its bundled service model and customer base overlap meaningfully with Agater's outsourced production-support positioning.
• Fiege: Fiege is a European contract logistics and value-added services provider offering assembly, packaging, quality control, warehousing, and returns handling. Like Agater, it serves diverse B2B manufacturers needing outsourced production support, though across many European countries rather than a single region.

Others

• Bureau Veritas: Bureau Veritas is a global testing, inspection, and certification company providing third-party quality control services to manufacturers. Its quality-inspection work overlaps directly with Agater's Controllo qualità service, even though it operates at much larger scale and with formal certifications.
• SGS: SGS is a global inspection, verification, testing, and certification company providing third-party quality control and product inspection services to manufacturers. It directly competes for outsourced QC budgets in similar product categories such as textiles, leather goods, and consumer goods.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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