Bechtle, the German IT services and reselling group, has acquired Bespoke XYZ, a Manchester company that builds AI, data analytics and automation tools on Microsoft software. The deal, announced on November 5, 2026, also includes Bespoke's subsidiary Savvy IT, which provides managed IT services to schools and other education customers.
Bechtle said the purchase price and other conditions are confidential, and it did not state the size of the stake it bought. Bespoke will at first carry on as an independent company inside Bechtle UK.
Sam Bright and Jordan Brookes, who founded Bespoke and are its majority shareholders, are staying with the business. So is Chris Homer, the founder and majority shareholder of Savvy IT. Bechtle said Bespoke will form the foundation of the AI practice it set up in the UK in October.
What Bespoke does
Bespoke was founded in 2013 and is a services firm rather than a software product company. It designs and builds systems for clients using Microsoft's data and low-code tools, including Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages and Copilot Studio, and it builds custom AI agents. It describes itself as a Microsoft designation partner.
The company has 52 employees, including an offshore delivery team in the Philippines, and reported revenue of about £3.5 million (about $4.6 million) in its 2025/26 financial year. Savvy IT handles IT support, Microsoft 365 and licensing, cloud services, infrastructure and cybersecurity for its education customers. No outside funding for Bespoke has been reported.
“The acquisition of Bespoke enables us to provide a clear path to AI for customers who are often not sure where to begin on the AI journey.”
Why Bechtle is buying
Bechtle and Bespoke had worked together on customer projects for more than two years before the deal. James Napp, Bechtle's regional director for the UK and Ireland, told IT Channel Oxygen that the two had won business together and that Bechtle wanted to bring the AI skills in house after launching its AI practice.
Napp called Bespoke a capability acquisition, as opposed to a deal that mainly adds revenue and size, and said Bechtle aims to keep a balance between the two kinds. He said customers want help deciding whether they are ready for AI, how to govern it and how to keep its costs under control, and that Bechtle wants to lead those consulting-led conversations.
IT Channel Oxygen pointed to a similar move by Softcat, a UK rival, which bought the AI consultancy Oakland, a former partner, in April.
Bechtle's run of UK and Irish deals
Bespoke is Bechtle's sixth acquisition in the UK and Ireland since 2022. The group bought ACS Systems in 2022, Tangible Benefit in 2023, and Qolcom and DriveWorks in 2024. In October 2026 it entered Ireland by buying the reseller ITQuotes, which has revenue of about €30 million (about $35 million), making Bespoke its second deal in the region within two weeks, IT Channel Oxygen reported.
Bechtle has been in the UK since 1997, when it started in Chippenham, and has had an office in Manchester since 2019. It now employs 424 people at sites in London, Chippenham, Manchester, Northampton and Newbury, plus 64 product lifecycle management specialists in Thelwall, near Manchester.
The buyer
Bechtle is based in Neckarsulm and is listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange's MDAX and TecDAX indexes. It has more than 16,000 employees at 120 locations in 14 European countries and reported business volume of €8.6 billion (about $10 billion) for 2025.
The deal came as Bechtle reported stronger trading. IT Channel Oxygen said the group's revenue rose 19% from a year earlier to €2.44 billion (about $2.8 billion) in the third quarter of 2026 and that it raised its outlook for the full year.
The press release on Bespoke's website is dated October 5, 2026 in its opening line, but the page itself and the trade press coverage are dated November 5, and the release refers to Bechtle's October entry into Ireland, so the earlier date appears to be an error.
