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Rainer Gläß and Stephan Kronmüller founded G&K Datensysteme GmbH in Schöneck/Vogtland in 1990. After successful growth, the company was converted into a stock corporation in 2001, and in 2008 went public in the Prime Standard of Deutsche Börse.
Solquest Gmbh was acquired by GK in 2009. That same year, SAP initially took over the distribution of two products. This has now extended to five products, whose distribution is aimed globally since 2013.
In 2010, CEO Rainer Gläß was awarded the Ernst & Young business award as entrepreneur of the year. The Munich Strategy Group awarded GK Software a third place rank on the list of the most successful German mid-size enterprises in 2013.
In 2012, the acquisition of the AWEK Group considerably reinforced the services business segment of the company.
In 2015, GK Software acquired the retail segment of DBS Data Business Systems Inc, a US-based Point of Sale software specialist. In the fall of 2017, GK Software announced that it would acquire a majority stake in AG's prudsys. The company with Chemnitz and Berlin locations is specialized in creating real-time personalization products in retail software. Artificial intelligence is used for this purpose.
Deutsche Fiskal is a wholly owned subsidiary of GK Software and was founded in 2019 to develop and operate an open cloud solution to implement legal requirements within the framework of German fiscalization. Since April 1, 2025, Deutsche Fiskal GmbH has no longer been part of the GK Group; the Austrian company fiskaly GmbH acquired the company
2020 saw the founding of retail7 GmbH, which develops and sells a cloud POS system optimized for small and medium-sized companies. In addition to the Schöneck headquarters, there are additional locations in Berlin, Jena, Pilsen, and Johannesburg.
In January 2020, GK Software announced a technology partnership with Kronos Incorporated to embed Workforce Dimensions suite into the OmniPOS platform.
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Since September 2022, prudsys AG has been trading as GK Artificial Intelligence for Retail AG within the GK Group.
On January 10, 2025, GK Software acquired the deep tech and computer vision company Nomitri GmbH. As a wholly owned subsidiary of GK, the company develops visual AI solutions for self-checkout.
In 2023, Fujitsu ND Solutions AG became the new strategic investor and majority owner of GK Software SE.
Michael Scheibner was appointed by the supervisory board of GK Software as the new CEO and chairman of the executive board, effective June 1, 2023.
In 2023, after fifteen years on the capital market, the shares of GK Software SE were delisted from Deutsche Börse Frankfurt Stock Exchange and other German stock exchanges at the end of August 1, 2023.
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