by Mark Haranas via CRN
Oftentimes, the hardest part of an acquisition is selecting the right target in the first place.
Jim Kavanaugh, co-founder and CEO of World Wide Technology, believes the solution provider found just such a target in Toronto-based Softchoice, the approximately $770 million solution provider it acquired for $1.3 billion in March 2025 that is now the engine behind its unprecedented charge into SMB and midmarket accounts.
WWT was already a formidable enterprise- and government-focused outfit with $20 billion in revenue, a strong focus on AI and a slew of vendor awards perennially filling its trophy case. Softchoice, for its part, was a 35-year-old publicly traded solution provider renowned for its software, cloud, cybersecurity and AI capabilities, serving over 5,000 clients.
Now, 15 months after the close of the acquisition—as both companies are running full bore to leverage the skill sets and portfolios that the other brought to the table—the results have surpassed WWT's hopes, with plenty of room to grow, Kavanaugh said.