Columbus earns Akeneo Growth Award

Columbus, a global digital transformation consultancy and long-standing partner of Akeneo, has been recognised with the Growth Award 2026 at Akeneo’s Unlock event in Chicago. The award highlights Columbus’ strong growth, customer impact, and continued investment in the Akeneo partnership across the regions. 

The recognition builds on Columbus’ strategic collaboration with Akeneo, including its recent achievement as one of only two global partners to reach Akeneo’s highest partner tier, underscoring a shared commitment to delivering best-in-class product experience management (PXM) solutions. 

The Growth Award recognises partners who have demonstrated outstanding expansion, innovation, and customer success over the past year.  

“Columbus continues to demonstrate exceptional commitment to helping customers succeed with product experience management,” says Mark Bakker, Global Partnerships Director at Akeneo. “Their ability to connect strategy with execution makes them a valuable partner for organizations looking to scale and innovate.” 

Akeneo enables organisations to centralise, enrich, and distribute product information at scale, empowering consistent, compelling product experiences across all channels. Columbus complements this with deep expertise in system integration, modern architecture, and end-to-end digital transformation. 

“This award reflects the strength of our partnership with Akeneo and the tangible business value we’re delivering together,” says James Moses, VP Digital Commerce UK & US at Columbus. “We’re seeing growing demand from companies that want to turn product data into a strategic asset, and with Akeneo, we’re helping them do exactly that.” 

Together, Columbus and Akeneo help manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and brands transform how they manage and deliver product information. By combining Akeneo’s Product Cloud with Columbus’ expertise in digital commerce, integration, and data strategy, customers realise measurable business value within the first year. 

“Our partnership with Akeneo has been a joy from day one, and I am very excited to be recognised for the tremendous success we have with Akeneo in the market. AI is a big driver for PIM now, and it is currently a huge demand-pull from customers who want to automate internal processes, simplify supplier onboarding and improve their product visibility and user/agent experience in all sales channels,” says Erling Schjetne, SVP & Global Business Line Executive Digital Commerce at Columbus. 

 
About Akeneo 

Akeneo is the product experience (PX) company and global leader in Product Information Management (PIM); creating a world where every product interaction is an experience that guides consumers and professionals to the best purchase, anytime, anywhere. Akeneo empowers business leaders with software, education, and an engaged community all focused on the practice of product experience management. 
 
Leading global brands, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, including Chico's, TaylorMade Golf, Rail Europe, Kering, and more, trust Akeneo to scale and customize their omnichannel commerce initiatives. Using Akeneo's intelligent Product Cloud, companies can create elevated product experiences with user-friendly and AI-powered product data enrichment, management, syndication, and supplier data onboarding; as well as a comprehensive app marketplace and partner network to meet business and buyer needs.  
 
For more information: www.akeneo.com  

About Columbus 

Columbus is a consultancy that brings business and tech together, delivering digital value through human intelligence to enable customers to innovate and grow. With more than 1,500 employees, we guide our customers through their digital transformation and deliver lasting value within the food and beverage, manufacturing, retail, distribution, and life sciences industries.  
 
We advise, implement, and manage business-critical solutions within Cloud Services, ERP, Data & AI, Digital Commerce, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Information Management, Cybersecurity and more. With headquarters in Denmark and a global presence, we ensure local delivery of our services on a global scale. 
 
For more information: www.columbusglobal.com