Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou's easyGroup has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Greek technology company DOTSOFT SA to develop digital parking and municipal waste management platforms.
Under the 30-year licensing agreement, easyGroup will grant DOTSOFT exclusive rights to operate the easyParking and easyBin platforms across Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, and Romania.
The agreement brings both digital platforms into the easy family of brands, allowing them to expand across southeastern Europe under the group's distinctive visual identity. DOTSOFT retains full ownership of the software, underlying technology, and technical expertise, and will keep its existing public contracts and customer portfolio intact.
Municipal parking and waste platforms
The easyParking platform provides a digital management system for municipal councils, broader public sector authorities, and private concessionaires operating vehicle parking. Delivered as cloud-based Software as a Service, the platform connects physical hardware including road sensors, cameras, electronic information boards, and payment terminals to centralised management software.
The software allows administrators to oversee on-street parking networks along roads as well as off-street parking facilities, managing parking spaces, vehicle flow, and automated payments in real time.
The easyBin platform applies the identical digital model to municipal rubbish and recycling management. The cloud software brings together the tracking of municipal collection vehicles, smart waste bins, collection work crews, and billing into a unified control system. Both easyParking and easyBin are available to municipal bodies and private commercial clients.
Brand expansion across southeastern Europe
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the creator and owner of the easy family of brands, said he was delighted to welcome DOTSOFT and its chief executive Anastasios Manos into the easy brand portfolio. He said the partnership gives an ambitious Greek technology business the opportunity to scale up by using the widely recognised easy name.
Haji-Ioannou added that simpler and more economical technological solutions for parking and waste management align directly with his business philosophy of delivering real value to the many rather than the few.
DOTSOFT chairman and chief executive Anastasios Manos said the company was proud to see easyParking and easyBin join one of Europe's most recognisable brand portfolios. He said the agreement provides their platforms with a powerful brand identity across four markets while ensuring all technology, software, and know-how remain entirely with DOTSOFT.
Manos added that DOTSOFT looks forward to developing its partnership with easyGroup and exploring new commercial opportunities in additional international markets.
Joint venture in smart city technology
The strategic partnership also creates opportunities for developing new applications in the municipal technology sector, with both companies planning to explore a joint venture named easyCity.ai to build artificial intelligence tools for smart cities.
Municipalities across Europe have increasingly turned to smart city technology and automated systems to tackle urban congestion, lower carbon emissions, and modernise public utilities. Cloud-based platforms, digital sensors, and automated data collection allow local authorities to streamline public services, reduce administrative costs, and improve urban cleanliness.
Background on easyGroup and DOTSOFT
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou established easyGroup as his private investment vehicle to manage the easy brand family, following his launch of the budget airline easyJet in 1995. Headquartered in London and Monaco, easyGroup licences the easy brand name to businesses in sectors ranging from aviation and hospitality to storage and consumer finance, detailing its corporate history at easy.com and easyhistory.info.
DOTSOFT SA is a Greek information technology and communications company headquartered in Thessaloniki, with operations in Athens. The firm specialises in software development, cloud infrastructure, and digital transformation projects for public sector organisations. Its new licensing agreement focuses on Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, and Romania, four neighbouring southeastern European markets where municipal authorities are upgrading digital infrastructure.
