Case Study: STARK Group strengthens internal controls and compliance with Impero

How the Danish hardware retailer took a proactive step to strengthen internal controls throughout the entire organization leveraged by Impero’s compliance management platform

STARK Group, a leading European distributor of heavy building materials, needed a better way to manage internal controls and risk across more than 1,100 branches in multiple countries. Its processes were still largely manual, paper-based, and fragmented across different systems, making it difficult to consolidate information, report clearly, and demonstrate auditable compliance. To modernize this, STARK Group turned to Impero’s risk and control platform.

Impero helped STARK Group centralize risk documentation, digitize internal controls, and give local entities flexibility while keeping a unified reporting structure. The rollout was smooth, with implementation completed in one day after preparatory work, and by 2025 STARK had nearly 5,000 controls scheduled in the system, a 20% increase versus the previous year. With Impero, STARK Group improved transparency, governance, efficiency, and audit readiness, while also expanding use into ESG, legal governance, and compliance.

Stark Group

Ragna Kr. Jóhannsdóttir

Group Head of Internal Controls and Enterprise Risk Management