13.12.2016
AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA DE000A0JK2A8
DGAP-News: AURELIUS sells brightONE's consulting business in the Netherlands to a strategic partner
DGAP-News: AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA / Key word(s):
Disposal
AURELIUS sells brightONE's consulting business in the Netherlands to a
strategic partner
13.12.2016 / 07:30
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AURELIUS sells brightONE's consulting business in the Netherlands to a
strategic partner
- brightONE Netherlands is very well positioned following a successful
restructuring and strategic reorientation
- Sale to strategic investor CRM Partners
Munich, December 13, 2016 - brightONE Holding BV, a subsidiary of AURELIUS
Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA (ISIN: DE000A0JK2A8), is selling
brightONE IT Services BV ("brightONE Netherlands"), based in Amersfoort, to
CRM Partners Group, which is also based in the Netherlands. brightONE
Netherlands is a leading provider of IT services and consulting with 50
employees and annual revenues of around EUR 7 million. The acquisition by
CRM Partners will create one of the leading providers of CRM services and
consulting in the Netherlands and Benelux. The parties have agreed to keep
silent about the purchase price.
AURELIUS had acquired Tieto Deutschland GmbH, Eschborn, and its affiliated
operations in the Netherlands, Poland and India from the Finnish Tieto
Group on July 1, 2013, and renamed it brightONE. The company has meanwhile
been completely reorganized operationally as well as strategically. The
customer portfolio for the IT services and consulting activities in the
Netherlands was considerably expanded and important partnerships with
Microsoft and Liveperson were intensified. This is the next successful sale
of a brightONE unit after the sale of the German and Dutch healthcare
operations at the beginning of 2014, business unit brightONE Smart Products
Solutions also in 2014, and brightONE GmbH in 2016 to strategic partners.
CRM Partners has 180 employees working in the Customer Relationship
Management and Customer Engagement segments and maintains branch offices in
the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The company is Microsoft
Certified Gold, a Microsoft CRM Partner, and a member of the Microsoft
Presidents Club. Emiel Putman, founder and CEO of CRM Partners Group: "We
help our customers to become Customer Engagement companies. Customer
service and online interaction are becoming more and more important.
brightONE offers precisely this expertise. Therefore, we didn't hesitate
even for a second when the opportunity came up to bring brightONE into the
CRM Partners family. The two companies are a perfect strategic match for
each other."
ABOUT AURELIUS
AURELIUS Group is a pan-European asset manager with offices in Munich,
London, Stockholm and Madrid. Over the last ten years AURELIUS has grown
from a local turnaround investor to an international multi-asset manager
investing in a wide range of sectors and across the capital structure.
AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA (ISIN: DE000A0JK2A8, Ticker
Symbol: AR4) represents the listed entity within the AURELIUS Group that
focusses on investing in Special Situations and MidMarket transaction
opportunities. AURELIUS Equity Opportunities currently has 22 portfolio
companies located across Europe which employ around 23,000 people and
generate annual revenues of approximately EUR3.0 billion. The shares of
AURELIUS Equity Opportunities are traded on all German stock exchanges with
a market capitalisation of c. EUR1.7 billion as of December 2016.
With its group charity AURELIUS Refugee Initiative, AURELIUS provides
comprehensive support for refugees on their way towards a better life.
To find out more, visit www.aureliusinvest.com
CONTACT
AURELIUS Group
Anke Banaschewski
Investor Relations & Corporate Communications
Phone: +49 (89) 544799-0
Fax: +49 (89) 544799-55
E-Mail: [email protected]
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Language: English
Company: AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA
Ludwig-Ganghofer-Straße 6
82031 Grünwald
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)89 544 799-0
Fax: +49 (0)89 544 799-55
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.aureliusinvest.de
ISIN: DE000A0JK2A8
WKN: A0JK2A
Listed: Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart,
Tradegate Exchange; Open Market in Frankfurt
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