Buyer for cloud hosting companies in Western Europe

• Revenue: 1-30M EUR
• Employees: not decisive
• Location of the target: Western Europe (Germany preferred)
• Reason for acquisition: The company is an international hosting group. It has a strategy for growing its operations in Western Europe via acquisitions, therefore the management is open to speaking to interested sellers
• #CFIE ITB120

The buyer company is an international group that is active in providing hosting solutions such as web hosting, domain & email, server products and other IT solutions. Its products and services delivered are in line with the group’s focus towards innovation, quality and performance. The portfolio of clients is continuously enlarging, customers from worldwide have found the hosting solutions provided to be the right choice and this proves why the company has been present for so many years on the market. The group has a solid strategy of development, it has a tradition of acquiring similar companies in order to reach new markets and new levels of business expansion. The group’s management has decided to acquire another company and would be interested to discuss with a datacentre company or with a company active in cloud hosting that can expand further in Europe.

The buyer company is an international group that provides cloud hosting to small and medium sized organizations. It is present on the market for more than 15 years and employs more than 1500 people that are specialized in IT and in delivering very diverse hosting solutions. The group has a rapid rhythm of growing, it became such a large organization because it is backed by very strong financial partners and has a clear strategy of growing based on acquisitions, consolidation and diversity of products. It developed its activities from providing basic hosting products such as web hosting and virtual servers and came to deliver innovative solutions such as to cloud-based services and products. The group has acquired many companies and the products portfolio consists in solutions and products such as cloud computing, managed hosting, CDN, Microsoft Exchange & Sharepoint, dedicated servers, online back-up, virtualization, reseller solutions, colocation, domains and email. The team has specific KYC procedures and creates customized solutions based on the customers’ requirements and needs.

The company is a specialized managed cloud hosting provider and its hosting solutions are modern and innovative. For example, it enables Java running, PHP applications and virtual servers to be available in the cloud in a very particular way. The team manages the client’s cloud service, establishes a very secure online backup and arranges the hosted exchange e-mail services. To be sure it serves well its customers, the company relies on industry leading technological partners such as Dell, Microsoft, Denic, Cisco, Parallels, etc. The data centers hardware is ensured by Dell and Cisco. The tools provided are very simple and efficient, the infrastructure solutions such as Cloud Server and Jelastic are very flexible and easy to run. The managed hosting solutions are tailored to meet the online applications requirements. Digital work tools such as Online Backup, Office365 or Reisswolf’s Online Document Management enable companies work environment to become more digitalized.

The buyer is looking to acquire a company that has similar services and solutions such as:

• Webhosting
• Domains & E-Mails
• Online Shopps
• Digital Office
• Cloud Computing
• Managed Hosting
• Dedicated & Cloud Servers
• Back-up
• Virtualization
• Colocation
• Technical Support

• The buyer is an international group that provides cloud hosting services and solutions
• The buyer has a rapid rhythm of growth
• The group has a clear strategy for development based on acquisitions
• The management is looking to discuss with interested sellers activating in cloud hosting