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Forwarding companies in Europe wanted

Company to buy

• Sales: > 50m Euro (no upper limit)
• EBITDA: Preferably positive margins and positive EBITDA.
• Location: Europe (countries of high interest are Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Turkey)
• Reason for acquisition: The company plans to grow an European wide covered network of road forwarding services

Overview

A global forwarding company with a focus on road forwarding is looking for large sized acquisitions in Europe. The buyer has a clear focus on asset light targets although a smaller % of owned trucks could be acceptable. Cash poor companies can be suited, less interest exists in turnaround situations.

Profile (strategy)

The company is active in air, sea and road forwarding with a focus on road forwarding. However, the strategy of the company is to concentrate on road forwarding. It has plans to expand in road forwarding with activities in areas such as bulk, liquid tanks, retail. Groupage and inter module is of high interest. The company wants to add a technology platform to the business to increase the productivity.

Activities and or products

The company is active in global forwarding and warehousing planning to grow the business in Europe significantly.

Highlights

The company has high ethics and standards and is voted as best company to work for various time in some of its home markets. The company has good M&A integration capabilities and experience with large global acquisitions.

Information

Please do get in touch if you are interested in learning more about this forwarding buyer that is open to acquire forwarding companies in Western Europe and other parts of Europe. Fill out contact form (get in touch).

Note: CFIE only works with formal companies. We do get a lot of requests and it is difficult to follow up on all inquiries from visitors to our website. For each company, we assess the likelihood of a future transaction. We only get back to you if we see a realistic opportunity to do a future acquisition or business sale. In order to increase your chances of receiving a reply as an individual, please explain as much as possible about your personal background, strategy and fit with the target. There is also a possibility that your details will be kept on file and we will get back to you once there is an opportunity to do a transaction. CFIE can’t guarantee you will receive an answer to your request.

Note: CFIE only works with formal companies. We do get a lot of requests and it is difficult to follow up on all inquiries from visitors to our website. For each company, we assess the likelihood of a future transaction. We only get back to you if we see a realistic opportunity to do a future acquisition or business sale. In order to increase your chances of receiving a reply as an individual, please explain as much as possible about your personal background, strategy and fit with the target. There is also a possibility that your details will be kept on file and we will get back to you once there is an opportunity to do a transaction. CFIE can’t guarantee you will receive an answer to your request.