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Warehousing company for machinery wanted

Company to buy

• Sales: 5m to 100m Euro
• Location: Europe (preferably Northern, Central or Western Europe)
• Employees: 20 to 500
• EBITDA : € 0,5 m - € 10 m
• Preferably active in warehousing and distribution of  commercial goods like machinery, spare parts, trucks or automotive products
• Reason for acquisition: The buyer is very focused on warehousing in the machinery industry with additional services and wants to provide machinery warehousing services across Europe to its customers
• #CFIE TRB132

Overview warehousing company

An European logistics and warehousing company with a focus on the machinery industry wants to expand out of its core countries and build up a similar position across Europe. The company is a logistic partner with a global reach. The company operates a supply network for its clients. The organization specializes in offering complete supply chain management solutions. The core business is warehousing and distribution and International Freight Forwarding. The logistic services are focussed on air and sea freight. The company wants to grow in handling and storing of machinery related products with a warehouse capacity. The warehousing and distribution should be related to commercial goods like machinery, spare parts or truckmotive.

Strategy of machinery warehousing buyer

The company is active in logistics and warehousing for the machinery industry. The company has a large warehousing network for machinery, spare parts, trucks or cars. The buyer provides value-added logistics and value-added services including assembly, repackaging, labelling, checks & repair, (customs) clearance, import duties, fiscal representation, etc. The strategy is to optimally serve its international customers via an acquisition of companies that operate specialized warehouses and storage facilities and/or have established freight forwarding branches. Complex logistic problems are seen as an opportunity to add value to the supply network.

The company is interested in buying a logistics company in Europe that has strong warehousing capabilities and a focus on the machinery industry. Transport assets like trucks and ships are not seen as the core business and are not interest. If candidates have combined logistic and transport assets, then carve-out or split up possibilities is the preference.

Ideal profile of warehousing company to be acquired

The focus should be on warehousing and logistics in the machinery industry. The company to buy should be active in warehousing and distribution of machinery related items like cars, trucks, spare parts or other commercial goods. It is ideal of targets provide value-added logistics and value-added services like assembly, repackaging, labelling, checks & repair, (customs) clearance, import duties, fiscal representation, etc.

Highlights

The company has a lot of experience in the machinery industry and serves many customers across Europe. It wants to extend this business model to further new locations in Europe.

Information

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