INVICTO Holding & founders sell multiweigh to Adeleon Invest

Frank­furt / Vienna / Wetz­lar / Monheim am Rhein — multi­weigh GmbH (“multi­weigh”), a global market leader in the deve­lo­p­ment and manu­fac­ture of tech­no­lo­gi­cally advan­ced combi­na­tion scales with a focus on the food indus­try, is streng­thening the port­fo­lio of Adeleon Invest GmbH (“Adeleon”). The sellers of the 100% stake — consis­ting of the Düssel­­dorf-based invest­ment company INVICTO Holding (“INVICTO”) and the foun­der of multi­weigh Frank Schmehl — were exclu­si­vely advi­sed in the sales process by MP Corpo­rate Finance, a leading inter­na­tio­nal M&A consul­tancy specia­li­zing in the Euro­pean indus­trial sector. 

Tech­no­logy leader for precise weig­hing technology

multi­weigh GmbH, foun­ded in 2001 and based in Wetz­lar, Hesse, deve­lops and produ­ces modern combi­na­tion scales, control elec­tro­nics and soft­ware on an area of 5,000 m². The systems are used world­wide in the food indus­try, for exam­ple for salads, cheese, snacks, frozen vege­ta­bles, muesli, pet food and selec­ted non-food appli­ca­ti­ons. The products are charac­te­ri­zed by their modu­lar design, direct drive tech­no­logy, top perfor­mance in terms of hygiene and main­­ten­ance-free opera­tion, as well as precise weig­hing results. Since 2017, the food tech player with an inter­na­tio­nal track record has been part of the port­fo­lio of INVICTO Holding, an invest­ment company specia­li­zing in small-cap tran­sac­tions in Germany. With this tran­sac­tion, INVICTO — toge­ther with Frank Schmehl, the foun­der and previous share­hol­der of multi­weigh — is selling 100% of the shares to Adeleon Invest. 

Long-term growth stra­tegy with Adeleon Invest

Adeleon Invest is a family-run and long-term orien­ted invest­ment company based in Monheim am Rhein, which specia­li­zes in sustainable part­ner­ships in the DACH and Bene­lux regi­ons with a total of nine subsi­dia­ries and over 600 employees. Toge­ther with foun­der Frank Schmehl, who will conti­nue in his role as CEO as part of the tran­sac­tion, Adeleon aims to take multi­weig­h’s alre­ady strong market posi­tion as an inter­na­tio­nal tech­no­logy leader for high-quality food proces­sing machi­nes to a new level. 

MP Corpo­rate Finance further expands its sector expertise

For MP Corpo­rate Finance, the comple­ted sale marks the 63rd successfully advi­sed tran­sac­tion in the Elec­tro­nics, Tech & IoT sector. The M&A team led by Roman Göd, Foun­ding and Mana­ging Part­ner and expert for the elec­tro­nics sector at MP, once again demons­tra­tes its in-depth indus­try know­ledge and global inves­tor network in order to target suita­ble stra­te­gic and finan­cial inves­tors. Roman Göd comm­ents: “We are deligh­ted that with Adeleon Invest we have gained a long-term orien­ted part­ner who consis­t­ently supports multi­weig­h’s growth stra­tegy. The successful tran­sac­tion in this curr­ently very dyna­mic market envi­ron­ment once again confirms our exper­tise in the inter­na­tio­nal place­ment of leading tech­no­logy compa­nies in the indus­trial SME sector.” 

Frank Schmehl, foun­der and CEO of multi­weigh, adds: “MP was a relia­ble and profes­sio­nal part­ner throug­hout the entire process. The struc­tu­red approach, the high level of indus­try exper­tise and the inter­na­tio­nal network were decisive for the successful comple­tion of the transaction.”

Ferdi­nand von Hammer­stein from INVICTO Holding comm­ents: “Thanks to MP, we were able to achieve an excel­lent result. The clarity of commu­ni­ca­tion, the high level of relia­bi­lity and the targe­ted approach in a dyna­mic process envi­ron­ment are parti­cu­larly noteworthy.”

About MP Corpo­rate Finance

MP Corpo­rate Finance is the leading inter­na­tio­nal M&A consul­tancy specia­li­zing in the indus­trial sector. As an expe­ri­en­ced part­ner, MP supports medium-sized compa­nies and manage­ment teams, private equity decis­­ion-makers as well as entre­pre­neu­rial confi­dants in complex tran­sac­tions on both the sell and buy side and provi­des support in the context of capi­tal procu­re­ment, buy-and-build stra­te­gies, carve-outs or throug­hout the entire private equity life­cy­cle. MP was foun­ded in Vienna in the 1990s by Roman Göd and Gregor Nischer as the first Euro­pean M&A firm with a sector-focu­­sed advi­sory approach. Today, the company employs more than 85 expe­ri­en­ced hands-on experts at five loca­ti­ons world­wide — in Vienna, Frank­furt, London, Istan­bul and Chicago — making it the largest indus­trial M&A team in Europe. With its unique sector focus, MP has successfully advi­sed on more than 700 indus­trial tran­sac­tions invol­ving invest­ment compa­nies, SMEs and corpo­ra­ti­ons. — www.mp-corporatefinance.com