Hamburg \/ Borken \/ Waltrop \u2014 The netgo group (\u201cnetgo\u201d), a fast-growing IT provi\u00adder with bran\u00adches in many parts of Germany, is once again expan\u00adding its port\u00adfo\u00adlio of services: Follo\u00adwing seve\u00adral acqui\u00adsi\u00adti\u00adons in the past two years, ckn Compu\u00adter GmbH & Co. KG (\u201cckn Compu\u00adter\u201d) from Waltrop, a proven specia\u00adlist for the DATEV ecosys\u00adtem as well as IT solu\u00adti\u00adons with a focus on tax consul\u00adting firms and audi\u00adtors, is now joining the group. The sellers of the majo\u00adrity shares are ckn foun\u00adders and share\u00adhol\u00adders Oliver G\u00fcnter and Stefan Koch-Niehus \u2014 both will remain on board as mana\u00adging directors.<\/p>\n
ckn Compu\u00adter was foun\u00added in 1988 and, toge\u00adther with its subsi\u00addiary Diva\u00adcon, has sites in D\u00fcssel\u00addorf and Kassel in addi\u00adtion to its head\u00adquar\u00adters in Waltrop. Through the conti\u00adnuous deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment of its service and sales network, ckn has estab\u00adlished itself as a high-perfor\u00admance IT service provi\u00adder, parti\u00adcu\u00adlarly in the Rhine-Ruhr region and in central Germany. Thanks to its compre\u00adhen\u00adsive port\u00adfo\u00adlio of services, the company is uniquely posi\u00adtio\u00adned among its custo\u00admers, with a focus on tax consul\u00adting firms and audi\u00adting compa\u00adnies. Its services include the setup and ongo\u00ading opera\u00adtion of complex IT infra\u00adstruc\u00adtures and local networks for server systems, clients, prin\u00adting and copy\u00ading systems. With the inno\u00adva\u00adtive cloud solu\u00adtion \u201cckn PART\u00adNERasp\u201d, the most important compon\u00adents of IT can be outsour\u00adced to the protec\u00adted DATEV data center. The company, which is one of the largest and most important part\u00adners for DATEV and its clients thanks to its maxi\u00admum certi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion as a \u201cSolu\u00adtion Part\u00adner\u201d, curr\u00adently employs around 70 people.<\/p>\n
Water\u00adland Private Equity has held a majo\u00adrity stake in netgo group, which was foun\u00added in 2007, for more than two years. Since the part\u00adner\u00adship was laun\u00adched, netgo has been able to signi\u00adfi\u00adcantly expand its presence in the highly frag\u00admen\u00adted German market for IT service provi\u00adders through a targe\u00adted buy & build stra\u00adtegy. With a total of eight acqui\u00adsi\u00adti\u00adons since Water\u00adlan\u00add\u2019s entry, netgo has both broa\u00addened its port\u00adfo\u00adlio of IT services for SMEs and gained new custo\u00admers and market share throug\u00adhout Germany, and now reports group sales of over EUR 300 million.<\/p>\n
With ckn, netgo is expan\u00adding its port\u00adfo\u00adlio to include solu\u00adti\u00adons that opti\u00admally meet the special requi\u00adre\u00adments of tax consul\u00adtancies, busi\u00adness law firms and their clients in parti\u00adcu\u00adlar. In addi\u00adtion, the Group is comple\u00admen\u00adting its range of services in the DATEV field, above all with the areas of DATEV payroll and docu\u00adment manage\u00adment as well as the appli\u00adca\u00adtion service provi\u00adder and hosting busi\u00adness in DATEV infra\u00adstruc\u00adtures. As a result, the fast-growing group will operate in the future as one of the largest provi\u00adders of DATEV IT outsour\u00adcing solu\u00adti\u00adons active throug\u00adhout Germany.<\/p>\n
\u201cckn Compu\u00adter is an important part of netgo\u2019s stra\u00adte\u00adgic road\u00admap towards a one-stop store for medium-sized custo\u00admers and, with its comple\u00admen\u00adtary loca\u00adti\u00adons in Waltrop and Kassel, once again streng\u00adthens the group\u2019s presence across Germany,\u201d comm\u00adents Dr. Cars\u00adten Rahlfs, Mana\u00adging Part\u00adner of Water\u00adland, on the acquisition.<\/p>\n
Dr. Oliver Mauss, CEO of netgo group, adds: \u201cWith ckn, we will be by far the largest provi\u00adder of DATEV IT outsour\u00adcing solu\u00adti\u00adons nati\u00adon\u00adwide and will be able to address the needs of tax consul\u00adting firms, audi\u00adting compa\u00adnies and their clients even better with group-wide expertise.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor ckn, beco\u00adming part of a strong group like netgo means the contin\u00adued deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment of our long-term, entre\u00adpre\u00adneu\u00adrial success; custo\u00admers and part\u00adners will bene\u00adfit from the streng\u00adthening in service and offe\u00adring. We are very much looking forward to the coope\u00adra\u00adtion,\u201d says Stefan Koch-Niehus, mana\u00adging part\u00adner at ckn.<\/p>\n
Water\u00adland alre\u00adady has exten\u00adsive expe\u00adri\u00adence in the digi\u00adta\u00adliza\u00adtion, IT and tele\u00adcom\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons sectors: the Water\u00adland port\u00adfo\u00adlio in these areas in the DACH region includes GOD (soft\u00adware deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment), enreach (unified commu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons), Skay\u00adlink (cloud services) and Netrics (enter\u00adprise IT).<\/p>\n
About Water\u00adland Water\u00adland has consis\u00adt\u00adently outper\u00adfor\u00admed with its invest\u00adments since its incep\u00adtion in 1999. The firm ranks fifth globally in the 2020 HEC\/Dow Jones Private Equity Perfor\u00admance Rankings and eighth among global private equity firms in the 2020 Preqin Consis\u00adtent Perfor\u00admers in Global Private Equity & Venture Capi\u00adtal Report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hamburg \/ Borken \/ Waltrop \u2014 The netgo group (\u201cnetgo\u201d), a fast-growing IT provi\u00adder with bran\u00adches in many parts of Germany, is once again expan\u00adding its port\u00adfo\u00adlio of services: Follo\u00adwing seve\u00adral acqui\u00adsi\u00adti\u00adons in the past two years, ckn Compu\u00adter GmbH & Co. KG (\u201cckn Compu\u00adter\u201d) from Waltrop, a proven specia\u00adlist for the DATEV ecosys\u00adtem as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1365,1366,1369,1371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-en","category-featured-en","category-private-equity-en","category-news-en","category-investors","category-deals-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
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