Frank\u00adfurt am Main\/Gorinchem, The Nether\u00adlands \u2014 Ardian, a leading global inde\u00adpen\u00addent invest\u00adment firm, has ente\u00adred into an agree\u00adment to acquire Deli Home with the aim of support\u00ading the company\u2019s inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal growth plans. Deli Home is a Dutch manu\u00adfac\u00adtu\u00adrer and supplier of wood-based, custom and high quality home impro\u00adve\u00adment products such as doors, cabi\u00adnets and floors. The products are sold through DIY stores, buil\u00adders\u2019 merchants and online suppli\u00aders. The tran\u00adsac\u00adtion is the first invest\u00adment of the Ardian expan\u00adsion team in the Nether\u00adlands. Toge\u00adther with Ardian, Deli Home\u2019s manage\u00adment plans to further imple\u00adment its growth stra\u00adtegy and deve\u00adlop Deli Home into a pan-Euro\u00adpean player.<\/p>\n
Deli Home, whose roots go back to 1869, is head\u00adquar\u00adte\u00adred in Gorin\u00adchem, the Nether\u00adlands. With sales of more than 340 million euros and 1,250 employees, the company has estab\u00adlished itself as the market leader in the Bene\u00adlux region. In recent years, the manage\u00adment team, led by Victor Aquina (CEO) and Jan-Willem Smits (CFO), has deve\u00adlo\u00adped the company from a pure distri\u00adbu\u00adtor into a manu\u00adfac\u00adtu\u00adrer of custo\u00admi\u00adzed, wood-based DIY products with an inte\u00adgra\u00adted digi\u00adtal confi\u00adgu\u00adra\u00adtion plat\u00adform, a broad logi\u00adstics network and merchan\u00addise group manage\u00adment solu\u00adti\u00adons. Through this approach, Deli Home crea\u00adtes great value for its customers.<\/p>\n
Victor Aquina, CEO of Deli Home, said: \u201cWe have a clearly defi\u00adned growth stra\u00adtegy that has two pillars: Conti\u00adnuing to convince custo\u00admers of our digi\u00adtal solu\u00adti\u00adons for custo\u00admi\u00adzed home impro\u00adve\u00adment products, as well as expan\u00adding our offe\u00adring across Europe. Two of our future core markets are France and Germany, so Ardian, with its strong Euro\u00adpean presence and network, is the ideal part\u00adner for us. The Ardian team convin\u00adced us with its profound under\u00adstan\u00adding of the market and will actively support us with its exper\u00adtise. We look forward to unleas\u00adhing the company\u2019s full poten\u00adtial through this partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dirk Witt\u00adne\u00adben, Head of Ardian Expan\u00adsion Germany, added: \u201cDeli Home has a strong and expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced manage\u00adment team that has crea\u00adted a growth plat\u00adform with a convin\u00adcing M&A stra\u00adtegy, for exam\u00adple through the acqui\u00adsi\u00adti\u00adons of Numdata and Weekamp Deuren. We see great poten\u00adtial for growth through further acqui\u00adsi\u00adti\u00adons and the expan\u00adsion of our range outside the Bene\u00adlux region. We look forward to working with the manage\u00adment team and support\u00ading the company on its growth path.\u201d<\/p>\n
The parties to the tran\u00adsac\u00adtion were:<\/strong><\/p>\n Ardian: Dirk Witt\u00adne\u00adben, Florian Haas, Nico\u00adlas M\u00fcnzer, Janine Paustian<\/p>\n Legal Corpo\u00adrate \/ Finance: Fresh\u00adfields (Harald Spruit, Mandeep Lotay)<\/p>\n Finan\u00adcial: Deloitte (Egon Sach\u00adsal\u00adber, Tanya Fehr)<\/p>\n Tax \/ Struc\u00adtu\u00adring: EY (Anne Mieke Holland)<\/p>\n Commer\u00adcial \/ Opera\u00adtio\u00adnal: Roland Berger (Sameer Mehta, Swit\u00adbert Miczka)<\/p>\n Tech \/ Digi\u00adtal: WDP (Chris\u00adtoph Nichau, Johan\u00adnes Dier\u00adkes, Simon Ludwigs)<\/p>\n ESG: PwC (Emilie Bobin)<\/p>\n Envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal: ERM (Werner Schulte)<\/p>\n M&A: ABN AMRO (Eric Altmann, Tammo Gunst)<\/p>\n Debt Advi\u00adsory: Deloitte (Thomas Schouten)<\/p>\n Ardian is one of the worl\u00add\u2019s leading inde\u00adpen\u00addent invest\u00adment firms, mana\u00adging over US$110 billion in assets for its inves\u00adtors from Europe, South and North America and Asia. The company is majo\u00adrity-owned by its employees and gene\u00adra\u00adtes sustainable, attrac\u00adtive returns for its investors.<\/p>\n With the objec\u00adtive of achie\u00adving posi\u00adtive results for all stake\u00adhol\u00adders, Ardian\u2019s acti\u00advi\u00adties promote indi\u00advi\u00addu\u00adals, compa\u00adnies and econo\u00admies world\u00adwide. Ardian\u2019s invest\u00adment philo\u00adso\u00adphy is aligned with the three guiding prin\u00adci\u00adples of excel\u00adlence, loyalty and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n The company has a global network of more than 700 employees and 15 offices in Europe (Frank\u00adfurt, Jersey, London, Luxem\u00adbourg, Madrid, Milan, Paris and Zurich), South America (Sant\u00adiago de Chile), North America (New York and San Fran\u00adcisco) and Asia (Beijing, Seoul, Singa\u00adpore and Tokyo). Ardian mana\u00adges the assets of its more than 1,000 inves\u00adtors in five invest\u00adment areas: Direct Funds, Funds of Funds, Infra\u00adstruc\u00adture, Private Debt and Real Estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Frank\u00adfurt am Main\/Gorinchem, The Nether\u00adlands \u2014 Ardian, a leading global inde\u00adpen\u00addent invest\u00adment firm, has ente\u00adred into an agree\u00adment to acquire Deli Home with the aim of support\u00ading the company\u2019s inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal growth plans. Deli Home is a Dutch manu\u00adfac\u00adtu\u00adrer and supplier of wood-based, custom and high quality home impro\u00adve\u00adment products such as doors, cabi\u00adnets and floors. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1365,1366,1367,1368,1369,1380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43480","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-lawyers-tax-advisors-auditors-en","category-lawyers-tax-consultants-auditors","category-investors","category-management-consultants-investor-relations-en","news-category-private-equity-news-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
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