Aachen \u2014 S\u2011UBG AG, the regi\u00adon\u2019s leading invest\u00adment company for small and medium-sized enter\u00adpri\u00adses, toge\u00adther with Mana\u00adging Direc\u00adtor Martin Petzl, acqui\u00adres 100 percent of the shares in the LD DIDACTIC (LD) group of compa\u00adnies from the pan-Euro\u00adpean alter\u00adna\u00adtive invest\u00adment group AURELIUS as part of a manage\u00adment buy-out (MBO). LD offers inno\u00adva\u00adtive solu\u00adti\u00adons and teaching tools for digi\u00adtal teaching in science and technology.<\/p>\n
The LD DIDACTIC Group, based in H\u00fcrth near Colo\u00adgne, was foun\u00added in 1850 by Ernst Leybold and acqui\u00adred by AURELIUS in 2009. It deve\u00adlops, produ\u00adces and sells teaching systems and educa\u00adtio\u00adnal tech\u00adno\u00adlogy (EdTech) for science and tech\u00adno\u00adlogy teaching. Under the brands ELWE, Feed\u00adback and LEYBOLD, the group serves schools, voca\u00adtio\u00adnal schools and univer\u00adsi\u00adties. These include RWTH Aachen Univer\u00adsity, the city of Colo\u00adgne, H\u00fcrth Compre\u00adhen\u00adsive School and Witt\u00adgen\u00adstein Voca\u00adtio\u00adnal College in Bad Berleburg.<\/p>\n
The Group sells its products and solu\u00adti\u00adons in Germany as well as through a dealer network and selec\u00adted part\u00adners in other Euro\u00adpean and non-Euro\u00adpean count\u00adries. It employs appro\u00adxi\u00adm\u00adately 160 people and has 5 loca\u00adti\u00adons in Germany, England and Hungary.<\/p>\n
Expan\u00adsion of sales activities \u201cLD is making a valuable contri\u00adbu\u00adtion to society world\u00adwide with nume\u00adrous solu\u00adti\u00adons for modern, digi\u00adtal educa\u00adtion,\u201d says Dr. Ansgar Schlei\u00adcher (photo), CEO of S\u2011UBG.<\/strong> \u201cWe are convin\u00adced that Martin Petzl and his team will conti\u00adnue to drive LD\u2019s success in the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n Promi\u00adsing market development About the S\u2011UBG Group The S\u2011UBG Group curr\u00adently holds stakes in just under 40 compa\u00adnies in the region, giving it a leading posi\u00adtion in the Spar\u00adkas\u00adsen-Finanz\u00adgruppe. Further infor\u00adma\u00adtion: www.s\u2011ubg.de;<\/a> www.techvision-fonds.de<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aachen \u2014 S\u2011UBG AG, the regi\u00adon\u2019s leading invest\u00adment company for small and medium-sized enter\u00adpri\u00adses, toge\u00adther with Mana\u00adging Direc\u00adtor Martin Petzl, acqui\u00adres 100 percent of the shares in the LD DIDACTIC (LD) group of compa\u00adnies from the pan-Euro\u00ad\u00adpean alter\u00adna\u00adtive invest\u00adment group AURELIUS as part of a manage\u00adment buy-out (MBO). LD offers inno\u00adva\u00adtive solu\u00adti\u00adons and teaching tools [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49204,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49206","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"],"yoast_head":"\n
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\n\u201cWe have successfully emer\u00adged from the pande\u00admic and are seeing an over\u00adall increase in demand for products for digi\u00adti\u00adzed teaching,\u201d says Martin Petzl, who has led the company since 2020 and spear\u00adhea\u00added the MBO. \u201cI am plea\u00adsed to have found a relia\u00adble regio\u00adnal part\u00adner in S\u2011UBG, which supports us in further expan\u00adding our port\u00adfo\u00adlio and our sales and placing new products on the market. In the area of tech\u00adno\u00adlogy, our focus is on auto\u00admo\u00adtive and elec\u00adtri\u00adcal engi\u00adnee\u00adring, energy tran\u00adsi\u00adtion as well as energy trans\u00admis\u00adsion and SMART GRID, respec\u00adtively. In the area of natu\u00adral scien\u00adces, we are focu\u00adsing on the further virtua\u00adliza\u00adtion and digi\u00adtiza\u00adtion of the expe\u00adri\u00adment port\u00adfo\u00adlio as well as on sustaina\u00adbi\u00adlity topics such as climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nThe market for science expe\u00adri\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion equip\u00adment grew by about 16 percent from 2020 to 2022 to reach 2.2 billion euros. Average growth of around 7 percent per year is expec\u00adted up to 2027. Experts expect above-average growth in the emer\u00adging markets in Africa and Asia in parti\u00adcu\u00adlar. The incre\u00adasing digi\u00adtiza\u00adtion of teaching and expe\u00adri\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion is seen as a driver. Accor\u00adding to fore\u00adcasts, the share of digi\u00adtal science expe\u00adri\u00adment solu\u00adti\u00adons is expec\u00adted to increase by 150 percent by 2027.<\/p>\n
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\nFor more than 35 years, the S\u2011UBG Group, Aachen, has been the leading part\u00adner in provi\u00adding equity capi\u00adtal for estab\u00adlished medium-sized compa\u00adnies (S\u2011UBG AG) and young, tech\u00adno\u00adlogy-orien\u00adted start-ups (Tech\u00adVi\u00adsion Fonds) in the econo\u00admic regi\u00adons of Aachen, Krefeld and M\u00f6nchengladbach.
\nS\u2011UBG AG invests in growth sectors; high quality of corpo\u00adrate manage\u00adment is a key invest\u00adment criter\u00adion for the invest\u00adment company. She deve\u00adlops invest\u00adment models for medium-sized compa\u00adnies, both in open and silent form, and she looks back on many years of expe\u00adri\u00adence in the deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment of expan\u00adsion finan\u00adcing models, share\u00adhol\u00adder chan\u00adges as well as succes\u00adsion arran\u00adge\u00adments (MBO\/MBI) and exclu\u00adsi\u00advely enters into mino\u00adrity shareholdings.<\/p>\n