Arthos News

The vision industry as a key enabler for industry 4.0 is attracting new types of investors. This creates additional strategic options for owners of medium-sized companies. An article by ARTHOS’ Managing Partner Arno Pätzold published in “inspect – World of Vision” 01/19.

Newsletter2Go (Berlin, Germany), the German market leader in email marketing software for small to mid-sized enterprises, has merged with the French market leader SendinBlue (Paris, France) to expand their majority market share in Europe.

IQS Group (Langenbach, Germany), the leading special solution provider for high-end automobile logistics, has been acquired by Scan Global Logistics (Copenhagen, Denmark) to strengthen its position and to roll out its business globally.

From 15 - 17 November 2018 the AICA members from Europe, Middle East and Africa met for the 9th AICA EMEA Conference. The ARTHOS managing partners Arne Tödt and Arno Pätzold participated and contributed to the event.

Data Respons (Oslo, Norway) acquires 100% of the shares in the R&D services companies IT Sonix and XPURE (Leipzig, Germany) and strengthens its position within SW technology, smart embedded solutions and IoT in Germany.

ARTHOS M&A-Newsletter – Vision Technology 10/2018: Vision M&A transactions became more complex as participants are investing more time in capabilities than focussing on financial results only. For professional M&A support consider hiring an M&A expert with industry knowledge.

The annual AICA global meeting took place from 17 - 19 May 2018 in Miami with the overall theme “cooperation and collaboration”. Arne Tödt, chairman of AICA’s board of directors until May 2018, and Arno Pätzold, member of the collaboration task force, participated.

ARTHOS M&A-Newsletter – Vision Technology 03/2018: Since beginning of February Vision Technology Peers settled down, but valuations are still high. Professional market participants take advantage of the current situation, consider a potential sale of your business.

Infineon Technologies (Munich, Germany), a world leader in semiconductor solutions, acquires Merus Audio (Copenhagen, Denmark) to strengthen Infineon´s ability to offer customers fully integrated system solutions for smart speakers.

Data Respons ASA (Oslo, Norway) acquires 100% of the shares in the software technology and R&D services company EPOS CAT GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany) and strengthens its position in CAT, R&D IT services, software development and systems integration.