Press releases, current trends, perspectives

Data Respons (Oslo, Norway) acquires 100% of the shares in the German R&D Services company DONAT group (Ingolstadt, Germany) and strengthens its position within software development and industrial digitalisation in Germany.

The annual AICA global meeting took place from 16 – 18 May 2019 in Singapore with the participation of prestigious new prospect AICA members from Asia. The ARTHOS managing partners Arne Tödt and Arno Pätzold participated and contributed to the event.

ARTHOS M&A-Newsletter – Vision Technology 5/2019: Valuations of most publicly listed vision companies are back to the peaks from last summer and acquirers are continuing to invest heavily. However, there is more to consider when thinking about a potential sale.

In vision industry M&A transactions became very popular and deal prices went up. As sellers can choose, it takes more than just money nowadays for buyers to execute a transaction. An article by ARTHOS’ Managing Partner Arno Pätzold published in “inspect international – 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.