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Our investment criteria
With 20-30 new transactions per year, AUCTUS is the most active German-speaking investment company. In the sectors where we currently do not have a buy-and-build platform, we are looking for companies with the following criteria:
- Profitable
- Turnover between € 10 and 200 million
- Operating profit at least € 2 million
- Good market position
- Typical situations: succession, management buy-out, owner buy-out (partial sale with the owner continuing to run the business), partial sale of corporate divisions, implementation of a buy-and-build strategy, management buy-in, growth financing
- In the sectors where we are already active with a platform, our investment criteria are even broader: revenues of any size (also below € 10 and above 200 million sales) and situation (not (very) profitable, even turnarounds, growth financings, complicated situations …). In the following these sectors are marked with an *)
Our focus sectors
- IT consulting and services (including ERP solutions, Big Data, transformation) *
- Software (industry solutions, niche software, fintech, proptech etc.) *
- Network technologies and services
- IT security services, hardware and consulting *
- Regulatory Services (Pharma) *, CRO *, Pharma Research *
- Testing / inspection / certification of food, pharmaceuticals etc *
- Outpatient care *, outpatient rehabilitation *, intensive care *, nursing homes *
- Medical technology / medical aids and consumables
- Special clinics, geriatric care *
- billing services *; IT solutions for hospitals
- concepts for medical care centers
- Certification and compliance
- Construction services (electricians *, heating and cooling *, engineering & planning *, roofing *, civil engineering *, construction *
- Industrial services, maintenance, spare parts
- Special logistics: emergency logistics *, pharmaceutical logistics
- Marketing services: sales promotion, online-marketing *
- Insurance broker
- business consulting
- Food * (including organic, pet food, supplements, sports food)*
- Restaurants *, bakeries *
- Leisure activities, gyms
- Hotels
- Entertainment and media
- Mechanical engineering *, electronics, industrial production *
- Measuring and control technology, electronics including RFID
- Testing / inspection / certification of materials and products
- Laboratory technology
- Specialty chemicals
- Industrial ident parts and spare parts *
*) In industries marked with *, AUCTUS is already active with buy-and-build platforms and is therefore also looking for smaller and less profitable companies as acquisitions. .
In addition, we examine investment opportunities in market consolidators, market leaders and niche leaders in all other sectors as well.