Buyer for a cloud hosting company in Scandinavia

• Revenue: 2-20 million EUR
• Employees: Not a decisive factor
• Location of the target: Scandinavia
• Reason for acquisition: The company represents a well-established brand in the cloud hosting market and has a strategy of growing via acquisitions. The buyer is seeking discussions with interested sellers
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The buyer is a cloud hosting company operating in Scandinavia that is looking to strengthen their position in the market by acquiring other companies that reflect the same kind of activities and services. In this light, the buying company is scouting the Nordic zone for potential platforms to build out from. The main interest is for well-built companies with revenues ranging from 2 million to 20 million euros, that have the strength and potential to respond to the needs of a large portion of the market. The buyer is already an established brand in the Scandinavian cloud hosting market and is looking to enlarge its activity further in this zone.

The buyer company has been active in the field of hosting for more than 15 years, its focus to develop, manage and to service professional hosting and cloud solutions for a large range of companies and enterprises in Northern Europe. With so much experience, the company knows that to be successful it needs to supply high-quality service, technical skills and the latest hardware on which the operation of client solutions is provided. The main part of the business is represented by the data center that is safe, stable and fast enough to meet the needs and requirements of any customer, private or corporate, whether a web-shop, a domain name or a tailored range of hosting solutions is required. To earn the clients’ trust, the company makes sure it delivers services with the best quality, proven by the ISO 27001 certification the company has.

The company has under its administration many brands of hosting subsidiaries that have different products and market sections. In this way, the enterprise ensures it supplies products for a large series of activities and needs. They provide hosting for web-shops, deliver products such as domains, websites, web hotels, CMS systems, SMS gateways, Microsoft 365, hosted exchanges, C5, and many others. The goal is to make the technical set-up easy and accessible in a way that stimulates the realization of an IT project. The company provides white label hosting and facilitates the sale of virtual data centers and small cloud servers enabling the customers to set up and operate their own data center in the cloud. Providing infrastructure for thousands of cloud servers, the company offers a reliable, stable and professional choice for computing and hosting. Payment solutions, ERP integration, database solutions, and IT sourcing are also in the range of the company’s services delivered to its clients.

The company is looking to acquire a company that operates in cloud hosting and that provides similar solutions such as:

• General hosting: Domain registration, web hotels, DNS and webmail
• Applications: Backup-solutions, management tools, ERP
• Managed hosting: Server solutions such as dedicated hosting for servers or virtual infrastructure
• E-commerce solutions: Web-shop, design templates, payment apps

• The buyer is a multi-brand cloud hosting provider
• The company delivers general or customized solutions to its clients
• The company has decided to grow its operations in the Scandinavian market via acquisitions
• The company is looking to buy an enterprise with similar services and products
• Target companies should have large revenues and should demonstrate a solid presence in the market