Buyer for a server colocation company in Europe

• Revenue: 2-20M EUR
• Employees: not decisive
• Location of the target: Europe
• Reason for acquisition: The company is an international hosting enterprise. It has a strategy for growing its operations in Europe via acquisitions, therefore the management is open to speaking to interested sellers
• #CFIE ITB118

The buyer is an international hosting group that is interested in buying companies that are active in providing hosting and colocation server services. The group is very well established in this industry, has more than 15 years of experience in the field and has grown with a constant rhythm. The group provides services related to private cloud, dedicated servers, data center solutions, web-hosting & Web-mail, etc. As a strategy for growth, it uses acquisitions of certain companies and now is looking to expand in Europe. Potential targets are companies with the revenue ranging from 2 to 20M Euro, profitable and with a stable base of customers. The buyer would like to talk with potential sellers about their plans for the future and to discuss the buyer’s motivation in its long-term strategies. The buyer could help the seller to grow the company, to reach international level and to benefit from the buyer’s resources.

The buyer is a group of hosting companies that together provide services such as data center, managed hosting, virtual private servers, virtual dedicated servers, web hosting, domains, email hosting, etc. To expand its products and services portfolio, the buyer looks to acquire a company that provides colocation server services. These services allow organizations to deploy and host their own servers within a managed service environment, meaning to launch the servers in an existing data center or IT facility. The advantage for the organization customer is that it continues to control the server services, operating system and other applications, while the physical space, power source, network and back-up are ensured by the manage services provider. The server colocation company maintains, manages, monitors and offer the IT support services / IT Infrastructure support that ensure the well-functioning of the server. Other facilities provided include server IP, bandwidth, back-up, server and data security.

The buyer company provides services such as dedicated server, virtual private server, infrastructure, data center and technical consulting. With dedicated server solutions the customer organization receives its own server custom made to its own specifications and needs. This server is installed in the buyer’s data center and is used only by the customer. This solution is suited for organization that need more resources than a virtual platform can provide or for organizations that need a strict privacy, security and control of data owned. The company also provide private cloud solutions in which customers have the possibility to deploy their own virtual servers that are isolated from public nodes. Private cloud combines the benefits of the cloud and those of dedicated server and is suited to companies that require large hosting resources.

The buyer is looking to acquire a company that provides server colocation services. Other services the target could deliver are related to:

• Data Center
• Managed Hosting
• Virtual Private Servers
• Dedicated Servers
• Private Cloud
• Web & Email Hosting
• Domains
• Technical Consulting
• Infrastructure
• Server Management
• System Maintenance
• Server Privacy & Security

• The buyer is a group of companies that are active in the hosting industry
• The buyer wants to enlarge its business in Europe and is looking to acquire a company operating in hosting related services area
• The buyer would help the seller to grow its operations and reach international level
• Target company should provide server colocation services