Buyer for webhosting company in Europe

• Revenue: 1-10M EUR
• Employees: not decisive
• Location of the target: Europe
• Reason for acquisition: The buyer is a large group of companies activating in webhosting industry. The group has a strategy for growing its operations in Europe via acquisitions, therefore the management is open to speaking to interested sellers
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The buyer is a big player in hosting market and has a strategy for growing its business by acquiring other similar companies, various targets that can offer web and domain hosting and that are active in cloud services. The company wants to buy in Europe, preferred countries would be Netherlands, Spain and Germany, but also other countries from Western Europe. When a business is acquired, the buyer invests in the new team and offers much freedom in choosing the work method, all the subsidiaries continuing to work standalone. A decentralized model is preferred and the autonomy of companies brings flexibility and progress. The buyer is now focused for new acquisitions, target companies should register revenues ranging from 1 to 10M euro and should have wide network of clients.

The buyer for webhosting companies is representative for the European hosting industry, it activates in delivering webhosting and cloud services to clients that are located in more than 140 countries. The company has a strong team of more than 200 professionals that are specialized in Internet services, domain management, hosting services for both corporate and private projects, hybrid cloud solutions, web and server protection. The group has several business units that are autonomous and each of them is specialized in a particular field and delivers services and products related to its specific market segment. Autonomy of these units makes the business more agile, more adaptive and able to respond better to the customers’ needs. For each of the integrated company the group provides a platform with technical, organisational and financial resources, the business units are supported with strategic guidance, financial security, best know-how and are helped to achieve high efficiency and quality.

The company has many options and various packages for webhosting, clients being able to choose the hosting plan that best suits their business needs, from a personal website, company, or blog. Characteristics of these hosting planes are the following: they are flexible (clients can configure their panel with a single click), safe (under the same hosting platform there is found performance and security) and trustful (the team has extensive experience in hosting). For the applications, there are available more than 120 options (WordPress, Drupal, Prestashop, Joomla, Moodle, SugarCRM, etc.). Web hosting plans are hosted on the company’s own servers and the access to the websites is very fast, the technical support being offered 24/7. Other advantages consist in a free trial offer for 7 days, Google friendly solution, Anti Hacking Security (free of charge, malware cleaning), migration is included, SSD speed, scalable and immediate discharge of webhosting solution.

The buyer is looking to acquire a company that operates in the same activity and has similar services such as:

• Domain register and transfer
• Hosting
• VPS
• Cloud
• Data Center
• Dedicated servers
• Certificates SSL
• Antispam Professional
• Cloud Backup
• Web
• Protection Servers
• Office 365
• Technical support

• The buyer is an important player in webhosting sector
• The company has a large offer of solutions that increase efficiency and enable progress
• The company has decided to enlarge its activities in Europe and is looking to buy another company with similar activities and products
• Target companies should preferable be located in Western Europe, should register revenues ranging from 1 to 10M euro and should have wide network of clients.