Buyer for website hosting companies in Europe

• Revenue: 2-50M EUR
• Employees: not decisive
• Location of the target: Europe
• Reason for acquisition: The company is a large enterprise active in website hosting sector.         It 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 large organization and is activating in the market of website hosting. The company came to have under management more than 70M domains and managed to work with more than 15M clients around the globe. It has facilities in US, Europe, Asia, India and in more other countries. Its more than 7000 employees bring their added value and the results are that the company has reached annual turnovers of more than 2B USD. From basic web hosting, WordPress hosting, business hosting and to even dedicated servers, clients can choose the hosting plan that suits better their needs. The buyer is looking to acquire a similar company in order to grow the business in Europe.

The buyer has built one of the largest cloud platform in the world in order to help small and independent businesses to start, grow and run an online presence. Due to the company’s solutions, people can easily launch their ideas online, can build a professional website, attract customers and benefit from their innovative work. The company is also a large domain registrar, it offers many domain name extensions such as .COM, .ORG, .CO, .CLUB, .LONDON, etc., so that anyone can create a solid digital identity. In the same time, the company establishes a marketplace for trading previously owned domains.  Once a domain is registered, the company offers digital identity products that allows the owner of the business to promote his business by getting a customized website. Those who have online stores get the necessary tools to run the ecommerce store and to attract new customers.

The offer for hosting includes Web hosting, WordPress, Business Hosting, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and Dedicated Servers. Web hosting has the lowest cost, since the resources are shared with other websites’ owners. For more power, there is business hosting and VPS, while for maximum power there is the dedicated server hosting that offers unlimited resources, but for a higher price. The company hosts millions of websites from all over the world, having the goal to deliver fast and robust web hosting. While customers are focused only on content creation, the team takes care of the technical part of web hosting, based in clients’ necessities, the team offers Shared, Dedicated and Virtual Private Servers together with the famous managed WordPress service. In what matters the management of the business, the company in a partnership with Microsoft helps its clients by offering them tools (such as Office 365) that enable them to have access to email that is connected to domain names, clients can obtain cloud storage and other efficient solutions. The tool for email marketing allow companies to successfully connect and interact with customers.

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

• Domains Registration
• Websites Builder
• WordPress Building & Management
• Hosting: Website, WordPress, Business Hosting, VPS, Dedicated Servers
• Web Security: SSL Certificates, Back-up, Protection
• Online Marketing
• Email & Office

• The buyer is a large organization and is active in the market of website hosting
• The buyer’s products offer is very diverse and customized for each client
• The buyer has decided to enlarge its activities in Europe and is looking to buy another company with similar activities and products