Sale bakery equipment manufacturer

• The company for sale is a medium-sized bakery equipment manufacturer located in Slovenia, with affiliates in Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Russia
• The company sold has revenues of more than 20 million EUR
• The buyer is an Industrial group that acquires bakery equipment manufacturing related companies
• CFIE business sale input: The CFIE M&A team members helped in sourcing a list of the most suitable acquirers. This business sale is a valuable step for the owners who were retired and wanted to exit from their investment.

The acquired company focuses on bakery equipment manufacturing, with complete bakery lines in the value range of 2 million euros for known buyers. The bakery equipment manufacturer was established before WWII and went through several transformations over the past 70 years. After much hard work the owners of Gopek were planning their retirement.

The buyer is a large-sized Italian group that wants to grow organically and also via acquisitions. The buyer focuses on food processing equipment with 20% of their products sold in Italy, and the rest is exported to European and other markets. The synergies between the companies are in several aspects of offering to their clients full bakery solutions.

The CFIE industrial M&A team helped the bakery equipment manufacturer sellers in sourcing suitable buyers globally. Based on the profile of the target company, potential buyers with limited or no principal issues were identified. The focus on Eastern European markets ensured that the buyers list was oriented in that direction.

The CFIE machine-building M&A team has valuable direct contact with various industrial buyers and can support sellers in a business sale of machine building, including bakery equipment manufacturers. Roman Jeras scouted the target buyers. After initiating talks and negotiations between the bakery equipment manufacturer the Italian buyer had the highest appetite and the best cultural fit.

• Both companies are active in European markets and can enjoy synergies in the field of costs like sharing offices, etc.
• In the process of offering to their clients complete bakery solutions, companies can source for each other with different specialty items
• The buyer can invest further in the growth of the bakery equipment manufacturer
• The group companies can offer additional services to the new customers of both companies
• The clients benefit from getting continued and guaranteed long-term support for their bakery equipment requirements

Feel free to contact us for further details about this bakery equipment – machine-building business sale. If you are looking for a business sale of a machine-building company, do contact us. We know many available machine-building buyers and would be able to bring the ones that suit you best.