Stake Purchase • Distribution

Datatec Invests In Sparnoon-Dynatech South Africa

On June 13, 2007, Datatec invested in distribution company Sparnoon-Dynatech South Africa

Investment Context

This is Datatec’s 2nd transaction in the Distribution sector.
This is Datatec’s 1st transaction in South Africa.

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Investment Summary
Date	June 13, 2007
Target	Sparnoon-Dynatech South Africa
Sector	Distribution
Investor(s)	Datatec
Deal Type	Stake Purchase

Target Company

Sparnoon-Dynatech South Africa

Sandton, South Africa

Sparnoon-Dynatech Group is one of the largest ICT distributors in sub-Saharan Africa with offices in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda and logistic centres in the UK, Kenya and Dubai that provide rapid response to pricing requests and first-class logistics capabilities. It distributes Cisco, Dell, Epson, HP, Novell and TallyGenicom. The company has most recently been awarded the Cisco Distributor Partner of the Year and Cisco Value-Added Distributor of the Year for 2006.

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Investor Overview 1

Investor

Datatec

Sandown, South Africa

Category	Company
Founded	1986
Sector	Information Services
Employees	11,219
Revenue	3.6B USD (2025)

DESCRIPTION

Datatec is a global ICT solutions and services group. Datatec was founded in 1986 and is based in Sandown, South Africa.

Deal Context for Investor	#
Overall	5 of 7
Sector: Distribution	2 of 2
Type: Stake Purchase	1 of 1
Country: South Africa	1 of 2
Year: 2007	4 of 5

PREVIOUS DEAL

DATE	TARGET	DEAL TYPE	VALUE
2007-06-04	Carotek - Information Technology Division Matthews, North Carolina, United States Carotek - Information Technology Division is a provider of integrated ICT solutions. Carotek - Information Technology Division based in Matthews, North Carolina.	Buy	$7M

DATE

TARGET

DEAL TYPE

VALUE

2007-06-04

Carotek - Information Technology Division

Matthews, North Carolina, United States

Carotek - Information Technology Division is a provider of integrated ICT solutions. Carotek - Information Technology Division based in Matthews, North Carolina.

Buy

$7M

FOLLOWING DEAL

DATE	TARGET	DEAL TYPE	VALUE
2007-10-02	Cernet of America Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States Cernet of America, Inc. is a value-added distributor known for its strength in Wireless Networking, LAN/WAN, and Security Systems and has a customer base of over 300 resellers throughout the CALA (Caribbean and Latin America) region. Cernet has been serving customers in this region since its founding over 15 years ago. Its vendors include Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, Foundry, Proxim Wireless and many others.	Buy	$5M

DATE

TARGET

DEAL TYPE

VALUE

2007-10-02

Cernet of America

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Cernet of America, Inc. is a value-added distributor known for its strength in Wireless Networking, LAN/WAN, and Security Systems and has a customer base of over 300 resellers throughout the CALA (Caribbean and Latin America) region. Cernet has been serving customers in this region since its founding over 15 years ago. Its vendors include Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, Foundry, Proxim Wireless and many others.

Buy

$5M

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