Investment Summary

Datatec Invests In Sparnoon-Dynatech South Africa

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

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

Investment Summary
Date 2007-06-13
Target Sparnoon-Dynatech South Africa
Sector Distribution
Investor(s) Datatec
Deal Type Stake Purchase

Target

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(S) 1

Investor

Datatec

Johannesburg, South Africa
Category Company
Founded 1986
Sector Information Services
Employees11,269
Revenue 5.5B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

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

DEAL STATS #
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
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
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