M&A Deal Summary

Vanderlande Industries BV Acquires Ferdar Automation Technology Nederland B.V.

On February 12, 2014, Vanderlande Industries BV acquired technology hardware company Ferdar Automation Technology Nederland B.V.

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Vanderlande Industries BV’s 1st transaction in the Technology Hardware sector.
  • This is Vanderlande Industries BV’s 1st transaction in the Netherlands.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2014-02-12
Target Ferdar Automation Technology Nederland B.V.
Sector Technology Hardware
Buyer(s) Vanderlande Industries BV
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Ferdar Automation Technology Nederland B.V.

Almere, Netherlands
Ferdar Automation Technology Nederland B.V. distributes and integrates robotic systems. It offers grabbers, transport systems, and safety products, as well as maintenance, installation, and training services.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Vanderlande Industries BV

Veghel, Netherlands

Category Company
Founded 1949
Sector Transportation
Employees4,500
Revenue 741M EUR (1970)
DESCRIPTION

Vanderlande is a provider of value-added logistic process automation at airports, and in the parcel market. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses. Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems move 3.7 billion pieces of luggage around the world per year, in other words 10.1 million per day. Its systems are active in 600 airports including 13 of the world’s top 20. More than 39 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and distribution firms have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 6
Sector: Technology Hardware M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 2 of 5
Country: Netherlands M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2014 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-01-01 Beewen & Co. KG

Siegen, Germany

Beewen GmbH & Co. KG designs, implements and services automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS), cranes, shuttles and load handling devices.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-10-08 Smatec

Bielefeld, Germany

Smatec has over 25 years’ experience in the development of warehouse automation technology and concepts. The Bielefeld-based company’s primary focus is to develop innovative warehouse automation systems in many variants, such as the pocket sorter.

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