M&A Deal Summary

Wittur Acquires Sematic Group

On August 1, 2016, Wittur acquired machinery company Sematic Group from The Carlyle Group

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Wittur’s 1st transaction in the Machinery sector.
  • This is Wittur’s 1st transaction in Italy.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2016-08-01
Target Sematic Group
Sector Machinery
Buyer(s) Wittur
Sellers(s) The Carlyle Group
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Sematic Group

Osio, Italy
Sematic Group is a supplier of elevators and elevator components headquartered in Osio Sotto, Italy.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Wittur

Scheibbs, Austria

Category Company
Founded 1968
Sector Distribution
Employees2,300
Revenue 340M EUR (2015)
DESCRIPTION

Wittur is a distributor of components for the elevator industry. Core products include doors, safety components, and gearless drives, as well as cars, slings, counterweight frames, and hydraulic drives. Wittur was founded in 1968 and is based in Scheibbs, Austria.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Machinery M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: Italy M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2016 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

The Carlyle Group

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1987
PE ASSETS 435.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.

The Carlyle Group is a global investment firm that pursues private equity, credit, and real estate investments worldwide. Carlyle's private equity practice practice pursues buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings. With offices in 19 countries, Carlyle can easily target opportunities throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East/North Africa and Latin America. Broad sectors of interest include aerospace, defense, automotive and transportation, consumer, retail, energy and power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, technology services, business services, telecommunications and media. The Carlyle Group was formed in 1987 and is based in Washington DC.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 307 of 488
Sector: Machinery M&A 6 of 11
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 133 of 202
Country: Italy M&A 5 of 12
Year: 2016 M&A 16 of 26
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