AUCTUS half-year report 2021
Dear friends and business partners of AUCTUS,
We have no shortage of good news for this year’s half-year report 2021.
As always, our team is going full throttle and building up further strong industry concepts, which gives us a highly motivated outlook for the future. The strong deal activity that has already characterized the second half of 2020 is continuing unabated. We were once again able to enter into a record number of new deals.
Companies have used the Covid period to become leaner and more digital. With end customer prices remaining the same or even rising, this means significantly increased profitability in many cases. However, this is also urgently needed, as the damage caused by the government’s Covid restrictions is reflected in almost all balance sheets and it will take years to fully compensate for this. All AUCTUS colleagues and our portfolio managers agree that the undifferentiated ‘lawnmower’ restrictions of the Covid era must not be repeated under any circumstances.
New industry platforms
The next time you see a waste disposal, street cleaning or winter clearing vehicle, think of us! blueworld is the German market leader for innovative control and communication solutions for this sector.
Following our entry into a leading technical building services company in Switzerland last year, we recently succeeded in entering the German building services planning market with the ELPLAN Group – and we are very confident that we will be able to establish another successful buy-and-build concept here.
Thanks to our many years of expertise, we have also been able to enter into a valuable partnership with the häussermann Group in the sustainable and therefore very promising area of wood products and together continue a 100-year tradition of the company.
With the Digital Vision Group, we have established a new nucleus in digital infrastructure and consulting, which has emerged from the two already strong AGs Smaser and Stranet.
15 Acquisitions
With 15 acquisitions to date, the strong trend of the past year is continuing. These are spread across the portfolio of our buy-and-build platforms. We are seeing particularly strong activity in the IT services and consulting, construction-related services, pharmaceutical regulation and consulting sectors, as well as in restaurants, fitness studios and hotels, which have been particularly hard hit by the coronavirus restrictions.
Haidhausen – Our new home
As previously announced, we moved to Franziskanerstraße 14 in Munich’s beautiful Haidhausen district in April and took the opportunity to adapt the new office to the working style of the third decade: maximum communication and transparency through glass walls, flexible working groups, beautiful communal areas and state-of-the-art media technology. Surrounded by many cafés and restaurants and with the Isar flair wafting over, we have already settled in and are looking forward to developing new projects with you in our premises, supporting our existing companies on their way to market leadership – and then toasting to future cooperation in the Nockherberg beer garden.
About Auctus
With over 420 investments in the last 23 years, AUCTUS is the most active investment company for European SMEs. Our investments focus on majority shareholdings in companies with annual sales of between EUR 10 million and EUR 150 million.
AUCTUS stands for sustainable organic growth, but also inorganic growth through acquisitions. We achieve this in a trusting partnership together with the management of our companies. We specialize in building successful medium-sized groups of companies - we make market leaders. The more than 35 experienced AUCTUS investment experts currently manage 50 platform investments from various sectors of the economy. The platform holdings, with a total of over 200 individual companies, generate annual sales of € 3 billion. Sales and earnings have been growing at >10% per year for years.
Our successful work is regularly rewarded with prestigious awards and top international rankings.
