Leading service specialist actively seeking acquisitions

Leadec is targeting a host of companies across the following service spectrum:

• Installation, maintenance, and repair services (MRO) for production equipment; relocation services for production equipment
• Technical cleaning of production equipment
• Logistic services: e.g., empties management; intra-logistics; services in parcel distribution facilities as well as other on-site services in the logistics area
• Technical Facility Management (TFM): e.g., installation, maintenance, and repair services in the area's electrics, heating, and air-conditioning; energy management
• Refrigeration & Air Conditioning services for TFM and other applications such as in the food & beverage industry or in the clean-room sector
• Electrical & Fire Alarm Systems: installation and maintenance
• Fluid management services: (predictive) fluid condition monitoring
• Automation & Engineering: esp. with focus on factory, production and logistics planning
• Software / IoT: predictive maintenance, smart condition monitoring, digital equipment capture, automated guided vehicle systems

Leadec is targeting companies that provide services in production-related industries with discrete manufacturing (i.e., typically no process industry such as oil, gas, energy).

Focus industries include:

• Automotive (Passenger cars & vans, heavy trucks and buses, automotive suppliers)
• Aerospace 
• Food & beverage and other fast-moving consumer goods
• Consumer goods
• White goods and other slow-moving consumer goods such as electronics and electrical equipment
• Tire producers
• Line- and machine building
• Off-Highway (e.g., construction and agricultural machinery)
• (Parcel) Distribution centers
• Production logistics 

In order of preference, Leadec targets the following:

• Share of recurring revenue as high as possible
• EBIT Margins: in line with industry standards, no restructuring cases
• Revenue: 
  • from approx. EUR 5 million in service segments and countries in which we are already active
  • approx. EUR 20-150 million for acquisitions in new service segments and/or countries in which we are not yet active

Location

Western & Eastern Europe as well as Americas region with special focus on:

• Austria
• Czech Republic
• France
• Germany
• Hungary
• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• North America
• Poland
• Scandinavia
• Slovakia
• Spain
• Switzerland
• UK

Management Requirements

Management with experience and expertise in the business available, at least for a transitional period.