DGAP-News: Balda AG: Balda accepts take-over bid by Stevanato Group
04.02.2016
DGAP-News: Balda AG / Key word(s): Disposal
Balda AG: Balda accepts take-over bid by Stevanato Group
04.02.2016 / 15:48
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Bad Oeynhausen, 4 February 2016 – Balda AG has accepted the purchase offer
of Italian Stevanato Group for the entire operating business and is
currently preparing closing. Stevanato had handed in their binding offer on
29 January 2016 at the extraordinary AGM. They had increased their offer
from the original purchasing price of EUR 80 million to EUR 95 million in
the context of a bidding war.
“We are very pleased to become a part of the successful Stevanato Group.
Because of joint development projects with the Stevanato-brand Ompi in the
past we were able to get to know the impressive corporate culture of the
family business and their extensive product portfolio. We see many
similarities. Not least because of this I am convinced that Balda – under
the roof of family owned and run Stevanato – will be able to develop
dynamically and has thus the best future prospects”, explains Oliver
Oechsle, sole Management Board member of Balda Group.
About Balda
Balda (ISIN: DE0005215107) is a provider of high-end plastics solutions
that rely on quality in sophisticated fields of application in the
healthcare, lifestyle, automotive and consumer electronics industry. Balda
operates in Europe and Northern America and has state of the art production
sites at the Oeynhausen headquarters in Germany and in the US. The
company’s success with its about 780 staff worldwide is based on the use of
modern, cost-efficient technologies and the close cooperation with our
customers in a spirit of trust.
www.balda-group.com
About Stevanato
Stevanato Group with its headquarters in Piombiono Dese, Italy, was founded
in 1949 and is today globally the biggest owner-run developer of
ready-to-use containers and bulk primary packaging from syringes and
cartridges, to vials and ampoules within the pharma industry. For instance,
Stevanato Group is currently the market leader in the manufacture of
cartridges for insulin pen injectors. With 2100 employees Stevanato
generated a total of EUR 285 million in sales revenues.in 2014, of which 90
% are derived from export. Besides Italy, Stevanato is present in Denmark,
Slovakia, Mexico and China.
www.stevanato-group.com
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Language: English
Company: Balda AG
Bergkirchener Str. 228
32549 Bad Oeynhausen
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 57 34 / 9 22-0
Fax: +49 (0) 57 34 / 9 22-2604
E-mail: ir@balda-group.com
Internet: www.balda-group.com
ISIN: DE0005215107
WKN: 521510
Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated
Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover,
Munich, Stuttgart
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