DNSint.com acquire Centia and AKS Group
| Buyer | DNS |
| Seller | Centia |
| Business | Citrix Distributor |
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DNS completes Acquisition of Centia and AKS Group
DNSint.com AG announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of the UK-based Centia group and the Scandinavian-based AKS group. Both are well known throughout the industry as specialists in the virtualization and access solutions space. Their products and solutions match perfectly across the geographies. Till the end of the year both companies will keep their existing branding. Centia and AKS will gradually be fully integrated within DNS to create a more powerful, unified team.
Fürstenfeldbruck, August 7th, 2007 – DNSint.com AG, a pan European value added distributor who is headquartered in Fürstenfeldbruck/Germany has reached an agreement to acquire the UK-based Centia group and the Scandinavian-based AKS group. The transaction is dependent on regulatory approval. Centia is a value added distributor in the United Kingdom with satellite offices in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. AKS is active in all Scandinavian markets. Both AKS and Centia are well known throughout the industry as specialists in the virtualization and access solutions space. The DNS and AKS/Centia products and solutions match perfectly across the geographies. Centia and AKS have approximately 120 employees and reported revenues of over 80M€ in 2006. Centia and AKS will continue to effectively serve their markets under their current branding.
“Since becoming an Arrow company, DNS has continued to pursue pan European growth strategy in fast growing market segments”, says Manfred Moullion, co-founder and member of the managing board DNSint.com AG. “This acquisition is another important step in implementing our strategy. We see an ongoing consolidation in the market and are actively participating in it. Both acquired companies are a perfect addition to our portfolio and bolster our presence in the UK and Scandinavia.”
Centia and AKS have focused on partnerships with leading vendors like Citrix, IBM SW, RSA, TrendMicro,VMware und Wyse, which are also current vendor partners for DNS. The employees of Centia/AKS will benefit from this transaction by getting access to an expanded product portfolio, being able to better serve their re-seller partners and by gaining access to the state-of-the-art infrastructure of DNS Arrow.
“Our reputation for technical excellence has been built up over 25 years. We are excited to become a part of a world-class value-added distributor such as Arrow, and gain access to Arrow’s abundant resources and broad customer base. This partnership will create significant opportunities for our organization,” stated Yuri Pasea, founder and chairman, Centia/AKS.
Robert Wadstein, CEO of AKS adds: “This move and the integration of our Nordic operation into DNS Arrow, which has a much larger Pan-European footprint, completely underpins our ambitions to be the 'go to' distributor for channel resellers who want to service their end users requirements in the exciting and fast growing segments of Access Computing and Virtualization.”