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02.03.2017 // AURELIUS acquires Wex Photographic
- Online retailer with half a million customers across the UK
- Integration with Calumet Photographic to offer significant synergies and create leading multi-channel, pan-European photographic retailer
- Combination of Wex Photographic with Calumet Photographic brings AURELIUS’ pan-European photographic retail businesses to combined revenues of EUR 175 million
27.02.2017 // Calumet Photographic with Gold Service award at the Amateur Photography ceremony in London
- Milton Keynes company scoops top customer service prize for sixth year running
02.01.2017 // AURELIUS completes its acquisition of Office Depot Europe
- Office Depot Europe boasts strong brands and Europe-wide set-up.
- Brisk transaction activity in 2016: Annualized consolidated revenues rise to approx. EUR 4.5 billion.
24.12.2016 // 70,000 euros for the AURELIUS Refugee Initiative e.V.
Major donation success at this year's Christmas party.
Social involvement by the holding company and many subsidiaries considerably expanded.
22.12.2016 // AURELIUS acquires AH Industries
- A leading supplier of components, modules and systems for the wind-power, minerals and cement industries
- A technological market leader in all three areas of business
- AURELIUS' presence in Scandinavia continues to pay off
13.12.2016 // AURELIUS sells brightONE's consulting business in the Netherlands to a strategic partner
- brightONE Netherlands is very well positioned following a successful restructuring and strategic reorientation
- Sale to strategic investor CRM Partners
02.12.2016 // AURELIUS Sells Publicitas in a Management Buy-Out
- Purchaser to systematically continue operational reorientation
- Further cost-savings and efficiency enhancement-measures planned
16.11.2016 // AURELIUS Refugee Initiative e.V. Supports "Pavillon der Hoffnung in Leipzig e.V."
- "PlayTogether" campaign against discrimination
- Indoor playground as a venue for integration
10.11.2016 // AURELIUS Equity Opportunities with solid operating performance in the first nine months of 2016
- Consolidated revenues rise 63 percent to EUR 1,926.9 million
- Operating EBITDA increased considerably in the third quarter
- A total of eight company acquisitions in the first nine months of 2016
- Three successful sales lead to a cash inflow of more than EUR 90 million
- Net Asset Value EUR 1,353.3 million
02.11.2016 // Plastipak Packaging Inc. acquires AURELIUS subsidiary Evolve Polymers
- British firm sold to strategic US acquirer Plastipak
- UK polymer activities concentrated in Regain Polymers subsidiary
18.10.2016 // AURELIUS Refugee Initiative supports the MOAS search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean again
- AURELIUS Refugee Initiative funds life-saving drone operations
- 117 people rescued at sea
- Better search and rescue with drones
04.10.2016 // AURELIUS sells Getronics-IDS to the strategic Investor SEP
- Sale in connection with Getronics Group's strategic focus on its core businesses
- Previous Getronics-IDS management remains on board
- New owner supports the chosen path
27.09.2016 // AURELIUS sells its last stake in the Berentzen Group following successful reorientation
- Stable and new shareholder base for Berentzen Group AG
- Profitable course of growth thanks to AURELIUS' successful operating approach
- Consistent implementation of growth initiatives in the area of the core brands and for product innovations
23.09.2016 // AURELIUS acquires Office Depot Europe
- Revenues of EUR 2 billion – biggest transaction in the history of AURELIUS
- Office Depot Europe with strong brands and Europe-wide setup
- Huge potential for the AURELIUS operating model
15.08.2016 // AURELIUS subsidiary B+P Gerüstbau acquires construction and specialty scaffolder BSB Group
- Logical strategic add-on acquisition in the context of B+P’s expansion strategy
- The transaction solves the previous owner’s succession problem
- Capabilities expanded to include bridge renovation, and clear synergy potential
11.08.2016 // AURELIUS Equity Opportunities with consistently strong growth in the first half of 2016
- Consolidated revenues up 50 percent to EUR 1,346.7 million – consolidated revenues of more than EUR 3 billion on an annualized basis
- Six new acquisitions and three successful company disposals in the first half of 2016
- Total EBITDA EUR 99.7 million – Cash inflow from disposals of around EUR 80 million
- Net Asset Value rises to EUR 1,318.5 million
15.07.2016 // AURELIUS Group acquires cosmetic clinic operator “The Hospital Group”
- Provider of surgical and non-surgical cosmetic procedures
- Complex shareholder circumstances present valuable equity acquisition opportunity
- Large synergy potential with AURELIUS Group’s established acquisition Transform
01.07.2016 // AURELIUS completes the acquisition of Northern European activities of the Abelan Group
Supplier of packaging solutions for the European food sector with well diversified product offering
29.06.2016 // AURELIUS acquires Working Links
- Leading provider of employability and rehabilitation services
- Operations in the UK, the Republic of Ireland, and the Middle East
- Annual revenues of around €160m in 2015
- Already three acquisitions in the second quarter of 2016
- No negative effects expected due to Brexit