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COMET收购德国依科视朗国际集团控股有限公司－－Takeover Yxlon
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发表于
2007-06-18 12:54:38
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News release
(Not for release in the United States, Japan, Australia or Canada)
COMET now global market leader
in industrial x-ray technology
Takeover of German firm YXLON International Group Holding GmbH, Hamburg
Flamatt, 1 June 2007. COMET Holding AG, Flamatt (FR), a leading supplier of industrial x ray components and modules for applications in the fields of security and non-destructive testing of materials, is acquiring the Hamburg-based high-¬tech company YXLON International Group Holding GmbH. YXLON is a leading player in non-destructive testing. The two companies are an ideal match, with their respective focuses on components and systems. Combining the two businesses will create the clear global market leader in non-destructive testing based on x-ray technology. It will enable COMET to build its worldwide market presence. The acquisition will more than double the revenues of COMET Holding AG: on the basis of the two companies’ 2006 results, combined annual sales will total CHF 200 million. From both a strategic and a financial viewpoint, the takeover of YXLON stands as the most significant acquisition in the history of the COMET Group.
The complete purchase price for all shares in YXLON International Group Holding GmbH is € 47.5 million (CHF 78.4 million). The seller is the private investor group Andlinger & Company. COMET is financing the acquisition through bank credits of CHF 45 million as well as the issue of new equity. For this purpose, the Board of Directors will table a proposal at the Extraordinary General Meeting on 27 June 2007 for the creation of further authorized capital through the issue of 120,000 new shares. This new equity is to be used exclusively for the acquisition, shareholders’ subion rights will be granted. The takeover of YXLON will take effect retroactively from 1 January 2007 and is due to be completed by the end of July 2007.
COMET and YXLON have both been involved for decades in the market for non-destructive materials testing based on x-ray technology. While COMET has concentrated on the manufacture of high-tech components, which it has long supplied to YXLON, the latter is focused on providing entire systems, including soft¬ware and&nb
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