The world's largest domain name registrar GoDaddy for $1.8 billion acquisition of HEG: enter the European market-IT information

According to the financial times, in order to expand into the European market, large Web-hosting company GoDaddy agrees to $1.82 billion acquisition of Internet service providers Host Europe Group (referred to as "HEG").

The acquisition of GoDaddy is by far the largest deal. The United States was founded in 1990, which is 7 million customers in the world.

GoDaddy a year ago in the United States market, its shareholders include two private equity firms KKR and Silver Lakeand Technology Crossover Ventures. It is currently focusing on expanding customer base and product portfolio.

The company's CEO Blake Irving (Blake Irving), said in an interview, which accelerated the development of trading company in Europe "5 years time" and give the company added 1.7 million customers.

"HEG has brought us a very attractive customer base, its customer characteristics just like our customers. 80% of their clients is not more than 10 employees of small businesses, our customers have 80% is not more than 5 employees of small businesses. "He said.

Owen added that GoDaddy will help HEG expand their product available to European customers. GoDaddy and can be said to be complementary to the services provided by the HEG--from Web hosting management, to provide email marketing services to small businesses.

According to people familiar with the matter say, GoDaddy the purchase Ridge fought off three other bidders in Partners, and Warburg Pincus and United Internet.

HEG is currently a private-equity firm Cinven all, which in August 2013 to its ￡ 438 million in the Pocket.

Cinven under HEG by four large mergers and acquisitions (including acquisition of Telef ó Nica Online Services) has been growing. In addition, some of its business through smaller acquisitions to expand, including in 2016, 8 acquisition in the first half.

European private equity companies are attempting to portfolio companies as a platform, through the "acquisition and development" strategy to get expanded. They don't go for natural growth, but through this strategy, additional acquisitions to quickly push up sales.

Cinven will be € 605 million price GoDaddy,GoDaddy will also assume HEG HEG sold 1.08 billion euros of net debt. Cinven get 2.6 times from the HEG investment returns.

The acquisition is expected to be completed by the second quarter of 2017. GoDaddy plans to integrate HEG most business while exploring the possibility of selling HEG PlusServer managed hosting business.

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全球最大域名注册商GoDaddy以18亿美元收购HEG：进军欧洲市场 - IT资讯

据金融时报报道，为了扩张到欧洲市场，大型网络托管公司GoDaddy同意以18.2亿美元收购网络服务提供商Host Europe Group（简称“HEG”）。

该收购是GoDaddy迄今为止规模最大的一笔交易。该美国公司成立于1990年代，其全球客户量为700万。

GoDaddy于一年前在美国上市，其股东包括两家私募股权公司KKR和Silver Lakeand Technology Crossover Ventures。它目前专注于扩大客户基础以及产品组合。

该公司的CEO布莱克·欧文（Blake Irving）在接受采访时表示，该交易让公司在欧洲的发展加快了“大约5年时间”，给公司增加了170万客户。

“HEG给我们带来了很有吸引力的客户群，其客户的特点跟我们的客户一模一样。他们的客户有80%是员工数不超过10人的小企业，我们的客户则有80%是员工数不超过5人的小企业。”他说道。

欧文补充道，GoDaddy还将会帮助HEG扩张他们提供给欧洲客户的产品。GoDaddy和HEG所提供的服务可以说是互补的——从网络托管管理，到向小企业提供电邮和营销服务。

据知情人士透露，GoDaddy在此次收购中击退了另外三位竞购者ridge Partners、Warburg Pincus和United Internet。

HEG目前为私募股权公司Cinven所有，后者于2013年8月以4.38亿英镑的价格将其收入囊中。

在Cinven门下，HEG通过四笔大型并购（其中包括对Telefónica Online Services的收购）取得了增长。此外，它的业务通过规模较小的一些收购实现了扩张，其中包括发生于2016年上半年的8笔收购。

欧洲私募股权公司正纷纷尝试将投资组合公司用作平台，通过“收购和开发”战略来取得扩张。它们并没有去寻求自然增长，而是通过这种战略，额外的收购活动能够快速推升销售额。

Cinven将以6.05亿欧元的价格把HEG卖给GoDaddy，GoDaddy还将承担HEG的10.8亿欧元净负债。Cinven从对HEG的投资中获得了2.6倍的回报。

该收购预计将于2017年第二季度完成。GoDaddy打算整合HEG大多数的业务，同时探索出售HEG的PlusServer管理托管业务的可能性。

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