Private equity firm, Cinven’s seventh fund, in partnership with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, is to acquire and combine group.ONE and dogado group, to create a pan-European one-stop-shop provider of online presence solutions for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and small-office home-offices.
Private equity firm, Cinven’s seventh fund, in partnership with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers), is to acquire and combine group.ONE and dogado group (dogado), to create a pan-European one-stop-shop provider of online presence solutions for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and small-office home-offices (SOHOs).
The combined businesses offering will include domain, web hosting, cloud hosting, business software and digital marketing services.
Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
group.ONE is a provider of online presence solutions via mass hosting and software products to c1.6 million customers through brands including one.com, Hostnet and WP Media. Headquartered in Sweden, group.ONE operates across a number of European countries and has strong positions in the Nordic and Benelux mass hosting markets. The company has more than 650 employees.
dogado is a provider of online presence solutions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the DACH region), offering mass and cloud hosting and digital marketing services to more than 380,000 customers through brands including dogado, Metanet and Herold. Headquartered in Germany, the company employs more than 500 people.
