- Craft, Electronics - IC002391
- Company sale | Company acquisition | Generation change
- Supervised by: Ingo Claus
About the company
Pohlmann + Bindel (P+B) is a medium-sized family business for electrical and security technology that has been in business in the second generation since 1959. Pohlmann + Bindel specialises in the digitalisation of schools and businesses as well as integrated detection systems for access, video and alarm technology from ABUS Security Systems. The company is also heavily involved in the field of e-mobility and offers solutions for wallboxes and storage technologies. The company motto is: “We are the electronics engineers!
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Company acquisition (M&A) - independence or strategy for growth
The task
As part of the corporate strategy, a company acquisition was the favoured option for further future growth. With the takeover of an owner-managed electrical company, the future-oriented range of services for the digitalisation of buildings, schools and commercial enterprises is to be established at a further location in the Münster/Osnabrück region.
In the course of target scouting, KERN compiled a list of over 100 potential target companies. The targeted approach of several favoured companies ultimately led to the purchase of Elektro Pöhler from Münster and to a cooperation with two other craft enterprises from the region.
What the client says about the project
Mathias Pohlmann:
We already tried to grow in the past by buying an electrical company. This was very time-consuming and did not lead to success at first. Thanks to Mr. Claus’ structured search and approach, we were able to talk to companies that met our requirements profile. Mr Claus understood how to moderate the discussion processes of the possible succession with the necessary tact and to represent our interests.”
About the seller
Elektro Pöhler has been operating in Münster since 1967 and is run by Ute Pöhler, widow of the late master electrician Michael Pöhler, in the second generation. Elektro Pöhler is a service-oriented electrical trade company with well-trained and experienced employees.
I am pleased that with P+B we have found a competent partner for a forward-looking solution that will expand the Münster location and strengthen it in the long term. The employees can now take advantage of this opportunity and develop the company further?, says Ute Pöhler about this successful company succession in the skilled crafts sector.
