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12.12.2014 // AURELIUS acquires ECO Plastics
09.12.2014 // AURELIUS and Studienkreis give away education
- Extra tuition for SchlaU students
- Private lessons key for future educational achievement
- Individual support for better prospects
13.11.2014 // AURELIUS enjoys strong growth in the 3rd quarter; earnings forecast for 2014 raised again
- Consolidated EBITDA reaches record total of EUR 208.5 million (up 210.7%)
- Executive Board raises forecast for 2014 as a whole to over EUR 240 million (previously at least EUR 220 million)
- Cash and cash equivalents rise to EUR 368.2 million (up EUR 144.3 million)
- NAV increases to EUR 1,104.7 million
13.10.2014 // AURELIUS opens new office in Madrid
- Another step in the international expansion
01.10.2014 // AURELIUS completes acquisition of IDS Getronics
- T-Systems IDS Individual Desktop Solutions renamed IDS Getronics
- Move takes AURELIUS’ IT activity to new level
- Fifth acquisition in 2014 completed – pipeline remains well filled
26.08.2014 // AURELIUS AG launches share buy-back
18.08.2014 // AURELIUS Mittelstandskapital acquires Berlin-based scaffold builder B + P
- First transaction for AURELIUS Mittelstandskapital
- Successful company joins with financially strong partner for further expansion
14.08.2014 // AURELIUS reports record results in the first half of 2014
- Revenues increase to EUR 804 million despite disposals
- Consolidated EBITDA rises 128 percent to EUR 111.5 million
- Consolidated net profit totals EUR 57.9 million
- Executive Board raises profit forecast for 2014: EBITDA of at least EUR 220 million (previously at least EUR 200 million)
- Further intensive transaction activity expected in the second half of 2014
12.08.2014 // AURELIUS AG sets up new subsidiary to invest in German Mittelstand companies
- AURELIUS Mittelstandskapital to focus on profitable German SMEs
- Companies profit from the AURELIUS Group’s strong capital base
- Long-term investment horizon and operational support
05.08.2014 // AURELIUS sells Swiss subsidiary connectis to SPIE Group
- Strategic investor SPIE to continue path of successful growth
- Purchase price (enterprise value) of CHF 48.0 million (approx. EUR 40 million)
- Fourth successful exit by AURELIUS in 2014
- Executive Board is planning a stock buyback
01.08.2014 // AURELIUS Group sells ISOCHEM Hungarian subsidiary Framochem
- Sale to strategic investor from the United States following acquisition in 2010 and successful restructuring
- Capital employed multiplied
- Already third successful exit in 2014, transaction pipeline remains well filled
01.07.2014 // AURELIUS successfully completes its acquisition of Publicitas
- Transaction closed on June 30, 2014
- Transformation into a cross-media advertising services provider
- Other interesting transactions expected in 2014
01.07.2014 // AURELIUS publishes net asset value of Group companies for the first time
- Aggregate NAV currently totals EUR 1,067.6 million
- 26 percent higher than present market capitalization
21.05.2014 // AURELIUS AG: Press release for the 2014 annual general meeting
- Dividend of EUR 1.05 EUR per share approved
- Record total consolidated EBITDA of over EUR 200 million announced for 2014
- AURELIUS discloses average cash multiple of 8.1x since 2006
12.05.2014 // AURELIUS posts record results in the first quarter of 2014
- Highest EBITDA in the company’s history: EUR 66.2 million (+327%)
- Successful exits deliver positive earnings contribution of EUR 32.0 million
- Despite the exits, operating earnings were up 15%
- Further improvement of balance sheet ratios and cash position
- Continued high level of transaction activity
08.05.2014 // AURELIUS to open a new office in Stockholm, Sweden
- Stepping up Scandinavian activities as part of international expansion
17.04.2014 // AURELIUS acquires AKAD University – a pioneer of private distance learning universities
- Reputable university with a strong brand and growth potential
- Second purchase from the Franz Cornelsen Bildungsgruppe
- Purchase at terms and conditions typical for AURELIUS
08.04.2014 // AURELIUS buys Individual Desktop Services from T-Systems
- Acquisition of IDS GmbH with revenues of EUR 80 million
- IDS to become part of the AURELIUS IT activity with Getronics
- Greater strategic cooperation between Getronics and T-Systems
- Reinforcement of AURELIUS’s ICT activities
02.04.2014 // AURELIUS to buy international advertising marketing agency Publicitas
- Strong international brand with commercial activities in 20 countries worldwide
- Seller PubliGroupe to concentrate its business units
- Transformation into a cross-media advertising service provider