Doubling of online sales
6 add-on acquisitions
Professionalisation
Strategy
- Management buy-out in partnership with ambitious management
- Accelerate online sales growth - from 23% in 2007 to 45% in 2012
- Product development and investment in content (development of new legal domains), information solutions (E-government), databases
- Strengthen competitiveness in legal domains through 6 add-on acquisitions
- Transition of a former state-owned company by investing in people and increasing the commercial drive
- Focus on operational efficiency in order to offset the expected loss of return in the government segment
- Growth diversification of Juris - 10% profit growth per year
- Sold to Editions Lefebvre Sarrut (ELS), an international publisher
“Over the past years, Sdu, in good cooperation and with full support of its shareholders, successfully accelerated its products and market development and services offering through a further transition from printed materials to online publications and services. As a consequence, Sdu’s market position has improved offering more ‘need to know’ information and services to our customers.”
Sam van Oostrom, CEO SduInvestment date
2007 - 2013
Deal type
Management Buy Out / Carve-out
Theme
Buy-and-build
Sales
€ 120 million
Employees
550
