{"id":13175,"date":"2022-02-15T10:33:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T09:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/?p=13175"},"modified":"2022-02-15T12:52:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T11:52:34","slug":"bmt-sells-its-shares-in-c-lecta-gmbh-to-kerry-and-realizes-a-highly-profitable-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/2022-en\/bmt-sells-its-shares-in-c-lecta-gmbh-to-kerry-and-realizes-a-highly-profitable-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"bm|t sells its shares in c\u2011LEcta GmbH to Kerry and realizes a highly profitable exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrygroup.com\/\">Kerry Group plc<\/a> (\u2018Kerry\u2018), the global taste and nutri\u00adtion com\u00adpany based in Ire\u00adland and listed on the Euronext Dublin and Lon\u00addon Stock Exchange, today announced it has reached an agree\u00adment to acquire 92% of the issued share cap\u00adi\u00adtal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-lecta.com\/\">c\u2011LEcta GmbH<\/a> (\u2018c\u2011LEcta\u2018) for a con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of \u20ac137m, with man\u00adage\u00adment to retain the balance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>c\u2011LEcta is a world-lead\u00ading biotech\u00adnol\u00adogy com\u00adpany with a focus on enzyme engi\u00adneer\u00ading and appli\u00adca\u00adtion in reg\u00adu\u00adlated mar\u00adkets like the food and pharma indus\u00adtries. The com\u00adpany is based in Leipzig, Ger\u00admany, and has estab\u00adlished itself as a lead\u00ading player in the real\u00adiza\u00adtion of high-value biotech prod\u00aducts, either in the form of in-house devel\u00adop\u00adments or in close coop\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion with indus\u00adtry. The com\u00adpany cur\u00adrently employs more than 100 people.<\/p>\n<p>bm|t invested in c\u2011LEcta in a growth financ\u00ading round together with a Bel\u00adgian spe\u00adcial\u00adized sec\u00adtor fund in July 2018 and actively sup\u00adported the com\u00adpa\u00adny\u2019s strong growth.<\/p>\n<p>Sebas\u00adt\u00adian Kned\u00adlik, Senior Invest\u00adment Man\u00adager at bm|t, com\u00adments: \u201cThis highly qual\u00adi\u00adfied and extremely ded\u00adi\u00adcated team achieved a truly impres\u00adsive per\u00adfor\u00admance by using its world-lead\u00ading tech\u00adnol\u00adogy plat\u00adform to gen\u00ader\u00adate high mar\u00adgin busi\u00adness. It has been a real plea\u00adsure to work with the c\u2011LEcta team and sup\u00adport them on their out\u00adstand\u00ading growth path dur\u00ading the last four&nbsp;years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the sale bm|t quadru\u00adpled its orig\u00adi\u00adnal invest\u00adment and increased the value by more than \u20ac&nbsp;10m.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>About bm<\/strong><strong>\u2011<\/strong><strong>t beteiligungsmanagement th\u00fcringen gmbh (bm|t)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Erfurt-based, bm|t is the first address for invest\u00adments in Thuringia, Ger\u00admany. bm|t cur\u00adrently man\u00adages nine funds with a total vol\u00adume of over EUR 350 mil\u00adlion and invests in inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive com\u00adpa\u00adnies with strong growth poten\u00adtial across all sec\u00adtors and all phases of the cor\u00adpo\u00adrate lifecycle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bm\u2011t.com\">www.bm\u2011t.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bm|t sells its shares in c\u2011LEcta GmbH to Kerry Group plc, with a 4x return on investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[176,177,157,210,159,201,171],"class_list":["post-13175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2022-en","tag-bm-t-en","tag-bmt-en","tag-exit-en","tag-investeepartner","tag-investment-en","tag-presse","tag-thuringia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}