MOMA buys Bavarian sawmill operator HCR from Outdoor Life Group
What's the deal? MOMA Invest GmbHDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, an investment vehicle of the Dr. Thomas Muhr entrepreneurial family, has acquired all shares in HCR Holz Centrum RegensburgDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → from the Netherlands-based Outdoor Life Group Holding B.V.Dealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → The deal value was not disclosed.
Who's involved? HCR brings more than 50 years of experience in wood processing, specialising in garden and packaging timber. It operates a sawmill in Wenzenbach, Bavaria, located in one of Europe's largest pine and spruce regions.
What's the endgame? The seller, Outdoor Life Group, is an international firm focused on developing, producing, and distributing garden and packaging timber products. The sale transfers HCR's Bavarian operations to a family-backed owner.
Grant ThorntonDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → in Germany advised MOMA through the process with an interdisciplinary Advisory and Legal team, led by partners Dr. Mathias Reif, Boris Kröpsky, Harald Weiß, and Dr. Stephane Müller. The team covered negotiations, due diligence, and final contract talks through signing and closing.
Hans-Werner Bieler, head of the Muhr family office, said the "high demands" of a "complex and challenging negotiation phase" were brought to a conclusion with the Grant Thornton team. (translated from German)
The signal: The acquisition moves a decades-old timber processor into private family ownership, consolidating a specialist supplier at the heart of Europe's pine and spruce belt.
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