Herter & Co. has advised Heizkurier Group on the financing for the acquisition of pellet pioneer Suter Group.
Heizkurier Group is expanding its group portfolio with the Swiss Suter Group and is thus positioning itself as the market leader for equipment-as-a-service for mobile heating solutions in the DACH region. With the acquisition, NORD Holding is consistently implementing the strategy developed at the time of the Heizkurier acquisition with regard to growth and focus on sustainable technology. The joint group employs around 180 people at 17 locations in the DACH region and has the largest and most technologically advanced equipment pool for mobile heating applications. Both companies distinguish themselves to their customers through highest service quality and availability. The joint group benefits from considerable synergies from Suter’s innovative pellet technology as well as Heizkurier Group’s extensive market access in the DACH region. This enables an ideal positioning to benefit from the megatrend towards energetic renovation in the building sector. In addition, other relevant application areas exist in the fields of construction heating and drying, industrial heating, agriculture, emergencies and events. The existing management and the founders of Suter participate in the merger.
On the part of NORD Holding, the transaction was implemented by Philipp von Mitzlaff, Maximilian Frey, Marcel Rosengarten and Nicolas Eidenmüller.
Herter & Co. acted as Sole Debt Adviser to Heizkurier Group, a NORD Holding portfolio company.
About Heizkurier
Since 2007, Heizkurier has established itself as a leading rental and sales provider of mobile heating and cooling solutions. With the acquisition of HDS Energielösungen GmbH, which specialises in refrigeration solutions, in 2018 and the Austrian company energy4rent GmbH in 2020, the company’s solution portfolio and regional coverage were successively expanded. To address the wholesale segment, the Energiebringer brand was also created in 2021.
The company’s rental equipment fleet currently compromises more than 1,000 mobile heating and cooling centres with outputs ranging from 10 kW to 5,000 kW. All Heizkurier units are “Made in Germany” or “Designed in Germany” and are manufactured on the basis of many years of experience and with the highest quality requirements. The offer is supplemented by services such as consulting, planning, delivery, technical emergency service and device return.
A special field of application is the bridging of heating during the energetic renovation of buildings, where Heizkurier can make a significant contribution to saving CO2 emissions in the building sector with their solutions.
Other important areas of application include construction heating and screed drying, bridging of emergencies, expansion and maintenance of district heating networks, industrial applications and events. With its intelligent solutions for construction heating, the company creates the opportunity for higher capacity utilization even in the cold months to counter the urgent problem of the shortage of skilled workers in Germany.
The group of companies employs over 120 people at its headquarters in Wachtberg and its 10 service locations in Germany and Austria.
For further information, please visit: www.heizkurier.de
About Suter
Suter Group, headquartered in Lupfig, Switzerland, is a family-owned company active in the business areas of mobile heaters and dehumidification. The company is a pioneer in the field of pellet technology and rents efficient and environmentally friendly hot air and hot water systems to its customers as a one-stop shop. Suter’s rental equipment fleet includes more than 500 mobile pellet heaters with an output of 50 to 1,000 kW, which are used for hot air and hot water heating.
Typical areas of application include construction heating, heating systems for renovation projects, heating of halls and tents, hay drying, temporary bridging solutions during district heating expansions and screed drying. Suter has a total of 6 locations in Switzerland and a first branch in Munich for expansion into the German market. The Suter Group currently employs 60 people.
For further information, please visit: www.sutergruppe.ch
About NORD Holding
With over 50 years of history and assets under management of € 3.0 billion, NORD Holding is one of the leading private equity asset management companies in Germany. The focus is on the business areas of direct investments and fund of funds investments.
The focus of the direct business is on the structuring and financing of corporate succession models, the acquisition of group divisions/subsidiaries and the expansion financing of medium-sized companies. In contrast to most other financial investors, which only manage funds with a limited term, NORD Holding acts as a so-called “evergreen fund” with no term restrictions and invests from its own balance sheet. The company is currently involved in more than 15 companies in Germany and other German-speaking countries.
The Fund Investments division targets the small-cap segment of the European private equity market and focuses on primary, secondary and co-investments. NORD Holding concentrates strongly on buyout managers newly established on the market, operational investment strategies and regularly acts as an anchor investor.
For more information, please visit: www.nordholding.de
