OMZ-IT

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2024: Softline bought 60% of OMZ-IT

In mid-August 2024, Softline announced the purchase of 60% of OMZ-Information Technologies (OMZ-IT LLC). The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Data from Kontur. Focus indicates that Softline acquired control over OMZ-IT through its subsidiary LLC Softline Projects. Softline explained to Kommersant that this deal is needed to start a partnership with the group, as well as expand the integrator's presence in the digitalization market for the industrial sector. To do this, the company forms an industrial cluster of IT products.

OMZ-IT products will become its core, Softline added.

OMZ Promising Technologies hopes that the deal with Softline "will stimulate their development and provide access to them to a wide client base."

OMZ-IT LLC is a member of the OMZ Promising Technologies group, the main shareholder of which is Gazprombank. Softline notes that the company expects to consolidate the industrial software market in cooperation with Gazprombank.

According to the source of the publication in the IT market, for Softline, the acquisition of a share in OMZ-IT is important, in particular, due to control over Bimeister - the company is engaged in high-tech design, in demand in various industries. Alexey Gorislavets, general director of the investment company AFI Capital, estimated the purchase of 60% of OMZ-IT at 250-300 million. rubles The Commercial Director for Products T1 Anton Spirin and Services estimated the asset lower - at 80-100 million rubles. based on the indicators of OMZ-IT and the previous M&A ones with the participation of Softline.

Dmitry Babansky, Director of the SBS Consulting Department, considers the acquisition expedient.

Large industrial players have high competencies in terms of digitalization, but this does not cancel the need for suppliers of complex solutions, he added.[1]

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