VINCI Energies today announces its intention to acquire technology company Koning & Hartman. This acquisition strengthens its portfolio in the telecom industry, technical automation and infrastructure, enabling it to deliver even more added value to existing and potential customers.  The transaction will be submitted to the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM).

The history of Koning & Hartman goes back more than 120 years. Through the installation of measurement and control systems and later systems and services for data communication, Koning & Hartman played a pioneering role in telecom, industry, technical automation and infrastructure. The organisation specialises in smart, reliable and sustainable solutions, such as Smart Industry & Factory Automation, Mission Critical Communication, Wireless Connectivity and Mobility and Dealing & Control. These customer-specific solutions are supplied by Koning & Hartman in the Benelux to organisations in Healthcare, Public Order & Safety, Public Transport, Industry, Financial Service providers, Business services and Telecom operators. Their activities are a good fit for the brand portfolio of VINCI Energies. VINCI Energies serves the market with the brands Actemium, Axians, Omexom and VINCI Facilities.

Rob van Kaathoven, Deputy Managing Director of VINCI Energies in the Netherlands, says: “Koning & Hartman is a technology-driven organisation with entrepreneurial business units, and that fits in well with the VINCI Energies culture. Koning & Hartman’s high quality service ‘Technovation’ strengthens the Axians portfolio in the Telecom and IT market and the Actemium portfolio in Industrial Automation and Solutions. I’m convinced that the expertise we are now gaining will add value to the solutions that we can offer our customers.”

Oswald Coene, CEO of Koning & Hartman says: “With its Axians and Actemium brands, VINCI Energies is committed to digital transformation and Smart Industry; this fits seamlessly with the strategy and vision of our company. As an autonomous business unit within VINCI Energies, we can continue to develop our services. That way, our customers are assured of an innovative and future-proof service. It also offers our employees excellent prospects.”

In 2018, Koning & Hartman, with some 320 employees in the Netherlands and Belgium, achieved a turnover of € 66 million. The transaction is expected to be concluded by early July 2019.