Deal Announcement Industrials - Anker Kassensysteme

A group of private investors has sold Anker Kassensysteme GmbH to Halder in an MBO. Anker’s existing management team participated in the transaction, becoming minority shareholders. 

Halder has been active in the German-speaking region since 1991, providing 42 medium-sized companies with equity capital for succession solutions and growth. Halder supports its portfolio companies in their international expansion, strategy and business model development and via investments, in order to expand capacity and finance add-on acquisitions. 

Anker is market leader for POS hardware in the German-speaking food retail industry, with over 600,000 installed cash cassettes. The company offers a wide variety of POS hardware products, including cash cassettes, cash drawers and peripheral poles. It also offers integrated POS solutions under its reputable brand and partners with various well-known POS accessory suppliers. With 70 employees at its Bielefeld location, Anker generated approximately EUR13 million in sales in the most recent fiscal year. 

The IMAP Germany team, led by Marco Strogusch, Sebastian Weiner and Tim Buttelmann, exclusively advised the shareholders of Anker and supported the company in structuring, negotiating and successfully concluding the transaction process.