VIS Verkehrs Industrie Systeme GmbH acquires 100% of FEW – Fahrzeug- und Entwicklungswerk Blankenburg GmbH – Translink acts as exclusive financial advisor to the seller
Translink Corporate Finance acted as the exclusive financial advisor to the shareholders of FEW. The transaction team comprised Andreas Hüchting (Partner), Dennis Magath (Director) and Mareike Maas (Associate). FEW – Fahrzeug- und Entwicklungswerk Blankenburg GmbH The core business of Fahrzeug- und Entwicklungswerk Blankenburg GmbH (FEW) is the performance of maintenance and repair work on freight wagons. Furthermore, the company is specialized in the field of safety technology on the track. Moreover, FEW provides mobile teams for track construction sites to retrofit switches and signal boards, maintain outdoor facilities and carry out signage. VIS Verkehrs Industrie Systeme GmbH VIS GmbH has more than 175 years of production experience in rail vehicle construction. The company with 200 employees is active in the modernization, conversion and redesign of rail vehicles. By the year 2001, a total of 12,000 vehicles had left the production halls. In May 2002 the Zeppenfeld Industrial Group took over VIS GmbH.
In the past years, the FEW generated a turnover of approx. 7 MLN EUR with more than 90 employees.
The Company had revenues of around 20 million Euros in 2018.
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