Veghel/Boxtel, the Netherlands, 23 February 2012 – Legrand announced today the acquisition of the Aegide Group, and its Minkels, Cortexon, Vaultex and dcs businesses.
From this date, Mr Gery Morssinkhof will hand over his function as Chief Executive Officer of Aegide Group to Mr Jeroen Hol, the former Group’s Chief Commercial Officer, while remaining actively involved in Aegide’s strategy and business development as a consultant to Legrand. The rest of Aegide’s management team will remain unchanged.
Irving van Nes, Managing Director Legrand Nederland said :
“Minkels has established as a strong and valuable brand all across Europe and beyond, with a growing reputation for innovation and services. We believe that the Aegide/Minkels data center product range is very complimentary to Legrand’s other product offering to the data center market, such as cable management, modular UPS, busbars, security systems, switchgears or datacom connectivity”.
Jeroen Hol, CEO Aegide Group said:
“Legrand is already very active in the data center market worldwide through its different product lines and brands. Ortronics (structured cabling and VDI) and Cablofil (wiremesh), for instance are well-established brands in that market. Aegide and Legrand will work together to offer the data center market a more complete package. As such, this association will increase both companies’ ability to offer complete, integrated, energy efficient and secure solutions for mission critical data center operations”.
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