Engineering company for industrial automation with 35+ years of history

Basic information

The subject of the sale is a 100% share in a trading company based in the South Moravian Region, which has been operating in the field of industrial automation for more than 35 years. The company provides, with its own capacities, complete deliveries of the electrical and control parts of single-purpose machines, production lines, testing stations and assembly equipment – from the conceptual design through electrical engineering of power and control switchboards, cabling and sensor technology, to the development of software for PLCs, visualisation and integration with the MES systems of production plants.

Alongside its own engineering activities, the company has long-standing distribution representation of two foreign manufacturers of components for industrial automation on the Czech market. Its typical customers include leading manufacturers in the automotive industry, producers of precast concrete building elements and concrete plants, mechanical engineering companies and engineering design offices. The company’s installations operate in Europe, Asia and Africa – thanks to exports through general suppliers of machinery units. The main activity is its own engineering work, however; distribution accounts for less than 5% of the company’s turnover.

Over the course of its existence, the company has delivered more than 1,000 completed projects and has built a stable portfolio of long-term customers who regularly order upgrades, servicing and new technologies. The business has been profitable for many years; the company has audited accounts and no bank debt. Revenues from the main activity have ranged between 0.9 mil. EUR and 1.4 mil. EUR per year in recent years, and the normalised EBITDA from operations between 37 ths. EUR and 279 ths. EUR. For 2026 the company expects revenues of 1.5 mil. EUR and normalised EBITDA of 98 ths. EUR, with orders contracted to fill 100% of its capacity for the coming months.

The company owns an equipped operation with a workshop, offices, vehicle fleet and stock of electrical components. Its available assets also include professional software licences (including CAD for electrical design and a development environment for PLCs), source codes of applications deployed at customers, an archive of completed electrical projects, and know-how built over generations of specialists.

The team of 10 employees includes an electrical designer, electrical fitters, programmers and administrative-managerial support. The current owner holds the company management position at approximately 50% of full-time capacity and is willing to remain in a managerial role after the sale, if this is beneficial to the buyer. The reason for the sale is solely the owner’s personal reasons.

The subject of the sale is 100% of the shares, excluding cash and excluding real estate – the real estate will be carved out into a separate entity prior to the transaction, and after the sale the buyer will be able to lease the operational premises on a long-term basis on market terms (indicatively around CZK 1 million per year). The company has no bank debt. The sale price is set at CZK 13 million (excluding cash and excluding real estate).

The investment is particularly suitable for a company in the industrial automation sector which lacks a strong electrical and software department in its structure, or which wishes to expand its existing capacities. It also makes sense for a financial investor wishing to build on the established customer relationships, long-term distribution representations, and to develop the company’s current activities.