2. AURELIUS steps in to buy Exertis IT – July 2025
All still seemed relatively rosey eight months on, when international private equity house AURELIUS stepped in to buy Exertis IT for an enterprise value of £100m.
Although AURELIUS’ track record with the likes of the Body Shop may have rung alarm bells in some quarters, private equity has been a fairly reliable custodian of other IT distributors in recent years (take Apollo and Platinum Equity’s recent involvement with TD Synnex and Ingram, for example).
The AURELIUS deal encompassed DCC Technology’s Info Tech businesses in the UK and Ireland (namely Exertis UK Business and Consumer, Hypertec, Exertis Supplies, Exertis Ireland, Macro EV, Exertis Supply Chain Services, MTR and Ztorm).
It did not include DCC Technology’s ‘Pro Tech’ audio visual business, nor Exertis Enterprise or Exertis Nordics (which have since been rebranded as Nexora).
At the time, DCC Group CEO Donal Murphy claimed AURELIUS would drive “further operational and financial improvement” for the distributor.
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