Founding shareholders of DT Swiss Group have acquired all shares of the Company
The majority shareholders Frank Böckmann and Maurizio D’Alberto of DT Swiss Group AG, a world-wide leading manufacturer of high-quality bicycle components, acquired all shares of their co-founder and long-time co-shareholder Marco Zingg as part of a structured succession solution. The acquisition financing of the shares were arranged by UBS and Berner Kantonalbank.
DT Swiss Group AG (“DT Swiss” or “the Company”) is a manufacturer of premium bicycle components. The company, headquartered in Biel, Switzerland, was founded in 1994 by Marco Zingg, Frank Böckmann and Maurizio D’Alberto in a management buyout of the spoke manufacturing business of the former Vereinigte Drahtwerke Biel.
DT Swiss has since extended its production to all wheel components such as spokes, hubs, rims, nipples, complete wheels, dampers and forks. In 2003, DT Swiss was awarded the Espace Mittelland Entrepreneur Award. Today the Company employs more than 600 employees with production sites in Switzerland, Poland, the U.S. and Taiwan.
Lincoln International acted as the exclusive financial advisor to the founding shareholders of DT Swiss on the acquisition and financing of a substantial minority shareholding as part of a succession solution.
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