Nordic Capital Sells Danish Soccer Specialist Unisport to Poland’s R-GOL for Over 500 Million Danish Kroner

PE fund Nordic Capital has offered Danish soccer specialist Unisport to Poland’s R-GOL. This seems from a press launch from the fund on Thursday morning.

The acquisition worth ought to exceed 500 million Danish kroner – equal to 770 million Norwegian kroner, in keeping with the report The Danish Inventory Change.

Nordic Capital has owned the corporate for over 9 years and has been an outspoken exit candidate in recent times. In 2019, the fund tried to begin a sale course of, nevertheless it failed due to the pandemic.

R-GOL is a Polish model distributor of soccer merchandise in Europe. The corporate operates in eleven nations and cooperates with greater than 1,000 soccer golf equipment.

The corporate has 475 workers collectively, one and a half million loyalty members and a turnover of greater than 200 million euros.

Scorching soccer in the summertime

Unisport just lately reported its greatest ever end in 2023. It elevated turnover in 2023 by 30 % to NOK 1,447 million from NOK 1,113 million the earlier yr, and adjusted EBITDA rose from NOK 63 million to NOK 81 million, akin to a rise of 29 %. .

Nordic Capital injected 50 million Danish kroner into Unisport earlier than the New 12 months in reference to a significant refinancing.

In response to managing director Michael Burk, the cash needs to be used to make sure that Unisport has all its merchandise in inventory and is provided for an enormous soccer summer season.

Unisport had ambitions for income development of 15-20 % in 2024 and on the similar time plans to spend money on expertise, extra workers and new markets.

The transaction is predicted to be accomplished within the third quarter of 2024.