{"id":120269,"date":"2016-04-14T08:50:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T06:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=120269"},"modified":"2016-04-14T08:50:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T06:50:02","slug":"eoh-acquires-tech-firm-aptronics-for-r194-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/120269\/eoh-acquires-tech-firm-aptronics-for-r194-million\/","title":{"rendered":"EOH acquires tech firm Aptronics for R194 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listed technology services provider EOH has acquired 100% of Aptronics, a high-end data centre and end-user computing group, for R194 million.<\/p>\n<p>Aptronics&#8217; services include networking, virtualisation, servers, storage and infrastructure solutions.<\/p>\n<p>According to EOH, the group has been in business for over 20 years with turnover in excess of R500 million and has over 200 large enterprise customers.<\/p>\n<p>The terms of the deal say that the R194 million purchase price is payable over two years, split between cash and EOH shares, subject to warranted profits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAptronics operates across all key industry verticals and already works with many of EOH\u2019s existing technology partners,&#8221; said EOH CEO f ICT Solutions, Rob Godlonton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our combined value proposition will strengthen our relationships with both our joint customer base and our technology partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March, EHO\u00a0reported a 30% rise in revenue for the six months ended January 2016, to R6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Profit for the period was up 36% to R464 million, while cash increased 6% to R1.561 billion.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on EOH<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to EOH posts stellar results\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/116040\/eoh-posts-stellar-results\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">EOH posts stellar results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/108675\/eoh-plans-aggressive-expansion-in-africa\/\">EOH plans aggressive expansion in Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to EOH buys rail tech firm\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/101612\/eoh-buys-rail-tech-firm\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">EOH buys rail tech firm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to EOH reports massive jump in profits\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/98557\/eoh-reports-massive-jump-in-profits\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">EOH reports massive jump in profits<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listed technology services provider EOH has acquired 100% of Aptronics, a high-end data centre and end-user computing group, for R194 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,31],"tags":[25,1957],"class_list":["post-120269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-eoh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120271,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120269\/revisions\/120271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}