{"id":74922,"date":"2014-12-02T10:06:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=74922"},"modified":"2014-12-02T10:06:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:06:32","slug":"datatec-buys-german-firm-inforsacom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/74922\/datatec-buys-german-firm-inforsacom\/","title":{"rendered":"Datatec buys German firm Inforsacom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICT group Datatec says that its subsidiary, Logicalis Group, has signed agreements to acquire German based firm Inforsacom.<\/p>\n<p>Inforsacom is a provider of database, storage and infrastructure solutions and services with operations across the major economic centres of Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition will significantly enhance Logicalis\u2019 scale and capabilities in the German ICT market, Datatec said.<\/p>\n<p>Inforsacom has an annual turnover of approximately $140 million and employs 160 staff.<\/p>\n<p>Datatec CEO, Jens Montanana, said: \u201cThe acquisition of Inforsacom creates a larger platform with broader ICT services capabilities to augment Logicalis\u2019 existing German operations, in line with the strategy of growing our presence in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition is subject to the approval by the German Competition Authorities and the South African Reserve Bank and is expected to be finalised in January 2015.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Datatec<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Datatec in German software developer acquisition\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/67356\/datatec-in-german-software-developer-acquisition\/\"><strong>Datatec in German software developer acquisition<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Datatec revenue up 8%\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/57543\/datatec-revenue-up-8\/\">Datatec revenue up 8%<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Datatec forecasts dip in profits\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/55076\/datatec-forecasts-dip-in-profits\/\"><strong>Datatec forecasts dip in profits<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Datatec shifts executive roles\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/51684\/datatec-shifts-executive-roles\/\"><strong>Datatec shifts executive roles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Datatec says that its subsidiary, Logicalis Group, has signed agreements to acquire German based firm Inforsacom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[25,765,771],"class_list":["post-74922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-datatec","tag-logicalis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74922","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=74922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74924,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74922\/revisions\/74924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}