Apleona: FM service provider changes ownership
The company, which has 1,700 employees in Switzerland alone, has been sold to Bain Capital by the private equity firm PAI.
Apleona, a facility management group with more than 40,000 employees and a turnover of 4 billion euros in Europe, has been sold. The Germany-based company is now owned by the financial asset manager Bain Capital. The seller is the French private equity company PAI Partners (formerly "Paribas Affaires Industrielles").
PAI acquired a stake in the company in 2021. Under its aegis, Apleona reached the four billion turnover threshold by the end of 2024. A total of 14 companies in Europe were taken over by the service provider, which once emerged from the Bilfinger Berger Group. There are now plans to further expand the range of services through acquisitions. The regional focus is on the DACH region. In Switzerland, Apleona employs 1,700 people and most recently generated annual sales of CHF 193 million. In total, the service provider manages a portfolio of 6.3 million square meters in this country.
"With Bain Capital as the new owner, Apleona will continue to operate as an independent company on the market and further develop its position as an integrated FM manager with a high level of technical and digital expertise and in-house services in the areas of facility management, technical building services and solutions for the decarbonization of buildings," says Apleona CEO Jochen Keysberg. (aw)
