Oslo, 8 June 2021: Reference is made to Mercell Holding ASA's ("Mercell") stock exchange announcement on 1 June 2021, regarding the signing of an agreement to acquire of 100% of the shares in the leading Finnish e-Tendering provider Cloudia Oy ("Cloudia").
Mercell is pleased to announce that it today, on 8 June 2021, has completed the acquisition of Cloudia. The acquisition represents a major step in Mercell's strategy to become the leading European provider of public e-tendering and e-procurement software.
For more information, please contact:
Fredrik Eeg, CFO Mercell
Tel: +47 908 33 378
freg@mercell.com
This is Mercell:
Mercell is a leading digital platform for public eTendering and entered the eProcurement market in 2020. The company has approximately 3,000 buyers and some 26,000 suppliers as customers. Mercell's unique marketplace simplifies the tender and procurement process and makes it easy and secure for buyers to find relevant suppliers for their tenders and purchasing needs, and enables suppliers to find relevant business opportunities and receive and handle purchases from public and private buyers. Mercell delivers services to public and private buyers in 13 European countries with the goal of becoming the leading software -as-a-service (SaaS)-platform for eTendering and eProcurement in Europe. Through the acquisition of Negometrix in February 2021, Mercell also became market leader in the Netherlands and established a foothold in the US market.