Investment company buys Maier Sports
Germany-based investment company Findos Investor has acquired German sportswear company Maier Sports, including its brands Maier Sports and Gonso. Maier Sports manufactures clothing for outdoor sports and skiing. Gonso produces bikewear. The acquisition will lead the way towards expansion for both brands.
Maier Sports and Gonso will continue to trade as independent companies, and it is anticipated that the management board will relinquish control at the start of 2012. Gerhard Maier, managing partner, will accompany this process before his retirement.
Findos Investor will continue to strategically develop Maier Sports and Gonso.
“We view it as a stroke of luck that we were able to acquire Maier Sports, a solidly and strongly growing company in the outdoor, bike and skiwear segment,” said a statement from Findos Investor. “In recent years, the Swabian company has achieved an outstanding basis for attractive and profitable growth.”
CEO of Maier Sports, Gerhard Maier said: “With Findos, Maier Sports is gaining an investor that is consolidating the capital, competence and network from a first-class German family business. I am therefore convinced that Maier Sports will be able to retain its company philosophy and simultaneously undergo strategic further development.”
In 2010, the manufacturer from the Swabian district of Köngen increased its turnover by 23%.
