Responsive Image Banner

Strabag and Porr in talks to rescue €90m acquisition

Delivery of an ‘as built’ model from a Trimble movbile mapping system finished off the project

Contractors Strabag and Porr have entered talks to try and salvage a €90 million deal to acquire parts of the VAMED Group.

The two companies announced in May last year that they would buy parts of VAMED through a joint holding company.

The plan was to buy VAMED-KMB Krankenhausmanagement und Betriebsführungsges (VKMB) and VAMED Standortentwicklung und Engineering (VSG), comprising the technical operations management and construction projects divisions of Vienna General Hospital (AKH Wien), the Austrian project development business and VAMED’s spa holdings in Austria.

Despite signing a purchase agreement nearly a year ago, however, Strabag announced today (11 March) that the closing conditions of the purchase deal remain unfulfilled by the contractually agreed date.

It added that “among other things”, approval from the relevant competition authority had not yet been obtained.

The Strabag-Porr consortium has now entered into further negotiations with the seller regarding the purchase agreement. It is not clear how long those negotiations are expected to take.

Last month, Strabag appointed Stefan Kratochwill as its CEO, following the untimely death of Klemens Haselsteiner in January.

Strabag board appoints new CEO Austrian construction firm Strabag announced a new group CEO
STAY CONNECTED

Receive the information you need when you need it through our world-leading magazines, newsletters and daily briefings.

Sign up

Longer reads
Liebherr LR 1300 comes of age and keeps on going
At 18 how does the 300 tonne capacity LR 1300 lattice boom crawler crane remain so popular?
Global construction equipment sales are still faltering. When will they recover?
Global construction equipment sales should start to come back from the bottom of the cycle next year, according to Off-Highway Research, but there is some uncertainty around the forecast 
Why construction needs to look forward if it wants to handle uncertainty
Dr Alan Manuel, group chief executive of Currie & Brown, on why the global consultant has launched a new Certainty Index
CONNECT WITH THE TEAM
Andy Brown Editor, Editorial, UK - Wadhurst Tel: +44 (0) 1892 786224 E-mail: [email protected]
Neil Gerrard Senior Editor, Editorial, UK - Wadhurst Tel: +44 (0) 7355 092 771 E-mail: [email protected]
Eleanor Shefford Brand Manager Tel: +44 (0) 1892 786 236 E-mail: [email protected]
Peter Collinson International Sales Manager Tel: +44 (0) 1892 786220 E-mail: [email protected]
CONNECT WITH SOCIAL MEDIA

Inside The Minds of Leaders:
Using Tech To Unearth Greater Profit

FREE WEBINAR ON-DEMAND

This session was hosted by KHL's Mitch Keller, with speakers from AEM, Landmark Construction and Trimble.

Download and watch in your own time