Software firm makes biggest acquisition yet to boost staff numbers by 300

Cloud-based business management software provider, which has an office in Lincoln, is set to buy Netherlands-based Trivest Beheer, software firm which works in the SME manufacturing sector.

Trivest’s nearly 3,000 customers and more than 300 employees will join ECI’s manufacturing division.

Trivest provides industry-specific software solutions for small to mid-sized companies in the manufacturing sector, including ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, APM (advanced production management system) software, MES (manufacturing execution system) software, CAD/CAM design software, business intelligence solutions and mobile applications.

The company works across 27 countries. This acquisition will “significantly expand” ECI’s presence in the Benelux region and across Europe.

“The most important thing to us at Trivest is equipping our customers with the tools they need to make their businesses successful, and we’re excited to be joining a company who shares that philosophy,” said Gino Keijzer, chief executive of Trivest.

He added: “By becoming part of the ECI family, we will have an even greater ability to innovate on our products in order to best serve our customers across all geographies.”

Ron Books, chief executive of ECI, said: “Trivest is our largest acquisition to date and reinforces ECI’s commitment to expanding our portfolio so that we’re always offering the best possible solutions to our customers.

“Adding Trivest will truly give ECI an established presence in the Netherlands and Europe, and allow us to offer a new, robust platform solution to our SMB manufacturers.”

Trivest is a portfolio company of family office Nedvest. Arma Partners served as a financial advisor to Trivest and JanssenBroekhuysen Advocaten served as legal advisor. William Blair served as financial advisor to ECI Software Solutions and Houthoff served as legal advisor.

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