Build-ups Exit TRUSTTEAM Investment date: October 2018 Build-up date: July 2020 Sector: Technology, Media and Telecoms — Ardian supported the acquisition of Nexis, a Belgian-based company providing IT hardware and support services, by Trustteam. This acquisition allows the Trustteam group to extend its footprint GANTNER TECHNOLOGIES in Belgium as well as to benefit from commercial Investment date: April 2016 synergies.Thanks to its two data centers and Exit date: October 2020 its own VOIP platform, Trustteam represents a Sector: Technology, Media and Telecoms significant benefit for all Nexis customers. Country: Austria — Ardian sold Gantner Technologies, a company which specializes in electronic access, ticketing and billing systems as wellas smart locks for lockers, to its competitor Salto Systems, a leading BERLIN BRANDS GROUP Spanish manufacturer of access control and Investment date: July 2015 electronic locking solutions with a global presence Build-up date: December 2020 in 32 countries. Since Ardian took a majority stake Sector: E-commerce retailer in Gantner in 2016, the company has continued — with its established strategy, providing customers Berlin Brands Group (BBG) is an e-commerce with integrated solutions through targeted retailer selling own products in the home & living,investments in research & development, as well gardening, sports and consumer electronics as the expansion of the product range, organically segments. With Ardian’s support, the group started and via the two acquisitions of Syx (2017) and developing an external growth strategy and Contidata (2020). completed the acquisitions of two e-commerce companies, Sleepwise and Dombach, in 2020. Both companies are sellers on the Amazon marketplace, which are the prime targets for BBG’s buy-and-build strategy. An internal M&A team was built up to continuously support the strategic move to acquire further Amazon marketplace sellers and integrate and scale them through BBG’s platform. 2020 ACTIVITY REPORT 69