Merlin DK Bidco ApS

Merlin Group is owned by KKR, a leading global investment firm, and Bettcher Industries, a KKR portfolio company. Bettcher and Frontmatec operates independently under their existing brands and leadership teams. The companies expect to collaborate on sharing best practices and driving future innovation and product development. They will also explore further strategic acquisition opportunities, including bringing additional businesses with leading brands into the platform. Merlin Group is a global leading provider of advanced food processing equipment. The Group develops world-class customized solutions for automation in the food industry. The Group is especially renowned for role high-quality systems for the entire value chain of the meat industry — from carcass grading to slaughter lines, ducting and deboning lines and control systems to logistics and packaging. Merlin Group is headquartered in holding, Denmark. The Group has production facilities in Denmark, Romania, Canada, China, Spain, UK, and Germany and serves its global customers through its own sales offices with main locations in Denmark, Germany, Croatia, UK, Poland, France, Spain, Netherlands, China, Canada, and USA. The strategy of the Group is to leverage its strong market position and full-line product offering to outperform the underlying market growth while at the same time executing operational improvement initiatives in order to continue to enhance profitability. The Parent Company’s principal activity consists of holding equity investments.