Veidekke: Wants to acquire contractor in Østfold
Veidekke has signed a letter of intent to purchase all of the shares in contractor Haugerud Vikeby AS in Mysen. “We want to take a larger share of the local and regional building market south of Oslo,” says district manager Ketil Gunde Andersen of Veidekke.
“Veidekke currently has a very competent building department in Øst AS with headquarters in Halden and a branch in Spydeberg. We have been looking at the right opportunity to strengthen our position and are therefore pleased that we have joined forces with a solid contractor with its own skilled workers and a similar corporate culture as ours,” says Veidekke’s district manager Ketil Gunde Andersen.
The building and construction market in Østfold and Akershus south is attractive, not least due to the new railway and E18 motorway that reduces travel time to Oslo significantly. With the building businesses Øst AS in Halden and Haugerud Vikeby in Mysen, Veidekke will have a good starting point for greater implementation capacity, competence and competitiveness in the region.
“We want to become a part of a larger contractor in order to evolve further, and we have had Veidekke at the top of our list. Now we can take with us both our values and corporate culture into a group with large muscles, and I’m looking forward to becoming part of the team in Veidekke along with our craftsmen and officials,” says general manager Jørn Haugerud of Haugerud Vikeby.
Haugerud Vikeby AS is a building contractor in Mysen with long traditions. They carry out large and medium-sized projects such as commercial buildings and housing for both public and private clients, primarily in central Østfold. Carpentry, masonry and concrete works are carried out with own employees, additionally with ty\he use of local subcontractors. The company has 36 employees, and revenues totalled just over NOK 200 million in 2022 with a profit margin in recent years of around 4%.
Now due diligence will be carried out and that the transaction has to be approved by the competition authorities. The goal is that the final purchase agreement can be signed in April 2023.
For further information, please contact:
District manager Ketil Gunde Andersen, tel. +47 90 79 15 60, Ketil.Gunde.Andersen@veidekke.no
CFO Jørgen Wiese Porsmyr, tel. +47 907 59 058, jorgen.wiese-porsmyr@veidekke.no
Communications Manager Helge Dieset, tel. +47 90 55 33 22, helge.dieset@veidekke.no
General manager Jørn Haugerud of Haugerud Vikeby, tel.+47 95 83 80 09, jorn@haugeud-vikeby.no
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