Air Liquide (AL) recently announced it has entered into exclusive negotiations, with Messer, regarding the divestment of its entities in Czech Republic and Slovakia.
AL explained that the decision illustrates AL’s strategy to review regularly its asset portfolio and focus its geographic expansion on key regions in order to increase density and therefore enhance performance.
AL started operating in Slovakia in 2000 and Czech Republic in 2001. Both locations total 53 employees, with office locations in Prague and Trnava. Messer intends to fully integrate and merge the two companies into the respective Messer companies in Prague and in Bratislava in the short term.
“We see many synergies and positive effects with respect to production, logistics, sales and customer supply. Taking over AL’s entities in Czech and Slovakia will further strengthen our position on the industrial gases market in Central Europe,” said Stefan Messer, owner and CEO of the Messer Group.
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