20%
YoY growth
3m
Registered domain names
730k
SME customers
A Montagu business
- Large customer base of 730,000 SMEs
- Highly scalable technology platform
- Clear market leader in UK and Germany – #1 player in UK domain registration and #1 in the European Virtual Private Servers (“VPS”) market
Structural change to acclerate grwoth
Montagu supported management in transitioning Host Europe from a country-based to a product-based organisation. This enabled the team to accelerate organic growth, which was complemented by a number of strategic acquisitions.
Given strong interest in the business during our ownership, we completed the sale of Host Europe to private equity fund Cinven in August 2013.