Comment / Analysis: Waberer's looks an appealing takeover target for road rivals

Hungary’s Waberer’s Optimum Solution remains one those corporate stories that you instinctively sense will end with a change of ownership sooner rather than later.

A sticking point, though, could be its take-out valuation.

Ownership and background

“Mid Europa, as a private equity (PE) firm, has an investment horizon of five to seven years,” its owners said in Waberer’s IPO prospectus earlier this year.

Mid Europa initially invested in the business through the “selling shareholder”, CEE Transport Holding, in 2011 and said it was aiming ...