EQT makes a Koole purchase
The shareholders have accepted the offer, subject to the advice of the company’s works council on the transaction. Completion of the transaction will be conditional upon all anti-trust approvals having been obtained.
Koole’s terminals store edible oils and fats, biofuels, oleochemicals and certain base oils. The company is located in the port of Rotterdam, Europe's principal deep-sea port and home to the most significant cluster of the edible oils and biofuels industry.
In addition, Koole has business activities related to the transshipment and control/measurement of the mentioned products.
Koole’s assets include a deep-sea terminal in Rotterdam, regional hub terminals in Zaandam and Nijmegen, three coasters as well as fifteen inland barges. The company has been family-owned since 1943. The sellers intend to partly reinvest their exit proceeds in the company.