Asesoft could take over 25% in Curiero

Curiero, a Romanian-held postal and courier services company, is negotiating the sale of a 25% stake in the IT group Asesoft, controlled by Ploiesti-based businessman Sebastian Ghita. The transaction could amount to 5 million euros, according to ZF estimates, which the company values at around 20 million euros. “We are in negotiations with Asesoft, which has been our business partner for some time. I think they would be the best suited for the 25% stake, given that both companies started from scratch, and have grown a great deal over the last few years,” Bogdan Carcu, head of Curiero, told ZF. Asesoft representatives neither confirmed nor denied information on negotiations to buy into Curiero. “We have acquisition plans for several companies, in order to consolidate certain departments of the group, such as logistics, having allocated 10 million euros for such acquisitions,” said Sebastian Ghita. The Asesoft group, which estimates an over 200 million-euro turnover for this year, has also made a 100 million-dollar offer to the software and IT solutions provider Siveco.