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The acquisition war for Korea’s largest home furnishing company is heating up.

With the addition of Korean retail giant, Skupina LX, the competition for the acquisition of Hanson Home is intensifying. Dříve, Obchodní dům Shinsegae v Jižní Koreji, Hyundai Furniture (Hyundai Livart), dceřiná společnost obchodního domu Hyundai, and South Korea’s Lotte announced their intention to jointly acquire Hanson with South Korea’s private equity IMM PrivateEquity (IMM). But the acquisition camp is expanding with the addition of LXHausys, společnost stavebních materiálů vlastněná LX Group (kdysi součástí LG), jedna z korejských špiček 50 firemní skupiny.

If LX Hausys acquires Hansen, the top-ranked company in the interior design and building materials industry, the landscape of the Korean building materials and interior design industry will undergo a huge shakeup, and the market shares of the top companies will be recalculated.

According to Korean media, LX Hausys held a board meeting on September 6 and announced that it will invest 300 miliard wonů (RMB 1.7 miliarda) as a strategic investor in a private equity fund that IMM plans to set up to acquire Hanson. nicméně, konečná investice ještě nebyla potvrzena.

Lotte, Shinsegae and Hyundai Department Store Group have announced their plans to participate in the acquisition. LX Hausys is considered to have the most competitive advantage considering the synergy with Hanson’s business.

With the recent spin-off of LX Group from LG Group, its business scope has expanded from traditional construction materials to the whole house. Building materials account for about 70% společnosti LX Hausys’ prodeje, zakrývající okna, dveře, podlaha, panely, artificial marble, atd. The division’s sales in the second quarter of this year were KRW 659.6 miliarda, nahoru 25% rok za rokem. LX Hausys má největší tržní podíl v kategorii oken pro realitní projekty v Koreji. It also has strengths in high value-added product lines such as marble kitchen sinks and PF insulation materials.

And Hansen has an overwhelming advantage in the Korean retail market. Hansen started with kitchen furniture in 1970, then began supplying interior furniture in 1997 and has expanded its business to include building materials such as bathrooms, okna a podlahy. It is currently the No. 1 market player in kitchen furniture and interior furniture in Korea. Její hlavní prodejci, quality stores and a number of stores are the most important reasons to attract the acquirer.

Podle zpráv korejských médií, Hansen has showrooms and mega experience centers in 15 key locations in the region, including Bangbae-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul and Nunhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Daegu, Pangyo-dong, and Hanam-si, Korea. They exclusively supply Hansen products and have 550 online stores for re-house remodeling business, 240 kitchen furniture stores and 80 flagship interior design stores.

Hansen employs 8,000 remodeling construction professionals and 2,500 interior design sales associates. Tržby společnosti v loňském roce (267.5 miliard wonů) více než čtyřnásobek oproti předchozímu roku (65 miliard wonů), the highest performance since its founding. Jeho online kanál, Hansen Mall, který poskytuje informace o přizpůsobení nových domovů, moving houses, children’s rooms, atd., has achieved positive sales growth since the first quarter of last year. V současné době přitahuje 3 milionů zákazníků měsíčně.

Sales of its B2C (remodeling and kitchen) division increased by 23% meziročně v 2020. Z tohoto, Re-House, which provides total remodeling solutions, rostl o 33.3%. Od 2020, Hansen’s kitchen sales for second-hand homes account for 27.5% z celkového prodeje. Combined with 30.6 percent of online and offline sales from the sale of furniture and home furnishings, the B2C business accounted for 69.1 procent.

Hansen’s revenue for FY2020

Kitchen and bathroom information according to public data collation

Ve druhém čtvrtletí roku 2021, sales and operating profit increased 9.6 procent a 22.6 procent, respektive, compared with the prior year. Remodeling segment sales increased 24.6 procent meziročně.

Hansen 2021 first half results

Kitchen and bathroom information according to public data collation

Navzdory růstu velikosti, Hansen’s overseas subsidiaries did not perform as well as expected. Sales growth at Hansen’s U.S. and China subsidiaries has also slowed each year for the past three years. Loni, sales at the two subsidiaries declined 10.2 procent a 3.9 procent, respektive, while the China subsidiary experienced a double-digit decline. The decline also continued in the first and second quarters of this year with negative growth of 17.3 procent a 45.7 procent.

Hansen has been in China since the early 1990s. v 1995, it set up Beijing Hansen Home Products Co., Ltd. in Beijing and invested in a cabinet production plant to undertake engineering business, and joint with the head of the pan-home industry to develop some engineering projects.

Kitchen and bathroom information query enterprise search found that the shareholders of Beijing Hansen Home Products Co., Ltd. Hansen (Čína) Investment Co., Ltd. increased its registered capital in 2020, but this year Beijing Hansen Home Products Co., Ltd. in February legal representative, ředitelé, shareholders and other members of the successive changes.

It is worth noting that earlier this year there were media reports that most of the Korean executives of Hanson Korea stationed in China have been withdrawn one after another at the end of 2018 a brzy 2019. Some of the Chinese employees in China are looking for their next homes, and some have even found their next homes, pending only the arrival of significant layoff compensation.

Dříve oznámená dohoda, že společnost IMM získá a 30.21% podíl a práva na správu údajně stojí za to 1.5 bilionů wonů (RMB 8.3 miliarda).

IMM přezkoumá Lotte's a LX Hausys’ investments and identify partners as early as mid-September. V současné době, Lotte oficiálně oznámila, že ano “zvažuje účast” a LX Hausys oznámila, že bude investovat 300 billion won as a strategic investment. After the acquisition of Hanson is completed, IMM očekává, že se z ní stane největší operátor na domácím domácím trhu online i offline.