Austria/Spain: Salto Systems Takes Over Gantner Technologies

In 2016, the private investment company Ardian took a majority stake in Austrian Ganter Electronic Austria Holding GmbH (Gantner), which is specialised in electronic access, ticketing and billing systems as well as smart locks for lockers. Ardian now announced that Gantner has been acquired by Salto Systems (Salto), a Spanish manufacturer of access control and electronic locking solutions. Since Ardian’s investment, Gantner’s product portfolio has been expanded to include ticketing and management software for leiure facilities with the acquisition of Syx Automations in 2017, which has been operating as Gantner Ltd. since 2018 (cf. EAP 6/2017 & EAP news of 25 May 2018). This was followed by the acquisition of Dortmund-based Contidata in June 2020, which helped Gantner to expand its offering to include cashless payment systems for company cafeterias.

Elmar Hartmann, CEO of Gantner, says: “The collaboration with Ardian as an entrepreneurial partner was a true success story. During the past four years, we have been able to continue our steep growth curve and doubled our size. [...] Thanks to the new partnership with Salto, we can our product portfolio, take advantage of important synergies, better target our markets and address customer segments with precision. This puts us in an optimal position to continue our growth. [...]”

Javier Roquero, Co-founder and CEO of Salto, adds: “We are very excited to welcome Gantner to the Salto family. The Gantner product suite enriches and diversifies the Salto product suite, enhancing our end user experience and improves our ability to continue to deliver the absolute best in electronic access control.” (eap)