Hosting provider intergenia acquires internet24 / intergenia to strengthen its market position as a leader in the German managed hosting sector

Hürth (ots) - intergenia is pleased to announce that it has
acquired the German managed hosting services provider internet24
GmbH. intergenia is a leading international supplier of professional
web hosting and server solutions. With this acquisition, intergenia
strengthens its position as one of the leading providers of managed
hosting in Germany.

internet24 GmbH is headquartered in Dresden with 35 staff members,
and was founded in 1997. The company specialises in providing managed
hosting services in all German-speaking countries. internet24
currently has 20,000 customers including a number of global ecommerce
companies.

Jan-Jaap Jager, CEO of intergenia, said "We have known the
internet24 team for a long time and are glad to have them on board as
part of the intergenia group. The combination of intergenia's managed
hosting brand PlusServer with internet24 will help our managed
hosting business unit to become one of the leading providers in
German-speaking countries."

"For some time we have been looking for the right partner to help
us put our business development strategy into practice," said
internet24's CEO Heiko Heerwagen. "Hence, we consider the acquisition
by intergenia as an important step towards implementing our strategy.
Together with intergenia, we will be able to provide our customers
with the best technology and price-performance-ratio."

About intergenia

intergenia trades under four different hosting brands -
PlusServer, serverloft, Unmetered.com and Server4You, and is
headquartered in Cologne, Germany. The group owns data centres in
Strasbourg, France and St Louis, USA. It hosts more than two million
active websites and around 40,000 servers. intergenia has a
geographically diversified customer base, composed predominantly of
SME customers, and is one of the German market leaders in providing
dedicated hosting to SMEs. In November 2011, Oakley Capital Private
Equity acquired 51 % stake in intergenia; the remaining 49 % is held
by intergenia's founders.

About internet24

internet24 GmbH is a premium hosting provider based in Dresden,
Germany. The company primarily serves business customers, ranging
from small businesses to globally operating enterprises. Since it was
founded in September 1997, more than 20,000 customers have chosen
internet24, including companies like AOK PLUS, Melitta, TUI, Netto
Marken-Discount and AMD. The company's core business, in addition to
classic web hosting and server solutions, is the design,
implementation and ongoing support of individual server solutions.
This includes high availability Internet applications and complex
server clusters.

About Oakley Capital Private Equity L.P. ("OCPE")

Oakley Capital Private Equity L.P. is an unlisted UK and European
mid-market private equity fund with the aim of providing investors
with significant long term capital appreciation.

The Limited Partnership's investment strategy is to focus on
buy-out opportunities in industries with the potential for growth,
consolidation and performance improvement. The Limited Partnership
seeks to invest in companies with scale in their industry subsectors,
thereby creating a sustainable earnings stream which should command a
premium on exit.

Press Contact:
intergenia,
Thomas Strohe
Phone: +49 2233 / 612 0
presse@intergenia.de
www.intergenia.de