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The acquisition of Hero\u2019s shares is subject to the approval of the German Federal Cartel Office and is set to be complete late February\/early March.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nHero and its subsidiaries (hereafter \u201cHero Group\u201d) develop and manufacture high-quality plastic parts and assemblies for vehicle interiors and the household appliance industry. The Hero Group generates annual revenue of around EUR 40 million with more than 200 employees at four locations in the federal state of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. Phillip Bentzinger, CEO of Hero, will continue to manage the company as managing director in partnership with the existing team.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe Hero Group will complement Blue Cap AG\u2019s portfolio in the Plastics Technology segment (Uniplast Knauer GmbH & Co. KG and con-pearl GmbH). Due to the acquisition of Hero\u2019s shares, the Management Board of Blue Cap AG anticipates revenue of approximately EUR 260 million and an adjusted EBITDA margin of around 8% for the 2021 financial year, subject to possible effects of the coronavirus pandemic and other acquisitions and disposals of shareholdings."}],"button_br":false,"textblock_buttons":[{"textblock_button_link":null}],"textblock_background_color":"fd_bg-lightgrey","container":"container","container_mobile":false,"container_mobile_margin":false,"columns_desktop_xl":"col-xxl-12","columns_desktop":"col-lg-12","columns_tablet":"col-md-12","columns_mobile":"col-12","columns_offset_desktop_xl":"m-xxl-auto","columns_offset_desktop":"m-lg-auto","columns_offset_tablet":"m-md-auto","columns_offset_mobile":"m-auto","spacing_above":"mt-0","spacing_beneath":"mb-0","spacing_inner_above":"fd_pt","spacing_inner_beneath":"fd_pb","zindex":"0","base_horizontal_padding":true}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-cap.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-cap.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-cap.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-cap.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-cap.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-cap.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6492,"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-cap.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions\/6492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-cap.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-cap.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-cap.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}