ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <html> <title>Strempel &amp; Company - Press</title> <meta name="description" content="Consulente Aziendale American Business Consultant in Italy Advising on Corporate Finance, Strategy and International Business"> <meta name="keywords" content="Strempel,Italy, David Strempel, investment banking, M&amp;A, acquisizione, fusione, aziende, cross border, Lazard, Rothschild, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Kpmg, Citigroup, Bank of America, Mediobanca, Tamburi, Pedersoli, Deloitte, Petricca, Ubm, Merrill Lynch, Ripamonti, Vitale, Associati, finanza straordinaria, consulting milan, business italy, chartered accountant, CPA, merger, acquisition, corporate finance, Consulenza , commercialista , strategia, consultant, consult, Due Diligence, management consulting,Telecommunications, studio commercialista, Bertelsmann, analisi economica, New business, consulting Italia, European business, start up, business plan, commercio estero,piccola e media impresa"> <link rel="icon" href="http://www.strempel.it/spfav.ico" type="image/x-icon"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.strempel.it/spfav.ico" type="image/x-icon"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <!-- Created from PDF via Acrobat SaveAsXML --> <!-- Mapping table version: 28-February-2003 --> <meta name="DC.Title" content="Microsoft Word - SC 2010-2 TL SCo English final"> <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="DAVID"> <meta name="DC.Creator" content="PScript5.dll Version 5.2"> <meta name="DC.Date" content="2010-07-07T00:10:26"> <meta name="DC.Date.Modified" content="2010-07-07T00:10:26"> <style type="text/css"> .Part { width: 829px; } .style2 { font-size: medium; font-style: italic; } .style3 { font-size: large; } .style4 { font-size: medium; } .style5 { font-size: small; } </style> </head><body vlink="purple" alink="#f0000a" bgcolor="white" link="blue" text="black"> <br /> <br /> <br /> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 25px 50px;"> <img src="http://www.strempel.it/images/TLSClogos.png" width="531" align="" height="52" style="width: auto; height: auto"><p align="justify" class="style4"><font color="#000000">Press Release: June 14, 2011</font></p> <div class="Part"> <h1 align="center" class="style3">Translink Strempel & Co exclusive financial advisor to Geico Spa in its global alliance with the Japanese industrial group Taikisha Ltd </h1><p align="center" class="style2">The Japanese group Taikisha, listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange and the second-largest player worldwide in paint plants for the automotive sector, acquires 51% of Geico as part of the global alliance between the two companies</p> <p align="justify" style="width: 829px" class="style4">Strempel & Company is glad to announce the formation of a global alliance between Geico Spa, an Italian company specialised in automated paint plants for the automotive industry, and Taikisha Ltd of Japan. The alliance reinforces both companies marketing, geographical coverage and technological positions. The commitment behind the establishment of the alliance is evidenced by Taikisha having acquired a 51% equity stake in Geico.</p> <p align="justify" style="width: 829px" class="style4">Taikisha, a Japanese company with sales in excess of one billion euros and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is the second-largest global player in automated paint plants for the automotive sector, in addition to be a producer of air conditioning systems for both commercial and industrial applications.</p> <p align="justify" style="width: 829px" class="style4">Geico Geico is an industrial group with over 100 years of tradition in the manufacturing of &#8220;turn-key&#8221; paint systems and plants for the vehicle industry. In addition to its Italian headquarter, the company has subsidiaries in China, Brazil and India. Management expects the company to have revenues around 65 million euros in 2011 with an Ebitda of about 5 million.</p> <p align="justify" style="width: 829px" class="style4">Translink Strempel & Company originated the transaction and acted as exclusive financial advisor to Geico, with a team composed of Alberto Parisi Presicce (Partner), David Strempel (Managing Partner) and Pier Paolo D&#8217;Angelo (Associate).</p> <p align="justify" style="width: 829px" class="style4"> I am proud that our company contributed to a transaction  declared Alberto Parisi Presicce  that creates huge value for both parties involved. Taikisha and Geico have perfectly complementary geographical coverage and client relationships. In addition, Geico brings to the table innovative technologies, which can now be offered to Japanese car maker clients of Taikisha. Finally, the professionalism of Geico s management has been recognised to the point that Ali Reza Arabnia, Geico s President and CEO, will become a member of the Global Executive Committee for Taikisha s Paint division in addition to maintaining his current role in Geico .</p> <p align="justify" style="width: 829px" class="style4"> Being part of an international network such as Translink  added Parisi Presicce  has given us, since the beginning, a privileged access to Taikisha at Board level. The fundamentals of the suggested transaction were then so strong that this operation resisted to the tsunami catastrophe, which hit Japan during discussions .</p> <p align="justify" style="width: 829px" class="style4">&#8220;The Geico transaction &#8211; declared David Strempel &#8211; is a great example of how small and medium-sized Italian companies can achieve scale (while retaining a certain degree of independence) to enhance their global competitive position by considering M&A and strategic alliance opportunities. It is also an excellent example of how the advisor can play a crucial role in helping companies bridge competitive and cultural barriers, particularly relevant in this case, considering the fact that this was the first international operation of this kind for Taikisha&#8221;.</p> <p align="justify" style="width: 829px" class="style4"><font color="#000000">For further information please contact:</font><p><font color="#000000" size="+1"> <span class="style4">Strempel &amp; Company Srl Tel: +39 02 8699 7475 Email: press@strempel.it </span> <font color="#000000"> <span class="style4">Web: <Web: <u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="http://www.strempel.it"> www.strempel.it</a> </font></u>/ </span> <u><font color="#0000ff"> <span class="style4"> <a href="http://www.translink-int.it">www.translink-int.it</a> </span> </font></u></font></font><span class="style4"></font></span></p> <p style="font-size: small; margin-bottom: 2px"><font color="#000000" size="+1"><i><font color="#002295"><span class="style5">Partner firm of</span></font></p><font color="#002295" size="+1"> <img src="http://www.strempel.com/images/Translinklogo3.jpg" style="height: auto; width: auto"></font><p align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="+1"><font color="#0000ff"><font color="#000000"><font color="#0000ff"><font color="#000000"><font color="#0000ff"><font color="#002295" size="+1"><font color="#00007f"><i>Argentina Austria Belgium Brazil Colombia Denmark Finland France Germany Hungary India </i><b><i> Italy </i></b><i>Norway PerNorway Peru Poland Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland The Netherlands Turkey UK USA </i></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p></div></body></html>