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Advania today announced the successful repricing of its existing €375 million Term Loan B, reducing the interest rate by 75 basis points and upsizing the facility to €425 million. This transaction includes a repricing of the existing loan and a €50 million add-on.

Hildur Einarsdóttir will step into the role of CEO of Advania Iceland on March 1. She brings a wealth of leadership experience, having spent 16 years at Embla Medical (formerly Össur), most recently serving as Executive Vice President of Research & Development. Hildur holds an executive education from Harvard Business School, a master's degree in biomedical engineering from Imperial College London, and an electrical engineering degree from the University of Iceland.

Advania has divested its Quality 360 application to ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), the AI platform for business transformation. Originally developed to help manufacturing companies manage quality issues, Quality 360 will now be integrated into ServiceNow's platform, ensuring greater scalability, continued innovation, and access to a broader market.

Advania, a leading IT services provider in Northern Europe and a portfolio company of Goldman Sachs Alternatives, announces the acquisition of Visuell Teknik. The company specializes in integrated audio-visual solutions that make complex meeting room technology simple and user-friendly.

Following the full press release dated October 10, 2024; Advania acquires UK based IT solution specialist CCS Media to further accelerate growth, Advania is pleased to finalize and close the acquisition of CCS Media. All the regulatory filings have been approved and the transaction is now closed.

Advania has been awarded the prestigious "Channel Partner of the Year Award" for the EMEA region at the Canalys Forum 2024, held in Berlin. Competing against IT companies from across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Advania was recognized by Canalys for its outstanding financial performance, strategic execution, and leadership.

Advania, a portfolio company of Goldman Sachs Alternatives and one of the largest providers of IT services in Northern Europe, has announced the acquisition of CCS Media, one of the largest independent IT solutions providers in the United Kingdom. This acquisition aligns with Advania's strategic focus on expanding its footprint and capability within the UK market.

Advania Iceland has signed a definitive agreement to divest two school software solutions to InfoMentor Iceland, a portfolio company owned by the Swedish software company Nordtech Group. As developing proprietary software is not part of Advania’s core offering, this divestment allows Advania Iceland to further streamline its IT services offering and provide best-of-breed software solutions tailored to the customers’ needs. This underpins the goal of becoming the preferred IT services provider in Northern Europe.

Refurbished devices in public administration are a high-quality, reliable, environmentally responsible, and overall economic option. For the past three years, Advania has been establishing a market for circular IT devices targeting educational institutions, municipalities, and cities.

Since November 2016, Advania SA have participated in incentive programmes through the Republic of South Africa’s Department of Trade, Industry and Competition. The primary objective of these programmes is to create employment in South Africa through servicing offshore activities, with a secondary objective of creating employment opportunities for the youth (age 18 to 34), and to contribute to the country’s export revenue from offshoring services.

Establishing diverse role models in all layers of your organisation is a prerequisite for fostering an inclusive work culture. Leaders must recognise the importance of recruiting without prejudice, assembling teams from various backgrounds, and encouraging employees to contribute with their own unique perspective. In this case study, Advania Norway shares its hiring philosophy and activities to introduce girls to IT as a possible career path.

Advania Sweden partnered with analysis company Radar to produce a report describing the attitudes of Swedish businesses to the circular use of IT equipment. The report showed that the transition from linear to circular management of IT hardware is slow and many Swedish businesses lack a strategy for take-back and reuse.