{"id":53056,"date":"2025-05-08T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editing.capitalmind.com\/the-digital-consumer-ma-market-trends-and-active-players\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:38:10","slug":"the-digital-consumer-ma-market-trends-and-active-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/de\/the-digital-consumer-ma-market-trends-and-active-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Benelux Digital Consumer M&amp;A Market: Momentum is Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a challenging period, the Benelux Digital Consumer M&amp;A market \u2013 with a focus on e-commerce and marketplaces \u2013 the market is improving again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over 20 private equity firms are already active in the Benelux market only, and with many holdings maturing, deal activity is expected to rise. At Investec, we&#8217;ve mapped the key players, KPIs, technology and valuation trends in a dedicated insight report.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As can be seen on the chart below, Marketplaces consistently trade at higher EBITDA multiples than traditional E-commerce players, with a peak in early 2021 driven primarily by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, since mid-2021, as economies reopened and consumer behavior normalized, both sectors have seen more stable multiples, with marketplaces typically maintaining a premium over traditional E-commerce due to scalability and an asset-light model.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"729\" src=\"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Consumer_may-25_1_def-1-1024x729.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Consumer_may-25_1_def-1-1024x729.png 1024w, https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Consumer_may-25_1_def-1-800x570.png 800w, https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Consumer_may-25_1_def-1-768x547.png 768w, https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Consumer_may-25_1_def-1-1536x1094.png 1536w, https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Consumer_may-25_1_def-1-1x1.png 1w, https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Consumer_may-25_1_def-1-200x142.png 200w, https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Consumer_may-25_1_def-1-500x356.png 500w, https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Consumer_may-25_1_def-1.png 1757w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are numerous private equity platforms in the market looking for acquisitions and further scaling. Below you will find an overview of a selection of the Benelux private equity platforms active in the Digital Consumer market.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1446\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2025-05-22-om-13.15.55.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2025-05-22-om-13.15.55.png 1446w, https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2025-05-22-om-13.15.55-800x542.png 800w, https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2025-05-22-om-13.15.55-1024x694.png 1024w, https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2025-05-22-om-13.15.55-768x520.png 768w, https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2025-05-22-om-13.15.55-1x1.png 1w, https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2025-05-22-om-13.15.55-200x136.png 200w, https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2025-05-22-om-13.15.55-500x339.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1446px) 100vw, 1446px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curious to learn more? Get in touch with <a href=\"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/team\/maurits-odekerken\/\">Maurits Odekerken<\/a> for the full insight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a challenging period, the Benelux Digital Consumer M&amp;A market \u2013 with a focus on e-commerce and marketplaces \u2013 the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":52907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3801],"tags":[17092,17093,17081],"news-event-type":[],"dealtype":[],"blog-tag":[],"class_list":["post-53056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sectornews-de","tag-consumer-de","tag-keytrends-de","tag-market-trends-de","ps-consumer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53056"},{"taxonomy":"news-event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-event-type?post=53056"},{"taxonomy":"dealtype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dealtype?post=53056"},{"taxonomy":"blog-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.capitalmind.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-tag?post=53056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}