NWI Acquires a Shareholding in Maturus Finance GmbH

NWI Nordwest Industrie Finance GmbH, a holding of the Bremen-based Zech Group, has acquired a shareholding in Maturus Finance GmbH, a bank-independent leasing company with headquarters in Hamburg.

NWI Nordwest Industrie Finance GmbH, a holding of the Bremen-based Zech Group, has acquired a shareholding in Maturus Finance GmbH, a bank-independent leasing company with headquarters in Hamburg. Maturus Finance GmbH has secured itself a unique niche in Germany by practising a purely property-oriented financing. It thereby provides small and medium sized businesses with fresh liquidity, thanks to its "Sale & Lease Back" policy applied to their used, mobile fixed assets.

Today the managing directors of both companies signed the contracts sealing their future cooperation. "The partnership creates new perspectives for both companies. We will be extending our existing broad spectrum of diversified activities to include the field of leasing. In view of the lasting consequences of the reprehensible behaviour on the worldwide financial markets, Maturus Finance, reinforced with fresh equity capital from us, can provide still better support for its customers, offering them an alternative extension of their financial room to manoeuvre,“ said Werner B. Wilmes, Managing Director of Zech Group.

Maturus Managing Director Carl-Jan Freiherr von der Goltz was also happy about the future cooperation: "Together we can make still better use of the growth opportunities available to us. New ways of financing will become increasingly important for the small and medium-sized businesses in future, as a means of securing liquidity." For this reason a further increase in demand for credit-standing-independent "Sale & Lease-Back’ Financing is anticipated. The banks are becoming more and more reticent, particularly when it comes to financing the small and medium-sized businesses. Particularly in connection with revitalization and restructuring, when the classical bank financing is not usually available, this form of financing is acquiring special importance.

The sale of mobile, fully or partly depreciated fixed assets to Maturus Finance GmbH improves the company's liquidity. Then the company leases everything back. Plant and machinery can thereby continue to be used as before.