REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Concur , the world's leading provider of on-demand Employee Spend Management services, announced that it has completed the acquisition of privately held H-G Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries, including Gelco Information Network, Inc., the owner of Gelco Expense Management (Gelco). Gelco provides a wide range of expense management services to its clients, including ExpenseLink. Concur expects the acquisition to be accretive to pro forma earnings in fiscal 2008.
"Concur remains focused on helping companies of all sizes drive costs out of their businesses while continually delivering increased value and innovation," said Steve Singh, chairman and CEO of Concur. "The acquisition of Gelco enhances Concur's ability to deliver even greater value to all of our clients by expanding our reach and enhancing scale, enabling us to deliver accelerated innovation. I look forward to working together with Gelco's talented team and loyal clients as we continue to set the pace as the leader in employee spend management."
Under the terms of the agreement, Concur will pay $160 million in cash for all of the outstanding equity securities of H-G Holdings. The total amount of the consideration is subject to certain adjustments, escrows, and hold back provisions set forth in the definitive agreement.
About Concur
Concur is the world's leading provider of on-demand Employee Spend Management services. Concur enables organizations to globally control costs by automating the processes they use to manage employee spending. Concur's end-to-end solutions seamlessly unite online travel booking with automated expense reporting, streamline meeting management and optimize the process of managing vendor payments, employee check requests and direct reimbursements. Organizations of all sizes trust Concur to help them control spend before it occurs while eliminating paper and optimizing supplier relations. Concur's unified approach to managing employee spend delivers a 360 degree view into all employee expenses, helping companies globally enforce policies and monitor vendor compliance, while delivering unprecedented control and valuable insight. Concur's suite of on-demand services reach millions of employees across thousands of organizations around the world -- streamlining business processes, reducing operating costs, improving internal controls and providing enhanced visibility and actionable expense analysis. More information about Concur is available at http://www.concur.com/.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are inherently uncertain. These forward-looking statements, such as the statements made by Mr. Singh, including the anticipated benefits of broader integration of the Concur and Gelco products and services, are based on current expectations and involve many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to actual results differing from current expectations include, but are not limited to: potential delays in market adoption and penetration of our service offerings; potential difficulties associated with our deployment and support of our products and services; our ability to manage expected growth of our service offerings, including those integrating the Gelco expense management service; retention and expansion of customers; continued use and adoption of on-demand services; the scalability of the hosting infrastructure for our integrated service offerings; changes in the level of business travel that may reduce the use of our products and services or inhibit new sales of our integrated products and services; potential difficulties associated with strategic relationships and with development of new products and services, including those incorporating Gelco's offerings; uncertain market acceptance of our combined products and services or future products and services; and the overall level of customer demand for corporate expense management products and services.
Please refer to the company's public filings made with the SEC (http://www.sec.gov/) for additional and more detailed information on risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations. Concur assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
