Vision

Orolia is a global high technology group. It is the third largest supplier of high-precision time & frequency systems. While competing in a mature sector, Orolia aims to reorganize the industry for synchronizing critical operations through innovative products and services.


Mission

Because of the reliance on communications in today’s world, Orolia aims to bring mobility, security, interoperability, and reliability to applications for information networks: telephony, computer systems, Internet networks, wireless communications, and more. Orolia's companies develop equipments and systems able to generate and distribute high-precision Time & Frequency signals anywhere on the network to allow critical applications to operate trouble-free with millionth of a second accuracy.

Orolia is a group of businesses intended to grow faster than market rates:

Orolia’s organic growth is based on synergies of its subsidiaries. Complementary organizations who share human values, a strong business spirit, as well as extraordinary rich culture supporting a global approach. Rich and technically diverse R&D efforts for creating new concepts and designs of high performance systems. A business approach that is accessible to customers and will allow us to address new needs with a global reach.

Orolia’s external growth is based on its outstanding expertise in Time & Frequency generation and distribution of high-precision signals. Orolia’s objective is to acquire successful and dynamic high-tech companies to serve high-precision markets and critical operations.

Acquisition strategy and external growth

Acquisition targets’ profile

Orolia’s strategy of external growth is based on acquisition targets that fit with the group’s values. Today, Orolia’s acquisition strategy is focused on high-precision Time & Frequency markets, which represent its core business. In the near future, Orolia plans to diversify its portfolio by including companies with synergistic technology. Orolia gives top priority to intangible assets, specifically intellectual ones: technology, market and applications’ knowledge.

Orolia purchases companies, products and technologies which all contribute to its growth because they perfectly match its participations’ portfolio. Targeted companies are competitive firms which share Orolia’s subsidiaries main characteristics:

A specialist in high-precision information or signals serving a market segment with high barriers of entry;

Answering a significant and critical need customers are willing to pay for efficient products;

Developing high technology solutions for long-term growth markets;

Positioning innovation and customers at the heart of all processes: products and services’ development, improvement of sales, production;

Having a large technical base, a good market understanding and a strong industrial property;

Being run by managers willing to take risks;

Having a large customer database.

Advantages for companies joining Orolia group

Orolia helps firms and their managers to strengthen and reinforce the growth of their companies:

Businessmen and funds can decide to sell their company to Orolia to get back some up to the whole value of the capital and efforts they invested, while being assured of the future of their company and employees.

Middle-sized companies in high-technology markets have some difficulties in expanding without the managerial and financial resources needed available in a group such as Orolia.

Orolia wishes managers of purchased companies to continue running their own business many years after joining the group. They will benefit from Orolia’s support and from new opportunities within the Orolia group. Indeed, Orolia has a strong decentralized operations model to allow for innovation and optimal group efficiency.


Organic growth

From one growth step to another, synergies between the different subsidiaries of the group enable to back up Orolia’s global growth. Furthermore, growth rate can be increased by technological innovation thanks to self-financing or financial support from public or institutional partners.


Global growth’s profile

At mid-term, Orolia’s growth approach is as below :




At long-term, Orolia’s growth is based on a diversification towards markets adjacent to its current expertise in Time & Frequency generation and distribution fields. These new markets will have the same characteristics as Orolia’s: high-precision, critical need, hardware or software high technology. They will allow the group to extend its total accessible market beyond the €350 million of the high-precision Time & Frequency market.