International technology group Korber of Germany has acquired HighJump Software of Bloomington.
Terms were not disclosed.
HighJum has been owned since 2014 by Colorado-based rival Accellos Software.
HighJump will be part of Korber's business-area logistics systems group that includes recently acquired American firm, DMLogic, said Hubert Klob, CEO of the group.
"With our new HighJump colleagues on board, we now have a very solid basis, both in Europe and the USA, to continue our dynamic growth," Klob said in a prepared statement.
CEO Chad Collins of HighJump said the firm has about 100 local employees and 450 in North America. HighJump grew from $150 million in revenue in 2014 to $175 million in 2016.
"Longer term, this [ownership by Korber] will give us access to more products, to the European market and more capital for acquisitions," Collins said. "We have a new holding-company owner, but we stay 'HighJump' and nothing changes in day-to-day interactions with customers."
HighJump, which has had several owners over the years, was founded in 1983 by local entrepreneurs as a developer of bar code data collection systems. It was sold to 3M Co. in 2004 for about $90 million. In 2008, 3M sold HighJump for, reportedly, much less to Battery Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital firm.
