{"id":11920,"date":"2025-05-12T08:50:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T05:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/city-lab.fi\/?p=11920"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T05:51:12","slug":"announcement-labema-group-acquires-city-lab-oy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/city-lab.fi\/en\/announcement-labema-group-acquires-city-lab-oy\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement &#8211; Labema Group acquires City-Lab Oy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City-Lab Oy wishes to announce that on May 7th, 2025, Sanna and Juho Partanen have finalized the selling of the shares of City-Lab Oy to Labema Oy. City-Lab Oy will continue its operations as an independent company and its own business unit within the Labema Group. This change provides us with new opportunities to further develop our services for the benefit of our customers. Our commitment to customer experience, quality, and personalized service remains strong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mohammed Benlakhdar, Managing Director of Labema Oy, on the acquisition:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate the service-oriented energy of the City-Lab team and the vast knowledge and expertise they have. We are looking forward to further developing the business together with the City-Lab team and customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sanna Partanen, former owner of City-Lab, adds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLabema and City-Lab share a similar history as family run businesses where we appreciate and value people and employees. It was important to see how well our businesses complement each other, and that our interests and values are well aligned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vesa Rauhala, Managing Director of City-Lab Oy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCity-Lab has a strong purpose and high focus on customer relations. We will keep serving our customers in the best way possible and now we will have resources to develop the company to meet the customer needs even better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We want to assure You, that the acquisition does not have impact on the day-to-day operations or collaboration practices. Business activities will continue as usual, without interruption. The current management team and personnel will remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>We value our co-operation and look forward to building a stronger future \u2013 together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For further information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vesa Rauhala, Managing Director, City-Lab Oy<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Benlakhdar, Managing Director, Labema Oy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City-Lab Oy wishes to announce that on May 7th, 2025, Sanna and Juho Partanen have finalized the selling of the shares of City-Lab Oy to Labema Oy. 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