AMSTERDAM, February 9, 2026, 09:18 CET
- The group’s cash bid stands at €15.60 per share, pegging InPost’s value close to €7.8 billion, or $9.2 billion. 1
- After the deal, Advent and FedEx will each end up with 37% stakes, while CEO Rafał Brzoska’s A&R keeps 16% and PPF sits at 10%. 2
- The offer values InPost at roughly 50% above where shares traded on January 2, right before talk of a potential buyout began swirling. 3
Advent International and FedEx are heading up a consortium that’s struck a deal to buy InPost for €15.60 per share in cash. That puts the parcel locker company’s value around €7.8 billion ($9.2 billion). InPost, which operates upwards of 61,000 automated lockers and has more than 33,000 pickup and dropoff locations scattered across nine European countries, will keep CEO Rafał Brzoska at the helm. 4
FedEx is moving into “out-of-home delivery” — that’s parcels bound for lockers and pickup points, not home addresses — as logistics players keep hunting for cheaper last-mile options across Europe. The company said InPost will stay a standalone, “independent competitor” after the deal closes, with plans for arm’s-length commercial agreements that connect FedEx’s network to InPost’s lockers and B2C services. 5
InPost gets a way out of the pressures of public markets with the buyout, freeing it up to keep building out its European footprint. The company, listed in Amsterdam since 2021, hasn’t managed to win over investors — its profit margins have taken a hit from relentless expansion. Still, it’s kept buying: last year brought acquisitions of Britain’s Yodel and a Spanish delivery outfit, and the hunt continues for growth in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Benelux, and the UK. 6
The offer lands 50% higher than InPost’s “undisturbed” closing price of €10.40 on January 2, the day before takeover rumors surfaced. The consortium highlighted the volume-weighted average price—a measure that factors in trading volumes—to back up its claim that the bid offers a clear premium. 7
Per deal documents, Advent and FedEx are set to take 37% stakes apiece in the consortium, with Brzoska’s A&R holding 16% and PPF at 10%. The consortium reports that shareholders controlling roughly 48% of InPost’s shares have already agreed to tender. Supervisory chair Hein Pretorius called the offer “immediate and certain value” for holders, while PPF’s Didier Stoessel said the group will offload most of its position but plans to stay invested as a minority. 8
The take-private isn’t sealed yet. The bid still needs regulatory and competition approvals, plus at least 80% acceptance from shareholders. Rival bids could still come in—if someone beats the offer price by at least 10%, the consortium gets a shot to match it. The offeror has locked in binding equity commitments worth €5.918 billion and secured up to €4.95 billion in debt facilities. It’s planning to release the offer memorandum sometime in the second quarter. 9
InPost revealed on January 6 that it was weighing a takeover offer, after receiving a non-binding proposal from an undisclosed suitor and cautioning there was no guarantee of a deal. Back then, JPMorgan analysts suggested private equity was the most plausible bidder, contending that InPost’s European expansion strategy had been misread by the market. 10
Shares of InPost debuted on Euronext Amsterdam at €16.00 apiece back on January 27, 2021, Euronext data shows. Now, with the offer at €15.60, the price remains under its IPO level—despite the company’s expansion drive outside Poland in the years since. 11
The consortium is aiming to wrap up the deal in the back half of 2026. InPost’s board is on board, and committed shareholders have already locked in support for close to half the register. 12
