Well besides a company that's losing money like crazy (to the tune of two million dollars a day), they're getting a license to sell handsets under the Siemens brand name for the next five years, as well as access to Siemens' global distributionnetwork and carrier relationships.
Its distributionnetwork includes 86 mono-brand stores (45 Pomellato, 41 Dodo) as well as approximately 600 independent points of sale around the world.
He still is deeply invested in Africa, operating a fuel distributionnetwork under the Oryx brand (but unaffiliated with the newly public company) as well as Addax Bioenergy, a biofuels operation in Sierra Leone.