Global legal software firm acquires Delaware company as it expands to the US market

Wilmington is about to get more global.

A European legal business management company acquired a longstanding Delaware company and a familiar canned vegetable company is getting a technology upgrade in this month’s Delaware Money Moves, plus more in education, IT, healthcare and green technology.

Get all the details below the chart, where we look at the top 10 companies hiring for tech jobs in the Delaware market and how that’s changed since last month.

DoeLEGAL acquired by French company DiliTrust

Wilmington legal management company DoeLEGAL, is the latest acquisition of the Paris, France-based DiliTrust, a global company that provides corporate governance tech for in-house legal teams. 

Founded in 1971 as Delaware Office Equipment, DoeLEGAL provides software for corporate legal management.

The acquisition will add Wilmington to the more than 64 cities around the world with DiliTrust offices, including Paris, Toronto, Dubai, Mexico City and Milan.

The financial terms of this acquisition have not been disclosed. This is DiliTrust’s fourth acquisition in the last two years and its entry into the US market.

Hanover Foods granted $5M in state funds to upgrade facilities

Hanover Foods, a producer of canned and frozen vegetables that contracts with 41 farms in Delaware, received a $5 million Delaware Modernization Investment Support Initiative (MISI) grant. 

It’ll use the money to update its facility in Clayton with modern drying and freezing infrastructure and upgraded harvesting equipment. The company celebrates 100 years in business this year. 

The MISI Grant was started in September 2023 by the Delaware Council on Developmental Finance as an incentive for companies operating in Delaware to improve their facilities. It aims to help the companies stay competitive as technology evolves, preserving and creating Delaware jobs.

“With this investment, Hanover will be able to modernize their technology to continue operations and potentially expand,” said Governor John Carney in a Delaware Prosperity Partnership press release. “Without this investment, the 100-year-old company may have made the tough decision to close their sole Delaware facility, located in Clayton.”

More Money Moves:

• Delaware State University and the Central Delaware Chamber of Commerce cut the ribbon on a new shared space in Dover. The $2.6 million development will serve as a primary office space for NeighborGood’s Restoring Central Dover and DSU’s Center for Urban Revitalization and Entrepreneurship.
• A $14.3 million Climate Pollution Reduction Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency will bring electric heavy and medium-duty truck chargers to the Biden Welcome Center on I-95 near Newark.
• ChristianaCare bought back an office previously sold by the Delaware Neurosurgical Group at its ChristianaCare Medical Arts Pavilion in Ogletown for $1.16 million.
• Tech Impact, a nonprofit IT workforce support organization with offices in Wilmington and Newark, is expanding its training program to Nashville early next year.
  Delaware State University is the first HBCU to launch its own private-label brand of merchandise. Through its partnership with Everything Collegiate, DSU swag will be available on Amazon, Walmart and beyond.