[3]: 383  Volkswagen had previously failed to enter the office machines industry in 1978 after a bid to gain a majority stake in Nixdorf Computer fell through.

Pertec themselves had acquired Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), designers of the famous Altair 8800 microcomputer, in 1977.

[9]: 247–248  In 1981, they acquired Omnidata of Westlake Village, California, to expand their presence in the turnkey word processor computer systems segment.

[13]: 183  After the acquisition, domestic production and development of TA products in German largely halted, and several German manufacturing facilities, including the traditional Frankfurter Adlerwerke in 1993, were shuttered and sold off.

In 1994, a consortium of shareholders acquired the Triumph-Adler subsidiary from Olivetti and converted it into a medium-sized holding company that now included office, games and leisure, construction technology and healthcare divisions.

[14]: 76  In early 2009, Kyocera Document Solutions took over the majority of Triumph-Adler; and in October 2010, they purchased the remaining shares.