Poundland gets the go-ahead to snap up rival 99p stores for 55m
By David Craik
Months after announcing the deal, Poundland has won watchdog approval to buy 99p Stores.
Tag: Acquisition
Worldpay shelves 6.6bn bid by French rival to press ahead with IPO
French company Ingenico Group lined up additional banking support to pave the way for a £6.6bn all-cash takeover of British rival Worldpay – which the payment services firm has shelved to press ahead with a stock market flotation.
Rupert Murdochs News Corp buys UK tech heavyweight Unruly
After demonstrating success in helping the likes of Evian, T-Mobile and Adidas create and distribute viral videos, London-based Unruly has been acquired by News Corp in a deal worth £114m.
Autonomy and HP row threatens to sour one of Britains great entrepreneurial success stories
When Mike Lynch sold the Cambridge-based technology company he’d built from the ground up to HP in 2011 for somewhere in the region of $10bn it marked a seminal moment for the UK business landscape, we were finally building technology companies of scale. Now, four years on, the dispute over inflated revenues continues.
LinkedIn’s first billion-dollar acquisition to link job seekers with appropriate skill courses
Subscription-based education service lynda.com, which helps people learn new skills through online videos produced by hired experts, has been bought by LinkedIn.
Learning from Motorclean’s revenue-boosting acquisition
By Simon Brooke
Global M&A activity in 2014 reached a record $3.5 trillion, up nearly a half on the previous year, according to the eighth Annual Brunswick Group M&A Survey, with this year expected to show deal values only slightly lower. But what about SMEs conducting deals at the smaller end of the market
City Link investor Better Capital exits Calyx Managed Services holding
Less than two months after logistics business City Link was placed into administration, Jon Moulton’s Better Capital has sold one of its portfolio companies to MXC Capital.
UK’s mobile market merges as BT acquires EE for £12.5bn
BT has bought EE for £12.5bn after agreeing to “definitive terms” following an “exclusive negotiation” with the UK’s leading 4G operator.
How and why to do an MBO
By David Craik
According to figures from the Centre for Management Buyout Research (CIMBOR) the value of UK buyouts rose to £16.6bn in 2014 – up from £15.8bn a year earlier.
Trainline slams brakes on IPO as KKR steps in as acquirer
Having outlined plans at the beginning of 2014 to list on the London Stock Exchange, Trainline has changed track and found itself a new private equity owner.