Now is the best time to use M&As to drive business growth
By Ross Cocker
An increasing number of UK businesses are turning to mergers and acquisitions as a vehicle for growth.
Tag: M And A
Velocity continues spending spree by acquiring high-end restaurant booking app Uncover
British restaurant payment and loyalty service Velocity has bolstered its offering with the acquisition of complementary restaurant booking app Uncover, which works with 350 eateries in London.
Selling out to a large firm how one SME made the tough decision to accept a takeover
By Simon Brooke
Innocent, Pret and Instagram – they’ve all come under fire for accepting deals with larger firms in the form of Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Facebook respectively. But what’s a small company to do when a takeover opportunity arises
Marriott creates world’s largest hotel firm with $12.2bn Starwood acquisition
The world’s largest hotel firm, which boasts more than 5,500 venues and 1.1m rooms worldwide, has been created as Marriott has acquired Starwood Hotels & Resorts for $12.2bn.
UK restaurant payment app Velocity acquires Canadian rival in North American invasion
In what marks its second acquisition in under a month, London-based digital restaurant service Velocity has bought Canadian counterpart Tab Payments, which will provide access to more than 100 new eatery clients in Toronto and Montreal as the British firm embarks on conquering America.
Mo Farah-backed Quorn Foods sold for 550m
Quorn Foods, maker of protein-rich meat substitutes, has been sold by owners Exponent Private Equity and Intermediate Capital Group to a Philippines-based food business for £550m.
Paddy Power and Betfair eye 1.1bn merger amid launch of online gambling incubator
The launch of an incubator focused on online gambling startups has coincided with the news that bookmakers Paddy Power and Betfair are planning a possible merger to become a global giant.
£85m Las Iguanas acquisition highlights hunger for the British restaurant industry
Latin American-themed restaurant chain Las Iguanas has been acquired by the Casual Dining Group, owner of Cafe Rouge and Bella Italia, for a sum of £85m.
British on-demand cleaning firm Hassle.com acquired in bid to become global brand
London-based Hassle.com, the on-demand cleaning marketplace helping to develop the UK’s sharing economy, has been acquired by Berlin-based counterpart Helpling in a move that will see the firms dominate Europe and expand globally.
The European VC investment trends that took place in Q1 2015
Following one of the biggest venture capital deals in UK history that took place on 23 April, here are the VC trends that happened across the wider European business market throughout the first quarter of 2015.