M&A Deal Summary

Bread Financial Holdings Acquires Epsilon Data Management

On October 12, 2012, Bread Financial Holdings acquired marketing company Epsilon Data Management for 300M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Bread Financial Holdings’ 3rd transaction in the Marketing sector.
  • This is Bread Financial Holdings’ 6th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Bread Financial Holdings’ 5th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Bread Financial Holdings’ 2nd transaction in Texas.
Investment Fate
  • Epsilon Data Management was divested to a consortium of strategic buyers in 2019 for 4.4B USD.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-10-12
Target Epsilon Data Management
Sector Marketing
Buyer(s) Bread Financial Holdings
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 300M USD

Target

Epsilon Data Management

Irving, Texas, United States
Epsilon Data Management LLC is a relationship marketing company provides integrated marketing services to maximize the value, growth, and loyalty of clients' customer and prospect portfolio through core services including data analysis, multi-channel direct communications, and database marketing. Epsilon Data Management was founded in 1969 and is based in Irving, Texas.

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Buyer

Bread Financial Holdings

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Category Company
Founded 1995
Sector Business Services
Employees6,000
Revenue 3.8B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Alliance Data Systems' corporate headquarters in Plano, Texas.
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Bread Financial Holdings is a provider of data-driven marketing and loyalty solutions serving large, consumer-based industries. The Company creates and deploys customized solutions, enhancing the critical customer marketing experience; the result is measurably changing consumer behavior while driving business growth and profitability for some of today's most recognizable brands. Bread Financial Holdings was founded in 1996 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 12
Sector: Marketing M&A 3 of 4
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 5 of 10
State: Texas M&A 2 of 2
Country: United States M&A 5 of 10
Year: 2012 M&A 1 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 6 of 7
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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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