MercadoLibre has acquired 5 companies, including 4 in the last 5 years. A total of 1 acquisition came from private equity firms.
MercadoLibre’s largest acquisition to date was in 2008, when it acquired DeRemate for $40M. MercadoLibre has acquired in 3 countries. The Company’s most targeted sectors include internet software and services (60%) and software (40%).
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Arias 3751, 7th Floor,
Buenos Aires,
C1430CRG
Argentina,
+54 11 4640 8000
www.mercadolibre.com
MercadoLibre, Inc. is an online trading platform serving Latin America. Its services are designed to provide its users with mechanisms to buy, sell, pay for, and collect on e-commerce transactions. The company principally offers MercadoLibre marketplace, an automated online commerce service, which permits businesses and individuals to list items and conduct their sales and purchases online in a fixed-price or auction-based format.
| Year | ≤ '14 | '15 | '16 | '17 | '18 | '19 | T | |
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| Buy (0.8/yr) | # | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 5 |
| vol | $40M | $16M | $8M | $64M | ||||
| Sell (0.0/yr) | # | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| 5 | ||||||||
| Financial | Deals |
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| Legal | Deals |
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| Buy | # | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|
| > $1B | Sign-up to View | |
| $100M to $1B | Sign-up to View | |
| < $100M | Sign-up to View | |
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| Largest |
DeRemate $40M (2008-08-26) |
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| Sell | # | Total |
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| > $1B | Sign-up to View | |
| $100M to $1B | Sign-up to View | |
| < $100M | Sign-up to View | |
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When analyzing the e-commerce sector as a whole, according to Mergr, in the last 3 years, there are 77 e-commerce companies that have made at least 1 acquisition, 2 have acquired at least 5 companies, and 1 has acquired more than 10 companies.
The most prolific strategic e-commerce acquirer over the past 3 years is Walmart, with 5 acquisitions. The most prolific private equity acquirer in the e-commerce sector over the past 3 years is eEquity with 3 platform acquisitions.
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