| Date | Target |
Transaction Type Value: $mlns |
Acquirer | Seller | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-12-31 |
Allied Capital Advisers, Inc.
Financial Services Washington, District of Columbia Provider of debt and equity financing to primarily private middle market companies. |
Add-on Acquisition |
Allied Capital Lending Corp.
|
Three Cities Research
|
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| 1997-12-31 |
Raytheon Company Semiconductor Division
Semiconductors Raytheon Company Semiconductor Division is a designer, developer and manufacturer of logic, discrete, analog and non-volatile memory semiconductors. |
Divestiture
|
Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc.
|
Raytheon Co.
|
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| 1997-12-31 |
Windows Live Hotmail
Internet Software and Services Seattle, Washington www.hotmail.com Hotmail is a web-based email provider. The Company was formed in 1996 by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia. |
Add-on Acquisition
|
Microsoft
|
- | ||
| 1997-12-31 |
ICPT
Electrical Equipment Warszawa, Poland www.icpt.pl ICPT is designing and development company of battery packs, battery management systems and other electronics components mainly for electric vehicles. ICPT is based in Warszawa, Poland. |
Unknown | - |
Warsaw Equity Group
|
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| 1997-12-27 |
Met Displays, Inc.
Retail Chicago, Illinois Met Merchandising Concepts, located in Chicago, Illinois, designs and manufactures high-quality fixtures, forms, and displays for upscale retail stores. Met has established a leading position in the visual merchandising industry and serves a diverse group of prominent department store, specialty store, and branded consumer product companies operating vendor shops within retail stores. During the past several years, retailers and branded consumer companies have increasingly developed consistent identities to market and differentiate their products. |
Recapitalization
|
Sentinel Capital Partners
|
- | ||
| 1997-12-23 |
Personal Care Group, Inc.
Consumer Products Ormond Beach, Florida www.personalcaregroup.com Personal Care Group, Inc. owns some consumer product brands, including Wet Ones pre-moistened towelettes, Chubs baby wipes, Ogilvie home permanent products, Binaca breath spray and drops, and Mr. Bubble. |
Add-on Acquisition
|
Playtex Products, Inc.
|
Prospect Hill Growth Partners
|
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| 1997-12-23 |
Froma-Dar, Inc.
Food Saint-Boniface-de-Shawinigan, Quebec Froma-Dar, Inc. is a distributor and manufacturer of cheddar and cheese curds. The Company produces 1.7 million kilograms of cheese annually. |
Add-on Acquisition |
Saputo
|
- | ||
| Deal Article Deal Link | ||||||
| 1997-12-22 |
LightSpeed International, Inc.
Software Sterling, Vermont LightSpeed has developed leading-edge voice protocol conversion and intelligent call control software which enables signaling to be transmitted among diverse sets of voice protocols and applications. |
Add-on Acquisition
|
Cisco Systems
|
- | ||
| 1997-12-20 |
Showboat Inc.
Gaming Las Vegas, Nevada Showboat, Inc. is a US operator of US-based casino hotels. The Company owns and operates casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey and Las Vegas, Nevada. |
Add-on Acquisition
|
Caesars Entertainment
|
- | ||
| 1997-12-19 |
Fritidsresor AB
Transportation Stockholm, Sweden www.fritidsresor.se Fritidsresor (Transpool) consisted of three businesses - a loss-making scheduled airline, a charter airline and the number two tour operator in Scandinavia, mainly selling overseas holidays to Scandinavians. The investment rationale was based on being able to turnaround the losses on the schedule airline and capitalise on the synergies between the tour operator and the charter airline. |
Add-on Acquisition |
TUI Travel PLC
|
Nordic Capital
Motion Equity Partners
Accent Equity
|
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| 1997-12-19 |
Production Tool Companies LLC
Manufacturing Chicago, Illinois www.productiontoolcompanies.com Production Tool is a Turning up to 25 feet diameter and horizontal boring bars with 40 feet of travel.On December 19, 1997 all of the assets of Production Tool Corporation were acquired by an acquisition corporation formed by Red Top Capital LLC, NationsCredit Commercial Corporation (now Bank of America Commercial Finance), and an industry executive. Production Tool Corporation performs large scale machining and repair work for OEM's located in the upper Midwest and for the steel industry around the great lakes. The Company has large scale machining capabilities not found in any other machine shops in the U.S. |
Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) |
Red Top Capital
|
- | ||
| 1997-12-19 |
PacificHealth Laboratories
Consumer Products Matawan, New Jersey www.pacifichealthlabs.com PacificHealth Laboratories is a sports nutrition technology company that has been a pioneer in discovering, developing and commercializing patented, protein-based nutritional products that improve sports performance. Brands include Endurox, Accelerade and Second Surge. PacificHealth Laboratories was founded in 1995 and is based in Matawan, New Jersey. |
IPO | - |
Twin Lakes Capital
|
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| Deal Link | ||||||
| 1997-12-18 |
GO DSP Corp.
Software Toronto, Ontario GO DSP Corp. is a provider of digital signal processing (DSP) software tools, which allow DSP system developers to improve productivity and reduce time to market. GO DSP is an industry provider with the only fully integrated programming environment with a graphical user interface. |
Add-on Acquisition |
Texas Instruments
|
- | ||
| Deal Article Deal Link | ||||||
| 1997-12-17 |
Westwind Group Holdings, Inc.
Franchising San Diego, California Westwind Group Holdings, Inc. operates as a franchisee of Burger King Restaurants. The company owns and operates 47 Burger King Restaurants in Florida and Oregon. The company was incorporated in 1996 and is based in San Diego, California. |
Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) |
American Capital
Churchill Equity, Inc.
|
- | ||
| 1997-12-17 |
Suburban Ostomy Supply Co, Inc.
Medical Products Holliston, Massachusetts Suburban Ostomy Supply Company, Inc. distributes disposable home healthcare products, primarily ostomy, urological, diabetic, and wound-care items. |
Add-on Acquisition
|
Invacare
|
- | ||
| 1997-12-16 |
EXCEL-MAX Communication Pte Ltd.
Distribution Singapore EXCEL-MAX Communication Pte Ltd. is a distributor of electronic components. |
Add-on Acquisition |
Avnet
|
- | ||
| Deal Link | ||||||
| Avg |
$717
9.0x EBITDA 1.0x REVENUE |
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