M&A Deal Summary

Bloomsbury Publishing Acquires The Continuum International Publishing Group

On July 11, 2011, Bloomsbury Publishing acquired publishing company The Continuum International Publishing Group from Nova Capital Management for 20M GBP

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Bloomsbury Publishing’s 2nd transaction in the Publishing sector.
  • This is Bloomsbury Publishing’s 0th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Bloomsbury Publishing’s 2nd transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2011-07-11
Target The Continuum International Publishing Group
Sector Publishing
Buyer(s) Bloomsbury Publishing
Sellers(s) Nova Capital Management
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 20M GBP

Target

The Continuum International Publishing Group

London, United Kingdom
The Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. is a specialist academic publisher, with principal offices in London and New York. The company produces over 500 books annually and has an active backlist of over 6,000 titles.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Bloomsbury Publishing

London, United Kingdom
Category Company
Founded 1986
Sector Publishing
Employees994
Revenue 343M GBP (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Bloomsbury Publishing is an independent publishing house with companies in London, New York, Doha, India and Sydney. Bloomsbury Publishing was founded in 1986 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 5
Sector (Publishing) 2 of 4
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 2 of 5
Country (United Kingdom) 2 of 4
Year (2011) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-07-01 Bloomsbury Professional

Haywards Heath, United Kingdom

Bloomsbury Professional Ltd. is a publisher of high quality books and digital products for lawyers, tax practitioners, accountants and business professionals.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-04-02 Fairchild Books

New York, New York, United States

Fairchild Books, Inc. is a publisher and home to some of the world’s most celebrated media brands

Buy -

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Nova Capital Management

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Secondary Investor
Founded 2002
PE ASSETS 1.7B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Nova Capital Management Limited is a private equity firm that highly focuses on corporate and private equity portfolios companies located in the UK, US and Europe. The firm looks to Invest in companies with a enterprise value of £ 50 – 500 million. Areas of interest include engineering & manufacturing, healthcare & pharmaceuticals, services & distribution, technology and media & telecoms. Nova Capital Management Limited is formed in 2002 and is based in London.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 12 of 37
Sector (Publishing) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 6 of 15
Country (United Kingdom) 6 of 18
Year (2011) 4 of 10
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-06-01 ESR Technology

Warrington, United Kingdom

ESR Technology is an Engineering, Safety and Risk management company that provides independent technical expertise, products and services to help its customers in the area of Asset Integrity, Machine Reliabilty, Safety and Risk, and transfer of best practice It has world class expertise in the area of Tribology, Non Destructive Testing and Asset Integrity.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-08-01 MeetingZone

Thame, United Kingdom

MeetingZone Ltd. is an independent conferencing services provider and offers customers high performance, personalised Unified Communications, Web and Audio Conferencing services.

Sell £39M
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