M&A Deal Summary

Bread Financial Holdings Acquires Aspen Marketing Services

On April 25, 2011, Bread Financial Holdings acquired marketing company Aspen Marketing Services for 345M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Bread Financial Holdings’ 2nd transaction in the Marketing sector.
  • This is Bread Financial Holdings’ 5th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Bread Financial Holdings’ 4th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Bread Financial Holdings’ 1st transaction in Illinois.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2011-04-25
Target Aspen Marketing Services
Sector Marketing
Buyer(s) Bread Financial Holdings
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 345M USD

Target

Aspen Marketing Services

West Chicago, Illinois, United States
Aspen Marketing Services (Aspen) Aspen is an integrated marketing services company with approximately 400 professionals located in nine offices nationwide.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Bread Financial Holdings

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Category Company
Founded 1995
Sector Business Services
Employees7,000
Revenue 4.3B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION
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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 5 of 12
Sector (Marketing) 2 of 4
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 4 of 10
State (Illinois) 1 of 2
Country (United States) 4 of 10
Year (2011) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 5 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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United States

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-10-12 Epsilon Data Management

Irving, Texas, United States

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Buy $300M