M&A Deal Summary

BVMultimedia Acquires Reed Business Information Italy

On July 1, 2013, BVMultimedia acquired information services company Reed Business Information Italy from ICIS

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is BVMultimedia’s 1st transaction in the Information Services sector.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2013-07-01
Target Reed Business Information Italy
Sector Information Services
Buyer(s) BVMultimedia
Sellers(s) ICIS
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Reed Business Information Italy

RBI Italy is a provider of publishing and business to business services companies, employing about 170 people in offices of Milan, Parma and Bassano del Grappa. It generates annual sales in excess of €18m in three business areas. These include: (a) publishing, with 13 market leading magazines and their respective websites; (b) Telemat, the division which monitors 70,000 Italian public tenders; and (c) Mimesi, which provides printed and digital press review services and advanced analysis of reputation on the internet.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

BVMultimedia

Italy

Category Company
Sector Software
DESCRIPTION

BVMultimedia is a provider of multimedia solutions in Italy.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Information Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2013 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

ICIS

New York, New York, United States

Category Company
Founded 1960
Sector Information Services
DESCRIPTION

Reed Business Information, Inc. provides information and marketing solutions to decision makers and professionals in the United States, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, Australia, and Asia.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 8
Sector: Information Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 5 of 8
Country: M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2013 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-03-04 Inese S.L.

Madrid, Spain

Inese S.L. is a provider of information and events to the insurance industry. Inese provides language subscription based publications, online services for the Spanish Insurance Industry along with a number of annual events including the industry congress; "Insurance Week".

Sell €1M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

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