M&A Deal Summary

Chesapeake Acquires Cezar SA

On April 17, 2010, Chesapeake acquired packaging company Cezar SA from Kerten Capital

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Chesapeake’s 1st transaction in the Packaging sector.
  • This is Chesapeake’s 1st transaction in Poland.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2010-04-17
Target Cezar SA
Sector Packaging
Buyer(s) Chesapeake
Sellers(s) Kerten Capital
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Cezar SA

Bialystok, Poland
Cezar S.A. is a leading European printing and packaging business located in Bialystok, Poland.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Chesapeake

Old Amersham, United Kingdom

Category Company
Sector Packaging
Employees5,000
Revenue 580M EUR (2012)
DESCRIPTION

Chesapeake is a manufacturer of value-added specialty paperboard packaging, including folding cartons, leaflets and labels for the pharmaceutical, confectionary and drinks markets, as well as rigid plastic packaging for niche markets in Europe and Africa.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 3
Sector: Packaging M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 2
Country: Poland M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2010 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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Houston,, Texas, United States

Eagle Ford oil & Gas Corp. is engaged in the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas properties.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-05-04 Pharmapost SarL

Amilly, Canada

Pharmapost Sarl operates as printing company and prints pharmaceutical leaflets.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Kerten Capital

Dublin, Ireland

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2006
Size Small
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Kerten Private Equity is an independent private equity firm focused on mid-sized companies in Central and Eastern Europe. The Firm generally looks to provide growth capital, but also supports buyouts/buy-ins, take privates, and recapitalizations. Kerten is a generalist investor, willing to consider companies in a a broad range of industry sectors, however, areas of particular interest include business services, food and food ingredient production, health, energy and infrastructure delivery and services. Kerten Private Equity was formed in 2006 and is based in Dublin, with additional offices in Warsaw, Bucharest, and Istanbul.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 2
Sector: Packaging M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: Poland M&A 1 of 2
Year: 2010 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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Dublin, Ireland

House Hotel and Residence is an operator of a chain of hotels The House Apart and The House Hotels brands with units in multiple locations in Istanbul, Egypt, Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Ireland. House Hotel and Residence is based in Dublin, Ireland.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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İstanbul, Turkey

Elit Chocolate offers 400 different candies products and exports them to 33 countries, with one-fifth of its revenue coming from foreign sales. Elit Chocolate was founded in 1924 and is based in İstanbul, Turkey.

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