M&A Deal Summary

DHI Group Acquires Rigzone.com

On August 12, 2010, DHI Group acquired staffing company Rigzone.com for 39M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is DHI Group’s 5th transaction in the Staffing sector.
  • This is DHI Group’s 3rd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is DHI Group’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is DHI Group’s 1st transaction in Texas.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2010-08-12
Target Rigzone.com
Sector Staffing
Buyer(s) DHI Group
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 39M USD

Target

Rigzone.com

Houston, Texas, United States
Rigzone is Known as the online gateway to the oil and gas industry, Rigzone is the world’s most-used source for upstream oil and gas news and data, including in-depth information on the exploration, drilling and production markets. Rigzone has built a valuable and largely-passive community with more than 500,000 unique visitors each month and more than 270,000 resumes in their database covering skills ranging from production operators to petroleum engineers.

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Buyer

DHI Group

Centennial, Colorado, United States
Category Company
Founded 1990
Sector Staffing
Employees460
Revenue 152M USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION

DHI Group is a provider of specialized career websites for professional communities, including technology and engineering, financial services, energy, healthcare, and security clearance. DHI Group was incorporated in 1991 and is based in Centennial, Colorado.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 9
Sector (Staffing) 5 of 7
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 5 of 7
State (Texas) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 1 of 3
Year (2010) 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 8
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-05-10 Worldwideworker.com B.V.

Oldenzaal, Netherlands

WorldwideWorker is widely known for its extensive international resume database and its recruitment events held at industry-leading conferences. More than 400,000 energy professionals have registered with WorldwideWorker and two-thirds of those are based in Asia, Africa or the Middle East. Nearly half of WorldwideWorker's candidates have at least ten years experience.

Buy $6M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-09-18 Geeknet - Online Media Business

United States

Geeknet 's online media business, including Slashdot and SourceForge. Slashdot, a user-generated news, analysis, peer question and professional insight community. Tech professionals moderate the site which averages more than 5,300 comments daily and 3.7 million unique visitors each month. SourceForge, a destination for technology professionals and enthusiasts to develop, download, review and publish open source software, much of which they use in their own organizations. Freecode, one of the largest indexes of Linux, Unix and cross-platform software, as well as mobile applications generates nearly 500,000 unique visitors each month.

Buy $20M
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