M&A Deal Summary

Dixons Retail Acquires Fotovista SA

On April 12, 2006, Dixons Retail acquired retailer Fotovista SA

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Dixons Retail’s 4th transaction in the Retail sector.
  • This is Dixons Retail’s 1st transaction in France.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2006-04-12
Target Fotovista SA
Sector Retail
Buyer(s) Dixons Retail
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Fotovista SA

Paris, France
Fotovista SA operates a retail chain for high-tech products, video games, digital video discs, magazines, community sites, content sites, and photo-video-sound equipment.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Dixons Retail

Herts, United Kingdom

Category Company
Sector Retail
DESCRIPTION

Dixons Retail plc is a specialist electrical retailing and services company.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 5
Sector: Retail M&A 4 of 4
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 5 of 5
Country: France M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2006 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-09-08 P Kotsovolos SA

Metamorfosi, Greece

P Kotsovolos SA is a retailer of electrical equipment in Greece.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-06-21 The Link

United Kingdom

The Link is an online mobile phone and communication retailer.

Sell £30M