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EBSCO Acquires YBP Library Services

On February 20, 2015, EBSCO acquired business services company YBP Library Services from Baker & Taylor

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is EBSCO’s 1st transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is EBSCO’s 2nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is EBSCO’s 1st transaction in New Hampshire.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2015-02-20
Target YBP Library Services
Sector Business Services
Buyer(s) EBSCO
Sellers(s) Baker & Taylor
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

YBP Library Services

Contoocook, New Hampshire, United States
YBP is a provider of collection management and technical services to academic, research and special libraries worldwide.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

EBSCO

Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States
Category Company
Founded 1984
Sector Information Services
DESCRIPTION

EBSCO offers resources for libraries including EBSCONET, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost, a for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives and e-books. EBSCO provides more than 375 research databases and nearly 450,000 e-books plus subscription management services for more than 360,000 unique titles including more than 57,000 online titles. EBSCO was founded in 1984 and is based in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 9
Sector: Business Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 3
State: New Hampshire M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 2 of 6
Year: 2015 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-01-14 Plum Analytics

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Plum Analytics, Inc. is an altmetrics provider offering metrics about articles that tracks all research output in any form, providing a powerful tool that augments traditional metrics.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-04-16 LearningExpress

New York, New York, United States

LearningExpress LLC is an educational technology company involved in developing eLearning tools for workplace, professional, and academic development needs.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Baker & Taylor

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Category Company
Founded 1828
Sector Retail
DESCRIPTION

Baker & Taylor Corp. is a supplier of books, videos (DVDs/VHS) and music to both the institutional and retail markets. The institutional market consisted primarily of public libraries, school libraries (K-12) and academic (college and post graduate) libraries. Retail markets included national chains, online retailers, independent book, video and music stores and non-traditional book retailers.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 3
Sector: Business Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 3 of 3
State: New Hampshire M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 3 of 3
Year: 2015 M&A 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-02-20 Baker & Taylor - Warehouse Club Business

United States

Baker & Taylor - Warehouse Club Business is a premier U.S. distributor of books to wholesale membership clubs.

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