Investment Summary

Ethos Private Equity Invests In Echo

On February 28, 2018, private equity firm Ethos Private Equity invested in communications company Echo

Investment Highlights
  • This is Ethos Private Equity’s 4th transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is Ethos Private Equity’s 39th transaction in South Africa.

Investment Summary

Date 2018-02-28
Target Echo
Sector Communications
Investor(s) Ethos Private Equity
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Echo

Sandton, South Africa
Echo is an independent integrator of advanced network and cloud computing services. Echo offers an aggregation of ISP services to the South African market. Echo was founded in 2010 and is based in Sandton, South Africa.

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Investor

Ethos Private Equity

Illovo, South Africa

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 1.2B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Ethos Private Equity is a private equity investor that targets opportunities in South Africa. Ethos looks for stable businesses valued between $15 and $100 million US. Target transactions include divestitures of non-core assets, sector consolidations, development of family owned businesses, growth financings, and turnarounds. Ethos was formed in 1984 and is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 44 of 48
Sector: Communications M&A 4 of 4
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 4 of 7
Country: South Africa M&A 39 of 42
Year: 2018 M&A 1 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-04-24 Little Green Beverage

Johannesburg, South Africa

Little Green Beverage (Pty) Ltd. is a proudly South African company, produces a wide variety of beverages, including carbonated soft drinks, mineral water, mixers and energy drinks (all variants of the Refreshhh! brand) and private label products for leading retailers. The Refreshhh! product range currently comprises of 16 carbonated soft drink flavours with five additional Sugar Free flavours.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-10-04 gammaTEK

Johannesburg, South Africa

gammaTEK is an Importer, distributor & manufacturer of mobile device accessories and low-tech consumer products in Sub Saharan Africa servicing almost 2000 stores. gammaTEK was Established in 1998 and is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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