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Experian Acquires Equifax Italy Srl

On November 2, 2004, Experian acquired information services company Equifax Italy Srl from Equifax

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Experian’s 1st transaction in the Information Services sector.
  • This is Experian’s 1st transaction in Italy.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2004-11-02
Target Equifax Italy Srl
Sector Information Services
Buyer(s) Experian
Sellers(s) Equifax
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Equifax Italy Srl

Italy
Equifax Italy SRL's core business includes the provision of consumer and business information to the financial services sector as well as real estate information, which is required by banks prior to granting secured credit. The company, which was originally known as SEK, has been operating in Italy for nearly 30 years. During this time, SEK secured its position as one of only four major data providers in the Italian market and created a well-established data collection network across Italy

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Experian

Dublin, Ireland
Category Company
Founded 1826
Sector Information Services
Employees23,300
Revenue 7.5B GBP (2025)
DESCRIPTION

Experian is a global information services group with operations in 40 countries. Experian was founded in 1826 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 9 of 66
Sector: Information Services M&A 1 of 3
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 5
Country: Italy M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2004 M&A 8 of 9
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-10-14 Simmons Market Research Bureau

New York, New York, United States

Simmons is America's leading provider of consumer product purchase, shopping and media usage behavior, as well as detailed demographic, psychographic, lifestyle and attitudinal descriptions. Simmons surveys more than 30,000 individuals annually to produce the National Consumer Adults (English-speaking and Spanish-speaking), Teens, Kids, Adults and Household Studies.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-11-26 AutoLocate

United Kingdom

AutoLocate, the specialist software and e-business solutions organisation.

Buy -

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Equifax

Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Category Company
Founded 1899
Sector Information Services
Employees14,700
Revenue 5.7B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Equifax's corporate headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
Entrance to Equifax's corporate headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

Equifax is a provider of information solutions and human resources business process outsourcing services for businesses, governments and consumers. Equifax has a large and diversified group of clients, including financial institutions, corporations, governments and individuals. Equifax's products and services are based on comprehensive databases of consumer and business information derived from numerous types of credit, financial assets, telecommunications and utility payment, employment, income, public record, demographic and marketing data. Equifax was founded in 1899 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 3
Sector: Information Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 3
Country: Italy M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2004 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2002-08-16 Naviant

Verona, Wisconsin, United States

Naviant Inc., a provider of online and offline marketing tools. Naviant has an e-mail database of more than 100 million unique permission-based addresses and a database of 38 million postal addresses.

Buy $135M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-10-09 Austin-Tetra

Irving, Texas, United States

Austin-Tetra is a privately-held company that is a leading provider of business-to-business data management solutions for FORTUNE 1000 companies and government agencies. A world-class provider of supplier data management (SDM) and customer data management (CDM) services.

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