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FirstCash Acquires H&T Group

On May 14, 2025, FirstCash acquired financial services company H&T Group for 297M GBP

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is FirstCash’s 3rd transaction in the Financial Services sector.
  • This is FirstCash’s 2nd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is FirstCash’s 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2025-05-14
Target H&T Group
Sector Financial Services
Buyer(s) FirstCash
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 297M GBP
Advisor(s) Canaccord Genuity
Shore Capital Group Ltd. (Financial)

Target

H&T Group

Sutton, United Kingdom
H&T Group is a pawnbroker, a retailer of quality new and pre-owned jewelry and pre-owned watches, and provides a range of financial products tailored for a customer base that has limited access to, or is excluded from, the traditional banking sector. These products include pawnbroking, retail, and foreign currency. H&T Group was founded in 1897 and is based in Sutton, England.

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FirstCash

Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Category Company
Founded 1988
Sector Financial Services
Employees20,000
Revenue 3.4B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

FirstCash is an international operator of retail pawn stores. First Cash focuses on serving cash and credit-constrained consumers through its retail pawn locations, which buy and sell a wide variety of jewelry, electronics, tools and other merchandise, and make small customer pawn loans secured by pledged personal property. FirstCash was founded in 1988 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 4
Sector: Financial Services M&A 3 of 3
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 3 of 3
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2025 M&A 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-12-17 American First Finance

Dallas, Texas, United States

American First Finance offers a flexible payment solution for customers online, in-store, and via text. American First Finance amortizes payment schedules with flexible early payoff options. American First Finance is based in Dallas, Texas.

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