M&A Deal Summary

HBX Group Acquires GTA Travel

On April 21, 2017, HBX Group acquired consumer services company GTA Travel from Kuoni Reisen Holding AG

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is HBX Group’s 1st transaction in the Consumer Services sector.
  • This is HBX Group’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is HBX Group’s 1st transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2017-04-21
Target GTA Travel
Sector Consumer Services
Buyer(s) HBX Group
Sellers(s) Kuoni Reisen Holding AG
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

GTA Travel

Los Angeles, California, United States
GTA Travel provides travel services. The Company offers hotel accommodation, ground travel products, and related services to the travel trade.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

HBX Group

Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Category Company
Founded 2001
Sector Leisure
Employees5,000
DESCRIPTION

HBX Group is an independent global business to business (‘B2B’) bedbank. HBX Group provide the travel industry with access to hotel rooms from an inventory of approximately 170,000 hotels in more than 180 countries. HBX Group also provides transfers, excursions and tours, meetings and events and cruise handling services. HBX Group client base includes online travel agencies, traditional travel agencies, travel re-sellers, tour operators, and airlines. HBX Group was founded in 2001 and is based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 2
Sector: Consumer Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: California M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2017 M&A 1 of 1
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-11-14 HolidayTaxis Group

East Sussex, United Kingdom

HolidayTaxis Group is a provider of high quality, cost-effective transfer and wider mobility solutions. HolidayTaxis Group provides a wide range of private and shared vehicles, including airport taxis, shared shuttles, mini buses, luxury limousines, wheelchair accessible vehicles, electric cars and even helicopters. HolidayTaxis Group was founded in 2002 and is based in East Sussex, United Kingdom.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Kuoni Reisen Holding AG

Zurich, Switzerland

Category Company
Founded 1906
Sector Consumer Services
Employees11,934
Revenue 5.6B USD (2014)
DESCRIPTION

Kuoni Reisen Holding AG is a service provider to the global travel industry with three divisions, Global Travel Distribution (GTD), Global Travel Services (GTS) and VFS Global.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Consumer Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: California M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2017 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-03-08 GTA Travel

Los Angeles, California, United States

GTA Travel provides travel services. The Company offers hotel accommodation, ground travel products, and related services to the travel trade.

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