M&A Deal Summary

iHeartMedia Acquires Equipamientos Urbano

On February 1, 2000, iHeartMedia acquired marketing company Equipamientos Urbano from GMT Communications Partners and Dinamia Capital Privado SCR SA

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is iHeartMedia’s 1st transaction in the Marketing sector.
  • This is iHeartMedia’s 1st transaction in Spain.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2000-02-01
Target Equipamientos Urbano
Sector Marketing
Buyer(s) iHeartMedia
Sellers(s) GMT Communications Partners
Dinamia Capital Privado SCR SA
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Equipamientos Urbano

Las Palmas, Spain
Equipamientos Urbano is an Spanish outdoor advertising company.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

iHeartMedia

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Category Company
Sector Media
Employees8,080
Revenue 3.9B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

iHeartMedia is a diversified media and entertainment company with three reportable business segments: iHeartMedia, Americas outdoor advertising, and International outdoor advertising. iHeartMedia is based in San Antonio, Texas.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 9
Sector: Marketing M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 3 of 8
Country: Spain M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2000 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1999-05-04 Jacor Communications Co.

Covington, Kentucky, United States

Jacor Communications Company, a media holding company, provides radio broadcasting and related services to radio broadcasting companies in the United States.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-03-01 Live Nation

Beverly Hills, California, United States

Live Nation is a live entertainment company. Live Nation produces live music concerts; owns, operates, has exclusive booking rights for or has an equity interest in 148 venues, including House of Blues music venues and locations such as The Fillmore in San Francisco, the Hollywood Palladium, the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam and The O2 Dublin; provides ticketing sales and marketing services; and provides artist management services. Live Nation was formed in 2005 and is based in Beverly Hills, California.

Buy $4.4B

Seller(S) 2

SELLER

GMT Communications Partners

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1993
PE ASSETS 3.5B EUR
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

GMT Communications Partners is a specialist private equity firm focused on investments in the media and communications industries. The Firm prefers established companies with strong barriers to entry. Specific sectors of interest include publishing, information services, tv/radio, mobile voice & data networks, out-of-home media, and telecom infrastructure/services. GMT focuses its investment activity across Europe and will consider later stage investments as well as buyouts. GMT Communications Partners is based in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 28
Sector: Marketing M&A 1 of 3
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 5 of 14
Country: Spain M&A 1 of 3
Year: 2000 M&A 1 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-01-01 Skyline SA

Lille, France

Skyline SA is a provider of wireless broadband communications systems and services to rural markets in France.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-04-03 Quote Media

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Quote Media is a consumer magazine publishing company in the Netherlands, publishing five monthly or bimonthly magazines and a series of ancillary products that capitalised on the strength of the company’s publishing brands.

Sell -
DESCRIPTION


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 21
Sector: Marketing M&A 1 of 2
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 12
Country: Spain M&A 1 of 16
Year: 2000 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1998-10-01 Capital Safety

Red Wing, Minnesota, United States

Capital Safety, Inc. is a provider of fall protection equipment for people working at height in a wide range of end user sectors including manufacturing, construction, oil and gas, and utilities.

Buy €98M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-06-01 NET TV Television SA

Madrid, Spain

NET TV is a digital television broadcasters that, starting with a 24-hour broadcast day, pretend to be a young television, interactive, diverse, attractive and innovative, which helps to keep our country in positions of technological leadership and asset development Information Society.

Buy -