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Ingram Micro Acquires Acal - Cisco Distribution Business

On October 14, 2002, Ingram Micro acquired distribution company Acal - Cisco Distribution Business from discoverIE Group for 5M EUR

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Ingram Micro’s 2nd transaction in the Distribution sector.
  • This is Ingram Micro’s 6th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Ingram Micro’s 1st transaction in the Netherlands.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2002-10-14
Target Acal - Cisco Distribution Business
Sector Distribution
Buyer(s) Ingram Micro
Sellers(s) discoverIE Group
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 5M EUR

Target

Acal - Cisco Distribution Business

Netherlands
Acal plc - Cisco Distribution Business engages in the distribution of Cisco networking products and the provision of certain related services, operated as a division of Acal Nederland BV and shared the administration and support facilities of that company with its other activities, all of which will continue.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Ingram Micro

Irvine, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1979
Sector Distribution
Employees23,500
Revenue 48.0B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Ingram Micro's corporate headquarters in Irvine, California.
Entrance to Ingram Micro's corporate headquarters in Irvine, California.

Ingram Micro is a wholesale technology distributor and a global provider of IT supply-chain, mobile device lifecycle services, and logistics solutions. Ingram Micro distributes and markets a large variety of technology and mobility products from companies such as Acer, Apple, Cisco, Citrix, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, Samsung, Symantec, VMware, and others. Ingram Micro was founded in 1979 and is based in Irvine, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 45
Sector: Distribution M&A 2 of 25
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 5
Country: Netherlands M&A 1 of 5
Year: 2002 M&A 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 6 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1989-09-27 Softeurop

Brussel, Belgium

Softeurop is a software distributor.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-07-28 Nimax

Santa Ana, California, United States

Nimax, Inc. is a distribution of automatic identification and data capture/point-of-sale (AIDC/POS), barcode and wireless products, as well as enterprise mobility solutions.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

discoverIE Group

Guildford, United Kingdom
Category Company
Founded 1986
Sector Electronics
Employees4,497
Revenue 423M GBP (2024)
DESCRIPTION

discoverIE Group is an electronics, designing, manufacturing, and distributing electronic, photonic, and medical products for the industrial and healthcare sectors. discoverIE Group was founded in 1986 and is based in Guildford, England.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 6
Sector: Distribution M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 6
Country: Netherlands M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2002 M&A 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 4 of 5
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2003-04-16 Computer Parts International

United Kingdom

Computer Parts International Ltd. principal activity is the provision of service parts and related logistics services for mid-range and higher-end computers. It is based in the UK and approximately 70% of its sales are in the UK with the rest mainly in Continental Europe and the USA.

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