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Intelligence Acquires Gakusei Engokai Co.

On March 14, 2006, Intelligence acquired publishing company Gakusei Engokai Co. from The Carlyle Group

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Intelligence’s 1st transaction in the Publishing sector.
  • This is Intelligence’s 1st transaction in Japan.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2006-03-14
Target Gakusei Engokai Co.
Sector Publishing
Buyer(s) Intelligence
Sellers(s) The Carlyle Group
Deal Type Merger

Target

Gakusei Engokai Co.

Tokyo, Japan
Gakusei Engokai is a premier publisher of job placement magazines, which are distributed to more than 100,000 locations throughout Japan. These magazines are well known in Japan for its brands: "an", "DODA", "salida", and "arbeit times". The company also provides this information via the Internet and mobile phones, which is a rapidly growing interface for job seekers.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Intelligence

Tokyo, Japan
Category Company
Founded 1989
Sector Staffing
Employees3,683
DESCRIPTION

Intelligence is a comprehensive HR services company, providing services including online and classified job advertisement services, permanent placement services, temporary staffing services, IT and business process outsourcing services, public solutions services, and IT system development services in Japan, as well as permanent placement services in China and South East Asia. Intelligence was formed in 1989 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Publishing M&A 1 of 1
Type: Merger M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: Japan M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2006 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

The Carlyle Group

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1987
PE ASSETS 435.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.

The Carlyle Group is a global investment firm that pursues private equity, credit, and real estate investments worldwide. Carlyle's private equity practice practice pursues buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings. With offices in 19 countries, Carlyle can easily target opportunities throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East/North Africa and Latin America. Broad sectors of interest include aerospace, defense, automotive and transportation, consumer, retail, energy and power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, technology services, business services, telecommunications and media. The Carlyle Group was formed in 1987 and is based in Washington DC.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 72 of 490
Sector: Publishing M&A 5 of 8
Type: Merger M&A Deals 3 of 10
Country: Japan M&A 3 of 17
Year: 2006 M&A 5 of 19
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