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ITV Acquires Tarinatalo Oy

On October 8, 2012, ITV acquired media company Tarinatalo Oy

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is ITV’s 6th transaction in the Media sector.
  • This is ITV’s 1st transaction in Finland.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2012-10-08
Target Tarinatalo Oy
Sector Media
Buyer(s) ITV
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Tarinatalo Oy

Helsink, Finland
Tarinatalo has grown into one of the most interesting, creative production companies in Finland. And just like Mediacircus, our recent Norwegian acquisition, Tarinatalo has experience in creating and selling formats for the international market which is important for us as we move towards our goal of building a strong creative business."

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Buyer

ITV

London, United Kingdom
Category Company
Founded 1955
Sector Media
Employees6,133
Revenue 3.5B GBP (2024)
DESCRIPTION

ITV is an operator of a commercial television network. The company's Broadcasting and Online segment commissions and schedules programs on the ITV channels. ITV was founded in 1955 and is based in London, England.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 8 of 23
Sector: Media M&A 6 of 16
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 6 of 16
Country: Finland M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2012 M&A 3 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-08-30 So Television

London, United Kingdom

So Television was set up by Graham Norton and Graham Stuart in September 2000 to make high quality entertainment television. The company is one of the most successful independent production companies in the UK and currently stands at number 45 in the Indies League 2012.

Buy €17M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-12-24 Gurney Productions

Los Angeles, California, United States

Gurney Productions is a full-service television production company, supplying hours of reality and factual based programming to major networks in the US and abroad. The company has produced shows for ESPN, Discovery, SYFY, Spike, A&E, Animal Planet, Travel, Versus and HDNET. Gurney also produces major network commercials, DVD’s for Teens and Children and international programming for Networks worldwide.

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