M&A Deal Summary

Keywords Studios Acquires Around The Word

On August 4, 2017, Keywords Studios acquired digital media company Around The Word

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Keywords Studios’ 18th transaction in the Digital Media sector.
  • This is Keywords Studios’ 4th transaction in France.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2017-08-04
Target Around The Word
Sector Digital Media
Buyer(s) Keywords Studios
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Around The Word

Paris, France
Around The Word is a provider of audio recording and localisation services to the video games industry internationally.Around The Word is an international localization company founded in 1998 and based in Canada, France and Germany.

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Buyer

Keywords Studios

Dublin, Ireland

Category Company
Founded 1998
Sector Digital Media
Revenue 780M EUR (2023)
DESCRIPTION

Keywords Studios is an international technical services provider to the global video games industry. The company provides integrated art creation, localization, testing, audio, and customer care services across 50 languages and 14 game platforms to a blue-chip client base in more than 15 countries. Keywords Studios was founded in 1998 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 24 of 41
Sector: Digital Media M&A 18 of 27
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 23 of 36
Country: France M&A 4 of 4
Year: 2017 M&A 9 of 13
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-08-04 La Marque Rose SARL

Paris, France

La Marque Rose SARL is a well-earned reputation for setting the gold standard in French audio for games. From video game localization to dubbing of TV shows, trailers and ads, La Marque Rose combines 20 years of expertise in translation, project management and voice direction, along with advanced technical know-how, to produce content that's a perfect match for even the most demanding markets in France and other French-speaking regions.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-10-19 d3t

Cheshire, United Kingdom

d3t is an award-winning software development company with capabilities including HD re-mastering, porting, optimisation, rendering and game systems development. Over the course of the last six years they have delivered consistent high quality across dozens of projects for clients such as SEGA, Codemasters, Sony XDev and the BBC.

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