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Link Mobility Acquires Linus AS

On September 30, 2016, Link Mobility acquired digital media company Linus AS for 66M NOK

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Link Mobility’s 1st transaction in the Digital Media sector.
  • This is Link Mobility’s 9th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Link Mobility’s 1st transaction in Norway.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2016-09-30
Target Linus AS
Sector Digital Media
Buyer(s) Link Mobility
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 66M NOK

Target

Linus AS

Fornebu, Norway
Linus AS is a provider of B2C mobile messaging and mobile solutions in the Scandinavian and Baltic markets. Linus is a major provider of both mobile messaging and mobile communication solutions in the Norwegian market, especially for the financial sector. The mobile solutions developed by Linus contribute to a simpler and more effective way for a business to establish mobile dialog with its customers. The company provides both standard products as well as custom development based upon their customers’ needs.

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Buyer

Link Mobility

Oslo, Norway
Category Company
Founded 2000
Sector Communications
Revenue 362M NOK (2015)
DESCRIPTION

Link Mobility is a provider of mobile communications, specializing in messaging, digital services and data intelligence. LINK offers a wide range of innovative and scalable solutions across industries and sectors, creating valuable digital convergence between businesses and customers, platforms and users. Link Mobility was founded in 2000 and is based in Oslo, Norway.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 7 of 17
Sector: Digital Media M&A 1 of 8
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 5 of 14
Country: Norway M&A 1 of 3
Year: 2016 M&A 5 of 5
Size (of disclosed) 9 of 13
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-09-07 Labyrintti Media Oy

Tampere, Finland

Labyrintti Media Oy is a provider of B2C mobile messaging services.

Buy €11M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-01-12 Didimo

Madrid, Spain

Didimo is a provider of B2C mobile messaging services. Didimo has a strong position in the Spanish market for mobile messaging services. Didimo has a solid customer portfolio of large companies and SMEs. The company has a strong relationship with the telecom operators; it has direct connections to all the main operators in the Spanish market, and is running the solutions portfolio for Orange and Telefonica in Spain.

Buy €7M
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