M&A Deal Summary

Maped Acquires Janod

On October 20, 2022, Maped acquired consumer products company Janod from Argos Wityu

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Maped’s 3rd transaction in the Consumer Products sector.
  • This is Maped’s 1st transaction in France.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2022-10-20
Target Janod
Sector Consumer Products
Buyer(s) Maped
Sellers(s) Argos Wityu
Deal Type Merger

Target

Janod

Orgelet, France
Janod is a developer and manufacturer of wooden toys. Janod offers baby and learning toys, musical toys, wooden puzzles, blackboards, role-play products, and outdoor products. Janod was founded in 1970 and is based in Orgelet, France.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Maped

Argonay, France

Category Company
Founded 1947
Sector Consumer Products
Revenue 158M EUR (2013)
DESCRIPTION

Maped is a designer and manufacturer of school and office articles including stationary equipment. Maped was founded in 1947 and is based in Argonay, France.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 3
Sector: Consumer Products M&A 3 of 3
Type: Merger M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: France M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2022 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-02-15 Helix Group

Stourbridge, United Kingdom

Helix Group PLC is a designer and manufacturer of an education, home and office, and craft products.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Argos Wityu

Paris, France

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1989
PE ASSETS 1.8B EUR
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Argos Soditic is a private equity firm that seeks majority or minority investments in small to medium sized companies headquartered throughout Europe. Argos Soditic will consider investments in public or private companies generating revenue of €20 to €600 million. The Firm's target investment size is €10 to €100 million. Funds are typically used to support management buyouts/buy-ins, divestitures, and growth capital needs. Argos Soditic is a generalist investor with interest in aerospace, manufacturing, distribution, business services, chemicals, marketing, industrial products, packaging, staffing, medical products, and healthcare services. Argos Soditic was formed in 1989 and is headquartered in Paris.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 39 of 41
Sector: Consumer Products M&A 5 of 5
Type: Merger M&A Deals 2 of 2
Country: France M&A 25 of 26
Year: 2022 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-10-10 SB Italia

Milan, Italy

SB Italia is a digital innovation company specializing in IT solutions and services for the management, integration, and digitization of business processes. SB Italia designs build and manage IT solutions for companies in digital transformation projects. SB Italia is based in Milan, Italy.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-11-30 IJssel

Zwolle, Netherlands

IJssel is an architecture & planning company. IJssel was founded in 1992 and is based in Zwolle, Netherlands.

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