M&A Deal Summary

Optima Data Intelligence Acquires WDIS

On May 14, 2007, Optima Data Intelligence acquired business services company WDIS from Wilmington

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Optima Data Intelligence’s 1st transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is Optima Data Intelligence’s 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2007-05-14
Target WDIS
Sector Business Services
Buyer(s) Optima Data Intelligence
Sellers(s) Wilmington
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

WDIS

Southall, United Kingdom
WDIS Ltd. is a provider of circulation management, subscription handling and processing, digital issue production and warehousing services to the publishing industry.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Optima Data Intelligence

London, United Kingdom

Category Company
Founded 1994
Sector Business Services
DESCRIPTION

Optima Data Intelligence Ltd. provides magazine fulfillment, customer data and order management solutions to Business-to-Business and Specialist Consumer Publishers in the U.K.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Business Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2007 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Wilmington

London, United Kingdom

Category Company
Founded 1995
Sector Business Services
Employees600
Revenue 98M GBP (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Wilmington is a provider of risk & compliance, finance, legal, and insight solutions. Wilmington businesses enable professionals and their organisations to perform better by providing quality, relevant and reliable information, education and networking. Wilmington was founded in 1995 and is based in London, England.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 5
Sector: Business Services M&A 1 of 2
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 5
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 4
Year: 2007 M&A 1 of 3
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-08-15 Wilmington Media

London, United Kingdom

Wilmington Media Ltd. offers conferences and exhibitions, call file management, call centre, telemarketing, lead generation, mailing, and letter/proposal design services.

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