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Platts Acquires Commodity Flow

On March 15, 2016, Platts acquired information technology company Commodity Flow

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Platts’ 1st transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is Platts’ 3rd transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2016-03-15
Target Commodity Flow
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) Platts
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Commodity Flow

London, United Kingdom
Commodity Flow Ltd. is a specialist technology and business intelligence service for the global waterborne commodity and energy markets. Commodity Flow consultancy which specialises in implementing commodities and ship analytics solutions for trading and shipping companies around the world.

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Buyer

Platts

New York, New York, United States
Category Company
Founded 1909
Sector Information Services
DESCRIPTION

Platts is a provider of energy, petrochemicals, metals and agriculture information, and a premier source of benchmark price assessments for those commodity markets. Since 1909, Platts has provided information and insights that help customers make trading and business decisions and enable the markets to perform with greater transparency and efficiency.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 9 of 9
Sector: Information Technology M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 8 of 8
Country: United Kingdom M&A 3 of 3
Year: 2016 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-07-16 Petromedia

Windsor, United Kingdom

Petromedia Ltd. is a specialist provider of online news and analysis for the shipping and oil industries.

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