M&A Deal Summary

Platts Acquires Minerals Value Service

On March 3, 2015, Platts acquired information services company Minerals Value Service

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Platts’ 3rd transaction in the Information Services sector.
  • This is Platts’ 1st transaction in Germany.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2015-03-03
Target Minerals Value Service
Sector Information Services
Buyer(s) Platts
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Minerals Value Service

Munich, Germany
Minerals Value Service GmbH is a provider of information services to determine value-in-use for miners, mills and traders in the iron ore and steelmaking industries.

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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 7 of 9
Sector: Information Services M&A 3 of 3
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 6 of 8
Country: Germany M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2015 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-07-17 Eclipse Energy Group AS

Stavanger, Norway

Eclipse Energy Group AS, is a provider of data and analysis on the European gas, power and global liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets.

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FOLLOWING 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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