M&A Deal Summary

Rakuten Acquires Play

On October 3, 2011, Rakuten acquired internet software and services company Play for 25M GBP

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Rakuten’s 3rd transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is Rakuten’s 7th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Rakuten’s 1st transaction in Channel Islands.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2011-10-03
Target Play
Sector Internet Software and Services
Buyer(s) Rakuten
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 25M GBP

Target

Play

Saint Helier, Channel Islands
Play Ltd is a online retailer of CD, DVD and games.

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Buyer

Rakuten

Tokyo, Japan

Category Company
Founded 1997
Sector Internet Software and Services
Employees29,334
Revenue 2.28T JPY (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Rakuten office in Tokyo, Japan.
Rakuten office in Tokyo, Japan.

Rakuten is an internet services company. Rakuten provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, eBooks & eReading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports. Rakuten Group is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania. Rakuten was founded in 1997 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 24
Sector: Internet Software and Services M&A 3 of 11
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 5 of 22
Country: Channel Islands M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2011 M&A 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 7 of 8
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-06-17 Price Minister SA

Villette, France

PriceMinister is a french company backing the online electronic commerce website PriceMinister.com.

Buy €200M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-01-11 Rakuten Kobo

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rakuten Kobo, Inc. is a privately held company operates as an online eBook retailer.

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