M&A Deal Summary

Specialist Journeys Acquires Andante Travels

On January 1, 2013, Specialist Journeys acquired leisure company Andante Travels from Panoramic Growth Equity

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Specialist Journeys’ 1st transaction in the Leisure sector.
  • This is Specialist Journeys’ 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2013-01-01
Target Andante Travels
Sector Leisure
Buyer(s) Specialist Journeys
Sellers(s) Panoramic Growth Equity
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Andante Travels

Salisbury, United Kingdom
Andante Travels is a tour operator group specializing in archaeological travel, offering tours all over the world. Andante Travels was founded in 1985 and is based in Salisbury, England.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Specialist Journeys

Salisbury, United Kingdom

Category Company
Sector Leisure
DESCRIPTION

Specialist Journeys is a multi-brand tour operator providing small group, expert-led specialist interest holidays exploring history, culture, archaeology, wine, and charitable endeavours all over the world. Specialist Journeys is based in Salisbury, England.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Leisure M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2013 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Panoramic Growth Equity

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor


Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 2009
PE ASSETS 100M GBP
Size Small
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Panoramic Growth Equity is a provider of growth financing to small and medium-sized businesses in the UK. The Firm targets high-growth, early stage companies with at least £0.5 million in EBITDA. Panoramic has offices in London and Glasgow.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 12
Sector: Leisure M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 9
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 12
Year: 2013 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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Glasgow, United Kingdom

Dog Digital is an independent digital communications agency. Dog Digital specialises across the digital communications spectrum from major web development to social, search & display advertising. Dog Digital was founded in 1996 and is based in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-01-30 Solfex

Lancashire, United Kingdom

Solfex Ltd. is a distributor of solar thermal energy systems.

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