M&A Deal Summary

Wolters Kluwer Acquires Business Fitness NZ

On August 9, 2011, Wolters Kluwer acquired software company Business Fitness NZ

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Wolters Kluwer’s 11th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Wolters Kluwer’s 1st transaction in New Zealand.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2011-08-09
Target Business Fitness NZ
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Wolters Kluwer
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Business Fitness NZ

Mount Maunganui, New Zealand
Business Fitness NZ is an innovative provider of interactive accounting content for accounting professionals. Its innovative content solutions include a range of over 2000 'how to', process-driven compliance and service templates as well as electronic work papers, documentation kits and software and client development tutorials and webinar programmes.

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Buyer

Wolters Kluwer

Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands

Category Company
Founded 1836
Sector Information Services
Employees21,467
Revenue 5.9B EUR (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Wolters Kluwer is a global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services globally for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal, and regulatory sectors. Wolters Kluwer was founded in 1836 and is based in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 25 of 64
Sector: Software M&A 11 of 30
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 20 of 55
Country: New Zealand M&A 1 of 2
Year: 2011 M&A 3 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-07-26 SpeedTax

Laguna Hills, C, California, United States

SpeedTax, Inc. is a provider of innovative Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sales and use tax solutions. SpeedTax serves small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the corporate market and CPA firms that support SMEs’ sales and use tax compliance processing.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-10-17 Rora Client Systems

New York, New York, United States

RORA Client Systems has helped further the global expansion of legal electronic billing (“eBilling”) by developing easy-to-use technologies and providing best practices and implementation consulting to corporate legal departments, law firms, eBilling and legal accounting vendors. RORA Client Systems has developed products that are used by law firms both in the US and around the world.

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