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Yamaehisano Acquires Hivic

On February 18, 2019, Yamaehisano acquired building materials company Hivic from Polaris Capital Group

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Yamaehisano’s 1st transaction in the Building Materials sector.
  • This is Yamaehisano’s 1st transaction in Japan.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2019-02-18
Target Hivic
Sector Building Materials
Buyer(s) Yamaehisano
Sellers(s) Polaris Capital Group
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Hivic

Saitama, Japan
Hivic is a manufacturer and seller of precut timber, sales of timber, building materials, housing equipment and others, sales of building components, and construction and sales of custom-build wooden houses. Hivic was founded in 1966 and is based in Saitama, Japan.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Yamaehisano

Fukuoka, Japan
Category Company
Founded 1950
Sector Distribution
Employees1,092
DESCRIPTION

Yamaehisano is a whole-sale distributor of “food” and “home”-related products. The company also process fresh vegetables to produce side dishes for convenience stores and mass retailers. Yamaehisano was founded in 1950 and is based in Fukuoka, Japan.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Building Materials M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: Japan M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2019 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Polaris Capital Group

Tokyo, Japan

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2004
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Polaris Capital Group is a private equity firm focused on mid-sized opportunities throughout Japan. Polaris generally seeks manufacturing companies with competitive technologies/processes, but the Firm will also consider consumer goods, retail, logistics and other service based businesses possessing strong brands or unique business models with potential to expand. Prospective transaction situations of interest include business successions and corporate carve-outs. Polaris Capital Group was formed in 2004 and is headquartered in Tokyo.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 17 of 23
Sector: Building Materials M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 9 of 10
Country: Japan M&A 17 of 23
Year: 2019 M&A 1 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-02-05 Hitowa

Tokyo, Japan

Hitowa is a corporate group with a nursing care business that operates nursing care homes for the elderly under the Irise brand, a franchise business that mainly provides house cleaning services under the Osoji Honpo brand, and a childcare business that operates licensed nurseries under the Taiyono-ko brand. Hitowa was founded in 1997 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-04-01 LYKAON

Tokyo, Japan

LYKAON is a developer and seller of SEO software and retail theft (shoplifting) prevention system based on face recognition technology. LYKAON is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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