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Update on M+A Activities
Business Strategies Group Ltd, Sep 2011, Pages: 13
Introduction
This is an updated edition of this report which was last published in January 2011.
This is BSG’s biannual report detailing the latest mergers and acquisitions in Asia’s B2B media sector. In the first half of 2011, seven Asian B2B media deals were completed. BSG estimates the total value of those seven acquisitions to be US$38 million. This resulted in an average deal size of US$5.4 million in the first half of 2011 – down from the average of US$6.8 million in the full year of 2010.
Of the seven transactions in the first half of 2011, three of the transactions were China-based deals, two deals were in India, one in Hong Kong and one in Southeast Asia. The largest of the deals recorded in the first half was Alibaba.com’s acquisition in February of Nanjing-based Sinosoft for US$26 million. Sinosoft provides a software platform which facilitates export-related activities.
In the U.S., B2B media M&A activity began to pick-up. The Jordan Edmiston Group (JEGI), a media-focused investment bank, released its semi-annual report on M&A activity in the U.S. media market in the first half of 2011 at the end of June. According to JEGI, the total value of U.S. media deals increased 15% to US$23 billion compared to US$20 billion in the first six months of last year. The total number of U.S.-based deals was up 52% to 484 in the first half of 2011 – up from 471 in 2010.
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