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It's In the Books: '05 B2B M&A Value Soars 42.3% in JEGI Tally

Ist Teil von

• MIN's B 2 B, 2006-01, Vol.9 (3), p.1

Ort / Verlag

Potomac: Access Intelligence LLC

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

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EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• There was no Category Five media M&A disaster in 2005 the likes of Time Warner/AOL in 2001. Nor did Advanstar choose to proceed with a contemplated sale that might have netted hundreds of millions of dollars for its private equity backers. And VNU pulled the plug on its planned $1.6B acquisition of IMS Health to stave off a shareholder revolt. So you might think it was an off year in media mergers and acquisitions. Well, think again, as they say. In the first of what will likely be a half dozen or more comprehensive yearend M&A recaps, New York's Jordan Edmiston Group, Inc. tallied up 525 deals (+13.4%) worth almost $56B across the 11 media sectors it tracks. The $56B in transaction value represents an 86.9% increase over 2004's $29.9B mark.