M&A report--February 2007.BUSINESS SERVICES Seller: ATI (ATI Technologies Inc., Markham Ontario, http://ati.amd.com) A leading manufacturer of graphics chips and display adapters. Founded in 1985 by K. Y. Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Lau, ATI chips and boards are widely used by OEMs. Systems International Inc. (Pasadena) Business: Provides security, armored transportation and cash handling services Buyer: Garda World Security Corp. (Canada) Deal Value: $341 million Seller: CCM CCM Contemporary Christian Music CCM Critical Care Medicine CCM County College of Morris (New Jersey) CCM Chama Cha Mapinduzi (political party, Tanzania) CCM CORBA Component Model Futures LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (Chicago, IL) Business: Provides brokerage services Buyer: Countrywide Financial Corp. (Calabasas) Deal Value: ND Seller: Cydcor Inc. (Westlake Village) Business: Provides outsourcing services Buyer: Golden Gate Capital/JP Capital Partners (San Francisco) Deal Value: ND Seller: First Coastal Bancshares Inc. (Manhattan Beach) Business: National commercial bank Buyer: CVB CVB Convention and Visitors Bureau CVB College Van Bestuur (Dutch: Managing Council) CVB Camper Van Beethoven (band) CVB Common Vision Blox CVB Center for Veterinary Biologics Financial Corp. (Ontario) Deal Value: $32 million Seller: Groupe Siantou (Stella Voyage) (Cameroon) Business: Operates as an inter-urban bus transportation company Buyer: Transnational Automotive Group Inc. (Woodland Hills) Deal Value: ND Seller: Party Panache Inc. (Pompano Beach, FL) Business: Event rental company Buyer: Classic Party Rentals Inc. (El Segundo) Deal Value: ND Seller: Paul D. Cummings World Wide Enterprises Corp. (Wildwood Wildwood, city (1990 pop. 4,484), Cape May co., SE N.J., on an island off Cape May; settled 1882, inc. as a city 1911. It has large commercial fisheries and is a popular summer seaside resort with many vintage motels and other buildings from the 1940s–60s. , GA) Business: Provides online sales and leadership training services Buyer: Market Scan Information Systems Inc. (Westlake Village) Deal Value: $36 million Seller: Professional Business Bank (Glendale) Business: State commercial bank Buyer: Belvedere Capital Partners (San Francisco) Deal Value: $42 million Seller: The Yucaipa Cos. LLC (TDS TDS total dissolved solids. logistics) (Los Angeles) Business: Provides logistics services to original equipment manufacturers and automotive suppliers worldwide Buyer: Walsh Western International Ltd. (Ireland) Deal Value: $400 million Seller: TIMEC TIMEC The Incredible Melting Entertainment Compagnons Company Inc. (Carson) Business: Provides maintenance and turnaround solutions Buyer: Transfield Services Ltd. (Australia) Deal Value: $100 million CONSUMER Seller: Galleher Hardwood Co. (Santa Fe Springs Santa Fe Springs, city (1990 pop. 15,520), Los Angeles co., SW Calif., inc. 1957. The city lies in an oil and natural gas region and has diversified manufacturing. ) Business: Wholesales home furnishings Buyer: ITOCHU Corp. (Japan) Deal Value: ND Seller: H&H Glass Corp. (Chicago, IL) Business: Distributes glass products Buyer: Kaire Holdings Inc. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: $8 million Seller: Mynk Corp. (Los Angeles) Business: Designs and produces clothing and accessories Buyer: PanGlobal Brands Inc. (Canada) Deal Value: $0.6 million Seller: New York Transit Inc. (Rocket Dog) (Los Angeles) Business: Manufactures women's shoes Buyer: Golden Gate Capital/Circle Peak Capital (San Francisco) Deal Value: ND ENERGY Seller: SandRidge Energy (Amarillo, TX) Business: Engages in oil and gas exploration. production and agricultural operations Buyer: Ares Partners Management Co. LLC (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: The TCW TCW Total Carat Weight TCW Temporal Cold War (Star Trek Enterprise) TCW Troop Carrier Wing TCW Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling TCW Tasty Coma Wife (Scrubs episode) Group Inc. (New XCL-China Ltd.) (Los Angeles) Business: Owns and develops oil reserves off the northeast coast of China Buyer: Sinochem Corp. (China) Deal Value: $218 million Seller: Weyerhaeuser Co. (Canada) (Federal Way, WA) Business: Manufactures and distributes forest products Buyer: Platinum Equity LLC (Beverly Hills) Deal Value: ND FOOD Seller: Apollo Management (GNC GNC General Nutrition Centers GNC Gas Natural Comprimido (Argentina) GNC Guidance, Navigation, and Control GNC Grand National Championship (ATV racing) GNC Global Navigation Chart Parent Corp.) (Pittsburgh, PA) Business: Retails natural and specialty foods Buyer: Ares Management/Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (Los Angeles) Deal Value: $1.65 billion Seller: Herbalife Ltd. (Los Angeles) Business: Markets a range of science-based weight management products, nutritional supplements and personal care products Buyer: J. H. Whitney & Co. LLC (New Canaan, CT) Deal Value: $2 billion Seller: Smart & Final Inc. (Commerce) Business: Sells food, foodservice products, and culinary equipment through non-membership warehouse stores and wholesale stores Buyer: Apollo Management L.P. (New York, NY) Deal Value: $813 million Seller: Sunset Brands Inc. (U.S Mills Inc.) (Los Angeles) Business: Produces organic foods Buyer: Susquehanna International Group Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG) is an international financial trading and services group located in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania with offices located in the United States, Asia and Europe. LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol (Bala Cynwyd, PA) Deal Value: ND Seller: The Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group Inc. (New York, NY) Business: Develops and operates restaurants in major cities throughout the United States Buyer: Patina Group LLC (Los Angeles) Deal Value: $93 million HEALTHCARE Seller: Choice Systems Inc. (Rancho Palos Verdes Rancho Pal·os Ver·des A city of southern California on a channel of the Pacific Ocean west of Long Beach. Population: 42,100. ) Business: Provides tools for the financial and clinical management of rehabilitation programs Buyer: Logibec Groupe Informatique Ltd. (Canada) Deal Value: ND Seller: InnoZen Inc. (Woodland Hills) Business: Discovers, develops and markets over-the-counter (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). ) health products Buyer: HealthSport Inc. (Tulsa, OK) Deal Value: $49 million Seller: Jackson Care Management LLC (Houston, TX) Business: Provides geriatric care management Geriatric care management is a service that provides assistance to the elderly and their families when they are faced with problems they are unable to resolve on their own. and consulting services Buyer: LivHOME Inc. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Kingsport Consultants/Bristol Consultants (Kingsport and Bristol, TN) Business: Provides hospitalist hos·pi·tal·ist n. A physician, usually an internist, who specializes in the care of hospitalized patients. hospitalist services Buyer: IPC--The Hospitalist Co. (North Hollywood) Deal Value: ND Seller: Patient Safety Technologies Inc. (Los Angeles) Business: Provides capital and managerial assistance to development stage companies in the medical products and health care solutions industries Buyer: Ault Glazer Asset Management LLC (Los Angeles) Deal Value: $4 million Seller: Teleradiology Diagnostic Service Inc. (Arcadia) Business: Provides coverage for reviewing emergent radiological studies for contracted radiology Buyer: NightHawk nighthawk: see goatsucker. nighthawk Any of several species of North and South American birds in the whippoorwill family (Caprimulgidae) that are buff, reddish, or grayish brown, usually with light spots or patches, and 6–14 in. Radiology Holdings Inc. (Coeur d'Alene, ID) Deal Value: $23 million Seller: The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center Inc. (Newport Beach) Business: Operates as a rehabilitation and recovery center Buyer: Let's Talk Recovery Inc. (Beverly Hills) Deal Value: ND INDUSTRIAL Seller: Ellison Technologies (Santa Fe Springs) Business: Manufactures machine cutting tools Buyer: Mitsui & Co. Ltd./Mori Seiki Co. Ltd. (Japan) Deal Value: ND Seller: GFI GFI Ground Fault Interrupter GFI Go For It GFI Government-Furnished Information GFI Growing Families International GFI Goodness of Fit Indices GFI Government Financial Institutions (Philippines) GFI Gross Farm Income Energy Ventures LLC (Smart Systems International) (Los Angeles) Business: Provider of energy management system thermostats for commercial and residential buildings Buyer: Telkonet Inc. (Germantown, MD) Deal Value: $7 million Seller: Hampshire Equity Partners (ROM Corporation) (New York, NY) Business: Designs and manufactures niche products used in the transportation Buyer: Century Park Capital Partners (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Leonard Green & Partners L.P. (Werner Holding Co. Inc.) (Los Angeles) Business: Manufactures and markets climbing equipments and aluminum extruded products through its subsidiaries Buyer: Black Diamond Capital Management LLC/Brencourt Advisors LLC (Lake Forest, IL) Deal Value: $256 million Seller: Lintelle Engineering Inc. (Scotts Valley) Business: Manufactures electronic, electro-mechanical and electro-pneumatic products Buyer: Creo Capital Partners LLC (Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). ) Deal Value: ND Seller: National RV Holdings Inc. (Country Coach) (Perris) Business: Manufactures motor coaches Buyer: Riley Investment Management LLC (Country Coach Holdings LLC) (Los Angeles) Deal Value: $39 million Seller: The Plastics Group Inc. (Rotational Molding Division) (Willowbrook, IL) Business: Manufactures and markets custom rotationally molded plastic products Buyer: Rotonics Manufacturing Inc. (Gardena) Deal Value: ND Seller: Tri-Star Electronics International Inc. (El Segundo) Business: Engages in the design and manufacture of contacts, connectors, cable products, and wire processing equipment Buyer: Brockway Moran & Partners Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) Deal Value: ND Seller: UTEK Corp. (Stress Analysis Technologies Inc.) (Tampa, FL) Business: Develops metal fatigue monitoring technology Buyer: Material Technologies Inc. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Wedbush Capital Partners (Extrusioneering Inc.) (Los Angeles) Business: Manufactures customized extrusions in California Buyer: ExtruMed LLC (Placentia) Deal Value: ND MEDIA Seller: Baroda Ventures (MediaVast inc.) (Beverly Hills) Business: Provides visual content services to print and online media, ad agencies, broadcast networks, mobile carders, communication agencies, and other publishing enterprises Buyer: Getty Images Inc. (Seattle, WA) Deal Value: $202 million Seller: eVoke IV Inc. (Bechtelsville) Business: Operates a Web site devoted to IV scheduling information Buyer: Gemstar-TV Guide International Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. is a media company that licenses interactive program guide technology to multichannel operators, such as cable and satellite television providers, and consumer electronics manufacturers, video recorder scheduling code under brands such as VCR Inc. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: FansOfRealityTV.com (US) Business: Operates a Web site dedicated to reality TV shows Buyer. Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: FrameFlow LLC (India) Business: Delivers visual effects and animation services for film, television, and advertising projects Buyer: Sony Pictures Imageworks Sony Pictures Imageworks, Inc. is an Academy Award-winning, state-of-the-art visual effects and character animation company. Individuals at the company have been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with Oscars for their work on Spider-Man 2 (Culver City) Deal Value: $5 million Seller: HurryDate (New York, NY) Business: Provides on-line speed dating services Buyer: Spark Networks Plc (Beverly Hills) Deal Value: ND Seller: Icelounge.com Inc. (Newport Beach) Business: Operates a social networking Web site See social networking Web sites and social networking site. Buyer: Associated Media Holdings Inc. (Long Beach) Deal Value: $50,000 Seller: JoeCartoon.com Inc. (Grand Rapids, MI) Business: Owns and operates a flash-animation Web-portal for children above 13 years of age Buyer: Endemol USA Inc. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Magna Pacific Holdings Ltd. (Australia) Business: Operates as an independent digital versatile disc digital versatile disc or digital video disc (DVD), a small plastic disc used for the storage of digital data. The successor media to the compact disc (CD), a DVD can have as much as 26 times the storage capacity of a CD. (DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. ) distributor in Australia and New Zealand Buyer: Lions Gate Entertainment
Seller: Moderati Inc. (San Francisco) Business: Provides mobile content Buyer: Bellrock Media inc. (Santa Monica) Deal Value: ND Seller: Roxbury Publishing Company (Los Angeles) Business: Publishes books for the college market Buyer. Oxford University Press Inc. (New York, NY) Deal Value: ND Seller: Seidler Equity Partners (Paradise Media Group LLC) (Los Angeles) Business: Provides Yellow Pages publishing and advertising sales services in Hawaii Buyer: Yellow Book USA Inc. (Uniondale, NY) Deal Value: ND Seller: The Michael Ochs Archives Ltd. (Venice) Business: Compiles photos Buyer: Getty Images Inc. (Seattle, WA) Deal Value: ND Seller: TV-now.com (US) Business: Operates a Web site providing celebrity and show-based IV listings Buyer: Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: TVShowsOnDVD.com (US) Business: Operates a Web site dedicated to providing information about TV shows on DVD Buyer. Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Vyant Group (Thousand Oaks) Business: Runs marketing agency Buyer: It Girl Public Relations (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND REAL ESTATE Seller: EDConsulting Srl (Italy) Business: Provides real estate services Buyer: CB Richard Ellis CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. NYSE: CBG is a multinational real estate corporation currently based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. On December 20, 2006, the corporation, also known as CBRE, completed acquisition of Trammell Crow Co. in a transaction valued at $2. Group Inc. (El Segundo) Deal Value: ND Seller: New York Mortgage Trust Inc. (Retail Mortgage Banking Business) (New York, NY) Business: Provides retail mortgage banking services Buyer. IndyMac Bank (Pasadena) Deal Value: $13 million Seller: The Shores Resort & Spa (Bellevue, WA) Business: Operates a 212-room hotel an resort Buyer: Lowe Enterprises Inc. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: $40 million TECHNOLOGY Seller: Brunswick New Technologies Inc. (MX Marine Inc.) (Torrance) Business: Engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of DGPS (Differential GPS) See GPS augmentation system. and GPS products to the corporate, educational, business, and military industries Buyer: Navico Norway AS (Norway) Deal Value: ND Seller: Emvelco Corporation (Navigator Informatika Rt.) (Beverly Hills) Business: Provides information technology outsourcing Information Technology Outsoucing or ITO is a company's outsourcing of computer or Internet related work, such as programming, to other companies. It is used in refence to Business Process Outsourcing or BPO, which is the outsourcing of the work that does not require so much , consulting, and applications development services Buyer: Fleminghouse Investments Ltd., Marivaux Investments Limited (Cyprus) Deal Value: $4 million Seller: Hellman & Friedman LLC (Mitchell International Inc.) (San Francisco) Business: Provides data, software and ebusiness solutions Buyer. Aurora Capital Group LP (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Mass Media Inc. (Moorpark) Business: Develops video game software Buyer: THQ THQ Toy Headquarters THQ Territorial Headquarters THQ Tehsil Headquarters (Pakistan) THQ The Holy Quran THQ Theater Headquarters Inc. (Calabasas Hills) Deal Value: ND Seller. SOA Software Inc. (ThoughtDigital LLC) (Los Angeles) Business: Develops software Buyer: Zensar Technologies Ltd. (India) Deal Value: $25 million Seller: Strategic Data Corp. (Santa Monica) Business: Provides on-line interactive advertising technology Buyer: Fox Interactive Media Inc. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Wanako Games (New York, NY) Business: Engages in the production of games Buyer: Vivendi Games (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND |
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