M&A
Dotdigital adds to personalisation offering with Fresh Relevance acquisition
SaaS provider Dotdigital on Wednesday announced the £25m acquisition of Fresh Relevance, a cross-channel personalisation tech specialist, which it said will give a big boost to its customer experience and data platform (CXDP) ambitions.
Bridgepoint acquires infrastructure specialist ECP in 835m GBP cash and share transaction
Bridgepoint announced the acquisition of most of Energy Capital Partners in a cash and share transaction to create a €57bn global private markets asset manager.
PZ Cussons offers to buy out Nigeria minority stake for £23m
Consumer goods firm PZ Cussons has offered to buy out the minority-held shares of PZ Cussons Nigeria (PZCN) for £22. 8m with a plan to de-list the business from the Nigerian stock exchange.
TI Fluid buys Hungary's Cascade for €25.4m
TI Fluid Systems said it had agreed to buy Hungarian firm Cascade Engineering Europe for €25. 4m (£21. 7m) in cash.
PE firm Permira to buy Ergomed for £703m
Ergomed said on Monday that it has agreed to be bought by private equity firm Permira for around £703. 1m.
Next spends £128m to raise stake in Reiss to 72%
Next is spending £128m to buy a further 21% stake in premium high street retailer Reiss despite recent reports it was considering selling its investment.
Lords Group beefs up South East network with timber retailer Alloway
UK building materials group Lords is to buy the family-run timber and building supplies company Alloway Timber for £2. 25m.