Every Acquisition Announced in 2005

All 2,809 M&A deals announced during 2005, sorted by deal value. Compare buyers, payment types, and prices across the full year.

2,809
Deals announced
$411.8B
Total value
$632.6M
Avg deal
$54.0B
Largest deal
# Acquirer Acquired Date Type Price
301
Siliquent Technologies
Siliquent Technologies is a fabless semiconductor company dedicated to expanding…
2005-07-19 Acquisition $84.0M Deal →
302
F
Fastcrop
Fastcrop perates a Website that enables property listings for estate and letting…
2005-12-08 Acquisition $83.9M Deal →
303
T
Trent Drug
Trent Drug one of the national pharmaceutical distributors.
2005-10-05 Acquisition $83.0M Deal →
304
S
Silec Cable, S.A.S
Silec Cable, S.A.S. manufactures high voltage cables.
2005-12-22 Acquisition $82.8M Deal →
305
Kurt Geiger
Kurt Geiger is a footwear and accessories company that retails a diversified por…
2005-07-05 Management Buyout $80.7M Deal →
306
Douglas Laboratories
Douglas Laboratories researches, develops, and manufactures nutritional suppleme…
2005-12-14 $80.0M Deal →
307
Wischip International
Wischip International is a provider of digital video and audio semiconductor sol…
2005-10-26 Acquisition $80.0M Deal →
308
GoldPocket.com
GoldPocket Interactive is the leading provider of technology enabling massive in…
2005-10-17 Acquisition $78.5M Deal →
309
Goldpocket Interactive
GoldPocket Interactive is a TV software provider that develops and sells two-way…
2005-10-17 Acquisition $78.5M Deal →
310
Actix
Actix delivers automated network performance engineering and network status mana…
2005-03-02 Lbo $77.6M Deal →
311
H
Hitchen Foods Ltd.
Hitchen Foods Ltd. supplies vegetables and salad based products to the retailers…
2005-10-19 Acquisition $77.5M Deal →
312
P
Planned Maintenance Group
Planned Maintenance Group is a support services and construction companies.
2005-03-09 Acquisition $77.0M Deal →
313
Boston Acoustics
Boston Acoustics is a manufacturer of home entertainment solutions.
2005-06-08 Acquisition $76.0M Deal →
314
Santera Systems
Santera offers a carrier-class next-generation switch with both trunk and line f…
2005-10-03 Acquisition $75.6M Deal →
315
Visual Networks
Visual Networks provides network and application performance management solution…
2005-12-02 Acquisition $75.0M Deal →
316
Solartron Group Ltd.
Solartron Group Ltd is a supplier of world class instrumentation and software fo…
2005-11-30 Acquisition $75.0M Deal →
317
DMX MUSIC
DMX MUSIC is a global leader in digital music and visual imaging programming.
2005-06-06 Acquisition $75.0M Deal →
318
S
Shenandoah Electronic Intelligence
Shenandoah Electronic Intelligence provides business process outsourcing service…
2005-01-12 Acquisition $75.0M Deal →
319
Velocimed
Velocimed was founded by a group of well known medical entrepreneurs.
2005-02-15 Acquisition $74.0M Deal →
320
Stablex Canada
Stablex Canada is a North America's hazardous waste and contaminated soil dispos…
2005-07-12 $73.0M Deal →
321
I
Infast Group Ltd
Infast Group Limited distributes fasteners and related components to manufacturi…
2005-07-08 Acquisition $72.2M Deal →
322
Crave Games
Crave Games is a video game company.
2005-10-24 Acquisition $72.0M Deal →
323
Extended Systems
Extended Systems, Incorporated designs, develops, sells, and supports adaptive m…
2005-07-25 Acquisition $71.0M Deal →
324
EAT.
EAT. is a retail company producing, making, serving, and creating food products …
2005-08-23 Management Buyout $70.2M Deal →
325
Strategic Outsourcing
Strategic Outsourcing is a Charlotte, N.C.-based provider of HR outsourcing to s…
2005-08-04 Acquisition $70.0M Deal →
326
Copperfield Chimney Supply
Copperfield Chimney Supply has been filling the supply and accessory needs of c…
2005-07-07 Acquisition $70.0M Deal →
327
Sipura Technology
Sipura Technology, Inc. was a Voice over IP (VoIP) startup company based in San …
2005-04-26 Acquisition $68.0M Deal →
328
D
Denain-Anzin Mineraux S.A.
Denain-Anzin Mineraux S.A. locates, extracts, and processes industrial minerals.…
2005-10-28 Acquisition $67.3M Deal →
329
Altitude Telecom
Altitude Telecom is a telecom operator data and voice for businesses.
2005-09-15 Acquisition $67.2M Deal →
330
Agility Communications
Agility Communications provides laser solutions such as tunable transponder and …
2005-09-01 Acquisition $67.0M Deal →
331
Prince Telecom, Inc.
Prince Telecom, Inc is installs and maintains customer premise equipment.
2005-12-19 Acquisition $65.1M Deal →
332
I
Image-Guided Neurologics
Image-Guided Neurologics provides delivery technologies for brain surgery.
2005-08-30 Acquisition $65.1M Deal →
333
Pedestal Software
Pedestal Software offers cost-effective software products.
2005-03-23 Acquisition $65.0M Deal →
334
C
Cita NeuroPharmaceuticals Inc.
Cita NeuroPharmaceuticals Inc. operates as a neuropharmaceutical company.
2005-11-17 $64.5M Deal →
335
P
PictureArts Corp
PictureArts Corp creates, manages, and licenses images and image collections for…
2005-07-01 Acquisition $63.2M Deal →
336
I
Indal Technologies
Indal Technologies engages in the design and development of ship-borne helicopte…
2005-03-03 Acquisition $62.7M Deal →
337
C
Correctional Services Corporation
Correctional Services Corporation is a developer and manager of privatized corre…
2005-07-14 Acquisition $62.0M Deal →
338
Sheridan
Sheridan is an Australian producer and marketer of premium bed linen and towels.
2005-11-01 Acquisition $61.8M Deal →
339
UltraDNS
A leading Managed DNS Service Provider, delivering superior security, reliabilit…
2005-04-19 Acquisition $61.8M Deal →
340
Youngman Group
Youngman Group is a provider of aluminium access equipment, systems and ladders.
2005-10-01 Management Buyout $61.8M Deal →
341
KiSS Technology
Kiss Technology is an entertainment technology company based in Denmark.
2005-07-22 Acquisition $61.0M Deal →
342
Imceda Software
DBassociates IT, a Burlington, Mass.-based provider of backup and recovery solut…
2005-04-26 Acquisition $61.0M Deal →
343
Sensors Unlimited
Sensors Unlimited offers a complete line of products for image sensing in the sh…
2005-09-07 Acquisition $60.0M Deal →
344
Pet's Choice
Pet’s Choice owns and operates a network of companion animal veterinary hospital…
2005-07-01 Acquisition $60.0M Deal →
345
G
Genyx Medical
Genyx Medical is a manufacturer of implantable bulking products for the treatmen…
2005-01-12 Acquisition $60.0M Deal →
346
Z
Zymed Laboratories
Zymed Laboratories is an integrated, technology-driven, immunoassay reagent comp…
2005-01-10 Acquisition $60.0M Deal →
347
A
Access Diabetic Supply
Access Diabetic Supply, LLC distributes diabetic testing supplies to people with…
2005-02-01 Acquisition $58.8M Deal →
348
Coges SpA
Coges designs and manufactures payment systems for automatic vending machines.
2005-08-01 Acquisition $58.1M Deal →
349
E
ELATA
ELATA provides mobile content delivery and device management software systems to…
2005-08-17 Acquisition $57.0M Deal →
350
AlphaSmart
AlphaSmart provides portable computer companion products that complement PCs in …
2005-01-27 Merge $57.0M Deal →