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