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
401
A
Agate Petroleum
Agate Petroleum is a privately held oil and gas production company that owns oil…
2005-01-05 Acquisition $40.0M Deal →
402
Kingswood Learning and Leisure Group
Kingswood Learning and Leisure Group providing educationally-rich activity break…
2005-09-15 Lbo $39.7M Deal →
403
Nimcat Networks
An Ottawa-based provider of peer-to-peer call processing software
2005-09-19 Acquisition $39.2M Deal →
404
ISC Entertainment
ISC Entertainment operates gambling Web sites.
2005-08-02 Acquisition $39.0M Deal →
405
a
artus
artus is a biotechnology company specialized in the development, production and …
2005-05-31 Acquisition $39.0M Deal →
406
CallVision.com
CallVision.com is an application service provider that offers electronic bill pr…
2005-01-11 Acquisition $38.7M Deal →
407
C
Creatas LLC
Creatas LLC publishes royalty free stock photography, illustration, footage, and…
2005-03-07 Acquisition $38.2M Deal →
408
Airedale International Air Conditioning Ltd
Airedale International Air Conditioning Limited designs and manufactures air con…
2005-05-19 Acquisition $38.0M Deal →
409
RSVP
RSVP is an online dating site where singles to meet new friends, extend their so…
2005-01-01 Acquisition $38.0M Deal →
410
F
Fuelserv
Fuelserv operator in the independent fuel card and 'bunkering' sector by fuel vo…
2005-10-13 Acquisition $37.7M Deal →
411
Techtran Group
Techtran Group Limited is a technology transfer company set up by Axiomlab Group…
2005-01-21 Acquisition $37.4M Deal →
412
F
Fit-Rite Body Parts
Fit-Rite Body Parts operates in the aftermarket collision automotive replacement…
2005-12-31 Acquisition $37.0M Deal →
413
Teledyne RD Instruments
Teledyne RD Instruments provides acoustic Doppler innovations used for current p…
2005-08-29 Acquisition $37.0M Deal →
414
Troika Networks
Troika Networks provides storage network data protection and management integrat…
2005-10-19 Acquisition $36.5M Deal →
415
B
BioFocus DPI
BioFocus DPI develops gene-to-candidate drug discovery products and provides ser…
2005-09-21 Acquisition $36.5M Deal →
416
Phonetic Systems
A provider of speech recognition solutions for telecommunications, enterprise an…
2005-02-01 Acquisition $36.1M Deal →
417
Fast Channel Network
Fast Channel Network is a Digital Media company.
2005-12-15 Acquisition $36.0M Deal →
418
P
Prosperity Bank & Trust
Prosperity Bank & Trust a full service independent community bank, provides bank…
2005-10-31 Merge $36.0M Deal →
419
A
Amusement Factory
Amusement Factory is a company that was acquired by Outerwall in 2005.
2005-10-18 Acquisition $36.0M Deal →
420
Chem-Dry UK
Chem-Dry UK provides carpet and upholstery cleaning services to homes and busine…
2005-04-14 Acquisition $35.6M Deal →
421
B
Bolivia Integrated Energy
Bolivia Integrated Energy generates and distributes electricity.
2005-12-13 Acquisition $35.0M Deal →
422
R
Redbus Film Distribution Ltd.
Redbus Film Distribution Ltd. produces and distributes motion pictures.
2005-10-19 Acquisition $35.0M Deal →
423
A
AirLogix
AirLogix is a disease management, provides asthma management and chronic obstruc…
2005-07-21 Acquisition $35.0M Deal →
424
Vivant Medical
Vivant Medical is a developer of blation technology for the minimally invasive a…
2005-07-05 Acquisition $35.0M Deal →
425
A
ASTRAC
ASTRAC is a developer of Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Mining software sol…
2005-06-15 Acquisition $35.0M Deal →
426
P
Pets International
Pets International manufactures and markets small animal habitats and pet bird p…
2005-06-02 Acquisition $35.0M Deal →
427
Webhire
Webhire which operates Internet recruiting services Yahoo Resumes and Yahoo Recr…
2005-12-19 Acquisition $34.0M Deal →
428
Ashcroft
Ashcroft is an industrial automation company that manufactures pressure and temp…
2005-09-06 Lbo $34.0M Deal →
429
Millitech
Millitech designs and manufactures millimeter-wave technology products and offer…
2005-09-22 Acquisition $33.5M Deal →
430
Calendra
Calendra has pioneered the advancement of Web-based Directory Content Management…
2005-01-28 Acquisition $33.1M Deal →
431
Quallaby
Quallaby is a privately-held company.
2005-04-08 Acquisition $33.0M Deal →
432
ISG Technology
ISG Technology is a provider of IT services.
2005-03-18 Lbo $32.6M Deal →
433
Serco Ryan Ltd.
Serco Ryan Ltd. operates as a supplier of fasteners, fixings, cutting tools, sea…
2005-09-21 Acquisition $32.6M Deal →
434
C
Cameron Systems Pty Ltd.
Cameron Systems Pty Ltd. provides financial information exchange.
2005-12-28 Acquisition $32.0M Deal →
435
A
Aerogen, Inc.
Aerogen, Inc. operates as a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, manu…
2005-10-21 Acquisition $32.0M Deal →
436
L
LiveBridge
LiveBridge is a customer interaction services company, provides multi-channel co…
2005-07-05 Acquisition $32.0M Deal →
437
Farran Technology
Farran Technology designs and produces its own millimetre-wave sensors.
2005-02-15 Acquisition $31.2M Deal →
438
LPI Media
LPI Media
2005-11-05 Acquisition $31.1M Deal →
439
Smythson
Smythson is a British manufacturer of luxury stationery, leather goods, diaries,…
2005-05-01 Management Buyout $30.6M Deal →
440
U
Umetrics
Umetrics is a in multivariate data analysis and modeling software.
2005-12-15 Acquisition $30.4M Deal →
441
P
Pharmakon
Pharmakon is a healthcare communications company focused on the marketing of eth…
2005-10-10 Acquisition $30.0M Deal →
442
N
NetSift
NetSift, Inc., a network security company, develops content processing technolog…
2005-06-27 $30.0M Deal →
443
goZing
Zing Wireless, a direct marketing company that allows consumers to earn money in…
2005-02-01 Acquisition $30.0M Deal →
444
Moreover.com
The largest online news and consumer generated social media aggregator.
2005-10-18 Acquisition $29.7M Deal →
445
R
Rathbones Bakeries Ltd
Rathbones Bakeries Ltd manufactures and sells bread and baked goods to the retai…
2005-05-03 Acquisition $29.3M Deal →
446
Nexus Energy Software
Nexus Energy Software has developed a number of innovative software applications…
2005-11-29 Acquisition $29.0M Deal →
447
P
Premium Logistics
Premium Logistics is provides logistics and general and specialized cargo transp…
2005-10-10 Acquisition $29.0M Deal →
448
CET
CET UK is a supplier of outsourced services to the construction and insurance se…
2005-01-01 Lbo $28.9M Deal →
449
Del Mar DataTrac
Del Mar Datatrac, doing business as Del Mar Database, provides mortgage lending …
2005-04-03 Acquisition $28.0M Deal →
450
H
Hedley Purvis Holdings
Hedley Purvis Holdings is a designer and manufacturer of torque wrenches.
2005-01-20 Acquisition $28.0M Deal →