Every Acquisition Announced in 2012

All 5,599 M&A deals announced during 2012, sorted by deal value. Compare buyers, payment types, and prices across the full year.

5,599
Deals announced
$406.1B
Total value
$408.6M
Avg deal
$13.0B
Largest deal
# Acquirer Acquired Date Type Price
451
Probiótica Laboratórios
Probiótica Laboratórios offers food supplements with a focus on sports nutrition…
2012-02-01 Acquisition $86.3M Deal →
452
DMX
DMX is a US provider of multi-sensory branding services, delivering services to …
2012-03-20 Acquisition $86.1M Deal →
453
La Fee Maraboutee
La Fee Maraboutee designs, manufactures, and markets fashion clothing for women.…
2012-12-19 Lbo $86.1M Deal →
454
V
Vertex Public Sector Ltd
Vertex Public Sector Ltd provides Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services to…
2012-06-11 Acquisition $86.1M Deal →
455
V
VIST Financial
VIST Financial provides various banking and financial products and services.
2012-01-26 Acquisition $86.0M Deal →
456
HSE Integrated
HSE Integrated provider of industrial health and safety services with operations…
2012-05-01 Acquisition $85.3M Deal →
457
Inscape Publishing LLC
Inscape Publishing LLC is a specialized publisher of soft skills training materi…
2012-02-16 Acquisition $85.0M Deal →
458
V
Vishay HiRel Systems
Vishay HiRel Systems designs and manufactures custom magnetic devices.
2012-01-17 Acquisition $85.0M Deal →
459
Hebei Daan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd
Hebei Daan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd is a blood product manufacturing company.
2012-10-26 Acquisition $84.6M Deal →
460
Russell Jones & Walker
Russell Jones & Walker provides legal services and counseling and litigation sup…
2012-01-30 Acquisition $84.4M Deal →
461
Northcliffe Media
Northcliffe Media publishes newspapers, websites, and digital classified.
2012-11-21 Acquisition $83.7M Deal →
462
eMAG
eMag is an e-commerce platform offering wide range of products.
2012-07-30 Acquisition $83.0M Deal →
463
Mykonos Software
Mykonos Software provides SaaS-based email and collaboration services for small …
2012-02-22 Acquisition $82.6M Deal →
464
Sara Lee Foods
The Hillshire Brands Company has merged with Tyson Foods.
2012-12-19 Acquisition $82.0M Deal →
465
Starhome Mach
Starhome Mach enables seamless and secure roaming and IoT connectivity
2012-10-24 Lbo $80.3M Deal →
466
Farm Progress Companies
Farm Progress, a network of live events, digital products, data, marketing servi…
2012-11-13 Acquisition $80.0M Deal →
467
Ntreev Soft Co., Ltd.
Ntreev Soft Co., Ltd. publishes online games.
2012-02-15 Acquisition $79.7M Deal →
468
Bluefin Corporate Consulting
Bluefin Corporate Consulting provides employee benefits consultancy to medium an…
2012-04-04 Acquisition $79.4M Deal →
469
Econsultancy
Econsultancy publishes research, analysis and advice on digital marketing, socia…
2012-06-22 Acquisition $77.9M Deal →
470
BigHand
BigHand provides technology solutions for busy legal professionals with data and…
2012-05-22 Acquisition $77.3M Deal →
471
Nuclear Logisitics
Safety-related equipment
2012-04-30 Acquisition $77.0M Deal →
472
picoChip
picoChip offers signal processing products for wireless telecommunications syste…
2012-01-05 Acquisition $76.8M Deal →
473
HyperCube
HyperCube provides competitive switching and seamless interconnections.
2012-03-26 Acquisition $76.6M Deal →
474
Picturehouse Cinemas
Largest group of independent cinemas in the UK.
2012-12-06 Acquisition $76.0M Deal →
475
SunCrest Healthcare
SunCrest Healthcare provides home health care services to patients in the United…
2012-12-09 Acquisition $75.5M Deal →
476
Blue Tomato
Blue Tomato is an online shop for snowboarding, freeskiing, surfing, skating, an…
2012-06-19 Acquisition $75.4M Deal →
477
Micronetics
Acquired by Mercury Systems
2012-06-10 Acquisition $75.4M Deal →
478
DDB London
DDB UK is a world class integrated communications agency.
2012-05-24 Merge $75.3M Deal →
479
Physicians Formula
Physicians Formula is a mass-market cosmetics company specializing in color corr…
2012-09-27 Acquisition $75.0M Deal →
480
E
Earl Industries - Ship Repair and Coatings Division
Earl Industries operates a Norfolk shipyard, which includes the docks and wareho…
2012-06-29 Acquisition $75.0M Deal →
481
Mindframe
MindFrame develops solutions that deliver rapid flow restoration and clot extrac…
2012-06-01 Acquisition $75.0M Deal →
482
E
Epitaxial Business - Kopin
The epitaxial growth process is a nanotechnology whereby complex atomic structur…
2012-01-01 Acquisition $75.0M Deal →
483
Evolution
Evolution is an American company designing and building computer vision, localiz…
2012-09-17 Acquisition $74.0M Deal →
484
AdaptiveBlue
AdaptiveBlue operates GetGlue, a social entertainment network allowing users to …
2012-11-19 Acquisition $73.0M Deal →
485
Liquent
Liquent, Inc. provides content assembly and publishing solutions for the life sc…
2012-12-27 Acquisition $72.0M Deal →
486
I
IntegraCare Holdings, Inc.
IntegraCare is a high-quality provider of home health, hospice and community ser…
2012-08-20 Acquisition $71.0M Deal →
487
Fidelity Bank Ghana
Fidelity Bank is a financial institution that provides banking products and serv…
2012-07-19 Acquisition $70.8M Deal →
488
Edgar Online
Edgar Online creates and distributes company data and public filings for equitie…
2012-05-22 Acquisition $70.5M Deal →
489
HomeChoice Partners
HomeChoice Partners, the Infusion Therapy Specialists, is a leading provider of …
2012-12-13 Acquisition $70.0M Deal →
490
Westerman
Westerman provides planning, design engineering, and precision manufacturing pro…
2012-09-17 Acquisition $70.0M Deal →
491
D&H Manufacturing
D&H Manufacturing manufactures and supplies precision machined/fabricated parts …
2012-07-27 Acquisition $70.0M Deal →
492
GoInstant
GoInstant offers a collaboration API that allows developers to build real-time, …
2012-07-09 Acquisition $70.0M Deal →
493
Worklight
Worklight is a mobile application platform developing tools and software for sma…
2012-01-31 Acquisition $70.0M Deal →
494
Repom
Repom offers road cargo transportation and logistics services including integrat…
2012-12-21 Acquisition $69.8M Deal →
495
M Cubed Technologies
M Cubed Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1993 as a subsidiary of Lanxide Corpor…
2012-11-01 Acquisition $68.2M Deal →
496
C
Carolina Commercial Heat Treating
Carolina Commercial Heat Treating provides metallurigical heat treating services…
2012-10-16 Acquisition $68.0M Deal →
497
G
GreenLine Holding
GreenLine Holding is the processor and marketer of value-added, fresh-cut green …
2012-04-23 Acquisition $66.8M Deal →
498
G
Global Marine Systems Energy
Global Marine Systems Energy is a company active in the installation of submarin…
2012-09-05 Acquisition $66.8M Deal →
499
K
Kayass Enterprises
Kayass Enterprises business interest is in the manufacturing and marketing of br…
2012-06-07 Acquisition $66.5M Deal →
500
Akibia
Akibia's innovative IT solutions enable clients to optimize, secure, manage and …
2012-11-01 Acquisition $66.0M Deal →