All Mergers, Acquisitions & Exits articles – Page 36

  • Kalamata Marina in Southern Greece
    News

    Kiriacoulis Mediterranean buys Greek marina

    2020-02-04T16:22:00Z

    Majority shareholder acquires remaining 40% stake in Kalamata Marina

  • Flisvos Marina
    News

    Dogus sells 50% stake in Greek superyacht marina

    2020-01-30T11:32:00Z

    Flisvos Marina is now 100% owned by Lamda

  • Siesta Key Marina
    News

    Safe Harbor acquires Siesta Key Marina

    2020-01-29T14:15:00Z

    Safe Harbor Marinas in the US has purchased the Siesta Key Marina, the only full-service facility in Sarasota, Florida. The purchase is the Dallas-based company’s 12th Florida property and is approaching 100 properties overall, which Safe Harbor claims makes it the largest marina owner-operator in the US. The 1.7-acre property ...

  • Dubai_Harbour_Web_Gorsel_05
    News

    D-Marin to be acquired by private equity fund

    2020-01-17T10:45:00Z > , By

    A multimillion-euro deal of undisclosed value has been made by the Luxembourg-headquartered private equity business CVC Partners to buy the D-Marin arm of the Turkish Dogus Group. D-Marin, which is registered in the Netherlands, operates 15 marinas in five Mediterranean and Middle East countries. This transaction will be finalised upon ...

  • Newport Harbor
    News

    US marina operator tests the waters for US$2bn sale

    2020-01-15T10:36:00Z

    Insiders with knowledge of the matter tell Bloomberg News that American Infrastructure Funds (AIF) is exploring the sale of its Dallas, Texas-based Safe Harbor Marinas, expecting to fetch more than $US2bn for what is touted as the largest marina operator in North America.

  • YPI Crew
    News

    YPI CREW acquires Edmiston Recruiters

    2020-01-06T16:30:00Z

    Yacht crew recruitment firm YPI CREW has acquired the recruitment division of Edmiston, taking on all ongoing crew placement. As of January 1, 2020, Edmiston transferred its recruitment team of four to YPI CREW, taking the total YPI CREW team to 16.

  • RH Marine Group
    News

    Pon Holdings acquires RH Marine Group

    2020-01-02T12:23:00Z

    Pon Holdings is acquiring all of RH Marine Group by buying the majority stake that private equity firm Parcom Capital holds in the Dutch marine services provider. The two companies became joint shareholders in 2015.

  • Cobham and superyachts comms
    News

    Cobham Plc takeover approved by UK government

    2019-12-23T10:10:00Z

    Strong opposition to controversial takeover

  • \Naiad
    News

    Kiwi boatbuilder Naiad sold

    2019-12-16T14:37:00Z

    Business to be acquired by its east-coast Australian builder partner, Yamba Welding & Engineering

  • Magic Yachts
    News

    Catana Group acquires Tunisian shipyard

    2019-12-13T17:13:00Z

    Magic Yachts is located on the coast in Bizerte’s free zone

  • News

    New owner for SEA magazine?

    2019-12-04T11:34:00Z

    US-based marine publishing and marketing veteran Arnie Hammerman says he is in the process of taking over the publishing of SEA magazine from Duncan McIntosh Company Inc, as well as Boating World. Both magazines ceased publication last week.

  • News

    Safe Harbor acquires US marina

    2019-11-25T14:18:00Z

    An historic New Hampshire shipyard is the latest in a string of acquisitions by Safe Harbor Marinas, though the company remains tight-lipped about the purchase.

  • Lalizas
    News

    Lalizas acquires Italian liferaft manufacturer

    2019-11-20T14:08:00Z

    Greek equipment firm expands portfolio with Arimar

  • News

    Cornes Chart Group buys digital navigation provider

    2019-11-13T15:57:00Z

    Two leading suppliers of navigation charts, software and equipment have joined forces to create what is claimed to be the largest charts supplier in the world. Cornes Chart Group has acquired navigation systems supplier GNS. The deal follows Cornes’ acquisition of US and Singapore-based Safe Navigation earlier this year to ...

  • Hideaway Bay Marina
    News

    Safe Harbor adds 90th marina

    2019-11-06T15:16:00Z

    Safe Harbor Marinas’ acquisition streak hasn’t seemed to slow any, as the Dallas, Texas-based marina network operator added a second property in as many months to its portfolio.

  • News

    British boating magazines sold as part of £140m deal

    2019-10-31T14:29:00Z

    TI Media (the former IPC Media Group and later Time Inc UK) has been sold by the Epiris private equity company to Future PLC, a UK-based publisher of consumer magazines and websites.

  • X-Yachts
    News

    X-Yachts buys Swedish powerboat builder

    2019-10-30T16:57:00Z

    Danish sailboat producer X-Yachts has entered the powerboat market with the acquisition of HOC Yachts in Sweden.

  • Asia-Pacific Boating logo
    News

    Asia-Pacific Boating magazine to close this month

    2019-10-29T14:09:00Z

    Asia-Pacific Boating magazine, one of the main dedicated publications for the marine leisure industry in Asia, is to cease publication at the end of this month with the closure of Blu Inc Media, the Hong Kong-based publisher of the title. Blu Inc Media is a subsidiary of Singapore-based SPH Group ...

  • Yachting Life magazine
    News

    Ireland Afloat buys Glasgow-based Yachting Life

    2019-10-24T10:14:00Z

    The Irish online yachting news outlet, Afloat.ie, has recently acquired Scottish boating magazine Yachting Life, the future of which was in doubt following the takeover of the company by a large international publishing group headquartered in Germany.

  • Jason Lippert
    Interview

    More acquisitions on the cards as Lippert reveals hand

    2019-10-24T10:00:00Z > , By

    With seven major acquisitions in the past five years, Lippert Components Inc has become a major player in the leisure boat industry. IBI recently caught up with CEO Jason Lippert, who spoke candidly about what lies next as it builds its marine portfolio