Ymedia welcomes the Del Pino Family Office as a shareholder
June 2007: Ymedia carries out a share capital increase of € 3.2 million, subscribed by a number of private investors, notably the Del Pino family. Ymedia was created in 2006 by a group of highly experienced communication and marketing executives. The Company aims to provide a global integrated response to clients’ off and on line […]
Independent valuation of the investment portfolio of Valanza
June 2007: In the context of its annual reporting to its fund investors, Valanza SCR, S.A. (“Valanza”), the private equity fund management company created by Group BBVA, appoints SOCIOS to carry out an independent valuation of its investment portfolio. The funds managed by Valanza have to date investments in four companies with different activities, […]
EUROLOC acquires NACANCO
May 2007: Euroloc, the leading construction machinery rental businesses which was recently purchased by private equity firm Advent International, acquires 75% of the share capital of Nacanco, and obtains an option to acquire the remaining 25% in the future. The transaction represents Euroloc’s first major acquisition in pursuit of Advent’s buy and build strategy […]
Parques Reunidos agrees to buy Warner Park in Madrid
March 2007: Parques Reunidos, the international leisure group headquartered in Madrid, Spain, agrees to buy Warner Park in a joint venture with real estate company, FADESA. The purchase price for the park will be approximately € 60 million. Warner Park and its associated land bank was acquired by FADESA, in early 2007. FADESA simultaneously agreed […]
Parques Reunidos acquires french water park Aqualud
February 2007: Parques Reunidos, the Madrid based European leisure group, acquires Aqualud, from a prominent French business for an undisclosed sum. Aqualud is located in Le Touquet, Northern France and is an indoor and outdoor leisure park with approximately 300,000 visitors per year. The acquisition is the first acquisition to be completed by Parques Reunidos […]
Olivos Naturales completes its second capital increase
January 2007: Olivos Naturales carries out a second capital increase amounting to €10 million following one completed in December 2006, incorporating an institutional investor into its shareholding structure. Olivos Naturales, founded in 2005, specialises in super intensive exploitation of olive groves, to produce and sell olives for the production of high quality extra virgin olive […]
Parques Reunidos agrees to buy Warner Park in Madrid
March 2007: Parques Reunidos, the international leisure group headquartered in Madrid, Spain, agrees to buy Warner Park in a joint venture with real estate company, FADESA. The purchase price for the park will be approximately € 60 million. Warner Park and its associated land bank was acquired by FADESA, in early 2007. FADESA simultaneously agreed […]
Advent International sells Parques Reunidos to Candover
March 2007: Advent International sells Parques Reunidos to Candover Investments, a leading private equity group focusing on large pan European buyouts for a price in excess of €900 million. This follows a three year investment period which commenced with the de-listing of Parques Reunidos from the Madrid stock exchange (Spain’s first ever Public to Private […]
Parques Reunidos acquires the Blackpool zoo and two aquariums in the UK
January 2007: Parques Reunidos, the Madrid based European leisure group, acquires Grant Leisure from Mice Group, a UK company listed on the London Stock Exchange in a transaction valued at €14.5 millons. Grant Leisure is the operator of the Blackpool Zoo, Oceanarium Bournemouth and the Aquarium of the Lake, all located in England, with, in […]
Ya.com sells viajes.com to Iberojet
December 2006: Ya.com, wholly owned by Deutsche Telecom AG, sells its subsidiary viajes.com, leader in the Spanish market in the Internet travel agency sector, to Corporación Orizonia, formerly known under the name Iberojet. Corporación Orizonia, a company owned by the Venture Capital funds Carlyle and Vista Capital, is the Spanish tourism leader, both in the […]
