Mergers & Acquisitions
Advania acquires Danish reseller as it adds last piece to Nordic footprint
Nordic VAR becomes ‘true pan-Nordic player’ with acquisition of Kompetera
'The biggest acquisition we've ever done' - C'PRO buys print competitor Koden to become €600m monster
French firm becomes Europe’s largest multi-vendor print partner through landmark acquisition
Xerox ups its bid for HP as it claims shareholders are backing merger
New figure is as much as $2bn higher than offer made in November
Cognizant snaps up top Salesforce partner in France as it scales international cloud business
Acquisition adds 345 staff based in Paris to Cognizant’s cloud management portfolio
HP calls out Carl Icahn in stinging reply to Xerox
Activist investor's self interests are not aligned with shareholders, HP claims
Xerox nominates 11 candidates to replace HP's board of directors
HP shareholders will be 'better served' by a new director line up, claims Xerox CEO
OpenText's global channel boss opens up on the challenges of integrating three companies at once
Partners of Webroot, Carbonite and OpenText will need to wait until the summer before there's more clarity on the current three separate partner programmes
German reseller DATAGROUP acquires Portavis
Buyout of €60m-revenue MSP pushes DATAGROUP further into financial sector
Sabio expands Spanish footprint with new acquisition
Madrid-based Team vision marks acquisitive VAR's sixth purchase in three years
Bechtle acquires Cisco partner in Switzerland
VAR heavyweight adds managed services competencies to Swiss business
ALSO merges Poland operations to create country's biggest distributor
ALSO has merged with its 2019 acquisition of Poland's biggest distributor, seven months after re-branding it
Advania expands in Finland days after flogging Norwegian ERP business
Nordic VAR makes its second expansion in Finland, days after divesting part of tis Norwegian business
Dutch MSP Solimas Group snaps up majority stake in local rival
Solimas has snapped up Microsoft and VMWare partner B-Critical
Broadcom flogs Symantec's cybersecurity services business to Accenture
Global SI acquires six security operations centres and 300 Symantec staff
Columbus CEO says further acquisitions are on the horizon
A day after the Nordic reseller snapped up Advania's ERP business, Thomas Honoré says he's considering further buys to scale Columbus' cloud solutions
Xerox secures $24bn for HP takeover bid
A coalition of three banks stump up the cash to loan Xerox billions in its bid to takeover HP
Nordic VAR Advania sells off ERP business to rival Columbus
Consolidation continues in software channel as established players add scale
Dell mulls buying the rest of Secureworks - reports
Secureworks stock jumped almost 16 per cent yesterday, amid M&A rumours
French-speaking unified comms merger led by Destiny Group
Operators OpenIP and Destiny have announced they are to merge
Top 11 channel partner acquisitions of 2019
CPI looks into the biggest partners who have been consolidated in the EMEA and North American channels
Bechtle buys Apple reseller in the Netherlands
Reseller heavyweight creates 'Apple Centre of Excellence' in Dutch market with Ivizi buyout
Gfi creates €2.3bn giant with Informática El Corte Inglés acquisition
French services firm snaps up debt-ridden Iberian consultancy to strengthen its position in Spain, Portugal and Latin America
Top six vendor acquisitions of 2019 that left partners stumped
CPI looks into the impact to the channel of the top blockbuster vendor buys that have left the channel scratching its head
McAfee eyeing move for Symantec's consumer arm - reports
Vendor said to be pondering move to bolster consumer unit, with PE firms also in the frame
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