Midwich ANZ Acquires New Zealand Co Wired

Monday, September 5th, 2016

Maddie Cotterill

Midwich ANZ has acquired the New Zealand AV distributor Wired. With offices in Wellington and Auckland, Wired is an importer and manufacturer specialising in HD distribution solutions for domestic and commercial market sectors in New Zealand and Australia. Wired has been in business since 2003, initially supplying New Zealand-made cable assemblies, copper and optical to […]

Gundlach Acquires Controlling Interest in SEEN MEDIA

Thursday, September 1st, 2016

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Print company, Gundlach Intelligent Solutions, Hamburg has acquired a controlling interest in Scala Inc. / Grassfish Value Added Reseller SEEN MEDIA. From September 1, 2016 they will operate under the joint name of Gundlach SEEN MEDIA GmbH and will become one of the biggest Digital Signage suppliers in the DACH region. Gundlach Intelligent Solutions (GIS) […]

Pikasso & Lawhat Acquire 66.36% Maghreb International Publicité

Tuesday, August 30th, 2016

Maddie Cotterill

Yellow Spirit sal (Holding) of Pikasso and Lawhat Tunisie sarl have acquired 66.36% of Maghreb International Publicity (MIP) the number one outdoor advertising company in Tunisia and the number three in Mali. MIP was founded in 2004 and in Tunisia has an inventory of 1200 faces of 10m2, Unipoles and large formats in 54 cities, […]

ZetaDisplay Acquires ProntoTV AS

Monday, August 22nd, 2016

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

ZetaDisplay has acquired ProntoTV AS in Norway for NOK 75 million, ProntoTV is claimed to be the largest supplier of Digital Signage in Norway. The purchase price of NOK 75 million was made on a “debt-free basis” plus an earnings-based supplemental purchase price in a maximum amount of NOK 25 million which will be paid […]

STRATACACHE Buys Super-Majority Control of @ScalaInc

Monday, August 15th, 2016

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

STRATACACHE, a leading provider of scalable, high-performance digital signage, media distribution and enterprise video acceleration technologies, and number #2 in The Top 25 Digital Signage Software Vendors list announced today the acquisition of a supermajority control in Scala Inc., number #5 in the same list. This deal combines the largest U.S. digital signage company by […]

Digital Signage Software Roll-Up Starts Monday!

Thursday, August 11th, 2016

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Many may read into the news, that will be announced Monday, that x has acquired a major stake in y – as some form of proof that the much vaunted strategy of ‘a digital signage software software rollup’ may have actually kicked off (it’s been a talking point at The DailyDOOH Investor Conference for the […]

Avnet Acquires Raspberry Pi Maker Premier Farnell PLC

Monday, August 1st, 2016

Andrew Neale

U.S. electronics company Avnet Inc. has agreed to buy Premier Farnell PLC for GB P691 million ($907 million) beating a previous bid for one of the makers of the Raspberry Pi computer by Switzerland’s Daetwyler Holding AG (last month they agreed to buy the British company for GBP 615 million). Last Thursday, Premier Farnell withdrew […]

STRATACACHE Acquires Vertigo Product Line From @Civiqscapes

Thursday, July 28th, 2016

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

STRATACACHE, a leading provider of scalable, high-performance digital signage, media distribution and enterprise video acceleration technologies, announced this week the acquisition of the Vertigo QSR Outdoor Digital Menu product line from Civiq Smartscapes (Vertigo was acquired itself by JMC Capital and Civiq Smartscapes back in May). Chris Riegel, CEO of STRATACACHE told us over skype […]

oOh!media Acquires Cactus Imaging

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

Maddie Cotterill

Australia’s oOh!media Limited (ASX: OML) has acquired out-of-home printing and production company Cactus Imaging. Brendon Cook, CEO of oOh!media told us “While digitisation of Out Of Home provides new opportunities to engage with audiences like never before, classic out of home plays a critical role in brand building for advertisers, both independently and in partnership […]

Oliverio Says #OOH Values are 9-12X Cashflow

Friday, July 8th, 2016

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Johnson Fretty’s Gabe Oliverio, a regular attendee at The DailyDOOH Investor Conference – which takes place this year on October 25, 2016 as part of New York Digital Signage Week (Oct 24-26, 2016) talked to Billboard Insider this week about the value of Out of Home companies. Gabe Oliveiro was quoted as saying “It is […]