Infogrames Buys UK Games Company Gremlin.
Infogrames Entertainment Group, the acquisitive French computer
and video games publisher, is buying UK games company Gremlin Group Plc
for $40m. Gremlin announced in January that it was in takeover talks
with interested parties (CI No 3583) after the company's share
price fell sharply following a profit warning in December 1998 (CI No
3,564). Infogrames and Gremlin are already close, with distribution
agreements for each others' products. A series of ambitious
acquisitions, including that of Philips Media's software
publishing and distribution arm, has propelled Infogrames into the top
ten of world interactive games publishers. Revenues in its last
financial year were the equivalent of $244.6m and in the first six
months of this year sales rose 36% to the equivalent of $184.7m
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Publication: | Computergram International |
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Geographic Code: | 4EUFR |
Date: | Mar 25, 1999 |
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