Finsbury Glover Hering和SVC合并

WPP拥有多数股权的子公司 Finsbury Glover Hering Corporation和 Sard Verbinnen & Co（“SVC”）已就合并条款以创建世界领先的战略传播公司，为客户应对关键机遇和挑战提供建议。新公司将帮助客户实现其使命和业务目标，约有 1,000 名专业人员在亚洲、欧洲、中东和美国的 25 个办事处开展业务，包括其位于纽约的全球总部。2020 年的预估合并收入超过 3.3 亿美元。该交易对合并后的 Finsbury Glover Hering-SVC 集团的股权价值为 9.17 亿美元，对 SVC 的估值为 3.03 亿美元。交易将由一家新公司（“Newco”）进行，该公司将成为合并后的 Finsbury Glover Hering-SVC 集团的控股公司。交易完成后，WPP 仍将是合并后的 Finsbury Glover Hering-SVC 集团的大股东，持有 Newco 已发行股本总额的 57.4%，FGH Managers 持有 25.9%。

background:

-Finsbury Glover Hering:

A global strategic communications advisory firm, headquartered in New York with over 800 multidisciplinary experts across the world’s major financial, government, business and cultural centers. Finsbury Glover Hering is a leader in crisis, corporate reputation, public affairs and capital markets and M&A advisory, as well as an acknowledged leader in boardroom communication counsel.

- SVC:

SVC has for many years been the top global transaction communications advisor on M&A, IPOs and SPACs – consistently ranked as a leader in the North America and global M&A league tables.

Transaction

The new firm will help clients achieve their missions and realise their business goals, with approximately 1,000 professionals operating from 25 offices in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States, including its global headquarters in New York. Pro forma combined 2020 revenue was more than $330 million. The new firm’s professionals have deep sector knowledge within rapidly growing industries such as Health, Food and Agriculture, and Renewable Energy, as well as expertise in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I), Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), litigation and regulatory communications, and cybersecurity.

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Vadafone主管声称或投资在Virgin光纤，或者与竞争对手Three合作

沃达丰集团的首席执行官表示，欧洲电信行业需要更多地合作，暗示该公司可能会共同投资竞争对手维珍的光纤部署，甚至与竞争对手 Three 合并。他指出，该行业正在通过复制基础设施来破坏价值，需要转向更好的模型发展。Three，英国移动运营商，被广泛认为正在出售；如果“Voda-Three”的合并发生，监管机构的批准将会是一个门槛。2016年，Three与O2联手受监管而受阻。在欧洲，有 100 多家运营商以非常分散的方式进行竞争——而美国则有三个规模的参与者，中国有三个；印度有三个。而在其他市场，你有大量投资，但对股东来说回报合理。

The chief executive of Vodafone Group said the European telecommunications industry needed to work together more, suggesting the company could potentially co-invest in rival Virgin’s rollout of fibre and even merge with competitor Three.

Three, the UK mobile operator, is widely seen as being up for sale. If “Voda-Three” were to happen it should be approved by regulators if it were to happen. In 2016, Three was blocked from joining forces with O2 on competition grounds.

In Europe there are more than 100 operators competing in a very fragmented way – as opposed to the US, which has three scale players. China has three; India has three. And in those other markets, you have heavy investment but reasonable returns for shareholders.

Acquisition

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DoorDash 以 81 亿美元收购外卖平台 Wolt

Wolt 是一家芬兰科技公司，以其食品和杂货配送平台而闻名。与 Deliveroo 和 Uber Eats 等食品配送巨头专注于人口超过 10 亿的人口稠密城市不同，Wolt 专注于人口密度相对较低的较小市场。该公司目前在 23 个国家/地区开展业务，拥有约 4,000 名员工。DoorDash, Inc. 经营在线食品订购和食品配送平台。它位于美国加利福尼亚州旧金山。它拥有 56% 的市场份额，是美国最大的食品配送公司。DoorDash 计划将其食品配送业务扩展到欧洲，并且正在通过达成最终协议以价值约 81 亿美元（70 亿欧元）的全股票交易收购跨国食品配送平台 Wolt，从而加速这一进程。与 Wolt 的交易预计将在 2022 年下半年完成。Wolt 联合创始人兼首席执行官 Miki Kuusi 将继续担任他的职务，并将经营 DoorDash International。他说：“DoorDash 在世界上最重要的市场之一建立了令人难以置信的业务，而我们来自一个小国家，必须很早就掌握扩张的艺术。

Background:

- Wolt:

Wolt is a Finnish technology company known for its food and grocery delivery platform. Unlike food delivery giants including Deliveroo and Uber Eats that focus on the densely populated cities with over 1 billion people, Wolt has its focus on smaller markets with a relatively lower population density. The company currently operates in 23 countries and has a workforce of approximately 4,000 employees.

- Doordash:

DoorDash, Inc. operates an online food ordering and food delivery platform. It is based in San Francisco, California, United States. With a 56% market share, it is the largest food delivery company in the United States.

Transaction

DoorDash plans to expand its food delivery business into Europe and this is accelerating by entering into a definitive agreement to acquire multi-national food delivery platform Wolt in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $8.1bn (€7bn). The deal with Wolt is expected to close in the second half of 2022.

Wolt co-founder and CEO Miki Kuusi will remain his role and will run DoorDash Internationally. He said: “DoorDash has built an incredible business in one of the most significant markets in the world, while we came from a small home country and had to master the art of expansion very early on.

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Vimeo收购Wibbitz & Wirewax

Vimeo是今年早些时候从 IAC 分拆出来的 B2B 视频平台，已经进行了两次收购，旨在构建它为企业提供的功能和工具套件，以创建和运行自己的视频策略。该公司选择了基于人工智能的短视频创作平台Wibbitz和Wirewax，后者为营销人员和其他非技术创意人员构建了技术，使视频中的对象“可购物”或可链接到其他外部内容。

交易的财务条款没有披露，但在某些情况下，总部位于纽约的 Wibbitz最初是一家以色列初创公司，该公司开发了基于人工智能的技术，可自动将文本转换为视频，这项服务帮助其筹集了约 3000 万美元来自包括美联社、贝塔斯曼、法国 TF1 和 Weather Channel 等众多战略支持者（即客户）以及 Horizons Ventures 和 Kima Ventures 等传统风险投资公司在内的投资者。总部于伦敦的 Wirewax也有 BBC 形式的战略支持者，其他投资者包括 Passion Capital 和 Plug and Play 孵化器。Vimeo 计划保持这两个平台的运营并继续为现有客户提供服务，其中包括沃尔玛、迪斯尼、谷歌和耐克等公司的 Wirewax 和 HubSpot、彭博、康泰纳仕和哈佛大学的 Wibbitz。它还计划将其功能集成到其更广泛的视频创建仪表板中，以便随着时间的推移向这些客户和已经使用 Vimeo 的客户销售更广泛的工具集。

Background:

Vimeo snaps up AI video startup Wibbitz and ‘shoppable’ video tech maker Wirewax to expand its enterprise video tools.

Vimeo, the B2B video platform has made a pair of acquisitions aimed at building out the suite of features and tools it offers to businesses to create and run their own video strategies. The company has picked up short-form AI-based video creation platform Wibbitz, and Wirewax, which has built technology for marketers and other non-technical creatives to make objects in videos “shoppable” or linkable to other outside content.

Transaction

Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. London-based Wirewax, had a strategic backer in the form of the BBC, and other investors included Passion Capital and the Plug and Play incubator. It had raised around $7 million. Wibbitz, meanwell, as an Israeli startup that had built AI-based technology that automatically turned text into videos, a service that helped it raise around $30 million from investors that included a number of strategic backers (that is, customers).

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