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The sale of the Danish retailer ILVA to IDEmøbler has created Denmark's largest furniture retailer with a combined annual turnover of approx. 2 billion DKK. The merger allows the new company to obtain a series of synergies in areas such as procurement, inventory management, distribution and administration.

Read our case story about the new owners.

After the sale of the tele-communications company Business Phone to the Icelandic company Siminn the former owner Nils Palmqvist has chosen to spend the proceeds to rebuild the manor house Broløkke on Southern Langeland.

ILVA, Denmark's second largest retailer within furnitures, has been acquired by IDdesign. IDdesign is the owner and manager of IDEmøbler, which is the largest Danish retailer within furnitures.
- ILVA has about 360 employees and an annual turnover
  of DKK 700 million
- The transaction included all ILVAs stores and activities
  in Denmark and Sweden
- Audon Partners advised the private shareholders
 

- Babysam, is a baby retail chain of 31 independent stores in 
  Denmark
- The buyers want to expand BabySam by merging 12 existing
  legal entities to create the Nordic region’s leading integrated
  baby retail chain
- Audon Partners advised the buyers

- Consenta Holding A/S, listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange
- Sale of Consenta’s 5 subsidiaries followed by a delisting of Consenta
- Parallel sale negotiations with more than 20 buyers
- Strengthened market position
- Audon Partners advised the seller

- 1,000 meetings in only four hours
- What is the M&A Mid-Market Forum?
- Milan chosen as host city
- Programme and registration for M&A Mid-Market Forum

- Read about how Peter Groth gained more knowledge about his own
  company when he sold Denmark's biggest privately owned chemical
  company, to the Finnish company Kemira.
- The sales process toke nine months

- Henrik and Liselotte Stæhr have been working every day the last
  14 years
- The sale of their company, opened up for many new oppurtunities - Today they live the live, they always dreamt about
- In their brand new log home in commune with the nature

- Continuing many transactions with smaller and medium-sized  
  companies
- Audon Partners opens a new office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- The M&A market are globalizing
- The MAI alliance strengthen itself
- Generation handover is a sensitive affair

- Building the future: Outlook for 2007
- The construction materials industry
- Potentials and opportunities
- M&A in Russia
- Access to the Russian market
- Obstacles and recommendations
- Largest construction material producers
- Largest construction agglomerations and companies
- Case story: Ruukki

- 1,000 meetings in only four hours
- What is the M&A Mid-Market Forum?
- Paris chosen as host city
- Programme and registration for M&A Mid-Market Forum

- Plenty of risk capital in Denmark
- Outlook 2007
- The global M&A market is hot
- High activity in the Nordic region
- M&A International Inc. member awarded best investment bank of
  the year

- Two new partners and a new director
- Record year at Audon Partners
- No easy solutions
- Global alliance to be strengthened
- Selling the work of a lifetime

- Investments pouring into Ireland
- Tiger economy spurs growth
- Ireland feels confident about investment change
- New investments on the way
- New markets see advantages in global M&A trends
- Competition with India and China within industrial goods 
  manufacturing
- Copyright and legal systems in Euro tiger markets
- Impact of politics on Euro tigers

- Opportunities in China still growing
- Investment in China requires different approach and different
  tools
- Hong Kong versus mainland China
- International Chinese banks provide up to 50% of funding
- Sino-foreign joint ventures experience growth

- Huge activity in the US
- Number of transactions in 2004 up 17% in Europe
- China as target for cheap production
- Japan is on the way
- ABN AMRO acquires Glud & Marstrand Invest A/S

- Consenta Holding
- Negotiation with 20 buyers
- The new owners
- 20th anniversary

- Ethics or profit?
- The Ahold scandal
- Moral DNA test?
- Road to recovery