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Frequently, when Danish companies to be sold, the buyer with the greatest synergy is to be found on the other side of the globe.
- A Global sales process ensures the highest price
- Audon Partners - A world of possibilities
- 10 bids on Danstoker
- Strategic partner gave the best bid
- The more synergy the higher price

For many business owners who are considering a business sale, the timing is good this year.
- There are many strategic and financial buyers in the market
- There is a lot of capital: both equity and loan capital
- The prices are approaching pre-crisis level.
This also applies to well-run companies that are not yet back at pre-crisis earnings.

The price was important, but to the director of Danstoker, the future development for the firm was at least as important for the Jutland manufacturer of industrial boilers. Indian Thermax Ltd. offered a good price and delivered a clear strategic plan with the deal: Danstoker could be a bridge for Indian Thermax' into development in Europe - and Thermax should open doors to new markets for Danstoker. Audon Partners predict: several Indian acquisitions in sight, in Denmark.

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.

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.

- 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

- International growth in Danish retail companies
- The sale of Biva Furniture Odense and several departments of
  Råd&Dåd
- Strategic buyers outrivaled by Private Equity funds
- The number og venture- and Private Equity funds is increasing
- M&A Mid Market Forum in Copenhagen
- M&A International Media Award

- 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