Digital Marketing & eCommerce M&A volumes and values rebound in the fight for consumer attention and spend
(firmenpresse) - London, UK - 7 September 2018 - As Amazon hits a trillion dollar valuation, Hampleton Partners' latest M&A Market Reports on e-Commerce and Digital Marketing reveal that the number of deals in both sectors is rebounding after the slowdown which started in Q2 2017. Associated transaction values are rocketing to the near record-peaks achieved in Q4 2015.
This rebound is emblematic of established retailers and online players buying-out competitors or snapping-up individual online retail niches and e-Commerce capabilities. With competition intensifying, such strategic deals are enabling them to re-position in order to fend off Amazon's online dominance in the battle for consumer attention and spend.
eCommerce M&A Market
2018 started off with an uptick in the total value of disclosed transactions, which increased 106% year-over-year to USD53.59 billion during the first six months of 2018. With seven deals topping the USD1.0 billion mark in 1H2018 compared to just four such deals in 1H2017.
Landmark deals included traditional retail businesses such as Walmart which paid USD16 billion for a 77 percent stake in Flipkart, India's biggest online retailer. This transaction was the world's largest acquisition of an e-Commerce company on record and strengthened Walmart’s ability to counter Amazon's growing dominance.
Private equity growth
Although strategic buyers made up 79 percent of all transactions during 1H2018, the share of private equity transactions has soared strongly since the end of 2017. Financial buyers are also paying increasingly more, including Silver Lake Partners' acquisition of Zoopla for USD3.0 billion at 26.4x EBITDA.
Digital Marketing M&A Market
With 185 announced acquisitions in 1H 2018, deal volume was up 20.1% compared to the same period in 2017 and edged ever closer to its former peak in 2015.
Total disclosed transaction value was similarly robust, growing by 120% year-over-year to USD5.36 billion. This was partly driven by growth in the number of deals larger than USD200 million compared to the same period last year.
Consulting firms such as Accenture and IBM remained acquisitive in 1H 2018, announcing three acquisitions each in the digital marketing space, including HO Communication a Chinese digital marketing agency and Ebiquity plc an advertising intelligence firm.
The sector's largest deal by a long margin was Adobe's acquisition of e-Commerce firm, Magento, from the European private equity firm, Permira, for USD1.68 billion at a revenue multiple of 11.2x.
Jonathan Simnett, director, Hampleton Partners, said: "The driver for aggressive tech M&A in digital marketing and e-Commerce can be summarised in one word - Amazon. Competition online for consumer attention and spend has further intensified in the face of the omnipresent trillion-dollar behemoth and its ever-growing global impact.
Competitors are having to use M&A to acquire the e-Commerce technologies that may level the playing field and invest to expand into online rapid growth areas such as China and India. Simultaneously, they are having to acquire to innovate in digital marketing, capturing consumers via techniques such as influencer marketing and native ads to offset the rise in ad blockers and the decline in traditional media consumption."
Download the full Hampleton Partners e-Commerce M&A Market Report for free: https://hampletonpartners.com/e-commerce-report-2018
Download the full Hampleton Partners Digital Marketing M&A Market Report for free: https://hampletonpartners.com/digital-marketing-report-2018
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