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Growth
Iliad
France
Technology, Media and TelecomExited
Technology, Media and TelecomThe iliad Group is the parent company of Free, the inventor of the Freebox, the first multiservice ADSL box. Free is at the origin of numerous innovations in the broadband and ultra-broadband access market (VoIP, IPTV, flat-rate calls to numerous destinations). Free proposes simple and innovative offers at the best price. Since January 2012, Free has been democratizing the use of cell phones with simple, no-obligation offers at a very attractive price. Free has nearly 20 million subscribers in France (including 6.6 million broadband and ultra-broadband subscribers and 13.4 million mobile subscribers as of June 30, 2020). The Group has become the 4th largest mobile network operator in Italy, where it launched its operations on May 29, 2018 under the iliad brand, and had nearly 6.3 million subscribers as of June 30, 2020.
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Expansion
Iliad
France
Technology, Media and TelecomExited
Technology, Media and TelecomFounded in 1990, Iliad is a French company whose business is essentially structured around 3 main activtities: firstly, "Internet access provider" via the low and high speed Internet access provider Free. Second, "Telecoms" via the fixed-line operator Onetel. Finally, "Teletel" via 3617 ANNU.
More marginally , the Group sells services on the Internet via a few content sites (Assunet, Online, societe.com).Deal team
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Growth
SeLoger.com
France
Consumer goods and servicesExited
Consumer goods and servicesThe SeLoger Group is the leading group specialized in real estate portals in France. Our mission is to offer to each of our users, a simple and efficient real estate experience so that they can carry out their projects of purchase, sale or rental in all serenity. With more than 20,000 real estate professionals, we offer the widest choice of ads to facilitate the search for a property according to your own criteria, and answer all questions raised by the realization of a real estate project. Our ambition is to offer on our 11 specialist sites a personalized experience adapted to everyone's needs, so that each life is simpler.
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Buyout
Linedata Services
France
Technology, Media and TelecomExited
Technology, Media and TelecomEarly 1998, Ardian teamed up with managers of GSI Banque in the takeover of their company. At the time revenues stood at €12m with 80 employees. Six months later, GSI Banque merged with Linedata, an IT firm specialising in management solutions for collective investments and employee savings schemes. The newly constituted group then set out, with the ongoing support of our staff, in pursuit of an intense policy of acquisition. This strategy of build-up culminated in the acquisition of eight firms in Europe and USA in just a few years, followed by the company’s IPO in May 2000. By 2003, when Ardian pulled out, revenue had surged by a factor of 8 to € 100m. Trading margins stand at over 16% and the group employs nearly 700 people in Europe and USA.