Convio breaks into the UK market with the acquisition of Baigent Digital

Texas-headquartered digital fundraising company Convio has acquired Baigent Digital, a provider of digital strategy, design and online fundraising services to UK charities.
Round-up of today's M&A deals


Texas-headquartered digital fundraising company Convio has acquired Baigent Digital, a provider of digital strategy, design and online fundraising services to UK charities.
Round-up of today’s M&A deals

Texas-headquartered digital fundraising company Convio has acquired Baigent Digital, a provider of digital strategy, design and online fundraising services to UK charities.

Under the terms of the agreement, Convio will pay a consideration of £1.8 million in cash and may also pay £250,000 million in cash based on successful achievement of performance targets, an amount payable over three and a half years.

Following the acqusition Convio will expand into the UK initially offering cloud-based online fundraising, email marketing, CMS and TeamRaiser (Convio’s special event software) services to UK charities, with plans to introduce additional product offerings, including CRM.

Gene Austin, President and CEO of Convio, says: ‘Our research indicates there is a significant interest in integrated, cloud-based solutions with UK charities. Baigent’s capabilities and established relationships with many leading UK charities provide a springboard to gain rapid entry into the UK market.

‘The broad range of solutions and services our combined companies will provide to the market will enable UK-based organisations to build stonger relationships with supporters, raise money more efficiently and be more successful.’

Baigent has been working in the UK charity sector for 14 years with charities including UNICEF, Cancer Research UK and Action for Children.

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Round-up of today’s M&A deals

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Value: £21 million

Advisers: Numis Securities

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  • GO has entered into a share purchase agreement for the acquisition of the remaining forty per cent of the issued share capital of BM IT, BM Support Services Limited and Bellnet

Value: £7.19 million

Advisers: Numis Securities

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  • Avnet Technology Solutions has bought out France-based IT distributor Amosdec

Value: undisclosed

Advisers: undisclosed

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  • Baas R&D bought by Voestalpine

Value: undisclosed

Advisers: undisclosed

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  • Media communications and market research group Aegis Group has agreed to acquire Filefix, a full service digital agency in Japan

Value: undisclosed

Advisers: undisclosed

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Todd Cardy

Todd Cardy

Todd was Editor of GrowthBusiness.co.uk between 2010 and 2011 as well as being responsible for publishing our digital and printed magazines focusing on private equity and venture capital.

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