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US & EUROPE – Commercial data and analytics firm Dun & Bradstreet has acquired European data analytics firm Bisnode.
Dun & Bradstreet completed the acquisition of Stockholm-headquartered Bisnode for an enterprise value of 7.2bn SEK. The deal closed with a combination of around £625m net cash and 6,237,089 newly issued shares of common stock of the company.
The acquisition did not include Bisnode Belgium NV, a Belgian subsidiary of Bisnode, which remains under the ownership of Ratos AB.
Bisnode operates in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and central European countries. The company was previously part of the Dun & Bradstreet Worldwide Network.
Anthony Jabbour, chief executive officer, Dun & Bradstreet