UK acquisitions: independent companies & subsidiaries

Number of independent companies and subsidiaries in domestic merger and acquisitions (carried by UK companies within the United Kingdom) from 2nd quarter 2012 to 2nd quarter 2019

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Release date

September 2019

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2nd quarter 2012 to 2nd quarter 2019

Special properties

businesses reporting merger and acquisition activity

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "Coverage includes all businesses and all industry sectors. The M&A surveys are sampled on a continual daily basis. The population of transactions is identified through a process of scrutinizing the financial press, specialized publications and the Internet (websites specializing in information on mergers and acquisitions and also the websites of businesses regularly engaged in merger and acquisition activity). The M&A surveys are unique as these are not sample surveys. They are categorized as being ongoing census surveys with a threshold cut-off for each transaction of £1.0 million on current price basis. Statutory questionnaires are dispatched to businesses when there is initial evidence, from the press and media sources of information that they have relevant transactions on which to report. The business approached is usually the purchaser." More detailed information regarding methodology can be found .

No data is available for the first and forth quarter of 2016, and second and fourth quarter of 2017.

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This statistic presents the number of companies involved in domestic acquisitions within the United Kingdom from the second quarter of 2012 to the second quarter of 2019, divided by independent companies and subsidiaries. The acquisition of an independent company means the purchase of a company in its entirety, whereas the acquisition of a subsidiary means the acquisition of a part of a company. The source specifies that for an acquisition to be included in the results it has to have been a transaction with a value of * British pounds or greater. As of the second quarter of 2019, there were ** independent companies and ** subsidiaries acquired in the United Kingdom.