Acquisition and valuation trends in US water
- From: Vol 5, Issue 6 (June 2004)
- Category: General
- Region: Americas
- Country: United States
- Related Companies: Aqua America, Calgon Carbon, Ecolochem, Everpure, General Electric/Osmonics, Glegg, Ionics, ITT Industries, Norit, Nuon, Pall Corp, Pentair, RWE/Thames (Water), Siemens, US Filter, Veolia, Waterlink, Wedeco and WICOR
The M&A scene in America is changing. Diversified industrials and private equity are the new buyers while valuations have become more realistic following the high point of the late 1990s, says Steve Maxwell*.
Over the past decade, the US water industry has seen an increasing level of consolidation and a dramatic rearrangement of ownership. For many years, European players, primarily the French and British water companies, were the most active buyers \'their eyes clearly focused on what they believed would be a rapid shift towards privatisation of the vast municipal water and wastewater ...
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