Redbox Owner Agrees to Be Taken Private by Apollo Global
By ETCentric
July 28, 2016
July 28, 2016
Apollo Global Management will acquire Bellevue, Washington-based Outerwall Inc., owner of Redbox movie rental kiosks and Coinstar coin counting machines, “for $52 a share, a transaction value of $1.6 billion when including debt,” reports The New York Times. “Investors applauded the move, sending the stock 11 percent higher in early trading Monday to a level just above the $52 buyout price.” Outerwall operates more than 40,000 rental kiosks in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, but has struggled to compete with cable VOD and streaming services. Redbox recently started testing its own streaming and download service.
Topics: Acquisition, Apollo Global Management, Bellevue, Beta, Blu-ray Disc, Cable, Coinstar, DVD, Erik Prusch, Kiosks, Movie, Nora Denzel, Puerto Rico, Redbox, Redbox Digital, Rental, Streaming, Television, United States, Video, VOD, Washington
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