Private equity group is in discussions to purchase in board game company Asmodee for €1.2bn ($1.4 billion) from owner Eurazeo.
Asmodee owns various board game IPs including Catan, Ticket to Ride and Takenoko, as well as acting as a distributor for Pokemon and Magic trading cards.
It also has a video games publishing division, Asmodee Digital, that has brought many of its IP to PC, mobile and VR.
Last year revenues at the company reached €442 million.
The full story is over on PocketGamer.biz
Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.
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