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It seems that with – for many – the start of a new financial year (1 April), acquirers have gotten hungry all over again.


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As you might expect for an exclusive holiday destination, it has a thriving tourist industry. But did you know that the island – which has an area of just 787 square miles and a population of less than 1.3 million – is in fact in the process of becoming a regional powerhouse in the financial and communications industries? For the past five consecutive years, the World Bank has declared it to be the best place to do business in Africa (and the 19th best in the world). You can see why – despite being 1,200 miles from the African coast, Mauritius has a free market economy, an educated and entrepreneurial population, and English as the dominant language.


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One example of this was newspaper and magazine distributor John Menzies’ buyout of Orbital Marketing Services – something we wrote about in The Drum late last year.

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This a blow to the multi-billion pound music biz, which is still one of the UK’s biggest export industries, and one of the few endeavours where we can say we are at least on a par with our American cousins.
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2012 saw around 150 deals in our industry, from the big (WPP snapping up AKQA, possibly the world’s biggest remaining independent agency, in June) to the small (Mediafed buying Taptu) to the left-field (newspaper and magazine wholesaler Menzies Distribution making a move for the Orbital Marketing Group).
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