Acquisition of Flooid Topco Limited by Glory Global Solutions (International) Ltd

Deal typePrivate Equity & Transaction Services
IndustryFinancial Services & Technology & Media
Sub-industryTechnology
Client nameGlory Global Solutions (International) Ltd
Glory Global Solutions (International) Ltd ("Glory") is the international subsidiary of Japanese listed Glory Ltd, a global leader in cash technology solutions, focused on supporting customers in the automation of their cash processes to increase efficiency, enhance security and release staff to focus on the experience they deliver. 

Flooid is a leading provider of cloud-native Unified Commerce platform software to major retailers, primarily in North America, the UK and South Africa.

The acquisition of Flooid offers a number of strategic benefits to Glory including (i) expansion of their offer to retail customers from cash automation to store automation and (ii) increasing their portfolio of SaaS solutions and associated annuity revenue streams.

BDO's advisory teams collaboratively supported Glory in assessing the financial and commercial viability of the acquisition.
 

“I was delighted to work with the BDO team on the transaction. The team provided valuable support to the process and demonstrated flexibility to work with an evolving process, enabling tight deadlines to be met.  I look forward to working with them on other transactions.”

Tomoko Fujita, Director - Corporate Development and Business Planning, Glory Global

 

"BDO were delighted to assist Glory in acquiring Flooid Topco Limited, which will build on Glory’s existing retail solutions portfolio and will expand the Group’s annuity revenue streams via Flooid’s SaaS business model."

Andy Harris, Partner, BDO LLP



The BDO project team included:
Andy Harris, Andrew Riley, Darren Phillips, Mark Jones, Daniel Anderson, Charlie Middleton (Transaction Services)
Jonathan Rowan, Eduardo Bayod Gonzalez (Commercial due diligence)
Rosalind Payne, Kevin Johnstone (Tax)
Lawrence McGinley (Forensic Accounting and Valuation Services)