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Alterian - Bids for Mediasurface

June 2008

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Alterian's full year results were overshadowed by news that it is buying AIM-listed Mediasurface for £18.1m, primarily funded by a placing of new shares at 150p, which has raised £13.2m. The deal is on the basis of 9p per share cash plus 0.0375 new Alterian shares for each Mediasurface share.Mediasurface’s main offering is web content authoring tools which allow companies to create, edit, manage and deliver in areas like Websites, Intranets, Extranets, Landing Pages, Micro-Sites, Blogs, iDTV, Mobile and Digital Print output. The core product is Morello which represents c70% of revenue. While Morello is an enterprise class web content management system (c450 customers), the other products, Immediacy and Pepp ...

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