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Highbury House - Buys Paragon for £32m

August 2003

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Having acquired Cabal just two months earlier, Highbury has announced the acquisition of Paragon, which means that 80% of its total sales now come from consumer publishing. Paragon is a leading publisher of special interest consumer magazines in the videogames, personal computing and home entertainment sectors. The strongest area is games titles, where Paragon is the largest publisher of unofficial games titles. Highbury is not issuing new shares to fund the purchase but is instead using additional loan facilities of £22m with a further £10m loan (at better rates) to fund Paragon’s working capital requirement. There is also a loan note/share alternative.Paragon was acquired by its current management team led by Mark Sim ...

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