date:May 21, 2012
of the business, which is valued between 2.5bn and 2.9bn, round eight or nine times the company's Ebitda, which will make the deal one of the biggest private equity transactions of 2012.
Permira acquired Iglo from Unilever for 1.7bn in 2006. In 2010, the equity firm expanded the Iglo operations further by acquiring Findus Italy from Unilever for 800m and combining it with Iglo.