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Maplin Electronics sold
Get your soldering irons out
Tue 19 Jun 2001 //
15:43 UTC
Maplin Electronics, the electronics mecca for UK soldering iron geeks, has been sold by one private equity firm to another for £42m.
Maplin sells components through catalogue, 59 shop and the Internet. Turnover last year was £52.5m.
The selling company was Saltire and the buyer is a new company backed by Graphite Capital and funded by the Bank of Scotland. ®
Biting the hand that feeds IT
