Mexico. In its 16 years in the market, the company Maxcom Telecomunicaciones has managed to make its way throughout Mexico in offering subscription television, internet and telephony services, and thanks to that expansion there is now interest from an economic group in acquiring it.
The offer submitted to the company's directors by the Private Investment Fund Ventura Capitial Privado SA de CV, reaches US$54 million. According to a statement addressed by Maxcom to the Mexican Stock Exchange, the purchase proposal links a capitalization that reaches US$22 million.
Maxcom was created in 1996 and has its own infrastructure. Among the group of shareholders that make it up are Bank of America, Familia Vázquez Arroyo, Familia Aguirre and a group of Mexican investors.
Currently the company has 6,421 kilometers of fiber optics and presence in 62 cities. In its history it tells that in 1997 they achieved the first local and long-distance concession and in 2001 they increased their presence at the local level at the national level.
Ventura Capitial Privado's offer is 2.9 Mexican pesos per share. The purchase is pending authorization by the Mexican Banking and Securities Commission to be carried out. For the last quarter of 2012, Maxcom had 272,442 customers, mainly in the residential market.
