This article is more than 1 year old

Maplin Electronics sold

Get your soldering irons out

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. ®

More about

TIP US OFF

Send us news


Other stories you might like