Heartland Payment Systems Acquires School-Link Technologies
October 11, 2011
Heartland Payment Systems’ School Solutions division acquired School-Link Technologies, a provider of K-12 school nutrition and point-of-sale (POS) solutions, to strengthen its K-12 payments and school nutrition product suite. The deal is part of a series of acquisitions (including LunchBox, Comalex and MySchoolBucks) that position Heartland as a market leader serving over 19,000 U.S. public schools.
- Buyers
- Heartland Payment Systems
- Targets
- School-Link Technologies, Inc.
- Industry
- Education
- Location
- United States
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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