Access Learning Acquires Bookboon Learning
May 18, 2022
Access Learning, part of The Access Group, has acquired Bookboon Learning, a digital learning platform offering proprietary eBooks, audio learning, virtual classrooms and online courses. The acquisition expands Access Learning's digital learning portfolio and aims to strengthen employee wellbeing, engagement and retention by combining Bookboon's bite-sized content and platform with Access's Talent suite.
- Buyers
- Access Learning (The Access Group)
- Targets
- Bookboon Learning
- Industry
- Education
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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