Expedia will own 61.6% of the company in a deal worth $564 million (based on March 8 exchange rates – approximately Euro 434 million).
The deal was announced on December 21, just six weeks after rival online travel agency group Priceline splashed out $1.8 billion on US travel search giant Kayak.
Expedia will issue a total of 875,200 shares of common stock of umbrella company Expedia Inc over the course of the next five years as part of the deal.
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