Adobe acquired Aldus Corporation, a transaction completed in August 1994, structured as all-stock merger (accounted for as a pooling of interests).
Aldus Corporation operates in Creative / Print Publishing, is based in United States. Aldus Corporation was a Seattle-based desktop-publishing pioneer whose flagship product, PageMaker, was a leading professional page-layout application for Windows and Macintosh. Adobe combined Aldus's page-layout and publishing software with its own type, imaging and PostScript technologies to broaden its creative product line. As a condition of regulatory clearance, Adobe agreed to divest the FreeHand illustration program, which reverted to Altsys Corporation.
Add professional page-layout and desktop-publishing software to Adobe's creative portfolio and consolidate the professional publishing market.
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.