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Dotcom survivor falls to US private equity
The old Melbourne IT survived the dotcom bubble's bursting but could not handle COVID-19 without being gobbled up.
Myriam RobinSenior WriterA year ago, when Webcentral was still called Arq Group, we remarked that any selling by its directors was probably as good a signal as any to follow suit, given the company's steadily declining fortunes.
Who knew they could decline quite so far? On Monday, chairman Andrew Reitzer recommended to shareholders the scheme of arrangement proposed by private equity-owned, Florida-based digital titan Web.com.
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