i2 Technologies’ long search for a buyer ended today with competitor JDA Software’s $346 million offer to purchase the beleaguered supply chain software supplier.
The deal ends an extended period of uncertainty for i2, a once high-flying supply chain specialist whose sales have been on a steady decline since the turn of the century.
In a statement, JDA CEO Hamish Brewer said, "By acquiring i2, we double our addressable market in manufacturing to include discrete manufacturing, complementing our current market leadership in process manufacturing and strengthening our retail and transportation management presence.”
JDA will finance the acquisition with a combination of debt and cash on hand. At the end of its 2008 second quarter, JDA had grown its cash and cash equivalents to $124.5 million.