PayPal to Buy Honey Science for $4 Billion -- Update
November 20 2019 - 6:53PM
Dow Jones News
By Maria Armental
PayPal Holdings Inc. has reached a roughly $4 billion deal to
buy shopping and rewards platform Honey Science Corp., as it pushes
to offer a broader array of services.
PayPal executives, in a conference call with analysts, said the
proposed deal -- PayPal's largest to date -- would serve as "a
springboard for PayPal's broader commerce initiatives."
PayPal was spun off in 2015 from eBay Inc., which remains one of
its biggest sources of payments volume but is due to switch payment
processing to Adyen NV next year.
Honey, which is profitable and generated more than $100 million
in revenue in 2018, helps people find discount codes online,
working with the likes of AliExpress, the retail arm of Alibaba
Group Holding Ltd.; Walmart Inc.; Adidas AG; and LVMH Moët Hennessy
Louis Vuitton SE's Sephora.
It also helps merchants target consumers by developing
personalized offers.
PayPal executives say that Honey, which will be embedded into
its apps, would help drive deeper engagement with its 300 million
customers while helping merchants target new customer segments.
Honey's roughly 17 million active monthly users, they said, skew
young and overlap to some extent with PayPal's digital
money-transfer service, Venmo.
The deal is expected to close in the first quarter and add to
earnings, on an adjusted basis, starting in 2021.
Josh Beckerman contributed to this article.
Write to Maria Armental at maria.armental@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
November 20, 2019 19:38 ET (00:38 GMT)
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