The Catalan company Exea Empresarial, holding company of the Puig family represented by Altana, has partnered with Hervé Lesieur, the private equity fund Aurica and Banco Sabadell to acquire Laboratoires Dermatologiques d’Uriage. This acquisition will enable Exea Empresarial to consolidate the cosmetic brands portfolio of the Puig family, who already
As the economy slowly improves, private equity group leaders say they have money to spend and are actively seeking companies to acquire, according to a survey of private equity group leaders rby RSM McGladrey, a leading accounting and consulting firm in the US. "Just because you have cash in your
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has backed the management team of Bradford-based Driver Hire Investments Group Limited (Driver Hire), the franchised provider of temporary and permanent personnel to the logistics and distribution industries, to support its continued growth.

 Driver Hire, which was originally established in 1983, operates nationally through a
Dynamics Inc has closed an oversubscribed USD35 million Series B round of financing led by new investor Bain Capital Ventures. Dynamics launched its award-winning Card 2.0 technology last fall, and its products are currently in consumer trials with several top multinational payment card issuers. Dynamics will use the funding to
More than two thirds (68%) of Private Equity houses plan to invest in the UK Financial Services (FS) market in the coming year, according to a Grant Thornton report called "Where is the Smart Money Going in Financial Services?" However, in the survey of the 40 leading private equity investors,
ARX Equity Partners (ARX) has completed a management buy-in of a majority shareholding in Manag a.s. (Manag), a leading Czech company focused on design, manufacturing and assembly of electrical equipment, and related regulatory and control systems. The company is particularly strong in serving clients from refinery, chemical and pharmaceutical
Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic private equity firm focused exclusively on health care, has acquired MarketLab, Inc. Water Street’s investment in MarketLab is the firm’s fourth in the specialty healthcare distribution sector and expands Water Street’s current group of health care companies specialising in distribution, life sciences, medical devices
Brotonne Capital SAS, the holding company of REVIMA, has completed the acquisition of 100% of REVIMA APU securities from United Technologies Holdings SAS (UTC). REVIMA APU SAS, as a wholly-owned company of UTC since 2008, was developing its activity on behalf of a division of UTC, Hamilton Sundstrand, and was
While Chinese inflation is still rising and the recent drought in central China may cause food prices to increase again, we do not expect inflation to reach excessive levels. The latest positive PMI data (in May) indicated that investors’ concerns for Chinese economy were exaggerated, as underlying economic numbers, although
Liverpool is at the centre of a bid to establish a GBP39m centre of excellence that will conduct early stage research into new drugs to treat cancer and other serious illnesses. If the project goes ahead it will create some 250 science jobs in the city over the next five
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