Scania is targeting investment in high-growth companies connected to the transport and automotive industries with its new venture capital fund, Scania Growth Capital. Henrik Henriksson, Scania's president and CEO, says: "Through Scania Growth Capital, Scania is looking to invest in promising, innovative and entrepreneurial companies. Gaining insight and early access
The South African M&A market will grow by 66 per cent in the next two years, according to the Global Transactions Forecast issued by global law firm Baker McKenzie in association with Oxford Economics. The report shows that South African M&A slowed in 2016 amid economic and political uncertainty. While
SK Capital Partners, a private investment firm with a focus on the specialty materials, chemicals, and pharmaceutical sectors, has acquired Niacet Corporation, a producer of specialty ingredients for food, feed and pharmaceutical applications and a global leader in propionates and acetates. Headquartered in Niagara Falls, New York, Niacet currently serves
Private equity firm HIG Capital has sold Fibercore to Humanetics Innovative Solutions, a portfolio company of Golden Gate Capital. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Fibercore, based in the UK, is a world leader in the design and manufacture of specialty optical fibre and offers the industry’s
Specialist direct lender Beechbrook Capital has held a final close of its inaugural UK SME credit fund with commitments in excess of GBP150 million. The fund has completed two new investments. Beechbrook Capital UK SME Credit I, which backs small and medium-sized businesses in the UK with a turnover
The fourth Albion Growth Report, based on interviews with 1,000 SMEs, finds that less than half (45 per cent) of microbusiness owners with fewer than five employees expect their company to grow over the next two years compared to almost three-quarters (73 per cent) of larger scale SMEs. The report
Ramsdens Holdings, a diversified financial services provider and retailer backed by NorthEdge Capital, is to seek admission of its shares to trading on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange following a successful institutional placing. Admission is expected to occur on 15 February 2017. Ramsdens operates in the
TPG Capital, the global private equity platform of alternative asset firm TPG, has closed its acquisitions of RCN Telecom Services and Grande Communications Networks, two US regional broadband service providers. The transaction combines the two companies into the seventh largest US cable company and a market-leading provider of next-generation, high-speed
European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital’s Fund II portfolio company Coventya has made two add-on acquisitions, both in Turkey. Coventya, headquartered in Villeneuve-la-Garenne near Paris, is a chemicals group focused on surface treatment to the automotive, construction, luxury and consumer goods, data storage, and oil & gas industries. In
The Semcon Group is selling its engineering operations in Germany – Business Area Engineering Services Germany – to Valmet Automotive in a EUR14.1 million deal. The business provides services to customers primarily in the German automotive industry and has around 800 employees with annual sales in 2015 amounting to SEK901
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