Sue Davenport, CEO of Matrix Private Equity backed Pasta King has been crowned ‘Woman Chief Executive Officer of the Year’ at the inaugural British Venture Capital Association’s (BVCA) ‘CEO of the Year Awards.’ South-West based Pasta King, has achieved very strong growth following Matrix’s backing, with turnover increasing 35% in
An investor consortium including affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and China International Capital Corporation have made an investment of USD160m for a significant minority stake in International Far Eastern Leasing Company. Far Eastern is a provider of financial leasing in China and a subsidiary of
HarbourVest Global Private Equity, a closed-end investment company listed on Euronext Amsterdam, had an estimated NAV of USD656m or USD7.90 per share at 30 September 2009. This represents a 0.9 per cent increase from the 31 August 2009 estimated NAV per share of USD7.83. This increase resulted primarily from increases
Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, has signed a definitive agreement to make an equity investment in Grocery Outlet, a grocery retailer with over 135 stores in the Western US. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Berkeley, California, Grocery Outlet is a third-generation family-owned business that
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DN Capital’s portfolio company Shazam, a mobile music discovery provider, has received an investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. This investment is one of the few by KPCB into a European technology company. KPCB has assisted digital consumer businesses such as Google and Amazon. Shazam says that 50
Some 84 per cent of institutional investment managers expect corporate earnings to increase in the coming quarter and 84 per cent believe that global growth will accelerate in the next six months, according to a poll by Northern Trust Global Advisors. The NTGA survey showed the most optimistic economic expectations
Investor demand for Ucits funds continues to strengthen, with net Ucits sales of EUR36m in August, according to the European Fund and Asset Management Association. From January to August 2009 total net sales of Ucits reached EUR128bn. Long-term Ucits (excluding money market funds) increased their net sales to EUR32bn in
Asia Pacific’s population of high net worth individuals fell 14.2 per cent to 2.4 million in 2008 amid a global economic downturn and market volatility, according to a report from Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and Capgemini. The combined wealth of the region’s high net worth individuals dropped 22.3 per cent
Venture capital firms Tamir Fishman Ventures, Carmel Ventures, The Challenge Fund II and Motorola Ventures are planning to sell their stake in CopperGate Communications, to Sigma Designs. Both CopperGate and Sigma are US-based developers of system-on-a-chip semiconductors. The total transaction is valued at USD160m. The estimated amount of cash to
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