Ardenton Capital Corporation has acquired a majority equity position in Manchester-based Budget Trading Ltd and its Dublin-based sister company Budget Greeting Cards Limited (collectively BGC). Founded in 1984, BGC designs and sells greetings cards and gift wrap, as well as other stationery and celebratory products to SME businesses. It operates
Foresight Group has made a GBP249,000 investment into usheru Limited (usheru), the firm behind a pioneering technology platform operating in the GBP50 billion film distribution market. The investment from Foresight, using finance from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, has been made alongside GBP224,000 from Enterprise Ireland, taking the total package
Bertram Nursery Group, one of the UK’s largest children’s nursery groups, has been acquired by its management team in a transaction funded by Apiary Capital and Santander. Bertram was founded in 2001 by Graeme Scott and Tom Lyons with the opening of the Strawberry Hill nursery in Edinburgh. It has
Keensight Capital and ISAI Expansion, a French Tech entrepreneurs’ fund, have acquired a majority stake in IVIDATA, a consulting group specialised in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence services, alongside Etienne Aboulker, IVIDATA’s co-founder and CEO. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Levallois-Perret, IVIDATA is a leading consulting group covering the
Growth equity firm General Atlantic has appointed Loek van den Boog, former Chairman of Mendix and Myriad, as a Special Advisor and Chairman of General Atlantic Netherlands. Van den Boog returns to the firm having previously supported the firm as Special Advisor between 1996 and 2004. During his prior tenure
Funds affiliated with Blackstone Infrastructure Partners (BIP), have made a growth-oriented investment in Carrix, one of the largest marine terminal operators in the US and in the Americas. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Carrix is the parent company of SSA Marine and its related affiliates, with
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, has completed the sale of Resolute Industrial Holdings (Resolute), an independent provider of York-brand chilling products, compressor remanufacturing, refrigerant storage, and other heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&R) equipment services. The sale marks the first exit from the firm’s
Pacific Fund systems (PFS), a privately-owned technology company, is now offering a ‘one-stop-shop’ software solution for the automation of the complete range of back office fund administration services, focusing on an alternatives market which accounts for approximately USD7 trillion in assets invested globally. PFS’ core product is the PFS-PAXUS system;
SFW Capital Partners (SFW), a specialised private equity firm that invests in leading Information, Software, Industrial and Healthcare Technology companies, has made a strategic investment in Greenshades Software (Greenshades), in partnership with Greenshades’ co-founders, David Rosas and Matt Kane. SFW’s principals have supported a number of highly regarded companies in
Duff & Phelps has appointed Tyrone Courtman as a Managing Director in the firm’s Restructuring Advisory practice. Based in Birmingham, Courtman will focus on restructuring advisory for corporate clients based in the East Midlands. Courtman is a Chartered Accountant, a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England
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