R&R Ice Cream has completed its acquisition of Peters Food Group, a manufacturer of take-home ice cream in Australia. Peters, based in Mulgrave in Melbourne, manufactures iconic brands such as Drumstick cones and Connoisseur tubs and sticks, and has been acquired for an enterprise value of circa AUD440 million (approximately
Techniwood Group has raised EUR5m from Electranova Capital, the cleantech investment fund managed by Idinvest Partners in partnership with EDF, one of the world’s largest utility companies. The capital raised will be used to support the growth of Techniwood’s industrial business, both in France and internationally. Techniwood is a
European sector-focused private equity firm HgCapital has made 15 internal promotions. In the service team, Andrew Land has been promoted to partner, and both Simon Cottle and Thorsten Toepfer have been promoted to director. Land joined the firm in 2011 from Och-Ziff Capital Management and has spent the last
Rutland Partners has completes a GBP85 million investment in Maplin Electronics, the UK electronics retail chain. Having started in 1972 as a small mail order business, Maplin has grown considerably over the years and has established itself as a national electronics chain with over 210 stores across the UK and
A private equity consortium led by Ethos Private Equity has acquired approximately 80 per cent of the RTT Group for an undisclosed sum. Other key shareholders in the consortium are African Development Partners II, a private equity fund advised by Development Partners International (DPI), and the Government Employees Pension Fund
Rakuten Ventures has launched a USD100 million global investment fund which will target investments in start-ups and companies in Israel, Asia Pacific, and the US. The fund builds on the Southeast Asia fund, which was originally launched in 2013 and counts Carousell, Visenze, Coda Payments and Send Anywhere among its
Private equity and real estate secondary manager Landmark Partners has hired Geoffrey Mullen as a principal with the firm. Mullen joins Landmark to enhance and expand the firm’s business development and investor relations team. Most recently, he was a managing director at Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, where he
Arma Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to Rule Financial on its sale to GFT Technologies, a Frankfurt Stock Exchange-listed provider of IT services to the financial services industry. Rule is a specialist in the provision of business consultancy, IT consultancy and IT services to the global investment banking industry.
The Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) and the Asset Management Association of China (AMAC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) designed to deepen their collaboration. The agreement focuses on developing activities to create mutually beneficial opportunities for the fund industries in both countries. Luxembourg is the
Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) and PineBridge Investments Middle East are to establish a joint venture platform to invest in direct private equity opportunities in Africa. The MOU was signed by both Dr Adel Alsayed, KHC’s executive director for private equity and international investments, and Talal Al Zain, chief executive officer of PineBridge
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