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Manufacturing

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners sells Nothing Bundt Cakes

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has sold its portfolio company NBC Holdings (Nothing Bundt Cakes) to Roark Capital (Roark). Nothing Bundt Cakes is the market-leading franchisor and operator of gourmet bakeries offering specialty Bundt cakes and retail gift items. The Company’s products are handcrafted

Graphic Packaging Holding Company to acquire AR Packaging from CVC Funds for USD1.45bn in cash

Graphic Packaging Holding Company, (Graphic Packaging), a vertically-integrated provider of sustainable fibre-based consumer packaging solutions, is to acquire AR Packaging Group AB (AR Packaging), Europe’s second largest producer of fibre-based consumer packaging, from CVC Capital Partners Fund VI for approximately USD1.45 billion in cash, subject to customary adjustments. The combination

MIG portfolio company AMSilk completes EUR29 million financing round

MIG Verwaltungs AG (MIG AG), one of the leading German venture capital firms, has participated in the EUR29 million series C financing of AMSilk GmbH, Munich. MIG has backed AMSilk since 2008 with capital from several of its funds.  In addition to the continued support from seed investors MIG and

Delivery Hero-backed DX Ventures invests in Bluu Biosciences

Delivery Hero-backed DX Ventures has invested in Bluu Biosciences as part of the company’s seed funding round.  Bluu Biosciences is the first company in Europe to specialise in the development and production of cell-based fish using advanced biotechnology. Cell-based or cultivated fish is sustainable fish meat produced from real fish

Riverside and Norgate Holdings to sell Bentley Laboratories

The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, and Norgate Holdings have signed a definitive agreement with THG PLC (THG) to sell Bentley Laboratories LLC (Bentley), an developer and manufacturer of prestige skincare and haircare products.  UK-based THG is a proprietary technology

New Water Capital sells fresh, prepared foods manufacturer CMM

New Water Capital (New Water), a lower-middle market private equity firm, has sold Custom Made Meals (CMM), a leading US provider of fresh, handmade, oven-ready entrees, appetisers and sides for grocery retailers, to middle-market private equity firm Stellex Capital Management. “Our goal at New Water is to support and invest

Arlington Capital Partners closes acquisition of Triumph’s Composites Business

Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington), a Washington DC-area private equity firm, has completed the acquisition of Triumph Group, Inc’s composites business. Going forward, the business will operate independently as Qarbon Aerospace. Qarbon Aerospace is a provider of large, complex structural components and assemblies such as fuselages, wings, flight control surfaces, and

Argand Partners’ Cherry acquires Active Key

Cherry, a portfolio company of a New York- and San Francisco Bay Area-based industrials private equity firm Argand Partners has Active Key, a Germany-based leading manufacturer of hygienic, washable keyboards and mice for medical and industrial end-markets. Active Key is a leading brand in the development and engineering of specialist

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