Deals
Fremman Capital (Fremman) has acquired a majority stake in The Natural Fruit Company (TNFC)and GPF Capital alongside existing shareholders.
The company is a European specialist in the processing, distribution and commercialisation of citrus fruits including lemons, oranges, tangerines, pomegranates, and persimmons. This acquisition has a strong alignment with Fremman’s approach to ESG, where TNFC is a leader in organic varieties, limited processing and practices a zero-waste approach.
The Group, headquartered in Spain, is the resulting combination of three family businesses, which has helped to consolidate the company’s position as a leading international citrus player, being No1 lemon and NO2 orange
Specialist M&A advisory firm Ciesco has confirmed that Chip[s] Board, which develops bioplastics from food waste, has completed fundraising to support the next stage of its development.
Chip[s] Board will use the funds to relocate staff and laboratories to Yorkshire, a central region for the supply of raw materials, and build a pilot plant to demonstrate production at scale.
The company uses proprietary technology processes to develop bioplastics and bioplastic composites, initially from industrial food waste, such as potato waste. These match the performance of conventional plastics whilst being both biodegradable and recyclable post-use.
Rowan Minkley, CEO of Chip[s] Board,
Fremman Capital (Fremman) is to acquire a majority stake in VPS, a Marin fuel testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) services provider. This intended acquisition fits within Fremman’s stated strategy of investing in ESG promoting businesses.
Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Rotterdam, VPS provides its services globally through five strategically located laboratories, with samples shipped and tested from anywhere in the world. The global marine fuel supply chain is complex, and international regulators are becoming more restrictive on emissions and fuels. Shipping companies are therefore increasingly focused on ensuring that the fuel they are using is within specifications and fit
Global investment firm Carlyle (and Inova, a software provider for the biopharma industry, have announced a long-term funding partnership to accelerate growth, fund product innovation and M&A initiatives.
Carlyle is investing EUR60 million and will become Inova’s largest shareholder under the deal, while Management and historic investor NextStage AM have reaffirmed their strong commitment.
Headquartered in Lyon, France, with international offices in New York, Denver, and Tokyo, Inova is a market-leading software platform specifically dedicated to the life sciences industry, enabling pharmaceutical and biotech companies to collaborate on workstreams across their organizations. The company supports more than 150 global clients,
African Development Partners II (ADP II), a fund advised by Development Partners International (DPI), and AfricInvest, a longstanding pan-African alternative investment platform with local teams in more than 10 offices across Africa, Europe and the Middle East, have complete the merger of Compagnie Marocaine de Goutte à Goutte et de Pompage (CMGP) with Comptoir Agricole du Souss (CAS), creating a new leader in Moroccan and African agriculture, which will be known as CMGP-CAS.
The merger brings AfricInvest into the partnership alongside ADP II through an investment targeting the expansion of efficient irrigation and agricultural water management technologies to enable greater
Barings has served as lender on a senior secured facility to support Inflexion in its acquisition of ANS Group, a leading provider of digital transformation and cloud managed services. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
ANS and existing Inflexion investment UKFast will be brought together under one parent group to address the rapid market growth opportunity for digital and cloud services. The group will combine ANS’s public cloud, DevOps, applications and data expertise with UKFast’s leadership in private cloud, hosting and security, to create the UK’s independent leader in secure cloud-led digital transformation across the public and private sectors. Each
Kartesia, a European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, as provided a unitranche loan to HPI Group, a Netherlands-based producer of plastic products for varying end markets.
The company focuses on added-value, often co-developed, niche products with either specific technological or product critical requirements. Key product examples are paint testers, capped juice bottles for self-service and technical plastic products with specific designs for industrial applications. HPI is continuously emphasising the usage of monomaterial and is perfectly positioned to work with 100 per cent recycled raw materials thanks to the set-up of its machine park, contributing to
Digital training platform Virti has raised USD10 million in a Series A funding round to further its goal of improving human performance using world-class interactive technology.
The round was led by deeptech investors IQ Capital and joined by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a new, UK-based learning technology VC fund.
Launched in 2018 by Dr Alexander Young – an NHS trauma and orthopaedic surgeon – Virti helps organisations optimise learning, training and performance using interactive simulations and AI-powered data analysis. The technology turns traditionally subjectively-assessed skills (such as communication, teamwork and decision-making under pressure) into objective and measurable data to improve
Polaris is to sell ProData Consult to Axcel after three years of ownership and strong progress driven by solid organic growth and several acquisitions in Norway and Sweden.
The ambition of creating a Scandinavian market leader with a leading nearshoring-as-a-service function in Poland has been realised, and ProData Consult is strongly positioned for European expansion under new ownership.
Since Polaris’ investment in ProData Consult in 2018, the company has generated average annual growth of 26 per cent and increased the number of active consultants on assignments for client by 20 per cent to some 3,000. In 2019, ProData Consult acquired
Sandvik has signed an agreement with Battery Ventures to acquire US-based Cambrio, a company with an end-to-end portfolio in CAD/CAM software for manufacturing industries like automotive, transportation, energy, medical and aerospace.
“This is in line with our strategic focus to grow organically and through acquisitions in the advanced manufacturing space, with special focus on industrial software close to component manufacturing, industrial metrology- and additive manufacturing solutions. Cambrio will enable a broadened customer offering, covering more of the total manufacturing value chain,” says Stefan Widing, President and CEO of Sandvik.
Sandvik’s strategic ambition is to provide customers with software solutions
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