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Social media content creator Jungle Creations has raised GBP3 million in a Series A funding round led by creative industries specialist Edge Investments (Edge).
John Smith, former COO of Burberry Group (2013 -2016) and CEO of BBC Worldwide (2004-2012) has also invested through his partnership with Edge. The investment shines a spotlight on the growing confidence in ‘new media’ brands and their ability to engage global audiences at scale, following the rise of the Google/Facebook duopoly.
Set up by 27-year-old serial entrepreneur Jamie Bolding in 2014, Jungle Creations’ primary business is as a digital media owner, having created and
An affiliate of private equity firm CenterGate Capital (CenterGate) has made an investment in Owen Equipment Company (Owen), a specialty equipment platform providing critical infrastructure solutions to municipal, utility and commercial customers throughout the western United States.
Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Owen is a leading equipment dealer of new and pre-owned critical municipal environmental equipment used for sewer maintenance, hydro/vacuum excavation, street cleaning and waste management applications. Owen serves a municipal, governmental, industrial, and commercial customer base across six western states.
Owen carries the marque brands in the industry including Vactor, HXX, Elgin, Heil, Rigid, Cues, and Sonetics. Owen
Blackstone has closed its previously announced acquisition of Clarus, a global life sciences investment firm. Going forward, the business will operate as Blackstone Life Sciences, while historical funds will retain the Clarus name.
Blackstone Life Sciences is a new private investment platform with capabilities to invest across the life-cycle of companies and products within the key life sciences sectors. The business will leverage Clarus’ significant domain expertise and record of success, and Blackstone’s investment experience, operating platform and global scale, to help advance breakthrough products to address unmet medical needs.
Blackstone Life Sciences fills a critical void in the
An affiliate of private equity firm HIG Capital (HIG) has completed an investment in BollAnts Spa im Park, a 105-room wellness hotel & resort in Bad Sobernheim, Germany.
BollAnts Spa im Park is one of the leading wellness resorts in Germany and has earned many awards including, most recently, the prestigious Tatler award for one of the best spas in the world (2018). Terms were not disclosed.
HIG Realty continues to add to its sizeable holdings of real estate assets across Europe, consisting of both equity as well as debt investments, with a particular focus on its target market
Rozetka, the leading online e-commerce retailer in Ukraine and a portfolio company of private equity firm Horizon Capital’s EEGF II fund, and EVO, an internet company behind the country’s largest online marketplace Prom.ua, have completed a merger.
The combined Rozetka-EVO platform has two billion site visits and facilitates 30 million e-commerce transactions per year over four geographies. Rozetka and Prom consistently rank among the top 10 most-visited websites in Ukraine, reaching over 40 per cent of Ukraine’s internet audience. Ukraine’s e-commerce segment, growing at 26 per cent compound annual growth rate in dollar terms for the past 3 years, is
Waterland Private Equity has expanded its portfolio company ATOS to include a second location in Cologne – MediaPark Klinik, a hospital specialising in orthopaedics, with a focus on fields such as trauma surgery, sports medicine, osteopathy and chiropractic.
The acquisition will allow the ATOS group of specialised hospitals to enhance its sports medicine expertise. In combination with its ORTHOPARC Clinic, the addition of MediaPark Klinik also makes ATOS the largest regional provider of specialised orthopaedic surgery.
“MediaPark Klinik is one of the leading specialised orthopaedic hospitals in Germany and is a perfect addition to ATOS. The acquisition allows us
An OMERS Infrastructure majority-led consortium, including Allianz Capital Partners (ACP) and AXA IM – Real Assets, acting on behalf of its clients, is to acquire a 49.99 per cent stake in SFR FttH, a company to be formed by Altice France which will hold and further develop Altice France’s existing fibre to the home business (FttH) in France.
The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in Q1 2019.
SFR FttH is a newly incorporated company comprising the five million FttH homes in medium and low density areas awarded to Altice France to date. With
Swander Pace Capital, a private equity firm focussed on consumer companies, has acquired Nutritional Medicinals (Functional Formularies) and its products Liquid Hope and Nourish.
Founded in 2006 by professional chef and nutrition expert Robin Gentry McGee, Functional Formularies is the leading provider of organic, whole food, shelf-stable feeding tube formulas. Gentry McGee created the Company after searching unsuccessfully for natural alternatives to traditional feeding tube formulas to help her father when he was faced with life-threatening health issues. The company offers unique, organic, and whole food alternatives to traditional feeding tube formulas. Liquid Hope and Nourish are nutritionally complete, plant-based,
VR Analytical is a leading provider of Extractables and Leachables (E&L) testing to the pharma, biopharma and e-cigarette industries.
VR Analytical has nearly 20 years’ experience serving pharma and biopharma clients globally, supporting them in testing their product and packaging safety prior to market launch.
The acquisition of VR Analytical extends Crawford’s the footprint beyond the UK (Hall Analytical Laboratories, Manchester) and into the US, the largest E&L market. It also expands Crawford’s pharma/biopharma and e-cigarette testing capabilities and deepens their knowledge, expertise and capacity. The combined group will continue to deliver the very best scientific insight, information and
Real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield is to acquire Quality Solutions Inc (QSI), an asset-light facilities management provider, from Gridiron Capital. The acquisition of QSI will expand Cushman & Wakefield’s facility management capabilities across North American markets.
Headquartered in Wichita, QSI offers facilities maintenance and managed services in over 75 trades to 110,000-plus locations across various end markets, through over 50,000 qualified vendors. The Company’s integrated, one-stop solution reduces a client’s total cost of ownership and enables clients to strategic plan effectively.
Gridiron Capital originally invested in QSI in 2012 and partnered with the Company to build a scalable operating
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