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Brightpearl, a provider of a purpose-built retail ERP platform, has secured a USD15 million in growth investment round and appointed a new Chairman to help drive further expansion.
More than 1,000 brands rely on Brightpearl to transact more than USD1.8 billion of trade across 26 countries. The company has seen a 77 per cent increase in year-on-year new business growth and delivered 34 per cent revenue growth in the last 12 months alone. Brightpearl was recently voted the top SaaS company to work for in Britain, beating companies such as Microsoft, Adobe and LinkedIn.
The latest growth round for
Graycliff Partners, an independent investment firm focused on lower middle market private equity and mezzanine investments in the United States, has completed the sale of Skandia, an interior products and services provider to the aviation industry, to TransDigm Group Incorporated for a total purchase price of USD84 million.
TransDigm, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is a leading global designer, producer and supplier of highly engineered aircraft components for use on nearly all commercial and military aircraft in service today.
Headquartered in Davis Junction, Illinois, Skandia is a leading provider of highly engineered seating foam, foam fabrication, flammability testing and
BlueMountain Capital Management (BlueMountain), a private diversified alternative asset management firm, has appointed Ameya Agge and Matt Jameson as senior investing professionals to source, evaluate, and execute healthcare-related private investments.
Both are newly-created positions reporting to Jim Pieri, Head of Private Healthcare.
“Just as the financial services industry went through a major transition in recent years, many healthcare sectors are beginning to go through substantial transformation that will dynamically evolve over the next decade, thus increasing the need for non-traditional capital providers,” says Andrew Feldstein, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of BlueMountain. “Private investments in healthcare continue to complement our
Volta Charging, a category groundbreaker in mobility infrastructure, today announced the closing of a USD35 million Series C Funding Round.
The round, designed to accelerate the rapid expansion of Volta’s Electric Vehicle (EV) charging and media network, is led by the Invenergy Future Fund, with both the Invenergy Future Fund and Activate Capital assuming Series C Board seats.
This round of funding is Volta’s largest yet. Participants in Volta’s Series C round include new, as well as returning, investors from the US and Europe. GE Ventures, Orsted Venture, Nautilus Venture Partners, and Idinvest all join as new investors. Virgo
Noerr has provided extensive tax advice to the limited partner of Barkawi Management Consultant GmbH & Co KG (Munich) during the preparation and transaction to sell the company to Genpact. Munich-based tax partner Carsten Heinz was lead partner.
Barkawi Management Consultant GmbH & Co KG is a supply chain and after sales consultancy with subsidiaries abroad, especially in Austria and the USA.
The merger of Barkawi Management Consultants and the supply chain service line of Genpact will form “Barkawi Management Consultants – a Genpact Company” a global provider of Management Consulting, Managed Services and Digital Transformation. Genpact is
True has acquired a majority stake in organic kids’ clothing maker, Frugi (trading name of Cut4Cloth) which designs, manufactures and sells sustainably-sourced organic cotton apparel and accessories for babies, children and new mothers.
True will work with the existing management team to support Frugi’s ongoing scalable growth. In addition, Hugo Adams, former Executive Board Director of Superdry and Chief of Staff at Marks and Spencer, joins as CEO. With extensive sales and marketing experience, Hugo has also worked for Dyson, where he led international growth, and the Body Shop.
Primarily sold via its welovefrugi.com website, alongside retail partners including
Mission Mars, the North West England-based operator behind hospitality concepts including Albert’s Schloss and Rudy’s Neapolitan Pizza, has received GBP10 million from BGF to continue with its ambitious growth plans.
With combined annual sales of nearly GBP30 million across its ten sites, Mission Mars is led by Roy Ellis and Neil Macleod who previously founded and built the Revolution bar chain. BGF is backing the business’ impressive team as it aims for further growth by opening additional sites across the UK.
Mission Mars was launched in 2015 with a portfolio of already popular sites built up by Joel Wilkinson
Diversis Capital, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm that acquires controlling interests in small- to middle-market companies, has completed the sale of portfolio company BLUE Software (BLUE), a Chicago-based label and artwork management software company, to Esko, a provider of software and hardware for packaging design.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Diversis acquired BLUE, which was a growing enterprise-class software business unit of a public company, in December 2014. Since its original investment, the business has made important investments in research and development, as well as sales, to accelerate the company’s growth. During Diversis’ ownership of
Elaghmore Partners, a UK-based private equity firm, has acquired Alucraft Group (Alucraft).
Founded in 1975, Alucraft is Ireland’s leading designer, manufacturer and installer of architectural glazing systems with offices and manufacturing facilities in Dublin and Tamworth, UK.
During its 40-year history, Alucraft has earned a reputation for delivering first-class quality service to its customers and has provided the facades to many high-profile construction projects. In Dublin, these include the Vertium Building, the new headquarters for Amazon, the headquarters of Lidl Ireland and LinkedIn EMEA as well as No1 Georges Quay and the National Rehabilitation Hospital. In the UK, Alucraft
A team from Noerr, led by partner Till Kosche, has advised South Korean tyre manufacturer Hankook tyre on its takeover of Reifen-Müller, an independent German tyre-supply company.
Hankook says the takeover will strengthen its global distribution system.
The transaction, which is pending subject to clearance by antitrust authorities, includes acquisition of 100 per cent of the shares of not only the distribution company Reifen-Müller KG but also Reifen-Müller GmbH & Co. Runderneuerungswerk KG, Reifen-Müller’s current executive management will remain in office.
Founded in 1966, the company currently has more than 700 employees and operates 44 of its own
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