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Middle market private equity firm Quad-C Management has closed an investment in Galleher Corporation (Galleher), one of the oldest, largest and fastest growing value-added floor covering distributors in the United States. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1937, Galleher currently operates 23 locations in California, Nevada and Arizona with over 325 employees. The Company distributes a broad offering of hardwood, resilient, vinyl and laminate flooring as well as carpet and installation accessories to more than 5,000 customers while also providing unique custom hardwood manufacturing capabilities. The Company’s management team, led by Jeff Hamar, is maintaining a
By Ian Kelly, Chief Executive Officer, Augentius – Enthusiasm for private equity as an asset class continues to rise in a time of opportunity for fund managers – Preqin data shows the number of private equity funds in the market continued to grow in Q3 2017, with a 10 per cent rise in the number of funds raising capital since the start of the year. And this enthusiasm can be easily explained.
The macroeconomic environment continues to be characterised by volatility and a paucity of yield when it comes to more traditional asset classes. Not only does private equity allow
Private equity firm Calculus Capital has invested GBP2.2m in Brighton-based Every1Mobile, the developer of a mobile communications platform that is helping to deliver measurable socio-economic inclusion programmes at scale across Africa.
Every1Mobile provides digital communication solutions and online community management to large corporates and international development agencies. The funding from Calculus, a leading EIS and VCT investor, will help Every1Mobile to continue development of its platform technology and increase the geographical scope and scale of its work.
Algy Williams, Every1Mobile CEO, says: “In emerging markets, major corporates are now moving socio-economic inclusion from the periphery to the very centre
CloudSense, a leading Salesforce-native, industry-specific cloud company, has secured a USD77 million growth investment from Vector Capital. The funding will be used to accelerate CloudSense’s rapid global expansion, especially in the North American markets, and to accelerate product innovation and development of enterprise focused vertical solutions.
CloudSense enables leading customer-centric enterprises worldwide to transform the way they sell, delivering capabilities to efficiently provide seamless one-to-one omni-channel customer experiences. Using CloudSense’s industry-specific platform, organisations can sell more, launch faster and reduce costs by producing the integrated, digital-first experiences today’s customers expect. Integrating into CRM, ERP and other systems, the CloudSense Platform provides companies
Etraveli, a flight-centric and data-driven online travel platform which was acquired by CVC Capital Partners’ Fund VI in August 2017, is to join forces with e-Travel.
Both Etraveli and e-Travel have seen rapid growth and expansion to a variety of markets in recent years.
Their geographical footprints have little overlap and make this transaction highly complementary.
Etraveli, based in Uppsala, Sweden, is a global e-commerce platform for flight tickets combining a leading position in the Nordics with a fast-growing international business. Etraveli conducts a majority of its business in Western Europe and the Nordics. e- Travel, based in
Alternative Asset manager Ares Management closed approximately USD3.0 billion in investments commitments across 67 transactions during the third quarter of 2017.
Accruent/Genstar Capital – Ares served as administrative agent, joint lead arranger and joint book runner for a first lien term loan to support Accruent’s acquisition strategy and to refinance the company’s existing capital structure. Ares also served as administrative agent for a term loan and invested in the second lien term loan in connection with the transaction. Accruent is a leading provider of real estate and facilities management software serving customers across several industry verticals including retail, telecom, healthcare, higher education
Amundi Private Equity Funds (Amundi PEF), a key player in private equity, and Entrepreneur Venture, have acquired a minority stake in Greenoffice, a designer of innovative solutions for selective sorting, to support its international development.
Since its creation in 2004, Greenoffice has revolutionised selective sorting by designing innovative solutions that stand out by their attractive design, extreme simplicity of use and, more recently, integrated connectivity. The results are very convincing: sorting quality of close to 100% and productivity gains allowing businesses to lower their waste management costs by at least 25% and restaurants to significantly reduce waste. Driven by its
Dallas-based private equity firm CenterOak Partners has completed a majority investment in FullSpeed Automotive. Based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, FullSpeed Automotive is one of the nation’s largest independent franchisors of automotive quick lube centres.
President and Chief Executive Officer John B Adams and the existing management team will continue to lead the Company following CenterOak’s investment.
“We are pleased to partner with a strong and experienced management team that has demonstrated a proven ability to generate organic and acquisitive growth,” says Randall Fojtasek, Managing Partner of CenterOak. “FullSpeed Automotive represents an attractive opportunity to work with one of the
Tour Partner Group, a newly-formed formed holding company for Hotels & More, Irish Welcome Tours and Authentic Vacations, is to acquire Trans Nordic Tours, the largest local inbound tour operator to the Nordic countries by revenue.
Trans Nordic Tours, launched in 1995, is based in Denmark and successfully led by founders Yvonne and Pierre d’Hermilly. It provides in-market services for consumers travelling to popular destinations throughout Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, Finland, the Baltics and Russia. Since inception, it has grown to 41 staff, speaking 17 different languages, and services a fast growing and geographically diverse client base.
The acquisition marks
NXT Capital has held the final closing on approximately USD415 million in equity capital, above its original USD350 million target, for NXT Capital Senior Loan Fund V. When coupled with targeted leverage, Fund V will have approximately USD1.2 billion of available capital to invest.
The Fund will invest in senior debt transactions directly originated and underwritten by NXT Capital’s Corporate Finance Group. The investment strategy is focused on senior secured loans, including straight senior, stretch senior and unitranche loans made primarily to private equity sponsored middle-market companies across a wide range of industries in the United States.
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