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Orion Food Systems (Orion) and Land Mark Products (Land Mark) have signed a definitive merger agreement to create a leading and fully comprehensive foodservice company to serve convenience store operators.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is backed by an affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners, (One Rock), were not disclosed.
Founded in 1983, Orion is a manufacturer and distributor of food products as well as a provider of foodservice solutions to the convenience and specialty retail channels worldwide. The company supplies locations in the United States and abroad with a complete portfolio of foodservice solutions from ingredients to
Nautic Partners (Nautic) has completed the acquisition of LindFast Solutions Group (LindFast), in partnership with LindFast management.
Headquartered in Blaine, MN, LindFast is a master distributor of specialty fasteners in the North American market serving a broad base of national, regional, and local distribution customers through its metric (Lindstrom) and imperial (Stelfast) product brands. As a master distributor, LindFast provides an important link in the fastener supply chain by offering a deep inventory as a “virtual warehouse” of approximately 130,000 low volume, slow moving SKUs that distribution customers need quickly but are non-economical to inventory and source themselves. These SKUs
Private equity firm M/C Partners (M/C) has held the final closing of its most recent fund. M/C Partners VIII (Fund VIII) at its hard cap of USD350 million.
M/C’s specialised investment strategy remains focused on investing in targeted high growth infrastructure and services segments of the USD1 trillion Telecommunications and Information Technology industries.
Led by Managing Partners Jim Wade, Gillis Cashman and Brian Clark, the team’s experience spans multiple economic cycles where they employ a flexible model investing in businesses in all stages from early formation, growth capital, consolidations, mature carve-outs and distressed acquisitions. M/C proactively seeks out well-positioned entrepreneurial
Kettle Cuisine, an artisan producer of refrigerated and frozen all-natural soups, has acquired Harry’s Fresh Foods, a privately held custom food manufacturing company based in Portland, Oregon.
The transaction strengthens Kettle Cuisine’s leadership in the fresh soup category as the only coast-to-coast fresh soup producer.
“Harry’s is a great business and a welcome addition to Kettle Cuisine,” says Liam McClennon, CEO of Kettle Cuisine. “Its strong reputation in the marketplace reflects its high caliber team members, customer relationships, and premium product portfolio, all of which fit seamlessly into Kettle’s growth strategy. Kettle remains committed to its culinary roots of artisan,
EQT is to bring in Nestlé through a minority stake in IVC Group (IVC) to support continued growth in the Company’s next development phase.
IVC also enters into a partnership agreement with Nestlé Purina PetCare EMENA. Through the partnership, IVC will be able to leverage the expertise of Nestlé Purina as a leading expert in pet health, pet nutrition and scientific innovation and gain access to Nestlé Purina’s unique product offering to support its leading-edge veterinary care.
For Nestlé Purina, this partnership will strengthen its collaboration with scientists, veterinarians and pet care professionals as key partners to help deliver advanced
Bitglass, a cloud security specialist delivering data and threat protection to enterprises worldwide, has secured USD70 million in Series D funding from new investor Quadrille Capital and existing investors Future Fund, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Norwest and Singtel Innov8.
This infusion of capital will enable Bitglass to continue its growth and leadership of the Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) market.
“As businesses move to the cloud, legacy security products are obsolete,” says Edward Colby, partner, Quadrille Capital. “Bitglass has built a cloud-first security platform poised to dominate the market.”
Bitglass was founded in 2013 and continues rapid global
BGF has successfully exited its minority stake in care service provider, The Good Care Group, alongside all other shareholders. Following a period of significant organic growth, the company has been acquired by Sodexo UK.
The Good Care Group offers industry-leading live-in care services which help people live well at home for longer by providing specialist care in the comfort of the home.
Founded in 2009 by Fiona Lowry, the group provides care to clients around the UK. The business is leading the way in supporting those with medical conditions including dementia, Parkinson’s, MS and Motor Neurone disease – helping to improve
RM Secured Direct Lending (RMDL), an investment trust specialising in providing tailored debt solutions, has deployed all cash available for investment so far during April.
Future Loan commitments are expected to be funded from a variety of sources including any repayments under existing Loans, divestments of existing Loans, additional capital raises and the utilisation of its GBP10m Revolving Credit Facility (RCF).
Two loans totalling GBP6.25 million have been prepaid in accordance with the terms of the respective Loan agreements. In addition, the Investment Manager has agreed to sell equity warrants issued to RMDL by one of the Borrowers in
Octopus has raised GBP83 million from investors, including BP Investment Management, for its Zenith III fund.
The Fund, which is managed by Octopus Ventures, focuses on providing high growth European technology businesses with the capital and expertise they need to fuel their next phase of growth.
Octopus is one of Europe’s largest technology investors, with 20 investment professionals managing over GBP1 billion in assets. Across its funds, Octopus’ Ventures team has invested into over 100 companies over the last decade.
Zenith III follows on from the success of both Zenith I and Zenith II which provide institutions with
Apposite Capital, a private equity firm with an exclusive focus on healthcare, has invested GBP6 million in preferred equity in Mirada Medical, a medical imaging software company.
The investment will support Mirada’s development of artificial intelligence (AI) based software for increasing the speed and accuracy of cancer treatment planning applications, while delivering a more personalised level of care to patients. Apposite has invested alongside Mirada’s founding investor, AlbionVC, and other private investors.
Mirada’s state of the art software algorithms and imaging applications help clinicians to simplify technically complex image processing tasks, thus helping them use medical images more effectively
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