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Fortis Solutions Group LLC, a portfolio company of Main Post Partners, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Total Label.
Founded in 2004 by Janet Farris and Chris Farris with locations in Whitefish, MT and Memphis TN, Total Label provides complex pressure sensitive, extended content and booklet labels utilising flexographic, letterpress, digital and hybrid printing technologies. Total primarily serves the agriculture, health and beauty, nutraceutical, home goods, and food and beverage end-markets. Janet and Chris Farris will remain in leadership roles with the company.
Fortis President and CEO John O Wynne, Jr comments: “Total Label is known throughout the industry
Thierry Goubault, Chairman and shareholder of Charles & Alice, has entered into exclusive negotiations with funds advised by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) to buy out their controlling stake in the company.
Crédit Mutuel Equity is providing a third successive round of financing to the company to support management’s buyout, having been a majority shareholder in Charles & Alice in 2007 and become a minority shareholder when Equistone invested in 2013. Through this transaction, management aims to become the largest shareholder in Charles & Alice, which specialises in fruit and plant-based desserts
Thierry Goubault and his team have increased the
The new digital financial services company Alpian SA (Alpian), incubated by the Swiss banking group REYL & Cie Ltd (REYL), has announced a successful Series B funding worth around USD18 million (CHF16.9 million). The fundraising follows the Series A round in 2020 in which CHF12.2 million was raised.
With its integrated offering of both banking and investing inside a single convenient product experience, Alpian is pursuing a market segment of mass affluent clients; individuals with anywhere from CHF100,000 to 1,000,000 to invest. According to research undertaken by Alpian, mass affluent clients are typically under-served by retail banks and lack access
Foresight Group (Foresight) portfolio company Cinelab London, a leading UK post-production company, has acquired On Set Tech, one of the UK’s most reputable digital imaging and dailies service providers.
This marks the 55th transaction made by Foresight’s private equity team in the last twelve months, making Foresight one of the most active UK SME investors in the market and a key provider of essential financial support throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
The UK film and high entertainment television production industry is seeing a robust bounce-back from the Covid-19 lockdowns, with the last quarter in 2020 delivering the second highest quarterly
Hiro Capital, a London/Luxembourg VC fund investing across Games, Esports, Streaming and Digital Sports, has made a USD2.3 million investment in PlayerData.
Edinburgh, UK-based PlayerData’s mission is to transform the way grass-roots and professional sports teams train, using software, analytics, gamification and wearable technology.
In its first year live, PlayerData has already captured more than 10,000 team sessions and >50 million meters of athlete play in UK grass-roots Soccer and Rugby, and these KPIs are strongly accelerating.
The raise will be used to supercharge PlayerData’s growth across multiple sports and to expand internationally.
This announcement marks Hiro Capital’s
TLT has leveraged its corporate expertise and strategic alliance with Dutch firm Holla to advise on the acquisition of Idox plc’s Grants Consultancy business by existing client SilverTree Equity Partners, a specialist software and technology focused private equity firm.
Grants Consultancy is one of the Netherlands’ leading providers of innovation funding consultancy and data. Idox plc is an AIM-listed supplier of specialist information management software and solutions.
TLT advised SilverTree on the acquisition and commercial agreements with Idox, and co-ordinated all the legal workstreams. Holla ran the legal due diligence in the Netherlands and other local law requirements.
Advent International (Advent), one of the largest and most experienced global private equity investors, has appointed Hariolf Kottmann as an Operating Partner.
Kottmann brings a unique wealth of management and industry expertise to his new role and will be a key advisor in helping Advent source, enhance and further successfully grow its investments in the global chemicals and materials sector. Most recently, he was Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Clariant AG, a leading Swiss specialty chemical company. He resumed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) responsibilities in July 2019 on an ad interim basis, having served as CEO from
Tailify, a full service influencer marketing company, has secured Series A funding from Guinness Asset Management, supported by existing investors.
Tailify builds influencer growth programmes for some of the world’s most ambitious brands. Mainly, Tailify helps brands select influencers, craft effective strategies and measure the result of that activity. With the help of their AI and behavioural science team, Tailify aims to do better influencer selection and messaging than any human being or agency in the world.
Tailify was one of the early pioneers in influencer marketing when launched in Stockholm 2014. Since moving to London in 2016, they have
TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has appointed Ritej Bachhawat as a Vice President in its Mumbai office and as a member of the firm’s Strategic Resource Group.
“It is a great pleasure to welcome Ritej to TA,” says Dhiraj Poddar, head of TA Associates Advisory Pvt. Ltd and a Managing Director at TA. “Ritej brings a wealth of advisory experience on topics such as growth strategy, cost optimisation, digital transformation, sales acceleration and new business building. With this skill set, and an extensive knowledge of the Indian marketplace, Ritej is well-suited to lead our Strategic Resource Group’s
A business that is poised to transform the UK’s self-care market has secured a GBP3.2 million investment in a funding round led by Praetura Ventures.
Maxwellia, which is based at Alderley Park in Cheshire, aims to give people easier and faster access to the treatments they need by converting prescription-only medicines to versions that can be bought in a pharmacy.
Founded in 2013 by chief executive Anna Maxwell – a pharmacist with over 20 years’ experience, Maxwellia specialises in ‘switching’, a process in which prescription only medication is reclassified and made available over the counter. It already has three
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