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Westbridge Capital has led a GBP4 million financing round to assist DB Systems Limited – a supplier of audio visual and IT equipment, interactive software and temporary network infrastructure to trade shows, large exhibitions and live events – with its growth plans.
DB Systems was founded by David Bulley who continues as CEO, leading a strong operations team with many years’ experience in the events industry.
Sales and employee numbers have grown rapidly in recent years. The business now has annual revenues of GBP8m and 63 employees. It supplies equipment to some of Europe’s best known events and venues, including
Business Growth Fund (BGF) has completed its first investment in Northern Ireland, in a deal led by BGF’s growing team of investors based in Leeds.
BGF has invested in Derry-based Braidwater, a family owned housebuilder that has been designing and building affordable residential housing across Northern Ireland for more than 40 years.
Braidwater builds high quality two to five bed family homes, with a strong focus on design and building efficiency. The business is run by founder and Executive Chairman Patrick McGinnis and his son, Managing Director Joe McGinnis.
The growth capital investment will be used to support the development
Sportlobster, a sports app that brings fans together, has secured GBP2 million in venture capital funding from UAE-based investment company, Daman Investments.
“Sportlobster is in strong growth mode at the moment and this is certainly a reflection of our investment into – and focus on – the product, particularly this year. Our latest funding allows us to further accelerate our competitive lead in a number of ways,” says the company’s CEO and co-founder, Andy Meikle. “Daman sees Sportlobster as an innovative concept and the product is unmatched. This raise and Daman’s continued support will allow us to execute our global
CBO Investment Management (CBO IM), the Nigeria based investment management firm focused on African private equity, has appointed Gary Steinberg as the Head of its Advisory board and a member of the Investment Committee.
Steinberg joins CBO with immediate effect as he retires from his role as Chief of the Investment Unit at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after nearly six years in post.
With over 30 years’ experience in the investment industry, Gary joined the IMF in 2010 as Chief of the Investment Unit which manages a portfolio of approximately USD20 billion. Prior to joining the IMF, Gary
The Guernsey office of JTC, a provider of institutional client and private client services, will now be led by Adam Moorshead (pictured).
As well as being the Managing Director of the Guernsey office, A Moorshead dam who joined JTC in 2015 following the acquisition of Kleinwort Benson’s fund administration business, will have cross-jurisdictional responsibilities. He will also sit on the global management board of JTC’s Institutional Client Services division.
Moorshead has more than 25 years of industry experience and a proven track record in managing multi-disciplinary teams across leading international financial centres. He also has extensive management experience specifically within
UK Thai restaurant group Giggling Squid is to accelerate its growth following a GBP6.4m investment from BGF (Business Growth Fund), a provider of growth capital to UK-based small and mid-sized businesses.
Giggling Squid, which has 13 sites across the South of England, will use the BGF funds to add further locations to its portfolio of successful restaurants. BGF has taken a minority equity stake in the business. BGF has also introduced Simon Kossoff, Chairman and former CEO of Carluccio’s, to the company. Kossoff has joined the board as non-executive Chairman and Jon Simon, Investor at BGF, has also joined the
A new report from Goldman Sachs, produced in partnership with the British Business Bank and the Enterprise Research Centre with support from Scale-Ip Institute and Said Business School, details the critical role UK SMEs can play in addressing the UK’s ‘productivity gap’, a deficit identified in the UK Government’s Productivity Plan (July 2015).
The report, Unlocking UK Productivity – Internationalisation and Innovation in SMEs, finds that smaller businesses have the potential to contribute to UK economic growth in three key ways: stimulating innovation; spurring competition, and; accelerating job creation.
UK smaller businesses are key contributors to UK growth, with around 10,000 high growth
Aurelius Group has acquired Colt Managed Cloud (CMC), the managed cloud business of Colt Group SA (Colt), which will now be integrated with another Aurelius portfolio company ICT services provider Getronics Group.
In addition a long-term strategic business partnership has been agreed between Getronics and Colt which will allow Getronics to provide managed cloud services to Colt’s customer base and utilise Colt's network, voice and data centre capabilities.
France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Romania and India) and employs a skilled workforce across operations, transition and engagement, pre-sales, service management and support functions. CMC retains a strong
London-based private equity firm Agathos has invested in EAT Communications to help fund the firm’s acquisition of a property marketing agency.
With the financial backing, EAT Communications has extended its portfolio of companies which includes Inhabit, with the acquisition of AP Marketing, a London-based creative marketing agency which delivers creative marketing campaigns and one-off solutions for clients in the property arena. Inhabit, with offices in London and Uckfield, is a strategic brand and communications agency for clients in the technology and built environment.
“Agathos has helped us unlock a new growth opportunity”, says EAT Communications’ Managing Director Joanna Allen.
Ahead of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Meeting on 18 and 19 November, Asia Pacific CEOs have expressed a number of concerns and believe prospects for business growth over the next 12 months are dimming fast.
That’s according to PwC’s fifth annual APEC CEO Survey, which reveals that volatility in the financial markets this summer took a toll on CEO confidence with just 28 per cent of business leaders now 'very confident' their organisation will see revenue growth over the next 12 months. That's down from 46 per cent a year ago, and it is the lowest level
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