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Yorkshire-based Private Equity House, Traditum has made a £1.75 million investment in Halifax-based Sniffers Pet Care.
The funding will allow Sniffers to build on its established relationships, support the rollout of new brands and product ranges and will enable them to invest in new manufacturing and distribution roles at its Halifax (Elland) site.
Sniffers is a family-owned business with over 40 years of experience in the pet industry across retail and distribution. Specialising in natural pet treats and supplying the likes of Pets at Home, Jollyes and hundreds of independent retailers with its brands including Walter Smith, Buffalo Natural
Kantar Public has appointed Eric Salama as its Global Chair. The appointment follows the announcement on 1 September 2022, that Kantar Public is now a standalone, and fully purpose-led global evidence and advisory business, following its divestment from Kantar and sale to private equity firm Trilantic Europe.
Salama knows the Kantar Public business intimately, given his 18-year history as the Global CEO of Kantar, where he grew the business from the ground up into an operation turning over $4bn in annual revenues. Alongside his new role at Kantar Public, Salama is also the Chair of the Board of Trustees for
One of Turkey’s leading tech-enabled fulfilment companies, Istanbul-based OPLOG, has raised €11 million in a pre-series A funding round led by Esas Private Equity,
The funding will be used to fuel the company’s expansion plans including plans to open its first fulfilment centre in the UK by the end of the year, as well as drive product research and development, including in its robotics division, TARQAN. In Q1 2023, OPLOG will become the only company in Europe other than Amazon to operate using in-house robotics technology within its fulfilment centres.
Esas Private Equity has made numerous high-profile technology investments, including
Bregal Partners (Bregal), a private equity firm specialising in investments in consumer and multi-unit, food and beverage, and business services, has added three key hires to its team – Thomas Perkins as Managing Director of Portfolio Services, Kaitlin Sasson joins as Principal, and Daniel Ayeroff as Vice President.
Perkins will be responsible for building out resources to support portfolio company management teams. He currently works closely with the management teams of TDBBS, Oggi Foods, and Ju-Ju-Be, and provides expertise on manufacturing, distribution and logistics, and process optimisation across both service and product businesses in the Bregal portfolio.
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YFM Equity Partners (YFM) is continuing to expand its team with investment associate Zach Francis joining the firm which has offices in London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Reading.
Francis joins from Red Lion Group, a collection of boutique pubs and coaching inns, where he spent the last year working in the corporate development team. Prior to that, he spent ten years with wealth and accountancy services firm Smith & Williamson (now Evelyn Partners); having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the firm, he went on to work in its mergers and acquisitions division, latterly as an associate.
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Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a growth-focused private equity firm based in St Louis, and Endicott Capital (Endicott), an investment fund focused exclusively on the information services sector, have made a strategic investment in MediaRadar. TSCP will serve as the control investor, while former majority investor Frontier Growth, will remain a minority shareholder in MediaRadar.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2007, MediaRadar is an provider of cross-media advertising intelligence that is highly targeted to the needs of media sellers, agencies, and brands. The Company’s more than 20,000 users rely on MediaRadar’s extensive database that tracks
Tokeny, a Luxembourg-based tokenisation platform, has parthereadw with Ownera, provider of a global inter-trading network based on the open-source FinP2P protocol, to distribute tokenised assets over the Ownera FinP2P network.
The digital securities industry is growing fast but has lacked a common global distribution network for connecting issuers, investors, exchanges, and other market participants. As a result, the rate of institutional adoption and investor access to high-quality digital assets has been limited up until now.
Ownera brought the industry together to develop the FinP2P open-source routing protocol to solve this problem by orchestrating the instant exchange of digital assets held
TA Associates (TA), a global growth private equity firm, has expanded its leadership team with the appointments of Jennifer Barbetta as Chief Operating Officer, Lori Stachelski as Chief Talent Officer and Darlene Karis as Global Head of Human Resources.
The investment in senior leadership aims to support TA’s accelerated growth, affirm its commitment to developing talent and position the firm for the future.
As Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director, Barbetta will be responsible for general oversight and day-to-day management of all global non-investment operations, partnering closely with TA’s senior leadership. Her role will include overseeing TA’s global offices,
Horizon Capital has raised $250 million at the first close of its Ukraine-focused Horizon Capital Growth Fund IV – 50% of its $250 million target.
The fund’s first closing, which is a record high for Horizon Capital, was held in person this morning. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy virtually attended, and gave a welcome address, at the fund’s signing ceremony, which took place in London. The Fund is backed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; the International Finance Corporation; Deutsche Investitions und Entwicklungsgesellschaft, and a subsidiary of KfW Group; the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank; the Swiss Investment Fund
PlanetWatchers, a revolutionary crop monitoring company that can provide detailed crop insights, at any time, regardless of weather and lighting conditions, has raised $11m as part of its series A funding round as part of the Company’s ambitious growth plans.
PlanetWatchers is a technology company that uses advanced machine learning to support crop insurers and the agricultural industry in verifying cover crops, tillage, planting dates, acreage, crop classification and weather damage at scale. The Company uses Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to provide accurate insight at scale. PlanetWatchers exploits the unique benefits of SAR, to create in-season insights that reduce
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