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When David Denison, president and CEO of the Toronto-based Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, retires from the position at June’s end, he will be succeeded by the institution’s current executive vice president of investments, Mark Wiseman, it was announced today. At last year’s end, the CPPIB was managing funds totaling $152.8 billion. PRESS RELEASE: David […]

Mitt Romney gets the endorsement of Kid Rock, ComScore reveals that people spend more time staring blankly into their refrigerators each month than they do on Google+, and columnist Felix Salmon reads through to the end of one "fluffy" Reuters story to discover a surprisingly "macabre" ending.

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Publicly traded Bunge Limited of White Plains, New York, which is the world’s second-largest oilseed producer and an active buyer of carbon credits, is acquiring London-based Climate Change Capital, which manages a 750 million euro carbon fund. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed. PRESS RELEASE: Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG) (“Bunge”), a leading global agribusiness […]

Watermark Capital Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on lodging and related investments, has hired David Bryan as vice president and promoted Gil Murillo to vice president. Bryan joins Watermark from Hyatt Hotels. Murillo, who joined Watermark from Citigroup three years ago, has been working in both acquisitions and asset management for the firm […]

Green Courte Partners, a Chicago-based private equity real estate investment firm, has brought aboard Bill Glascott as a managing director. Glascott spent the previous 12 years with Hometown America, maker of manufactured home communities, including most recently as a vice president. PRESS RELEASE: LAKE FOREST, Ill., Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Green Courte […]

Swedish confectioners Cloetta and Leaf International have merged to create a publicly traded company with sales of $843.5 million (SEK5.7bn). The new group will operate under the brand Cloetta, and investors in Cloetta will hold 42.4% of the combined entity while Leaf shareholders — the private equity groups Nordic Capital and CVC Capital — will […]

360T Group, a Frankfurt, Germany-based multi-asset trading platform, has received an undisclosed amounting of funding from the growth-equity firm Summit Partners, headquartered in Boston. Summit is buying part of its stake in 360T from the Frankfurt-based private equity firm Brockhaus Private Equity, which remains a shareholder. 360T will remain an independent company. PRESS RELEASE: FRANKFURT AM […]

Building Industry Partners, a Fort Worth, Texas-based PE firm focused on the U.S. building products industry, has teamed up with kitchen and bath cabinet industry veterans Terry Dickey and Michael Arnaud to form a new company: United Cabinet Holdings, based in Greensboro, N.C. Dickey has already been appointed CEO; Arnaud is the new entity’s executive […]

Arena Group, an events services business based in Cambridgeshire, England, has raised £16.5 from the London-based private equity group MML Capital Partners and Sports Investment Partners, also of London. Arena plans to use the funding to expand globally, according to its CEO, Greg Lawless. PRESS RELEASE: The Arena Group, the leading international event services company today […]