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Mydeco.com is a UK internet business founded by the team behind lastminute.com, the online travel and leisure business. An interior design website, it has just raised £5m in a seed round, which is, according to lead investor SPARK Venture, is of the largest internet seeds rounds in Europe.
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Close Growth Capital (CGC), the equity and debt provider, has backed a £12m secondary buyout of the Blueberry Group, from 3i. Blueberry is a UK supplier and distributor of speciality ambient food to the premium independent retail market, selling foods such as chutneys, soups, biscuits, sweets and cakes. Customers include Wyevale, Waitrose, John Lewis, Budgen […]
An unnamed US private equity firm has paid £50m for Gyro International, a UK business-to-business marketing company, which has generated a 2.3x return for the vendors. An MBO led by Octopus Investments in February 2005 alongside Electra Quoted, Beringea and Matrix Private Equity marked the beginning of a period of intense expansion by the company, […]
The Capital Fund, a VC firm focused on Greater London, has sold software company Solcara for £4.5m to ArgentVive, an AIM-listed e-commerce business established in September 2007.
Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance has backed an MBO of Verna Group, a Bolton-based healthcare business, for an undisclosed sum. The company, which provides infection control solutions to the hospital and care home sectors, is being sold by LGV Capital, a London mid-market investor and subsidiary of insurance group Legal & General. The Integrated Finance […]
Spire Healthcare, the renamed BUPA Hospitals group owned by Cinven, has acquired Classic Hospitals from LGV Capital for £145m.
UK mid-market firm August Equity has made a partial exit of its investment in Planit Holdings through the sale of the company’s retail division Planit Fusion to 20-20 Technologies for£19m. Planit Holdings is a developer of Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software for the woodworking, cabinet-making, engineering and stone industries. It was listed on AIM prior […]
HgCapital has sold the Sanctuary Spa Group to PZ Cussons, the consumer products group and maker of Imperial Leather and Carex soap, for £75m.