In House buys Avanti Properties

Warrington-based real estate group In House Group Plc has acquired Avanti Properties. The properties owned by Avanti have been valued at some £1.3 million.

Other Done Deals

  • Sportech Plc, a UK gaming business, has acquired 4thegame.com, a football community website, for £600,000.
  • Wincanton Plc, a European supply chain specialist, has acquired CEL Group, a major container logistics provider in the UK, for an initial debt-free consideration of £19.5 million.
  • Headlam Group Plc, a European floor-covering distributor, has acquired Silvester, a supplier of residential products to independent retailers throughout the Netherlands. The total consideration will be more than £563,000 in cash
  • Foviance, a global digital customer consultancy, has acquired Applied Insights, a provider of analytical consulting systems to blue chip businesses. The terms of the deal were undisclosed
  • Hotel group Kew Green Hotels has completed a £140 million re-financing. New longer-term financing has been secured through a syndicate of banks comprising Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance, Barclays and Lloyds TSB
  • Q-Park is now the 100 per cent shareholder of QT Partnership after buying the 50 per cent stake in the business it did not already own from Town Centre Securities Plc, a Leeds-based property investment and development company. The total consideration was £8.7 million in cash
  • Berlin-based language learning site Babbel, has acquired FriendsAbroad, a UK-based language community startup. The amount of the deal has not been disclosed but is understood to be for cash

Marc Barber

Marc Barber

Marc was editor of GrowthBusiness from 2006 to 2010. He specialised in writing about entrepreneurs, private equity and venture capital, mid-market M&A, small caps and high-growth businesses.

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