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Upmarket furniture retail company Willis & Gambier has been acquired in a management buy-out worth £55 million. The management team, led by founder Nigel Gambier and Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance, funded the deal with debt and equity.

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The Advanced Travel Partner (ATP), a corporate travel and event management company, has been bought by its directors in a deal backed by Lloyds Development Capital (LDC), the investment business of Lloyds TSB, for an eight-figure sum.

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Plastic Logic, which develops plastic electronics for flexible displays and sensors, has raised $100 million (£51.7 million) in one of the largest financings in the history of European venture capital.

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Venture capitalist NVM has invested almost £7 million in the £16 million management buy-out of Product Support, a logistic services provider to the defence industry.

Human Resources

Women are still woefully under-represented in boardrooms, the civil service, the judiciary and parliament. The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) has found that women still make up only ten per cent of directors of FTSE 100 companies and, in some cases, the number of women in leading positions has actually fallen.

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Enterprise Ventures, the Northern-based venture capital management company, has appointed John Simpson as finance director and as executive director to the boards of Enterprise Ventures and Enterprise Ventures Group.